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Susan Abulhawa ha scritto un romanzo struggente che può fare per la Palestina ciò che il Cacciatore di aquiloni ha fatto per l'Afghanistan. Di vibrante realismo e inesorabilmente diretto alla verità, racconta con sensibilità e pacatezza la storia di quattro generazioni di palestinesi costretti a lasciare la propria terra dopo la nascita dello stato di Israele e a vivere la triste condizione di "senza patria". Attraverso la voce di Amal, la brillante nipotina del patriarca della famiglia Abulheja, viviamo l'abbandono della casa dei suoi antenati di Ain Hod, nel 1948, per il campo profughi di Jenin.

Master the art of English grammar with this updated edition of the bestselling guide, The Only Grammar Book You’ll Ever Need, featuring fresh examples and quizzes to test your knowledge, making it an invaluable resource for business professionals, students, and anyone looking to improve their...

Filled with “fascinating information, original research, and bold ideas” (NPR), a revelatory account of how African Independence was systematically undermined by the US In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brought together the leading figures of African independence in a...

In a tranquil Kentish village, Dr Sandys and his wife are preparing for Christmas with their guest, Liane 'Lee' Crauford. Festivities start badly when their party is spoiled by an enigmatic widow new to the village, and the atmosphere hits rock bottom when the pompous local nobleman and ceramic-collector Sir Henry Metcalfe unexpectedly dies. Sensing potential villains among Metcalfe's circle, Lee teams up with Detective-Inspector Hugh Gordon to discover the killer playing merry hell with her holiday in this lost vintage mystery, republished for the first time since 1952.

At the Texas Charity Auction, money can buy anything, and Summer Cassidy is under orders to take advantage of the opportunity. While she believes the marital collar once worn by an Aztec queen belongs in a museum, it's up to her to sell the priceless treasure to one of the elite in attendance. Meeting Bachelor #103, a man who finds her descriptions of human sacrifice charming rather than appalling, hadn’t been part of her plans. Buying his company for a quarter hadn’t been part of her plans, either.

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Thirty-five years after her first collection, the classic Against Interpretation, America's most important essayist chose more than 40 longer and shorter pieces from the previous 20 years. "Reading", the first of three sections, includes ardent pieces on writers from Sontag's own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva, and Elizabeth Hardwick.

Sontag's most important critical writings from 1972 to 1980 are collected in Under the Sign of Saturn. One of America's leading essayists, Sontag's writings are commentaries on the relation between moral and aesthetic ideas, discussing the works of Antonin Artaud, Leni Riefenstahl, Elias Canetti, Walter Benjamin, and others. The collection includes a variety of her well-known essays. Sontag's writings are famously full of intellectual range and depth, and are at turns exhilarating, ominous, disturbing, and beautiful.

The Hidden Lamp is a collection of 100 koans and stories of Buddhist women from the time of the Buddha to the present day. This revolutionary book brings together many teaching stories that were hidden for centuries, unknown until this volume. These stories are extraordinary expressions of freedom and fearlessness, relevant for men and women of any time or place. In this audio, we meet nuns, laywomen practicing with their families, famous teachers honored by emperors, and old women selling tea on the side of the road.

The cathedral town of Lafferton seems idyllic, but in many ways it is just like any other place. As part of the same rapidly changing world, it shares the same hopes and fears, and the same kinds of crime, as any number of towns up and down the land.When one day DC Simon Serrailler is called in by Lafferton's new Chief Constable, Kieron Bright, he is met by four plainclothes officers. He is asked to take the lead role in a complex, potentially dangerous undercover operation and must leave town immediately.

Leidenschaft und Weihnachtsküsse: Ein Schlag auf den Kopf - und ihre Vergangenheit ist wie ausgelöscht. Als Angela aufwacht, sitzt ein verführerisch starker Mann neben ihrem Bett, vorgeblich Deputy Sheriff Shane McBride. Seine Fragen kann sie nicht beantworten. Stattdessen gibt sie sich dem Traum hin, ein neues Leben mit ihm zu beginnen. Leidenschaft und Pfefferkuchen: Es gibt keine Probleme, nur Lösungen, findet die quirlige Darcy und stürzt sich auf ihr vorweihnachtliches Gute-Laune-Projekt: den viel zu ernsten Detective Mark Kincaid verführen.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author brings us her most ambitious and provocative work yet—a searing and timely novel that explores the most volatile issue of our time—domestic violence. At the break of dawn, Caroline Shelby rolls into Oysterville, Washington, a tiny hamlet at the edge...

With her mother dying and her marriage falling apart, Euly Winger returns to her birth place in order to uncover a dark secret about her parent's divorce. Something that has haunted their family since Euly was a young adult. But when Euly meets up with an old acquaintance, her time back home turns nightmarish when he angrily reveals everything he knows about her parents.

En ¿Y si comenzamos de nuevo? el adorador Ricardo Rodriguez y su esposa Susana exponen como Diosrestauró su matrimonio en medio de circunstancias que lucian imposibles. Es una conmovedora historia de amor, infidelidad, coraje, divorcio, arrepentimiento, perdon pero sobre todo, fe. Sin duda, ¿Y si comenzamos de nuevo? ayudará a los matrimonios en crisis, pero tambien a los pastores, padres, hijos, amigos y familiares que les toca vivir junto a los cónyuges las situaciones dificiles.

Alabama and Abe had no idea their paths would cross and their prayers would be answered, but like most things in life nothing is ever as easy as it seems at first. Two words would change both their lives, and they'd have to fight hard for their happy ever after.

Welcome to the world of the Glitter Baby Fleur Savagar is the most beautiful woman in the world . . . to everyone but herself. With her oversized hands and paddle-boat feet, her streaky blond hair and funny green eyes, she lives a life filled with secrets that began before she was born. That was...

She had no choice in the matter - none of the girls did. Her mission was to give birth to and raise many children in devoted service to a shared husband. Susan was 15 years old when she became the sixth wife of Verlan LeBaron, one of the leaders of a rogue Mormon cult, who was engaged in a blood feud with his brother that from 1972 to 1988 claimed up to two dozen lives. In this gripping and eloquent book, Susan Ray Schmidt tells the story of growing up on the inside and of her ultimate escape with her children from an oppressive and violent life.

“A powerful illustration of the obstacles our society continues to throw up in the paths of ambitious young women.” —The New York Times Book Review “Important . . . empowering.” —Gayle King, CBS This Morning "That [Fowler] became a whistle-blower and a pioneer of a social...

Susan Dennard's New York Times bestselling, young adult epic fantasy Witchlands series continues with the story of the Threadwitch Iseult. War has come to the Witchlands . . . and nothing will be the same again. Iseult has found her heartsister Safi at last, but their reunion is brief. For...

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