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Fifteen-year-old Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers. She and her boyfriend made a teenage golden couple. She was days away from an idyllic summer vacation, with her whole life ahead of her. And then she was gone. Now her mother, Laurel Mack, is trying to put her life back together.

"Der Wind ist der Architekt der Wüste. Er legt sie in tausend Falten wie runzlige Sandwellenhaut." So beschreibt der Schriftsteller und Abenteurer Joscha Remus die marokkanische Sahara. Doch außer dem Wind, Wüsten-Dschinns und singendem Sand begegneten ihm auf seiner mehrwöchigen Reise Geschichtenerzähler, Sufis und Amazight, die Worte in Wüstensand schreiben. Joscha Remus erzählt von der Poesie einer Berberprinzessin, verwirrenden Gassenlabyrinthen und vom Gnaoua Festival.

Christiana Mara Coelho was born into extreme poverty in Brazil. After spending the first seven years of her life with her loving mother in the forest caves outside São Paulo and then on the city streets, where they begged for food, she and her younger brother were suddenly put up for adoption. When one door closed on the only life Christiana had ever known, a new one opened. As Christina Rickardsson, she’s raised by caring adoptive parents in Sweden, far from the despairing favelas of her childhood. Accomplished and outwardly “normal”, Christina is also filled with rage over what she’s lost....