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INTO THE AMERICAS (A novel based on a true story) is a gritty, real-life adventure based on one of history’s greatest survival stories. It was inspired by the diary entries of young English blacksmith John Jewitt during his time aboard the brigantine The Boston and also during his sojourn at Nootka Sound, on North America's western seaboard, from 1802 to 1805. Written by father-and-son writing team Lance & James Morcan (authors of The World Duology and The Orphan Trilogy), INTO THE AMERICAS is a tale of two vastly different cultures – Indigenous North American and European civilization ...

आज से करीब आठ सौ वर्ष पहले जन्मे रूमी ने धर्म, देश और काल की सभी बाधाओं को लांघ कर अपनी रुबाइयों और गुज़लों से। ऐसा सूफ़ीवाद फैलाया कि वे संसार के सभी देशों में, विशेषकर अमेरिका में, सबसे अधिक पढे । जाने वाले कवि माने जाते हैं। उनका सूफ़ियाना कलाम सैकड़ों वर्षों से लोकप्रिय है। उनके शब्दों ने विभिन्न संस्कृतियों वाले पाठकों के मन को एक समान छुआ है। आध्यात्मिक प्रेम के सहज अतिरेक और उसके वैभव से जितना समृद्ध हमें रूमी ने किया है, उतना और कोई नहीं कर सका है।

Carter Davies stormed into my life like a whirlwind—a brazen bad boy with a secret heart of gold and eyes that promised danger and desire. One unforgettable night changed everything, but it was supposed to be our last dance. Then I walked into his classroom as his student. I’m Amelia Clarkson, a curvy girl with a haunted past who has sworn off love. But fate has other plans, as every glance, every accidental touch in those hallowed halls ignited a fire neither of us could control. Our forbidden connection blurred the lines, breaking every rule we vowed to keep. Carter’s attempts to ...

Cakes, Chaos, and Lagos Wahala. Welcome to the wild world of a Lagos Baker! Dayo thought leaving her IT career to run a luxury cake business would be sweet and simple. Instead, she found herself knee-deep in buttercream battles, fondant-fuelled madness, and Lagos customers who bring more drama than a Nollywood blockbuster. In Memoirs of a Lagos Baker, Tolulope Popoola serves up hilarious, heart-warming, and sometimes jaw-dropping stories from the world of Lagos events. Whether she’s rescuing wedding cakes from the brink of disaster, dodging fake money at the counter, or unexpectedly ...

A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality—the black Chinese restaurant.

Keiko Furukura is thirty-six, and she has been happily working at a Tokyo “Smile Mart” for eighteen years, fitting in by copying her colleagues’ dress and mannerisms, playing the part of a “normal person” excellently—more or less. But her packaged idyll is threatened by mounting pressure to find a husband and a proper career, prompting her to take desperate action to protect her peaceful world.

Une chercheuse craignant de devenir folle mène une enquête pour tenter de rompre le silence qui entoure la maladie de son arrière-grand-mère Elisabeth, dite Betsy, diagnostiquée schizophrène dans les années 1950. La narratrice ne dispose, sur cette femme morte avant sa naissance, que de quelques légendes familiales dont les récits fluctuent. C'est à peu près tout. Les enfants d'Elisabeth ne parlent jamais de leur mère entre eux et ils n'en parlent pas à leurs enfants qui n'en parlent pas à leurs petits-enfants. "C'était un nom qu'on ne prononçait pas. Maman, c'était un non-sujet.

Take a peep behind the boudoir curtains of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility; find out what happened when Willoughby seduced Brandon's ward, Eliza; what happened to Colonel Brandon when he was stationed in the exotic East; and how far Marianne allowed Willoughby to go when they visited Allenham together.

En un Mexico real, salvaje y violento, una cruda ficción que refleja un presente, al cual nuestra sociedad procura desconocer, los hechos trágicos ocurren solo para la víctima y circulo sentimental, el resto, son insensiblemente ajenos al evidente infierno criminal.Los criticos podran decir que el presente es una apologia al bajo mundo del crimen organizado, sin embargo, el autor intenta sensibilizar al lector sobre las raíces del problema y como se instituye el hampa por la gracia y omisión que nuestros gobernantes les conceden cada vez con mayor cinismo.Matapaga, es una recopilacion ...

Everyone is a part-time person. They do one thing while imagining being elsewhere, or being a lover, worker, fan - of something - or in some other life. We hope for a resolution, a better place, where the bad parts can be discarded, the good ones realised. In PARADISE, we are plunged into ever-deeper contradictions, separations: by nature a deserter, a pacifist, Harri is enrolled, becomes a soldier - becomes literally someone else. As a batman, he can fly - along with his superiors, with lovers who fly higher, outdistance him or, fatally, hit the ground. After many adventures, Harri finds ...

Alexander Hamilton was born in Edinburgh, Scotland; graduated in 1737 from medical school and immigrated to Maryland in 1739. During this time colonial America was an evolving society. The Itinerarium of Dr. Alexander Hamilton is a primary source from which we gain insight to the societies and towns that formed the new English colonies in America around the 1740s. Dr. Hamilton joined his brother John, also a physician, in Maryland where he lived since 1720. He settled in Annapolis, where he became popular. Being a doctor did not prevent him from suffering of tuberculosis, which lead him to ...

This is the Second Edition of Death of Ophelia, a collection of poems by the late Oxford poet, James Balloch. collection of poems by the late Oxford poet, James Balloch, who died in 2018.James Alan Balloch – ‘Jim’ to his friends – was an extraordinary man, delightful, unpretentious, understated, a thinker. He was clever, articulate, creative, sensitive, hardworking, warm, knowing, but with a non-judgemental sense of humour. He had an unconscious natural ability in becoming a friend to anyone; he was sociable but often alone. Jim was born on 20 June 1937 in Hornchurch, the London ...

Tamar Stone, an African-American, amputee, uses his disabilities to enrich his empathy and care for others. His poetry is insightful and inspirational while real and raw.

From the author of Walks With Him Comanche Bride, The Flight of Falcons Nez Perce Bride, comes the final saga in this best selling Native Bride Series. Raised by an infamous gunslinger, Christine River learns to survive the Arizona territory living like a man. In fact, she prefers it until the day she finds an orphaned Apache baby under a tree. She's determined to take the child home and raise him as her own until she's ambushed on the trail by a fierce looking warrior claiming she stole his son! Not one to back down from a fight, Christine isn't giving up and he's not giving in. Together, ...

John Fraser latest novel is about Life: - mysteries and chance, how it seems impossible to make a philosophy from a mixture of what is determinate and universal, and what is invention and potential - and then, how to botch up some plan for living in this uncertainty, cf. Petronius a celebrated author with no book extant, debauché, fine administrator, accused of treachery, forced to commit suicide by Nero. Every human has an ancestry that goes way back - to Creation? Very far, at any rate. The protagonist's name, Petronia, recalls that of the old Roman Petronius - he of the banquets and ...

Naomi is in her first year of high school. Her parents are on the verge of a divorce. she is being bullied about her religion, and she is struggling to come to terms with reaching that special Bat Mitzvah age. This script portrays her life as she comes to term with her identity and her place in the world. Thank god for best friends like Jessica.

On a rainy hike by Loch Lomond, Eve Waldman stumbles upon a perfectly preserved journal in a hidden cave. The time-worn lettering details the illicit affair of two Jewish lovers that sent a shiver of shame through a Scottish family — and echoes down the bloodlines.

Alice Collins liebt ihren Großvater aus tiefstem Herzen. Selbst jetzt, obwohl er mit einem Liegegips zu Hause im winterlich kalten Liverpool festsitzt und sie sich mit all den alleinstehenden Frauen herumschlagen muss. Die beliefern ihn mit Essen, guten Ratschlägen und verliebten Blicken. Neben ihrer Arbeit als Webdesignerin ist Alice’ einzige Ablenkung der Austausch mit Informatikern auf einer IT-Plattform. Vor allem mit einem, der ihr nicht mehr aus dem Kopf geht, seit sie einander nicht nur schreiben, sondern den Videochat nutzen.

From internationally best-selling author of historical romance... Walks With Him, Comanche Bride. Moves The Wind…is how the Comanche describe a stallion that eludes capture. It is said that the beast is both horse and spirit, running free between this world and the next. To ride this horse is the greatest desire among men—until she came into their world. Abandoned in the wilds with sickly baby sister, Ivy wanders into the path of a Comanche out on the chase. He is terrifying with his long hair and body made from the granite cliffs that surrounds them, but she needs him to save her ...

From the author who brought you Walks With Him, Comanche Bride... One must hold on, the other must let go… Born with the warrior blood of both the Scots and the Nez Perce, Falcon is as free and as fierce as the raptor for which he is named. As a young boy, he saw his life’s path, and he has sacrificed to find it. After the loss of her husband and child, Leigh travels the Oregon Trail, desperate to lay roots that will grow a family tree. In a Nez Perce village, two cultures and two hearts collide. Leigh (Morning Song,) might be Falcon’s destiny, but, another man has a claim on her, and...