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This thought-provoking, semi-autobiographical book tells the story of Aisha, a young Moroccan woman, and her struggle to find an identity in the Morocco of the second half of the twentieth century. Charting Aisha's path through adolescence and young adulthood up to the present, her story is told through a series of flashbacks, anecdotes, and glimpses of the past, all bound up with a strong, often strident, always compelling worldview that takes in Morocco, its politics, people, and traditions, Islam, and marriage. Male-female relationships feature strongly in the narrative, and by exposing us to Aisha's troubled romantic encounters, Abouzeid uncovers the shifting male/female roles within the Morocco of her lifetime. Many aspects of Moroccan society are also explored through the other clashes of the modern and the traditional in Aisha's life. The workplace and corruption, the struggle for women's rights, the clash between Islamic and Western values as well as with the older practices of sorcery and witchcraft, and the conflict between colonial and native language use are all intertwined in a narrative that is both forceful and often poetic. Through a series of tales of emotional disasters, the reader becomes aware not only of Aisha's frustrations but also of her deep commitment to her country and her struggle to defeat suffering, uphold justice, and retain a fierce independence as a woman and a clarity of conviction in her life. Leila Abouzeid is a pioneer among her Moroccan contemporaries in that she writes in Arabic rather than in French and is the first Moroccan woman writer of literature to be translated into English. This stimulating and revealing book adds a new perspective to Maghrebi women's writing, and is an important addition to the growing body of Arab women's writing in translation.
New York Times bestselling sportswriter John Feinstein exposes the real “March Madness”—behind the scenes at the Final Four basketball tournament. When Stevie wins a writing contest for aspiring sports journalists, his prize is a press pass to the Final Four in New Orleans. While exploring the Superdome, he overhears a plot to throw the championship game. With the help of fellow contest winner Susan Carol, Stevie has just 48 hours to figure out who is blackmailing one of the star players . . . and why. John Feinstein has been praised as “the best writer of sports books in America today” (The Boston Globe), and he proves it again in this fast-paced novel. “A page-turning thriller and a basketball junkie’s bonanza.” —USA Today
"Heaven and earth will pass away but my words will by no means pass away." To determine God's Word is omnipotent and true, one only has to examine the God-given prophecies of historical times which are now today's reality. God's prophetic words for the future reveal many events that will significantly affect mankind. This book is the culmination of years of studying and cross-referencing God's words as they pertain to the end-times. Designed to help the reader follow from Old Testament to New Testament, the map God has laid out for the earth's future, discussions include: 1.Christ's removal of the Church prior to the tribulation period 2.The seven-year plus seventy-five-day tribulation period ruled by Satan, the antichrist and the false prophet, culminating in the battle at Armageddon 3.God's responding wrath and judgements 4.God's promised Millennial kingdom 5.The great white throne judgement. Lorence Falkenberg is a retired geological engineer who enjoyed fifty-plus years in the oil and gas industry. Geology demands scrutinizing data and information down to the smallest of details, using an engineer's capacity for analysis. For Lorence, this attention to the facts and details carried over in his search for the truth about prophesied end-times. In his younger Christian life he readily accepted what many authors had written and what speakers expressed on the subject. It was not until he consecrated his personal search of God's own words that he realized there was only one omniscient source that could provide truth and reality, and that God's words needed to be rightly divided as according to II Timothy. He has been teaching end-times for more than a decade and was persuaded to write this book as a culmination of his years of study and teaching on these events.
An intelligent and ambitious village boy named Pradeep comes to Delhi to study medicine. But the glittering and fast moving city life made his life miserable. In the medical college also, he felt inferior among the city-bred fellow students. But he found solace in the company of his senior, Mahima, who helped him in studies and also saved him from being humiliated by other students. Pradeep’s classmate, Vibha was modern, rich and beautiful girl. She was always on bad terms with him. But the college annual function changed her behaviour. Now he found himself entangled between the love of two girls. Was he able to come out of this state of dilemma? Whom did he decide to marry, Vibha or Mahima?A magnificent romantic novel that will grab you, hold you and stay with you forever.
The century old mystery of the disappearance of Thomas Stanwell begins to unfold when a World War 1 mass grave is found at Fromelles. Thomas great grandson is determined to find out what happened and travels from Australia to Europe in the quest to find answers. The rich tapestry of this family saga is woven with descendants from Australia, England, Scotland and Germany and covers the entire 20th Century. The mystery begins to unravel with an unexpected meeting in Glasgow.
The short story "Last Chapter" is a suicide note. Machado de Assis presents us with the somber figure of Matias Deodato de Castro e Melo, a man on the brink of suicide in 1871. He explains the reasons behind the terms of his will, expressing the desire for his possessions to be uniquely allocated to benefit the less fortunate.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Driving, wild and hilarious” (The Washington Post), here is the incredible “memoir” of the legendary actor, gambler, raconteur, and Saturday Night Live veteran. When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, was approached to write a celebrity memoir, he flatly refused, calling the genre “one step below instruction manuals.” Norm then promptly took a two-year hiatus from stand-up comedy to live on a farm in northern Canada. When he emerged he had under his arm a manuscript, a genre-smashing book about comedy, tragedy, love, loss, war, and redemption. When asked if this was the celebrity memoir, Norm replied, “Call it anything you damn like.”
This novel is the third in a series of the Swenson Farm mysteries. Will Swenson Farm be left in capable hands when Nels Swenson is gone? Grandson, Mario Fontanini, narrates The Last Chapter, which promises to be an intriguing tale of romance and mystery in his quest to leave Iowa and establish a career in San Franciso. His first love, Lupita Morales, returns to Swenson Farm and gives him pause to stay, but Grandpa Nels persuades him to leave before he gets hurt by Lupita again. His journey to the big city opens up opportunities to travel, write, experience new cultures, and meet a girl named, Sandy, in Afghanistan, and a promising romance with Rebecca, a fellow journalist. His biggest accomplishment is helping solve the mysterious disappearance of Nels’s adopted son, Bobby. Hans Swenson, a dedicated son to farm life, falls under the spell of Lupita Moralas. Will he too end up with a broken arrow through his heart? With only one biological heir, who will be left standing to carry on the Swenson Farms Legacy?
David Markson was a writer like no other. In his novels, which have been called "hypnotic," "stunning," and "exhilarating" and earned him praise from the likes of Kurt Vonnegut and David Foster Wallace, Ann Beattie and Zadie Smith. Markson created his own personal genre. With crackling wit distilled into incantatory streams of thought on art, life, and death, Markson's work has delighted and astonished readers for decades. Now for the first time, three of Markson's masterpieces are compiled into one page–turning volume: This Is Not a Novel, Vanishing Point, and The Last Novel. In This Is Not a Novel, readers meet an author, called only "Writer," who is weary unto death of making up stories, and yet is determined to seduce the reader into turning pages and getting somewhere. Vanishing Point introduces us to "Author," who sets out to transform shoeboxes crammed with note cards into a novel. In The Last Novel, we find an elderly author (referred to only as "Novelist") who announces that, since this will be his final effort, he possesses "carte blanche to do anything he damn well pleases." United by their focus on the trials, calamities, absurdities and even tragedies of the creative life, these novels demonstrate David Markson's extraordinary intellectual richness—leaving readers, time after time, with the most indisputably original of reading experiences.
One dead man. One dead man's manuscript. And Brendan Stokes - an aspiring author who recognises an opportunity too good to miss.When Brendan finds the body of his neighbour Andrew Whitty, he discovers more than he had bargained for. He unearths a masterpiece, a novel written by the dead man. It doesn't take Brendan long to realise he's stumbled upon a gold mine. With lucrative deals adorning his letterbox, fraud proves a much easier way of earning cash than writing his own book. But with so many lies to keep track of, Brendan's struggle to keep his own story together grows increasingly difficult. With the police, his wife, and old friends asking too many questions about the dead man and his new bestseller, it becomes clear that success would be an easier road to travel alone.