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The Bird and The Fish: Memoir of a Temporary Marriage
Afshin, a captivating Iranian graduate student, rents a room in Miriam Valmont's home. Landlady and tenant share an immediate and fast-growing attraction, despite the fact that Miriam is twice Afshin's age. When Afshin proposes a temporary Islamic marriage, Miriam readily agrees, driven by desire and curiosity. What shocks her, though, is the role Afshin invites her to play at the end of the marriage so that he, as a Muslim, can continue to express affection. The Bird and the Fish is the story of two people with radically different lives who find a way to honor a passionate love.
Daughter
The gifted author of the acclaimed memoir The Prisoner’s Wife delivers a deeply penetrating work—an emotionally shattering first novel that explores the perils of silence and illuminates the fragile complexity of the mother-daughter bond. On a winter night in Brooklyn, Aya Rivers, a vibrant nineteen-year-old black girl, is shot by a white police officer in a case of mistaken identity. Her mother, Miriam, a rigid and guarded woman, rushes to the hospital. As Miriam desperately waits at Aya’s bedside, she falls back into memories of her own youth, when her life took a series of tragic turns as she struggled for independence and dealt with the end of her relationship with Aya’s father. ...
‘Go Out and Study the Land’ (Judges 18:2)
The volume contains the 22 papers presented to Hanan Eshel before his death, covering topics in archaeology, history, and textual studies, with a particular emphasis on aspects relating to the Dead Sea Scrolls, spanning the late Iron Age through late Antiquity.
Ladies Companion and Literary Expositor
Includes music.
Cat City
Cat City tells the story of a young cat called Luke and a discovery that takes him on a magical journey. His best friend is Giuli. A cat who does not trust many. She leaves the city to embark on a long and dangerous trip to find out about her childhood and the mystery of her mother. A great evil, Dhrug, is approaching the city and the Spirit Guardians will have to do battle to save the citizens from a wicked future. Everybody knows that the great city of Rome is also called the Eternal city and that within the Eternal city there is another great city called the Vatican City. But there is another significant city within the mighty empire and this is the city that people do not know about. It is situated in the heart of Rome in a place called 'The sacred area of Largo Argentina'. There, among the ancient ruins of Imperial Rome is the complex city called CAT CITY. Like all cities in all places, Cat City has a social structure and (as with all social frameworks) there are rules.
Fleas, Flukes & Cuckoos; A Study of Bird Parasites
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Innocence in the Nets of Terror
At the same time that Hector went to bed, a dream came to unsettle his serenity. It was Miriam, the carnivorous cat, who was trying to eat him alive. The passionate rivalry between two kings throws their two innocent children, Miriam and Hector, into the pits of hell. But the young lovers fight to stay alive, knowing they cannot leave the other alone to suffer a terrible fate. An obsessive and cruel captain of a mythical ship, Asout seeks to make Miriam his own. Miriam, cursed with the ability to shape-shift into a carnivorous cat, tries to manipulate Asout into releasing her. She knows of Asout's cruelty and arrogance only too well, and she does everything in her power to keep him from destroying her soul. Caught deep in the underworld, Hector and his companions struggle on their journey through endless deserts and rocky terrain. He is determined to find Miriam and rescue her from Asout. With the help of wizards, fairies, and mystical creatures, Miriam and Hector are able to defeat numerous evils. But dangerous forces scheme to keep the lovers apart-forever. Will Hector find Miriam before Asout destroys her, or is their love doomed?
Owl Sense
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Longlisted for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize 2018 A Guardian Book of the Year 2018 The owl has captivated the human imagination for millennia; as a predator, messenger, emblem of wisdom or portent of doom. Owl Sense tells a new story. On 'owl walks' with her teenage son, Benji, Miriam Darlington begins a quest to identify every European species of this elusive bird. From Britain she travels to Spain, France, Serbia and Finland, and to the frosted borders of the Arctic. Along the way, however, Benji succumbs to a mysterious and disabling illness, and Miriam's endeavour soon becomes entangled with the search for his cure. Bringing the strangeness and magnificence of owls to life, Owl Sense is a book about wildness in nature but also in the unpredictable course of our human lives.
