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Boston Globe, Best 2018 Books for Children TD Canadian Children's Literature Award Finalist Mustafa and his family traveled a long way to reach their new home. Some nights Mustafa dreams about the country he used to live in, and he wakes up not knowing where he is. Then his mother takes him out to the balcony to see the moon — the same moon as in their old country. In the park, Mustafa sees ants and caterpillars and bees — they are the same, too. He encounters a “girl-with-a-cat,” who says something in a language that he can’t understand. He watches an old lady feeding birds and other children playing, but he is always looking in from the outside and he feels that he is invisible. ...
In 2015, Australia became a republic. More than eight years later, terrorism in Australia has increased. Because of this, a new counter-terrorism fighting agency was developed to combat the terror threats. Special Agent Frank Hewitt, a retired Army veteran, has been put in charge of an elite team of intelligence operatives to conduct terrorism related investigations. But, in the wake of an upcoming peace treaty, a new group of terrorists have taken possession of a shipment of nuclear material and plan to construct a dirty bomb. However, after an unexpected twist, Frank Hewitt now faces an unlikely enemy.
EEmperor Haile Selassie was revered as the Messiah by so many people around the world. For almost half a century, he ruled his country quite peacefully. Shortly after his death, strange things began to happen in Ethiopia: civil unrest, mass executions, and war. It appeared as if a powerful spirit was out for vengeance. Daniel, 21, is caught amid this turmoil. He stumbles into a situation where he shoots a top government official, responsible for the death of his girlfriend, and gets apprehended right away. Not long after, a Kangaroo court sentences him to death by firing squad. Meanwhile, his brother, a veteran guerrilla fighter, devises a dazzling plan to rescue him. THE CONSEQUENCE is a story of a family that struggles to survive the mayhem of the post-Haile Selassie era
From the narrow streets of old Jerusalem to the rolling corn fields of the Midwest, Iowa author Mike Struck has chronicled a fictional modern-day thriller that takes a young farm couple from the point of struggling to conceive, to a point of having the most recognized child on earth. Struck’s incredible first novel moves the reader from the moment of the child's amazing conception and does not lee go until the very last chapter of this riveting page turner Even before word of the amazing birth goes public, there ne those who want to harm the baby; not just to destroy the child, but wipe out an evidence of the infant's existence The gripping story recounts how ordinary people do extraordinary things to protect the once they love. From everyday Iowans, just doing their job to the President of the United States, who attempts to control the chaos as word gees out about the child and the subsequent wondrous events that galvanize the world. Remember the Father is a fast paced reed that will keep you guessing and keep you at the edge of your seat. If you enjoy books that you hate to put down until the climatic end, Remember the Father is a book you cannot miss.
A photographic look into the world of vinyl record collectors—including Questlove—in the most intimate of environments—their record rooms. Compelling photographic essays from photographer Eilon Paz are paired with in-depth and insightful interviews to illustrate what motivates these collectors to keep digging for more records. The reader gets an up close and personal look at a variety of well-known vinyl champions, including Gilles Peterson and King Britt, as well as a glimpse into the collections of known and unknown DJs, producers, record dealers, and everyday enthusiasts. Driven by his love for vinyl records, Paz takes us on a five-year journey unearthing the very soul of the vinyl community.
Dame Petunia Bladderwort and her remarkable friends, Cyril the modelling gnome, Trent Ranchandler, her trusty chauffeur handyman, are all summoned by the Keeper to help him find the Great Book of Han-Fei.A book that contains all the knowledge and realities of both the seen and unseen universes. The Great Book has been stolen and in the wrong hands could unleash horrors that you only experience in your worst nightmares. With the help of One Beer a wizard 2nd class who hates magic, and the General of the unseen army. The group of adventures set off on their latest adventure and are drawn into the Pyramid of Power, the home of a supernatural apparition, Death. They battle monsters and experience the shock and awe of One Beers attempts at Magic.
This two-volume English translation of part of a longer narrative by the Ottoman Evliya Çelebi (1611-c.1680) was published in 1834. It offers a fascinating assemblage of topics varying from the fountains of Istanbul to a journey to Georgia. Volume 2 includes Çelebi's description of the 1645 siege of Canea.
The First Book in The Sufi Mysteries Quartet It's easier to solve a crime than solve yourself Baghdad 295 hijri/907 CE Zaytuna just wants to be left alone to her ascetic practices and nurse her dark view of the world. But when an impoverished servant girl she barely knows comes and begs her to bring some justice to the death of a local boy, she is forced to face the suffering of the most vulnerable in Baghdad and the emotional and mystical legacy of her mother, a famed ecstatic whose love for God eclipsed everything. The Lover is a historically sensitive mystery that introduces us to the world of medieval Baghdad and the lives of the great Sufi mystics, washerwomen, Hadith scholars, tavern o...
Marcia, an experienced agent of MI6 is head of a specialised annex in Streatham known as ‘The School.’ She is suspicious of the presence and death of an MP on a Worcestershire golf course, miles from Westminster and his constituency in Cheshire. Following that, three atrocities were perpetrated in one day in Britain with considerable loss of life. Investigating, Marcia and her co-workers believe there is a plan by a group of international entrepreneurs to cause civil unrest and bring down the government and then replace it with an oligarchy.