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As an Afghan girl, Zarifa Adiba has big, unfathomable dreams. Her family is poor, her country mired in conflict. Walking to school in Kabul, Zarifa has to navigate suicide bombers. But Zarifa perseveres, nurturing her passion for music despite its “sinful” nature under Taliban law. At sixteen, she gains admission to the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, and at eighteen she becomes the lead violist, conductor, and spokesperson for Zohra, the first all-female orchestra in the Muslim world.

1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory as the snow falls—a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near a different river. He is alive but still not whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and tries to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures

Welcome to Comfortville, a quaint little town nestled inland from the Pacific coast. Ashley Crane is busy nursing a broken heart, working tirelessly as a cook, and hanging out with her family and best friends when her boss at the restaurant is murdered. At first the investigation is left to Nathaniel Thompson, the local handsome police detective. But when Thompson arrests the wrong suspect, Ashley takes the investigation into her own hands.

In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization - in effect a second Russian Revolution - which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of sending relief, the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political problem.

The heart doesn’t forget. Charlie had no intention of falling in love. In fact, it was the last thing on her mind. Running her grandmother’s retirement home seems like the safest place for her. Mitchell has finally located his grandmother. He leaves his multi-billion-dollar real estate company and flies to Sitka, Alaska to reunite with her. Brought together by Mitchell’s grandmother, Charlie can’t help but feel a connection to Mitchell. Just when she finds herself opening up to him, his fiancée shows up. Now asked to help with the wedding, Charlie’s convinced it’s for the best.

Zoomi and Zoe were proud to conquer their first Tricky Turnaround together, but the second book in the series brings more changes for the new friends: Zoomi and Zoe are both going to be big siblings! Zoomi thought her family was pretty great as it was, but then her parents bring home a new baby. (In Zoomi’s humble opinion, Fizzle is very boring and kind of rude.) Meanwhile, Zoe’s dads have a wonderful surprise: Zoe is going to be a big sister, too! But Zoe’s new brother doesn’t seem to like her very much. Why does he keep crying when Zoe is around?

For thirty years Anne Enright has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature and her own life, and gifting us with her precise insights. These essays, collated from across Anne Enright's career, take us from Galway to Honduras, from keen-eyed memoir to urgent political writing.

Das Kinderheim „Frühlingssonne“ am Rande von Oslo hat einen neuen Mitbewohner. Dem zwölfjährigen Olav fällt es schwer, sich in die Regeln des beinahe idyllischen Lebens in der alten Villa einzufügen, und mit Erschrecken stellt die Leiterin Agnes Vestavik fest, etwas in seinen Augen zu entdecken, was sie bei einem Kind bisher noch nie gesehen hat: Hass. Eines Tages ist Olav verschwunden und Agnes Vestavik wird tot an ihrem Schreibtisch aufgefunden–erstochen mit einem Küchenmesser. Die frisch zur Hauptkommissarin ernannte Hanne Wilhelmsen macht sich auf die Suche nach dem Jungen.

In this final book of The Long Paw of the Law series, Ashley and Sean have settled into married life back in Comfortville. It's the start of a busy holiday season and the couple are hard at work catering parties and filling orders at Babycakes bakery. One late fall morning, a body is discovered high up on a ridge above town. That news triggers a chain of events that re-opens an investigation into a forty-year-old murder case that has gone cold.

The British Classics Collection – Volume 2 steps into the grand world of 18th, 19th, and 20th-century British literature to create a compelling anthology featuring iconic works that span time and genres. From the whimsy of Alice in Wonderland to the mystery of The Woman in White, the philosophical insights of The Waste Land and the unforgettable detective stories of Sherlock Holme, this volume offers a rich variety of British literary masterpieces.

In this memoir-style collection of Friday night shenanigans, Kerry Anne Boer invites you into the kitchen, onto the couch, and sometimes under the table, where laughter echoes louder than logic and the tassie oak dining table bears witness to everything from meticulous Greek salads to impromptu dance-offs.

How AI is Transforming the Path to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

In the aftermath of WWI, Grace Abernathy is determined to reunite with her family, crossing an ocean to convince her widowed sister to return home to England. But Toronto holds more tragedy and her nephew, Christian, is now in the custody of his paternal relatives, the formidable Easton family, who rejected Grace's sister because of her low social status. Unconvinced that the Eastons can be fitting caretakers, Grace jumps at the chance to become Christian's nanny and to observe the family up close. But she is shocked to discover herself falling for Andrew Easton, the boy's guardian.

I found my brother's murderer, by becoming his next victim. The asshat killed me, too. But little does he know - I came back. Again. Now he's going down. But before I can destroy him, I need to resolve the little issue of me not dying. That's twice now I've cheated death. Something's not right. Graves doesn't think I'm a reaper, and the ghosts seem to agree with him. They say that I'm different. That I'm more. All I know is that things are getting real weird in Farrow's Square and dying is hungry work. Where's a truckload of Hostess cupcakes when a girl needs them?

Our use of language naturally evolves and is a living breathing thing that reflects who we are. Says Who? offers clear, nuanced guidance that goes beyond “right” and “wrong” to empower us to make informed language choices. Never snooty or scoldy (yes, that’s a “real” word!), this book explains where the grammar rules we learned in school actually come from and reveals the forces that drive dictionary editors to label certain words as slang or unacceptable.

Les Dieux ont menti : Perséphone n'a jamais été kidnappée ni retenue aux Enfers par Hadès. Elle s'y est précipitée. Vous pensez que Perséphone a été kidnappée par Hadès et retenue aux Enfers ? Détrompez-vous : elle s'y est précipitée. Hors de question pour la jeune déesse d'accepter le mariage arrangé auquel ses parents la destinent ! Maintenant, elle doit convaincre Hadès de l'aider.

Talk too much? Maybe. But that’s how some of us process and grow. Talking through the discomfort of the messy middle can help us turn struggles into strength.Talks Too Much is a space for honest conversations about life in progress—when you’re not at the beginning, not at the end, but deep in the chaos of becoming. Whether you’re facing an unexpected diagnosis, a sudden shift in your path, or a challenge you never saw coming, this is a place to unpack it all.We don’t hide the struggles—we speak them, explore them, and reshape them into something powerful like Alchemists.Because ...

"Bis gestern war ich noch in einem anderen Leben." Eines Morgens erwacht Toni nicht wie gewohnt neben ihrem langjährigen Freund in ihrer kleinen Altbauwohnung, weil die Dielen knarren und die Nachbarn viel zu laut sind. Nein. Zu ihrer Verwunderung befindet sie sich in einer großzügig geschnittenen Wohnung. Alles hell, ordentlich, teuer eingerichtet. Und der Blick aus dem Fenster? Seltsam vertraut. Antonia versteht: Sie ist wieder in dem Dorf ihrer Kindheit"

One viral confrontation could destroy everything I've built. And at the center of it all? The team captain and that sinful smirk. As the Houston Heatwave's PR manager, control is my game. Then there's Keelan Landry—team captain, my best friend's cocky brother… And the one man who never fails to push my every button. Where I'm calculative and fierce, he's playful and carefree. Except when my celebrity ex drags me into the spotlight. And Keelan steps in—a little too fiercely.

Jenna is home for Christmas, and she's just trying to survive her mom's insistence that she get married, and her feelings for Dean that haven't really disappeared. Showing up with her new fling seems like the best way of avoiding both of them.