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A map of home by randa jarrar5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() At first, Nidali is disappointed to learn that feeling rootless doesn't make her an outsider in the States, and soon it turns out the precocious and endearing Arab chick isn't very different from other American girls, a reality that only her father may find difficult to accept. But they don't stay long in Egypt, and after the war, Nidali's father finds work in Texas. During the occupation, the family flees to Alexandria in a wacky caravan, bribing soldiers along the way with whiskey and silk ties. A younger brother is born in Kuwait, rounding out a family of complex citizenships. Nidali Ammar is born in Boston to a Greek-Egyptian mother and a Palestinian father, and moves to Kuwait at a very young age, staying there until she's 13, when Iraq invades. Jarrar's sparkling debut about an audacious Muslim girl growing up in Kuwait, Egypt and Texas is intimate, perceptive and very, very funny. ![]()
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Mallee Boys by Charlie Archbold5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() 'Only a teacher/writer like Charlie Archbold could produce a book like this. 'A well-paced and ultimately suspenseful tale full of convincing and engaging characters.' - Katharine England, Advertiser ![]() Winner of the 2016 Adelaide Festival Unpublished Manuscript Award Honour Book in the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for Older Readers Award The Mallee, where they live, may seem like the middle of nowhere, but it turns out this is going to be one hell of a year. ![]() He does his best, but - really - he doesn't have a clue.Īs Sandy and Red deal with girls, dirt biking, footy and friendship, both boys have to work out who they want to be, without their mum around. He's amped up on rage and always looking for a fight. His brother Red, on the other hand, is eighteen now and working the farm. Sandy Douglas knows that life at fifteen is hard, but it's even harder when your mother died a year ago and nothing's gone right since. It's like I'm not meant to be here but I am. I live on a farm but I get hay fever and I'm scared of goats. I live in the Mallee but I don't like the desert. Sometimes I feel like I'm neither one thing nor another. ![]()
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Mona lisa overdrive book5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yazuka, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes. ![]() Living in the vast computer landscape of cyberspace, young Mona taps into the mind of world-famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell who deciphers cyperspace plans, including those devised by Japanese underworld. Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled. Mona Lisa Overdrive is the final novel of the William Gibson's cyberpunk Sprawl trilogy. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer. ![]() Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell. 35,989 Ratings William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date.The Mona Lisa Overdrive.Įnter Gibson's unique world-lyric and mechanical, sensual and violent, sobering and exciting-where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace. Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, 3) by William Gibson 4.00 avg. ![]() William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date. ![]()
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Hers to Protect by Nicky F. Grant5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The four then work together to try to hide and repair the damage from their parents, but their scheme is uncovered however, their mother Anne allows them to keep the dog since she is proud that they were finally able to work together.Īfter the boys ruin yet another one of Dawn's sleepovers, Anne decides it is time for Dawn to get her own room. Unable to work together, the quads get into a fight over the dog's name, which causes the dog to urinate on a signed sports jersey belonging to the quads' father Tom. Teleplay by : Matt Fleckenstein & Michael FeldmanĪfter getting into another argument with each other at school, the Harper quads adopt a dog, which their mother says they can only keep if they can work together to take care of him. ![]()
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Forever after all catharina maura free5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, aged just ten, she used to tell her friends and family that she wanted to grow up and become an author.īut just like many people, she would soon get distracted by adult responsibilities as writing and getting published took a backseat. Like many authors, Catharina Maura began writing when she was very little. She currently lives in Hong Kong but given her wanderlust, she has at some point made her home in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Singapore. She is now known for her penchant for penning some angsty stories that can be very intriguing. With her first novel becoming wildly popular, she kicked on from there to write more than half a dozen works of fiction across single-standing novels and several series. The author made her debut in fiction in 2020 when she published “Stolen Moments” the first of the “Stolen Moments” series of novels. Over the many years that she has been actively writing romance, she has made a reputation for writing bestselling billionaire romances that her readers love for the small hint of the forbidden. Catharina Maura who is otherwise known as CA Maura when writing paranormal romance is a fantasy and paranormal romance author. ![]()
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Al capone at alcatraz book series5/22/2023 ![]() 100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives. ![]() ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The brilliant plan of the Ancients has survived to our time, and it will continue toįunction until the Great Work is accomplished. Western Hemisphere and selected it to be the site of the philosophic empire. Thousands of years before Columbus they were aware of the existence of our World democracy was the secret dream of the great classical philosophers. An aroused public interest in the subject led to further research with enlargement of the findings and this publication in book form. The theme and pattern for this book was first developed in a lecture given by the author at Carnegie Hall, New York, December 2, 1942. The Secret Destiny of America by Manly Palmer Hall The Word of the Ascended Masters is the ultimate Authority in any question relating to Truth. Ascension Research Center does not guarantee the accuracy of any content on this site or on any external sites linked to us. ![]()
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Ginny myers sain5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But as she digs into the night that Elora went missing, she begins to realize that everybody in town is hiding something - her grandmother Honey her childhood crush Hart and even her late mother, whose secrets continue to call to Grey from beyond the grave. Grey can't believe that Elora vanished into thin air any more than she can believe that nobody in a town full of psychics knows what happened. When seventeen-year-old Grey makes her annual visit to La Cachette, Louisiana - the tiny bayou town that proclaims to be the "Psychic Capital of the World" - she knows it will be different from past years: her childhood best friend Elora went missing several months earlier and no one is telling the truth about the night she disappears. Perfect for fans of Holly Jackson, Karen McManus and Delia Owens' Where the Crawdads Sing. A intensely romantic and atmospheric thriller for young adults, full of twists and turns with a simmering supernatural undercurrent. ![]()
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Mark yarm everybody loves our town5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Twenty years later, Mark Yarm captures that era in the words of those at the forefront of the movement (and the music's lesser-known champions). But it was the unexpected, seemingly overnight success of Nirvana's single 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' in the fall of 1991, that made grunge a household word and launched an American music movement on par with punk and hip-hop. Grunge, also known as the 'Seattle sound', is the sludgy fusion of punk rock and heavy metal that emerged from the Pacific Northwest in the early part of the 1980s. Twenty years later, Mark Yarm captures that era in the words of those at the forefront. ![]() ![]()
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Delta Green by Bob Kruger5/22/2023 ![]() Delta Green agents slip through the system, manipulating the federal bureaucracy while pushing the darkness back for another day - but often at a shattering personal cost. Stripped of sanction after a disastrous 1969 operation in Cambodia, Delta Green's leaders made a secret pact: to continue their work without authority, without support, and without fear. Are you ready?īorn of the federal government's 1928 raid on the degenerate coastal town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts, the covert agency known as Delta Green spent four decades opposing the forces of darkness with honor, but without glory. The red curtain rises, A silence falls over the audience. The usher takes your hand and leads you into the dark. ![]() Delta Green: Dark Theatres presents eight new stories of intrigue and horror, eight theaters in which desperate actors engage clandestine passion plays for the grim amusement of alien gods, Witness the horrors of the Raids on Innsmouth the terrible secrets of World War II, the tropical nightmare of Vietnam, the chill vacuum of Yuggoth, the asynchronous folds of space-time, and much more. ![]() |