My Forbidden Face by Latifa5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Her story isn’t just, therefore, as the sub-title indicates, one of a young woman ‘growing up under the Taliban’ but one of a young woman who has grown up under a number of regimes, all of which, including those which preceded her birth, have made her people suffer to varying degrees. The book is published as the first American bombs begin to fall on Afghanistan, of which cognisance is taken in the Afterword. Latifa, born a year after the intervention of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, has lived all her life in a country at war, a guerrilla war against the Communist government and its Soviet Allies, followed by a civil war amongst those who opposed that regime, followed by a war of the Taliban, victors of the civil war, against its own people. My Forbidden Face is the story of a young Muslim woman who is on the threshold of adulthood when the Taliban comes to power in her native Afghanistan. ![]()
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The knight and the dove lori wick5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Can Liberty, realizing her awakening feelings for the rugged cowboy, give up her position when so many townspeople have come to rely on her? As Slater and Liberty struggle to understand their own feelings and find common ground in their beliefs, God s hand gently guides the way in this heartwarming romance. As his heart grows tender toward Liberty, Slater longs to see her turn in her badge. ![]() But Slater, a former Texas Ranger with a restless spirit, is surprised to find himself on the wrong side of the law and even more shocked to realize it’s a she who is arresting him! Yet Slater finds himself drawn to the close knit town, to its strong church family, and especially to the fascinating Deputy Drake. As acting deputy of Shotgun, Texas, Liberty is simply enforcing the town laws. ![]() The first meeting between Slater Rawlings and Liberty Drake could hardly be called ideal. ![]() The love song of queenie hennessy5/29/2023 ![]() ‘And, Queenie, something for you.’ Sister Catherine crossed the room, holding out an envelope. ![]() The loud woman called Finty opened a letter informing her that if she scratched off the foil window, she would discover that she’d won an exciting prize. The blind lady, Barbara, received a note from her neighbour - Sister Catherine read it out - spring is coming, it said. I don’t know her name.) There is a big man they call the Pearly King, and he had another parcel though I have been here a week and I haven’t yet seen him open one. There was a card for the new young woman. Sister Catherine passed several brown envelopes, forwarded, to a Scotsman known as Mr Henderson. Sister Catherine strode in with the morning delivery. I can imagine all sorts of things, Harold, if I put my mind to it. I hear the patients cough, and it is only the wind in my garden by the sea. But I close my eyes and I pretend that the heat of the radiator is the sun on my hands and the smell of lunch is salt in the air. The colours, the smells, the way a day passes. By the time she’d got sorted, pens and a glass of water and so on, he was dozing again. One lone seagull balanced in the sky.Ī patient nodded, and Sister Lucy fetched paper. ![]() Outside, the winter evergreens flapped and shivered. Sister Lucy, who is the youngest nun volunteering in the hospice, asked if anyone would like to help with her new jigsaw. ![]() We were in the dayroom for morning activities. ![]() If you follow me by malena watrous5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() “I worked with these large publishers for most of my career, and there is a lot of fear over how much power Amazon and Apple have over the marketplace,” says Curry. ![]() It’s a two-woman operation run by Emily Gould - former Gawker writer and author of And the Heart Says Whatever - and Ruth Curry. But the publishing industry certainly isn’t making it any easier for smaller companies to compete. ![]() ![]() I’m not naive enough to believe that if given options, consumers would abandon Amazon and Apple en masse and rush to independent e-bookshops. ( MORE: 5 Famous Writers Who Loathe E-Books) The question is: Why don’t publishers look elsewhere? Ironically, the antitrust lawsuit could end up creating a monopoly where Amazon dictates all the rules of the game. The goal was apparently to prevent Amazon, which dominates the market, from deflating prices of hardcover books by pricing those books’ electronic versions as low as $9.99 in order to persuade people to buy its line of Kindle e-readers and its Kindle Fire tablet. Last Wednesday, the Department of Justice filed a major antitrust lawsuit against Apple and five big publishers for allegedly price-fixing e-books. ![]() Spinning silver book review5/29/2023 ![]() This is where the story turned for me, I thought there’d be banter and fast paced action. The Staryk are a magical winter folk who eventually seek Miryem out. I honestly thought the magic would be more prolific, but like the ice and snow in this wintry setting, the magic crept in gradually. We follow (initially) Miryem whose father has failed at being a moneylender, so she must step up and convert her family’s poor, derelict situation into one brimming with wealth and warmth. The descriptions in this book were absolutely beautiful, Naomi Novik’s writing is so whimsical and picturesque. Genre: fantasy, adult, fairy tales, retelling ![]() When her grandfather loans her a pouch of silver pennies, she brings it back full of gold.īut having the reputation of being able to change silver to gold can be more trouble than it’s worth–especially when her fate becomes tangled with the cold creatures that haunt the wood, and whose king has learned of her reputation and wants to exploit it for reasons Miryem cannot understand. ![]() Hardening her heart against her fellow villagers’ pleas, she sets out to collect what is owed–and finds herself more than up to the task. ![]() Free to lend and reluctant to collect, he has loaned out most of his wife’s dowry and left the family on the edge of poverty–until Miryem steps in. Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders… but her father isn’t a very good one. ![]() ![]() Slop cuts his thumb trying to untie the knots of his doctor's bag Susannah scrapes her arm the midwife bangs her hip in a fall Dr. Shandy contorts himself trying to extract his handkerchief from his pocket Dr. Shandy screaming upstairs while she labors, but Mr. ![]() Hang up your hats, because this is going to take a while. In Book 3, Tristram is… still being born. Shandy each have a one-sided conversation: Toby explains his fortifications, and Mr. As he's being born (seriously), he explains how Toby became obsessed with building fortifications then, he digresses for a while about the philosopher John Locke while Susannah goes for the midwife and Obadiah goes for the doctor (and then leaves again for the doctor's tools). In Book 2, Tristram finally gets to his birth. Shandy's obsession with names (as well as Tristram's obsession with obsessions). Check out Book 1, as Tristram digresses about writing, philosophy, marriage, and even digressions and we learn about Mr. ![]() He then introduces Yorick and Toby-not to mention Toby's is-it-or-isn't-it wound-and lays out a few things we need to know about hobby-horses and digressions. ![]() Shandy exactly at the moment of ejaculation. Book 1 begins with Tristram's conception, which went wrong because Mrs. Let's rewind the clock to T-minus 20 seconds to the beginning of Tristram. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Summary ![]() The Way It Is by Donalda Reid5/28/2023 ![]() She was responsible for 13 BBC centres, with more than 1,000 staff. We’re thrilled that the mentors for our inaugural year are: Donalda MacKinnon, former director of BBC Scotlandĭonalda has recently retired from her post as director of BBC Scotland. ![]() They span print, broadcast and radio, and are on hand to provide guidance and advice. ![]() Our aim is to link up emerging Scotland-based journalists with some of the most successful women in the industry.Įight influential mentors have agreed to share their knowledge and experience with the next generation of journalists. That’s why we’ve decided to launch an inaugural mentoring scheme, building on the success of a similar initiative run by our partner organisation Women in Journalism UK. One of the subjects we are asked most about at Women in Journalism Scotland is mentoring. ![]() Who I Am with You by Robin Lee Hatcher5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Somehow the verses he marked and the words he wrote in the margins open her heart to healing. When Jessica begins to read her great-grandfather’s Bible, she finds a connection with a man she never knew. The last thing Ridley wants is a relationship-but when fate leads Ridley to form a friendship with his reclusive and pregnant neighbor, he wonders if this small-town hideout might be more of a long-term destination. Ridley Chesterfield is hiding out in Hope Springs, Idaho, avoiding a political scandal and the barrage of false media headlines that have tarnished his good name. ![]() Harboring the secret of her husband’s betrayal, her pain is deeper than anyone knows. Instead she is still reeling from the tragic, unexpected loss of her husband and daughter-and awaiting the arrival of her unborn child. ![]() Jessica Mason isn’t looking for love when she meets Ridley Chesterfield. They're always excellent! Who I Am with You is different from the other Hatcher books I've read in that it's a split time (dual timeline) novel those are often hit or miss for me, so of course I was hopeful that this one would be a hit!įor these two broken hearts, the first step toward love will be a huge leap of faith. The lowest star rating I've ever given any of her books is 3-1/2, and I've rated most of her books 4-1/2 or 5 stars. Robin Lee Hatcher has become one of my go-to romance writers. ![]() The twisted tales of bruce jones5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Dedicated to preserving Mostly American Pop Art & Pop Culture artifacts as well as similar examples from around the World. QUALITY COMICS AMERICA has been, since 1976, a primary source for vintage books, comics, baby boomer toys, ephemera, memorabilia & collectibles. Please Visit our sister shops for more quality collectibles: Please "BOOKMARK" or "FOLLOW" us to stay informed and you really should "LIKE" our FB page: Use ARTIST or CHARACTER name in store search to find other items. ![]() Please refer to scanned images- they are accurate and have not been edited or corrected and, as always, are worth at least a thousand words. ![]() VERY GOOD+/-FINE CONDITION, with the usual softness, some cover dinge, surface wear & slight rubbing to covers from age & book being handled, read and stored. Artists: Bruce Jones, Don Lomax, John Bolton ![]() Thin ice a mystery paige shelton5/28/2023 ![]() Gril comes back with shocking news, and it soon becomes clear that Orin has also vanished. Beth stays with him while Orin hurries to town for help, but it’s not Orin who returns. When they reach the cabin, the old man is alive, but not in the best shape. Beth Rivers sets off with her friend Orin and dog Gus, toward the cabin of an elderly resident, intending to check on him. At the end of each brutal winter, citizens gather downtown and then break into groups to search the community for those who might have somehow gotten stuck at home. It’s springtime in Benedict, Alaska, and with it the warmer weather comes an unseasonably somber local tradition.the annual Death March. ![]() ![]() The fourth installment in the gripping, atmospheric Alaska Wild series, Paige Shelton's Winter's End. ![]() |