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When the cat's away the mice will… Play? Fight? Fall in love?Featuring six short stories from the supernatural world of Denver, Colorado and the mystical Library of Alexandria, the answers are Said in Stone:Zombies Don't Play Baseball: What happens when a book on necromancy falls into the wrong hands after the Cubs win the World Series?Welcome to the Collective: A glimpse into the Heart of the Library where dwells something more than books.Convention Shock: ...

Is it ever too late for love?When Mike dumps Louise on their 20th wedding anniversary, her entire world comes to an end.Devastated and confused, she attempts to make sense of what happened and returns to a city she's avoided for two decades.Will she be able to move on with the man she left behind or will Mike's increasingly violent and unhinged behaviour continue to haunt and ruin her life? When the reason Mike left her at long last is revealed Loui...

"A tour de force – a gripping, twisting, furiously clever read that asks all the right questions, and keeps you guessing until the very end. I loved it." — Ruth Ware"Haunting. Mesmerizing. Unforgettable." — Gillian FlynnIn the summer of 1999, Kit and Laura travel to a festival in Cornwall to see a total eclipse of the sun. Kit is an eclipse chaser; Laura has never seen one before. Young and in love, they ar...

Your step-by-step guide to financial independence — from the creator of the #1 investing education podcast, Friends That InvestEver wondered how the stock market works, but felt too intimidated to ask? Then this is the book for you! In this straightforward, inclusive guide to investing, globally recognised expert Simran Kaur teaches the essential principles you can apply to any market, anywhere in the world. In Friends That Invest, you’re invited ...

**This original and deeply provocative book was the first to make Palestine the subject of a serious debate--one that remains as critical as ever. • With a new foreword by Saree Makdisi"A compelling call for identity and justice." —Anthony Lewis"Books such as Mr. Said's need to be written and read in the hope that understanding will provide a better chance of survival." —The New York Times Book Review**With the rigorous scholarship he brought to his influen...

**A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. • With new foreword by Hari Kunzru"Grandly conceived . . . urgently written and urgently needed. . . . No one studying the relations between the metropolitan West and the decolonizing world can ignore Mr. Said's work.' --The New York Times Book Review**In the nineteenth a...

The widower of children's book author Amy Krause Rosenthal shares a "gut-wrenching, honest, and uplifting memoir" of love, loss, and new beginnings ( Booklist).In 2017, Amy Krouse Rosenthal penned an op-ed piece for the New York Times' "Modern Love" column titled "You May Want to Marry My Husband." It appeared ten days before her death from ovarian cancer. In a heartbreaking play on a personal ad, she encouraged her husband to find happiness after ...

**A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. • With a new foreword by Ussama Makdisi"Intellectual history on a high order ... and very exciting." —The New York Times**In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which ...

"A rip-roaring bio" of the trailblazing New Yorker journalist that "explore[s] both the passion and dissatisfaction that fueled Hahn's wanderlust" ( Entertainment Weekly ).Emily Hahn first challenged traditional gender roles in 1922 when she enrolled in the University of Wisconsin's all-male College of Engineering, wearing trousers, smoking cigars, and adopting the nickname "Mickey." Her love of writing ...

From the author of The Girl from the Golden Horn, a novel of the enduring love between childhood friends divided by war & their separate cultures.First published in Vienna in 1937, this classic story of romance and adventure has been compared to Dr. Zhivago and Romeo and Juliet. Ali and Nino is Kurban Said's masterpiece. It is a captivating novel as evocative of the exotic desert landscape as it is of the passion between two peopl...

A taut tale of female friendship and betrayal.Set between the 1970s and 2010, I Never Said That I Was Brave examines the complicated relationship between two women as they navigate a culture vastly different from their parents’. Motivated by guilt and confusion, the unnamed narrator recounts the shifting dynamics of her lifelong friendship with Miriam, a charismatic astrophysicist who focuses on dark matter. As childhood immigrants to Canada from Uganda, t...

The second adventure in the life of the extraordinary Mesopotamian Blue, Varjak Paw: kung fu for cats!Having saved the city cats from a fate worse than death, Varjak Paw finds himself the elected and popular leader of a new gang - a gang that supports freedom and kindness for all. But will the pressure take its toll on this brave yet sometimes naive cat?Soon the city erupts in an all-out gang war as the evil Sally Bones attempts to control the lives of all cats. Horrified a...