An encounter between humans and the inhabitants of Felicity.After Nathan, Edwin, Kerian and Jeremy crossed the Stellar Portal on their search for Salina, they never imagined that their pursuit would take them to a new planet where they would encounter a new sentient species, the Felids. A new quest awaits them when they chance upon Amaru, a humble fish-catching felid who takes them for the messengers whose arrival was predicted by the prophecy and whose presence would restore his p...

24th June, 2016. An Apocalypse hit Earth. The world as we know it has been destroyed. However, the human kinbd has not been completely annihilated. Natan travels around the world with Yizrah, his uncle, looking for Eyal, the brother he lost on that specific day.Thanks to that quest, they will meet new people and various horizons and experience more thrilling adventures than they expected through their previous life. They will learn that this Apocalypse appears to be a second chance...

The balance of the universe is in peril. On the planet Kokeran, the Karmenytes have just revealed an enigmatic prophecy. Kelmozar, the oldest Guardian, understands that one of them must leave the Karmenyta Forest. If he does not find the Chosen One, the breath of life may be stifled. Quickly. He must summon the Council of Elders and find out who is the Guardian appointed by the Weavers of Destiny.At the same time, on Terra IV, Leonida Butrika, a former inspector, is investigating th...

"Bravo!" -- Montgomery Advertiser"It was great!...Funny and entertaining!" -- WCFN-TV"We laughed all evening long!" -- Spectrum Reach Media"Kip Trash: You Can't Stick to a Girl with a Teflon Coated Heart and Other Songs of Humor & Despair" is a hit musical play that was developed and performed at the nationally renowned Alabama Shakespeare Festival and was featured at the prestigious Southern Writers Project Festival of New Plays. The action takes place in a dive ba...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Harper’s Bazaar • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Guardian • The Kansas City Star • National Post • BookPage • Kirkus ReviewsFrom Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding work of fiction that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. A lush, richly la...

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection • Secular moneylender and manic collector of treasures, Hashim lives a life of gentle honor until he discovers, washed up to his private quay, a great relic: a silver pendant bearing a strand of the Prophet’s hair.From one of the most controversial novelists of the last century, world-renowned master of invention and allusion Salman Rushdie, “The Prophet’s Hair” vibrates with fantastical promise, smashing together cult...

Fiction. Translated from the French by Georgina Kleege, SITT MARIE ROSE is an extraordinary novel on the Civil War in Lebanon. A small press bestseller, now in its ninth edition, it is the story of a woman abducted by militiamen during the civil war in Lebanon. Already a classic of war literature, it won the France-Pays Arabes award in Paris and has been translated into ten languages. It has been taught as part of Comparative Literature, World Literature, Women's Studies and Middle East St...

Winner of the 2012 National Translation Award“What Sinan [Antoon] has done with In the Presence of Absence is a kind of miraculous work of dedication and love. Reading this volume is sheer enjoyment and sublimity.”**—Saadi Yousef“There are two maps of Palestine that politicians will never manage to forfeit: the one kept in the memories of Palestinian refugees, and that which is drawn by Darwish’s po...

From the ' War on Terror' to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance. Visceral and passionate, Hold Everything Dear is a profound meditation on the far extremes of human behaviour, and the underlying despair. Looking at Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq, he makes an impassioned attack on the poverty and loss of freedom at the heart of such unnecessary suffering.These essays ...

In Algerian White, Assia Djebar weaves a tapestry of the epic and bloody ongoing struggle in her country between Islamic fundamentalism and the post-colonial civil society. Many Algerian writers and intellectuals have died tragically and violently since the 1956 struggle for independence. They include three beloved friends of Djebar: Mahfoud Boucebi, a psychiatrist; M'Hamed Boukhobza, a sociologist; and Abdelkader Alloula, a dramatist; as well as Albert Camus. In Algerian White, Djebar fin...

Now more timely than ever, Alice Walker’s Sent By Earth reflects on the tragedy of September 11, 2001, and addresses the anger many Americans felt at the presumed perpetrator of the attack: Osama bin Laden. In powerfully reflective, nuanced, and above all heartfelt prose, Walker explores the seeds of hatred and resentment around the globe, and advances a surprisingly controversial theory: that hatred can never be defeated by hatred, but only by love.

Unlock the more straightforward side of Midnight’s Children with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, a powerful portrait of the diversity and richness of Indian culture as embodied by the eponymous “midnight children”, all of whom were born at the moment India became independent and who therefore possess magical talents and an innate connection to the...