Let me talk to you for a moment — heart to heart.We all look at successful people and think they were "born lucky," but when you look closely, every great person actually started from a place of struggle, uncertainty, and fear. This book, One Bold Step Toward Riches, is written exactly like a friendly conversation, where I sit with you and share real-life journeys of people who rose from zero and built something extraordinary.From Muhammad Ali Jinnah's discipline and courag...

Written from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh. Reflecting both private devotional love and the attempt to attain union with God and become absorbed into the Divine, many poems in this edition are imbued with the symbols and metaphors that develop many of the central ideas of Sufism: the Lover, the Beloved, the Wine, and the Tavern; while others are more personal and echo the poet's battle...

In the quiet coastal town of Broadwater, memories don’t fade — they flood.When psychologist Eva Ward begins hearing faint recordings of her own voice in places she’s never been, her reality begins to fracture. Each whisper draws her deeper into the water’s pull — toward a series of secrets that link the town’s past to her own buried guilt.As Eva unravels the mystery behind the recordings, she discovers that some voices aren’t meant to be heard — and that silence can be far ...

A great deal has been written over the years addressing the Palestine-Israel conflict, and the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem. However, few works on the subject really present the personal aspect: What is it like to be a refugee? What propels a decent human being to take up arms, to become a freedom fighter or a terrorist? This book tells the remarkable story of one such refugee, following his journey from childhood in the Nahr El Bared Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, bec...

An essential introduction to the age of dinosaurs in Africa.Once Africa was referred to as the ''Lost World of the dinosaur era,'' so poorly known were its ancient flora and fauna. Worse still, many priceless fossil specimens from the Sahara Desert were destroyed during the Second World War. Fortunately, in the twentieth-first century, more researchers are now working in north Africa than ever before and making fascinating discoveries such as the dinosaur Spinos...

Finalist for the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction“A lyrical, extremely rich narrative of loss, memory, and trauma.” — STARRED review, Kirkus ReviewsAn extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written with “brutal clarity — and yet, there is a poetic quality to the telling.” — Frances Itani, award-winning author of Deafening and Remembering the Bo...

"Ijouiher chronicles the Cretaceous fossil record of North Africa, one of the most exciting frontiers in paleontology research today." ―Steve Brusatte, New York Times -bestselling authorOnce Africa was referred to as the "Lost World of the dinosaur era," so poorly known were its ancient flora and fauna. Worse still, many priceless fossil specimens from the Sahara Desert were destroyed during the Second World War. Fortunat...

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...

She never expected to be marked.Mira Chen is an ordinary librarian living an invisible life—until the night she wanders into the wrong section of an abandoned archive and everything changes. A mysterious mark appears on her wrist, ancient symbols burning into her skin, and suddenly she can see a world hidden beneath our own.The Midnight Realm.A place where magic is real, where ancient creatures walk in shadow, and where a mysterious man with silver eyes watches her ...

_______________'A wonderfully subtle exploration of place, identity and memory' - PD Smith, Guardian'A highly readable and authoritative celebration of a little-understood country and its capital city' - Geographical'A travelogue and memoir to rank alongside anything by Chatwin or Thubron' - Jim Crace'A most absorbing and rewarding book' - Mich...

Jamal Byas is a young man on the autism spectrum, a self-described wallflower whose social anxiety makes navigating the dating world a minefield. After a controlling first relationship and a subsequent failed attempt at romance, Jamal finds solace in his long-time obsession: actress Claudia Adams, his "dream girl" and untouchable celebrity crush.When he learns that Claudia will star in a new reality contest, "Date A Celebrity," Jamal knows this is his one shot to m...

"This book offers a distinctive study that intertwines creativity with the cultural fabric of Palestine through the life and literary career of the renowned pioneer and trailblazing writer, Mahmoud Shukair. Written with both clarity and scholarly discipline, it reconstructs Jerusalem’s literary landscape in its human and aesthetic dimensions, revealing how literature reinforces collective consciousness and restores place within cultural memory."- Prof. Hussain Hamzah, Arabic Department, Th...