Persepolis book5/20/2023 ![]() The inner world of little Marji is brilliantly portrayed, as a young child evolving in a militant and revolutionary environment while dealing with her own youthful beliefs at once fascinated by her family’s past and deeply attached to religion. Persepolis’ first tome strives to capture the tense and highly politicized atmosphere reigning within Iran during those times. On 11 February 1979, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi is overthrown, and his government is replaced by an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. ![]() The first section follows 10-year-old ‘Marji’, born to an Iranian progressive family directly descending from the last Shah of the Qajar dynasty. ![]() ![]() The first published volume of Persepolis details Marjane Satrapi’s coming of age during Iran’s Islamic Revolution through four tomes composed of graphic black-and-white panels. ![]()
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Obsession of the Egoist by Nero Seal5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Or try this link to use Google to search the subreddit. ![]() Find a Bookįind all-time favorites and popular recommendations on our subreddit resources page and check out our New Reader guide. No complaints about author identities or over-generalizing about author or reader gendersįor more detail on the rules, please click here.įor our guidelines on how to write a book request that follows the rules, please click here. 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I wanted to be done and move on, and I couldn't because I was afraid this thing was going to somehow be important to the next volume. The short prose story at the end was a real annoyance, though. And they are all being recruited (mostly) against their will to work for the British government as (basically) an anti-terrorist unit that protects Brittain against large threats. You have a bunch of reimagined literary characters who are all (mostly) the worst version of themselves that Moore could imagine. ![]() Was it just morbid fascination as to what these awful characters would do next or was it because the plot was actually great? I don't know if it was good, but it held my interest. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ultrareligious Aunt Ruth takes drastic action to “fix” her niece, bringing Cam face-to-face with the cost of denying her true self – even if she’s not quite sure who that is. Just as that starts to seem like a real possibility, her secret is exposed. To Cam’s surprise, she and Coley become best friends – while Cam secretly dreams of something more. Beautiful pickup-driving Coley is a perfect cowgirl with the perfect boyfriend to match. Survival in Miles City, Montana, means blending in and not making waves, and Cam becomes an expert at this – especially at avoiding any questions about her sexuality. ![]() She knows that from this point on, her life will forever be different. Relief she’ll never have to tell them that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl.īut that relief soon turns to heartbreak, as Cam is forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth. When Cameron Post’s parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. ![]() Fluke by James Herbert5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Widely imitated and hugely influential, his twenty-three novels have sold more than fifty-four million copies worldwide, and have been translated into over thirty languages, including Russian and Chinese. ![]() Ībout the Author: James Herbert was not only Britain's number one bestselling writer of chiller fiction, a position he held ever since publication of his first novel, but was also one of our greatest popular novelists. He is more than he thinks, more than he can remember and in the depths of his brain the memory of what he once was is clawing for release. Hunting a prey he cannot not define, driven by a primal instinct he cannot ignore. Aircraft & Spacecraft: General Interestįluke is the moving story of a dog with the memories of a human, with the signature twisting plot Master of Horror James Herbert is famed for.Ī dog wanders the streets, compelled by a ravenous hunger.Ships, Boats & Waterways: General Interest.Road & Motor Vehicles: General Interest.Fishing, Field Sports & Outdoor Activities.Sports Studies & PE: Textbooks & Study Guides.Literary Studies: Textbooks & Study Guides.Anthologies, Essays, Letters & Miscellaneous.Inventions & Technology: General Interest.Environment & Ecology: General Interest.Popular Culture & Media: General Interest.Politics & Government: Textbooks & Study Guides. ![]() Hancock fingerprints of the gods5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His books include Lords of Poverty, The Sign and the Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods, Keeper of Genesis (released in the US as Message of the Sphinx), The Mars Mystery, Heaven's Mirror (with wife Santha Faiia), Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization, Talisman: Sacred Cities, Secret Faith (with co-author Robert Bauval), Supernatural: Meeting with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind and Magicians of the Gods. Graham Hancock is a British writer and journalist. His first novel, Entangled, was published in 2010. He also wrote and presented the Channel 4 documentaries Underworld: Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age and Quest for the Lost Civilisation. ![]() Book review a walk to remember5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Then a twist of fate made Jamie his partner for the homecoming dance, and Landon Carter’s life would never be the same. She took care of her widowed father, rescued hurt animals, and helped out at the local orphanage. A quiet girl who always carried a Bible with her schoolbooks, Jamie seemed content living in a world apart from the other teens. Certainly the last person in town he thought he’d fall for was Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town’s Baptist minister. He even swore that he had once been in love. It was 1958, and Landon had already dated a girl or two. ![]() Published in 1999, A Walk To Remember by Nicholas Sparks follows Landon Carter who looks back at his last year at Beaufort High. “It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() OL20032541W Page_number_confidence 94.86 Pages 294 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.14 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210616150308 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 314 Scandate 20210614204228 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781476777412 Tts_version 4. To save ancient Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Oceans Eleven in this 'fast-paced narrative that is. Urn:lcp:badasslibrarians0000hamm_h2n4:lcpdf:7b54bf3d-a207-4f7c-b24f-e41012b1340a The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the Worlds Most Precious Manuscripts Joshua Hammer Simon and Schuster, History - 288 pages 183 Reviews Reviews. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:55:33 Boxid IA40137201 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() Deathgrip by Brian Hodge5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Deathgrip: Bram Stoker Awards, Superior Achievement in a Novel (1992).The following novels by Brian Hodge were also nominated for these awards: Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders won the Bram Stoker Awards, Superior Achievement in an Anthology, in 2017. Mondo Zombie won the Bram Stoker Awards, Superior Achievement in an Anthology, in 2006. The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection won the Bram Stoker Awards, Superior Achievement in an Anthology, in 2004. Hodge's books have won multiple awards, Best New Horror 6 won the International Horror Guild Award, Best Anthology, in 1996. There are no upcoming standalone novels by Brian at this time. ![]() The most recently released novel was Mad Dogs which was released in 2007. The first standalone was released in 1988 with the novel Dark Advent. Brian Hodge (Brian Keith Hodge) was born in 1960 and is currently 63 years old.īrian Hodge (Brian Keith Hodge) is probably best known for his Standalone Novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The characters - visceral, impassioned and deeply flawed - stay with you long after the last page is turned.Fans of authors like Arundhati Roy, Delia Owens and Richard Powers will love this multi-generational story. There's murder, girl-child trafficking, a torrid mixed-race affair and homophobia, all of which beget intrigue, sensuousness, heartache. Can she reach across space and time and rent that veil Is it too late Can she ever be happy Fulfilled They Whisper in my Blood is a moving love story, a sweeping tale, a panorama of a Portuguese-Indian family's history told through a poignant refrain that is this clan's nemesis. ![]() nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Have you ever made a split-second decision that changed the course of your life When, at one fell swoop, your world glided from one side of a thin veil that was happiness, to the other Nineteen-year-old honey-eyed Perpetua (Pippa),a tragic, heartbreakingly beautiful Luso-Indian had to do just that and it takes her almost four decades to discover that she was not the decisionmaker after all - someone centuries ago made that decision for her. ![]() |