If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say
Before we go any further, I want you to understand this: I am not a good person. We all want to be seen. We all want to be heard. But what happens when we're seen and heard saying or doing the wrong things? When Winter Halperin - former spelling b...
This Song Will Save Your Life
This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales is an irresistible novel about hope, heartbreak and the power of music to bring people together. All her life, Elise Dembowski has been an outsider. Starting a new school, she dreams of fitting in at la...
Tonight the Streets Are Ours
Tonight the Streets Are Ours
Married By Force
'I was twenty years old and dreamed of marrying for love.' Leila was born and brought up in France by Moroccan-born parents. But her romantic dreams were shattered when she was forced by her father to marry a man she'd never met, fifteen years old...
Measuring Minds
This book explores the origins of the American intelligence testing movement. It follows the life and work of Henry Herbert Goddard, America's first intelligence tester and author of the most popular American eugenics tract, The Kallikak Family. T...
Global and Regional Strategies in the Middle East
Global and Regional Strategies in the Middle East explores hegemony in the Middle East through understanding different dimensions of power politics and the consequences of the hegemonic ambitions of both global and regional powers. The book adds n...
Palestinian Labour Migration to Israel
Leila Farsakh provides the first comprehensive analysis of the rise and fall of Palestinian labour flows to Israel. Highlighting the interdependence between Israel's confiscation of Palestinian land and the use of Palestinian labour, she shows how...
Contesting Immigration Policy in Court
What difference does law make in immigration policymaking? Since the 1970s, networks of progressive attorneys in both the US and France have attempted to use litigation to assert rights for non-citizens. Yet judicial engagement - while numerically...
Geometric Galois Actions: Volume 2, The Inverse Galois Problem, Moduli Spaces and Mapping Class Groups
Geometric Galois Actions: Volume 2, The Inverse Galois Problem, Moduli Spaces and Mapping Class Groups
Geometric Galois Actions: Volume 1, Around Grothendieck's Esquisse d'un Programme
Geometric Galois Actions: Volume 1, Around Grothendieck's Esquisse d'un Programme
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Women and Gender in Islam
A classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new generation This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explo...
Quiet Revolution
A¿probing study of the veil's recent return-from one of the world's foremost authorities on Muslim women-that reaches surprising conclusions about contemporary Islam's place in the West today In Cairo in the 1940s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a gene...
Machine Learning with Microsoft Technologies
Know how to do machine learning with Microsoft technologies. This book teaches you to do predictive, descriptive, and prescriptive analyses with Microsoft Power BI, Azure Data Lake, SQL Server, Stream Analytics, Azure Databricks, HD Insight, and m...
The Lost Chef
The Lost Chef
The Forget-Me-Not Summer
This charming story about three California sisters spending the summer on Cape Cod is perfect for fans of The Penderwicks-as a starred ALA Booklist review raved-and The Mother-Daughter Book Club. Though Marigold, Zinnia, and Lily Silver couldn't be more different, they're all excited about summer vacation. Twelve-year-old Marigold is hoping to get her first kiss from her big crush, while Zinnia, eleven, will most likely spend her time in Marigold's shadow. And five-year-old Lily, though angelic, has a knack for stirring up mischief wherever she goes. But all of their plans come crashing down when the sisters' parents send them to Cape Cod to visit their Aunt Sunny. Small-town life is not what these LA girls had in mind. They must adjust, however, to things like sharing a room and living without a TV. With the help of Aunt Sunny's cheery disposition and her yummy brownies, though, the girls are quickly won over, and before Marigold, Zinnie, and Lily know it, they're cracking lobster
Självmördarna Vid Världens Ände - En Krönika Om En Patagonisk Stad
Las Heras, en spökstad i provinsen Santa Cruz i Patagonien, belägen vid världens ände, långt ifrån storstädernas sjudande liv. Las Heras välsignelse och förbannelse var oljeutvinningen. Det svarta guldet lockade till sig människor med arbete och framtidshopp men utnyttjade dem också och så småningom kom platsen att förvandlas till ett helvete. År 2002, under pågående strejker mot oljeföretagen och styrande politiker, anländer den argentinska journalisten Leila Guerriero till staden för att söka en förklaring till den självmordsvåg som drog fram över samhället under åren 1997 1999. Journalisten vandrar upp och ned längs stadens gator, besöker restauranger och bordellverksamheter, samtalar med närstående och bekanta till självmordsoffren. Vad var det som drev ungdomarna till att avsluta sina liv? Arbetslöshet? Brist på framtidsutsikter? Och vilka slags demoniska krafter var det invånarna i samhället pratade om? Kanske fanns det ett samband med en lista som cirkulerade i Las Heras, från vilken namn efter namn försvann De var tolv. Mellan mars 1997 och sista dagen 1999 tog tolv kvinnor och män livet av sig i Las Heras. Elva av dem hade en genomsnittsålder på tjugofem år och var emblematiska invånare i staden, barn till anspråkslösa men traditionella familjer : badvakten, provinsens bäste ryttare, den föräldralöse som vuxit upp med sina mostrar och morföräldrar. En officiell förteckning över dessa dödsfall finns inte. Varken kommunen, sjukhuset eller förvaltningsmyndigheten ansåg det vara nödvändigt att upprätta en sådan förteckning, varpå alla fabulerar : det var tjugotvå på mindre än ett år, det var nitton på dryga två år, det var tre och folk överdriver. Självmördarna vid världens ände är en flerstämmig, intim och oroväckande krönika om ett bortglömt samhälle präglat av ensamhet, tonårsgraviditeter, alkoholism, bitande vindar och konsekvenserna av oljeindustrins fluktuationer. Leila Guerriero är en av Argentinas mest framstående journalister. Hon skriver för flertalet latinamerikanska och europeiska medier däribland La Nación, El Mercurio och spanska El País. Hon är även författare till en rad böcker som Una historia sencilla, Opus Gelber, Teoría de la gravedad, Frutos extraños. Hennes arbete inom krönikegenren har prisats internationellt för sitt litterära och sociologiska värde. Hon har tidigare blivit översatt till engelska, norska, tyska, italienska, polska, franska och portugisiska. Självmördarna vid världens ände är hennes första bok och den första att bli översatt till svenska.
Dans le jardin de l'ogre
Dans le jardin de l'ogre
River Spirit
The spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela about an embattled young woman's coming of age during the Mahdist War in 19th century Sudan. Leila Aboulela, hailed as 'a versatile prose stylist' (New York Times) has also been praised by J.M. Coetzee, Ali Smith, and Ben Okri, among others, for her rich and nuanced novels depicting Islamic spiritual and political life. Her new novel is an enchanting narrative of the years leading up to the British conquest of Sudan in 1898, and a deeply human look at the tensions between Britain and Sudan, Christianity and Islam, colonizer and colonized. In River Spirit, Aboulela gives us the unforgettable story of a people who--against the odds and for a brief time--gained independence from foreign rule through their willpower, subterfuge, and sacrifice. When Akuany and her brother Bol are orphaned in a village raid in South Sudan, they're taken in by a young merchant Yaseen who promises to care for
Sick Houses
Horror begins at home From family homes in Amityville to Gothic mansions in Los Angeles and the Unabomber's¿cabin, houses often capture and contain the horror that has happened within them. Sick Houses crosses the threshold of these eerie¿spaces t...
New Year
A story about family, ageing, fresh starts and the beautiful things that happen when we least expect them to. Suad misses her husband. He died unexpectedly during an argument at work, and she never got to say goodbye. But Suad knows she is lucky. ...
Earth Repair
Millions of acres of land have been contaminated by pesticides, improperly handled chemicals, dirty energy projects, toxic waste, and other pollutants in the United States alone. This toxic legacy impacts the environment, our health, our watershed...
Elsewhere, Home
Winner of the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year 2018; Longlisted for The People's Book Prize 2018; From one of our finest contemporary writers whose work has been praised by J.M. Coetzee, Ali Smith and Aminatta Forna, Leila Aboulela's Elsew...
Kindness of Enemies
The new novel from three times Orange Prize longlisted Leila Aboulela Natasha Wilson knows how difficult it is to fit in. Born to a Russian mother and a Muslim father, she feels adrift in Scotland and longs for a place which really feels like home...
River Spirit
1880s Sudan. When Akuany and her brother are orphaned in a village raid, they are taken in by Yaseen, a young merchant whose vow to care for them will tether him to Akuany throughout their lives. As revolution brews, Sudan begins to prise itself f...
Lost Words
Lost Words
Mariam’s Dream
Mariam’s Dream
Minaret
Leila Aboulela's American debut is a provocative, timely, and engaging novel about a young Muslim woman -- once privileged and secular in her native land and now impoverished in London -- gradually embracing her orthodox faith. With her Muslim hijab and down-turned gaze, Najwa is invisible to most eyes, especially to the rich families whose houses she cleans in London. Twenty years ago, Najwa, then at university in Khartoum, would never have imagined that one day she would be a maid. An upper-class Westernized Sudanese, her dreams were to marry well and raise a family. But a coup forces the young woman and her family into political exile in London. Soon orphaned, she finds solace and companionship within the Muslim community. Then Najwa meets Tamer, the intense, lonely younger brother of her employer. They find a common bond in faith and slowly, silently, begin to fall in love. Written with directness and force, Minaret is a lyric and insightful novel about Islam and an alluring