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As an only child reeling from the demolition of her parents’ toxic marriage, the New York City underground music scene offers a young Ali a different family of misfits and talented outsiders to belong to. She becomes the bass player for edgy band Speedball Baby, a decision that will take her around the world—from onstage at the legendary CBGBs to the red-light district of Amsterdam. She’s often the only girl in a broken-down tour van, being strip-searched at the Croatian border, chased by lunatics, and navigating the seedy underbelly of a male-dominated music scene.

Boston, 2017: When Hadi returns to his heavily pregnant partner Sama after a trip to Jordan to bury his father, he is stopped at border control—a hostile new immigration law has just been enacted—while she awaits him on the other side. Worlds apart, suspended between hope and disillusion as hours become days become weeks, Sama and Hadi yearn for a way back to each other, and to the life they'd dreamed up together. But does that life exist any more, or was it only an illusion?

Imran and his Team eliminate a network of forced prostitution—a triumph of courage and compassion over the forces of evil and misery that threaten human society.

Ali Land visits the Audible Studios to talk about her debut novel, Good Me, Bad Me. Packed with psychological suspense, Ali discusses the thought process behind her novel.

Blake Noble always knew her job was hell. She just didn’t expect it to get so... literal. As a top supernatural agent, Blake spends her nights wrangling things that go bump, and occasionally flirt, in the dark. But when a senator’s niece vanishes and bodies start piling up, Blake’s put on a case that reeks of blood, secrets, and fanged complications. Her prime suspect? A dangerously smooth vampire named Eli who might know more than he’s letting on. She just has to ignore the smirk, the jawline, the… everything. Oh, and Lucifer just dropped in to say he’s her dad.

Writing a Thanksgiving play for the third-grade class she coaches, Claudia is disappointed when some parents object to her less-than-traditional themes, and she must choose between letting the other kids down or fighting censorship.

Return to Tokyo for a royal wedding in Emiko Jean's Tokyo Dreaming, the sequel to the Reese Witherspoon YA Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller Tokyo Ever After. When Japanese-American Izumi Tanaka learned her father was the Crown Prince of Japan, she became a princess overnight. Now...

Karen Tei Yamashita has been honored with the American Book Award and Janet Heidinger Kafka Award. A stunning portrait of Asian Americans in 1960s and ’70s San Francisco, I Hotel is a remarkable collection of 10 related novellas. Touching on such topics as Japanese internment camps and the Marcos dictatorship, the book presents readers with characters of rich design.

Claudia's loving the October weather and her many friends, both in school and in the BSC. But when she throws a party to bring her two groups of pals together, she creates more problems than she solves.

Imran faces a criminal who has been alive for 200 years, but how? The inimitable detective is armed with his distinctive screwball humor and an airgun!

Imran knows he is walking to his death but he is determined to fight it. Alfansay gets beaten in his own den and he prepares a dangerous field. Imran’s actions will blow you away.

Ce livre est un ouvrage d’histoire retraçant la vie du prophète ﷺ, la situation de son peuple avant son envoi, sa naissance, sa famille, ses compagnons, ainsi que les divers évènements et faits de sa noble vie ﷺ. Son auteur. Mohammed Ibn Abd Al Wahhâb, raconta ces récits en mettant en valeur les leçons et les morales à retenir de ces derniers.Cet ouvrage n’est pas un livre classique d’histoire prophétique ; il se distingue par le fait de mettre en valeur l’importance du Tawhîd et le danger du Shirk à travers ces récits.

Desiderata is a fairy tale, and epic poem, cosmic in its scope. It is the tale of two lovers who are cast out of their ideal realm by a jealous sorcerer. Born into our world, the man searches timelessly for his love in the many forms of the goddess - from mother to heartthrob to seductress and finally, in mature wisdom, immortal beloved. As the two lovers conclude their journey through the limitation of earth, their revelations free them from this plane, to reclaim their eternal kingdom.

This is the end. Imran is aware of it. But he cannot give Alfansay the satisfaction of winning. He must do his best. Imran is cool-headed. And that is when the game becomes deathly.

The Imran from Shikral is back. He has discovered a gory conspiracy against his own country. And he will not settle until he has crushed it.

A dead scientist has returned to destroy the world, but Imran wants to stop him.

Fired from the service due to his unorthodox methods, Imran starts private practice with his newfound associate Roshi, and successfully combats an international conspiracy.

Blue birds were spreading the epidemic, but were they really?

'A Kiss of Crimson Ash is the ultimate thrilling, clever, and swoony romantasy, following the epic journey of characters who feel as real as the rich and vibrant world that they move through . . . Anuja Varghese is an incredible storyteller' Thea Guanzon, New York Times bestselling author of The...

Mercier e Camier, prima opera scritta da Beckett in francese, è senz'altro il suo romanzo più divertente. È la storia di due amici che decidono di lasciare la loro città (una mai nominata ma riconoscibile Dublino). Il progetto del viaggio viene frustrato da continui intoppi, contrattempi, incontri con personaggi strani e inquietanti, perfino un omicidio, e i due, alla fine, decideranno di fare ritorno alle rispettive case senza essere andati da nessuna parte, se non al bordello cittadino.