![]() ![]() Based on the sira, the eighth- and ninth-century Arabic biographies that recount numerous events in the prophet’s life, it contains original English translations of many important passages that reveal the words of men and women who heard Muhammad speak and witnessed the events of his life. Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources by Martin Lings’ biography of Muhammad is an internationally acclaimed, comprehensive, and authoritative account of the life of the prophet. Represents the final updates made on the text before the author’s death in 2005.Contains original English translations from 8th and 9th century biographies, presented in authoritative language. ![]() ![]() Includes important additions about the prophet’s spread of Islam into Syria and its neighboring states. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Meet Claire DeWitt, a private eye and a young woman that seems destined to take the job on. ![]() ![]() In this mystery novel, Sara Gran brings a private investigator character to life. Pick up this novel from your local library, your local book store, or go online to see if it is available! The third book came out in 2018 to make it a trilogy and is titled The Infinite Blacktop.Ĭity of the Dead is the first novel in the DeWitt series. The sequel came out two years later and is titled The Bohemian Highway. The series kicked off in 2011 with the publication of the debut novel, City of the Dead. Sara Gran is the creator and writer of the Claire DeWitt series of fiction. At one point she made money by buying and selling rare and used books. She has also composed pamphlets as well as missives and stories along the way. These include Housing Works, The Strand, and Shakespeare & Co. She worked at various bookstores located in Manhattan. Before that was her career, Sara did have a variety of positions– mostly located in fields that have to deal with books. The author has had a lot of jobs before becoming a published author full time. Two years later, she came out with another novel, Come Closer. That was when her debut fictional novel came out. She has since lived in many different locations. She has written for television’s Southland. Sara Gran is a writer of books and for television. ![]() ![]() When Tea wakes up, she is attended to by a bone witch who decides to take Tea and her dead brother along with her and train her. She ends up resurrecting him by accident using dark magic and passes out soon after. ![]() A funeral is held and Tea is in shock until they start burying him. Her older brother who raised Tea dies in battle and his body is returned to his hometown. Tea, a 12-year-old girl, lives in a small farming village with her family and many siblings. Read our book review below! 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Fantasy books are the most fascinating books in my opinion because of the infinite potential of world building. ![]() ![]() During a vocation that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in plural form in class divisions: verses, parodies, sagas, philosophical networks, sayings, books, history, basic revelations, political speeches, memorial service addresses, journals, public and private books, as shown in the stanza and composition. Victor-Marie Hugo was a French writer, author, and screenwriter for romantic development. It is not only hers that Valjean should always be free, however, because he is committed to protecting this little Fantine girl, who is being targeted for prostitution by suffering. ![]() However, his attempts to convert a person who is considered to be his own neighbor are always in jeopardy: it is his soul, where, because of the nature of a cohesive personality, another person is caught in his place and the consistent trials of frustrated Inspector Javert. Les Misrables belongs in International Best Seller Books book. ![]() Victor Hugo’s story of treachery, courage and love follows the fortune of Jean Valjean, who escaped a fixed sentence to reverse his crimes. Free Download Les Misrables by Victor Hugo in PDF and ePUB Format. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Heinlein gambled, I suspect, by creating an ensemble cast for his book and, unsurprisingly, some characters get more screen time than others. At the end of the story, which is surprisingly small-scale compared to some other books of that era, they resolve to go even further out … They make their way to Mars (which is even more bureaucratic than Luna), then travel onwards to the asteroid belt, trading as they go. Driven by wanderlust, and a simple awareness that life on the moon (!) is getting more and more bland every year, a family purchases a spacecraft and sets off on a tour of the solar system. The basic plot of The Rolling Stones is simple. And yet, The Rolling Stones has been charged with everything from endorsing foolish and sexist behaviour to poor gender politics and outright misogyny.Īnd, once again, the charges flounder on a simple lack of evidence. The main characters are interesting and realistic, while there is a distinct lack of sex, violence and war. One of the best-known of Heinlein’s juveniles, it is hard to imagine that there is anything that would cause offense within its pages. One would not imagine that a book like The Rolling Stones (originally published as Space Family Stone) would generate much controversy. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is the sole provider for her mother, a farm girl who had a brief and glamorous career as a Ziegfield folly, and her lovely, severely disabled sister.Īt a nightclub she chances to meet Styles, the man she visited with her father before he vanished, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have been murdered. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. Years later her father has disappeared, and the country is at war. Anna observes the uniformed servants, the lavishing of toys on the children and some secret pact between her father and Dexter Styles. The long-awaited audiobook from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression.Īnna Kerrigan, nearly 12 years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Winner of the 2018 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Opens with critical essays that rethink design principles and practices through theories of feminism, anti-racism, inclusion, and nonbinary thinking.Practical guides cover everything from starting out, to wage gaps, coming out at work, cover letters, mentoring, and more.Biographical sketches explore individuals marginalized by sexism, racism, and ableism. ![]() Interviews showcase people at different stages of their careers.Both pragmatic and inquisitive, the book explores power structures in the workplace and how to navigate them.Download Extra Bold Book in PDF, Epub and KindleĮxtra Bold is the inclusive, practical, and informative (design) career guide for everyone! Part textbook and part comic book, zine, manifesto, survival guide, and self-help manual, Extra Bold is filled with stories and ideas that don't show up in other career books or design overviews. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the kids find out about their parents’ actions, they’re horrified. To ensure that their children find the right kind of romantic partner, Sharlot's mother and George's father do what any "good" parent would do: they strike up a conversation online, pretending to be their children. When George Clooney Tanuwijaya's father (who is obsessed with American celebrities) fears he no longer understands how to get through to his son, he decides to take matters into his own hands. "Hilarious!"-Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love HypothesisĪ laugh-out-loud YA rom-com about a girl who's whisked from LA to her mother's native Indonesia to get back to her roots and finds herself fake-dating the son of one of the wealthiest families there, from the bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties and The ObsessionĪfter Sharlot Citra's mother catches her in a compromising position, she finds herself whisked away from LA to her mother’s native Indonesia. ![]() ![]() Groomed for an important role as a high priestess from birth, Hatshepsut, through a combination of good fortune and ruthless strategy, “scaled the mountain to kingship.” Her role ostensibly “decreed by nothing less than a divine revelation” is shrouded in mystery by a limited historical record concerned too frequently with the “supernatural mechanisms of divine authority.” The high points of this ambitious project are to be found in Cooney’s keen sense for the visual elements of Hatshepsut’s gender-defying rule and expert inferences on the psychologies of Hatshepsut and her contemporaries. What it lacked, however, was comprehensive documentation-something UCLA Egyptologist Cooney offers in a narrative biography supplemented by scholarly hypotheses that attempt to flesh out the uncertainties. ![]() The life of Hatshepsut, Egypt’s second female pharaoh, was replete with opulent living, complex royal bloodlines, and sexual energy in short, the kind of drama that fuels Ancient Egypt’s enduring appeal. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the permanent exhibitions, Anja finds herself behind another visitor, a blind woman following her dog. Seeking mementos, visitors scurry about the camp taking snapshots and posing in front of the cremation ovens, unaware that the deportees found great importance in photographs, a fact that the narrator reveals to the reader: Photographs showed the deportees all that they had lost of their former lives. The guidebook instructs visitors to climb to the top of the tower in the adjacent town of Birkenau for an excellent view. Basia, the guide, makes this pointed refusal because she understands that the horrors of history have been reduced to the sanitized procedures of museum voyeurism. In a story in Fleur Jaeggy’s I Am the Brother of XX, a tour guide takes a seat on a bench outside Auschwitz, leaving her client, Anja, to walk through the former concentration camp on her own. ![]() |