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Will You Love Me?: The story of my adopted daughter Lucy: Part 2 of 3 by Cathy Glass
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The Best of Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore - 2004
Kabuliwala2. The Parrot's Training3. The Rat's Feast4. Atonement5. The Nuisance6. Wish Fulfilment7. The Runaway8. Shiburam9. The Scientist10. The Invention of Shoes11. A 'Good' Man12. Return of the Little Master
Claudia and the New Girl (The Baby-sitters Club Graphic Novel #9)
Gabriela Epstein - 2021
Trojan
James Follett - 1991
With many lives and millions of pounds at stake, the race is on to solve the mystery of the terrifying Trojan virus.
The Wife of Willesden
Zadie Smith - 2021
Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend.She plays many roles round here. And neverScared to tell the whole of her truth, whetherOr not anyone wants to hear it. WifeOf Willesden: pissed enough to tell her lifeStory to whoever has ears and eyes . . .'Zadie Smith's first time writing for the stage, The Wife of Willesden is a riotous twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic The Wife of Bath's Prologue, brought to glorious life on the Kilburn High Road.Commissioned to celebrate Brent's year as Borough of Culture 2020, The Wife of Willesden will premiere at the Kiln Theatre, London in September 2020.
Fire and the Rain
Girish Karnad - 1998
This play by one of India's foremost playwrights and actors is based on a story from the Mahabharata which tellingly illuminates universal themes - alienation, loneliness, love, family, hatred - through the daily lives and concerns of a whole community of individuals.
The Mirror World of Melody Black
Gavin Extence - 2015
The protagonist, Abby, is a very different but equally likely and endearing hero as Alex Woods.
Having Fun the Halal Way: Entertainment in Islam
Abu Muawiyah Ismail Kamdar - 2011
Combine this with the exponential advances in technology, and the result is an increasing number of ways to amuse ourselves.As a result of such advances, Muslim react in a variety of manners towards entertainment. Some label entertainment as completely forbidden. This sometimes includes parents who say no to almost everything that their young ones deem to be ‘fun’, without providing them with suitable alternatives. Others, who do not want to take this extreme approach, fall into the trap of excessive use of – and even addiction to – various sources of entertainment, without any limits.In
Having Fun the Halal Way,
Ismail Kamdar explores the teachings of Islam regarding entertainment. Drawing upon the Quran, the Sunnah and the understanding of the righteous scholars of Islam, he provides a detailed and balanced analysis of the topic. He not only explains the detriments of the current entertainment industry, but also suggests alternative means to have a good time with friends and family members.
After the End
Dennis Kelly - 2005
Louise wakes up to find herself trapped with Mark, who has saved her life. Mark is always prepared for the worst and has everything he thinks they will need to survive; tinned chilli, Dungeons and Dragons and a knife - now all they need to do is to wait until it's safe to go outside. Can they survive the attack? Can they survive each other?After The End received its world premiere at The Traverse Theatre in August 2005.
Keeper of Secrets
Anjuelle Floyd - 2007
One truth begets another as a passionate tale of confrontation in a San Francisco restaurant travels from eyewitnesses to others. Each protagonist views the attack through an emotion-stained lens, the story taking on a life of its own as filtered through different individuals' pasts, present and futures. Each character unweaves and re-braids their hidden truths, and exposes a chain of inner mysteries that binds them."Karmic truth, the effect of our decisions with our secrets and our deepest loves, comes back and squeezes the hearts of these characters. The elegant, super-rich, super-accomplished African-Americans in Keeper of Secrets are as susceptible as anyone to conflicting passions, ones that may not be reconcilable in this world... Floyd pulls the reader into their lives without mercy." --Clive Matson, author of Let the Crazy Child Write! and First Ten SongsA linked novel centered around the inhabitants of a wealthy enclave of African Americans in the Bay Area. An attempted murder transforms each character. Told from eight different perspectives.
Master of Mine
Raven Dark - 2020
Then he taught her to submit. Can he teach her to love?Gwen Stanton has a stalker, but no one will believe her. Not her family. Not the police. But she knows she’s in danger and is desperate to learn to defend herself. Former Army Ranger and karate champion Archer Drake is more than qualified to help, but his teaching methods are less than orthodox. As a former Dom, he’s skilled at reading people. He knows shy, timid Gwen will only fight back if pushed to her breaking point, so he takes their lessons to a different arena—the BDSM club where she works. His commanding nature unleashes the fighter in her, but it also triggers a deep-seated fantasy she can’t ignore, one which Archer is all too happy to fulfill. Their student/teacher dynamic morphs into a passion as hot and stormy as their roleplay. But the public nature of their lessons drives her stalker mad. Now Gwen and Archer must fight for their lives against a man determined to possess Gwen or destroy them both. ***This book contains realistic portrayals of ravishment scenes and name-calling during roleplay. No cliffhanger, no cheating, no dub con, HEA.
The Little Pieces of You and Me
Vanessa Greene - 2016
Years later, Isla is in love, living abroad and fulfilling her dreams. But for Sophie, things haven't turned out the way she was expecting and she hasn't achieved any of the things she and Isla talked about. And then, in one sudden moment, life irrevocably changes for both women.Isla and Sophie have hard decisions to make but above all else they must face up to the uncertainty that lies ahead. It's only when they realise that this is easier together, two friends standing side by side, that each woman can embrace whatever the future holds for them.