Afghan-American Nadia Hashimi's literary debut novel is a searing tale of powerlessness fate & the freedom to control one's own fate that combines the cultural flavor & emotional resonance of the works of Khaled Hosseini Jhumpa Lahiri & Lisa See In Kabul 2007 with a drug-addicted father & no brothers Rahima & her sisters can only sporadically attend school & can rarely leave the house Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh which allows young Rahima to dress & be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age As a son she can attend school go to the market & chaperone her older sisters But Rahima is not the first in her family to adopt this unusual custom A century earlier her great-great grandmother Shekiba left orphaned by an epidemic saved herself & built a new life the same way Crisscrossing in time The Pearl the Broke Its Shell interweaves the tales of these two women separated by a century who share similar destinies But what will happen once Rahima is of marriageable age? Will Shekiba always live as a man? & if Rahima cannot adapt to life as a bride how will she survive? ...

From the internationally acclaimed bestselling author of Code Name Verity comes a stunning new story of pearls love & murder
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Where do pebbles come from? How were they made? This book tells the story of a pebble from its origins in a fiery volcano 480 million years ago to a busy modern landscape Readers follow the processes of rock formation & erosion that create new pebbles all over the world ...

Selected for Simon Mayo's BBC Radio 2 Book Club Secretly steaming open envelopes & reading the letters inside Bilodo has found an escape from his lonely & routine life as a postman When one day he comes across a mysterious letter containing a single haiku he finds himself avidly caught up in the relationship between a long-distance couple who write to each other using only beautiful poetry He feasts on their words vicariously living a life for which he longs But it will only be a matter of time before his world comes crashing down around him ...

By night the Peculiars are a travelling sideshow but during the day Sheba Sister Moon & Monkey Boy put their unusual talents to use solving the crimes no one else cares about For the stolen children of London's poorest the Peculiars are their only hope 256 pages Larwood Kieran ...

Two Supreme Court Justices have been murdered & a lone law student (Julia Roberts) turns her suspicions about the deaths into a speculative brief that sends shock waves into the highest levels of government She & a determined investigative reporter (Denzel Washington) want to tell the world what they have uncoveredif they live to tell it The race is in on & these two are more than runners they&re moving targets Certificate 12 Running Time 141 Minutes Language English Subtitles English Danish Dutch Finnish French German Italian Korean Spanish (Both Castilian & Latin) Norwegian Brazillian Portuguese Portuguese & Swedish Number Of Discs 1 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Two Supreme Court Justices have been murdered & a lone law student (Julia Roberts) turns her suspicions about the deaths into a speculative brief that sends shock waves into the highest levels of government She & a determined investigative reporter (Denzel Washington) want to tell the world what they have uncovered – if they live to tell it The race in on & these two are more than runners they’re moving targets ...

' The greatest historian that ever lived' Such was Macaulay's verdict on Thucydides (c 460-400 BC) & his history of the Peloponnesian War the momentous struggle between Athens & Sparta as rival powers & political systems that lasted for twenty-seven years from 431 to 404 BC involved virtually the whole of the Greek world & ended in the fall of Athens Thucydides himself was a participant in the war; to his history he brings an awesome intellect brilliant narrative & penetrating analysis of the nature of power as it affects both states & individuals Of his own work Thucydides wrote 'I shall be content if my history is judged useful by those who will want to have a clear understanding of what happened
- & such is the human condition will happen again It was composed as a permanent legacy not a showpiece for a single hearing' So it has proved Of the prose writers of Greece & Rome Thucydides has had more lasting influence on western thought than all but Plato & Aristotle This new edition combines a masterly translation with comprehensive supporting material ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more
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The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword A natural skeleton hand protrudes out of the ground grasping onto a pen as if it's holding on to the blade of a steel bladed sword with a golden hilt Cast in the finest resin before being h&-painted this macabre ornament would make the perfect addition to any Gothic office ...

Football corruption & dark secrets collide in the thrilling sequel to the award-winning Keeper by Carnegie Medal-winning author Mal Peet In the second of the Paul Faustino novels by Carnegie Medal-winning author Mal Peet teenage football prodigy El Brujito "the Little Magician" has vanished without a trace & Paul finds himself reluctantly drawn into the mystery As the city of San Juan pulses to summer's sluggish beat Paul gets more than he bargained for as a story of corruption & murder unfolds forcing him to confront a bitter history of slavery & the power of the occult ...