Heart-breaking, hopeful & horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is a Palestinian doctor`s inspiring account of his extraordinary life, growing up in poverty but determined to treat his patients in Gaza & Israel regardless of their ethnic origin. A London University- & Harvard-trained Palestinian doctor who was born & raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip & `who has devoted his life to medicine & reconciliation between Israelis & Palestinians` (New York Times), Abuelaish is an infertility specialist who lives in Gaza but works in Israel. On the strip of land he calls home (where 1.5 million Gazan refugees are crammed into a few square miles) the Gaza doctor has been crossing the lines in the sand that divide Israelis & Palestinians for most of his life
- as a physician who treats patients on both sides of the line, as a humanitarian who sees the need for enhanced health & education for women as the way forward in the Middle East. &, most recently, as the father whose three daughters were killed by Israeli shells on 16 January 2009, during Israel`s incursion into the Gaza Strip. It was his response to this tragedy that made news & won him humanitarian awards around the world. Instead of seeking revenge or sinking into hatred, Izzeldin Abuelaish called for the people in the region to start talking to each other. His deepest hope is that his daughters will be `the last sacrifice on the road to peace between Palestinians & Israelis`.
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Tiffany Aching is a witch alone. Well, that`s how she feels. Everyone seems so, apart. People respect her, but also fear her. There are loads of secrets she can`t share. & when the Baron dies, & Tiffany is framed for his murder, it`s clearer than ever that she is, well... Not liked. Now Tiffany must journey to Ankh-Morpork, to inform the Baron`s heir, Rol&, of his father`s death. But on the way she meets something that likes witches very much. A bit too much
- an evil ball of spite & malice that has only now woken up. & is out to get witches everywhere.
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I Should Know That: Great Britain covers a range of key topics on our fair l&, including essential British history (Magna Carta, the Great Reform Act etc.), the current political & legal system (when can a magistrate decide whether a person is guilty or innocent?), migration to Britain, women`s rights (when did married women gain the right to retain ownership of money & property?), geography (what`s the distance between John O` Groats & Land`s End?), & culture (who wrote ` Rule, Britannia!` etc...). The subjects & questions will be inspired by the UK citizenship test & the book will also include the hilarious, though unfortunate, gaffes frequently made by our politicians. A handbook for anyone who wishes that they were more informed citizens. ...

I Should Know That: Great Britain covers a range of key topics on our fair l&, including essential British history (Magna Carta, the Great Reform Act etc.), the current political & legal system (when can a magistrate decide whether a person is guilty or innocent?), migration to Britain, women`s rights (when did married women gain the right to retain ownership of money & property?), geography (what`s the distance between John O` Groats & Land`s End?), & culture (who wrote ` Rule, Britannia!` etc...). The subjects & questions will be inspired by the UK citizenship test & the book will also include the hilarious, though unfortunate, gaffes frequently made by our politicians. A handbook for anyone who wishes that they were more informed citizens. ...

Take a tour around the 50 states of the USA, from Maine to Hawaii, peeking through the holes as you go. Colourfully illustrated board book with images depicting the people, landmarks & things that make each state unique, as well as one item that it has `in common` with the state next door. Can you `spy` it is through the hole? ...

A new take on the I-spy game with die-cut holes so little ones can spy the various creatures through the page. Dramatic, bold illustrations focus on a single colour for each page, as the reader guesses which animals are blue, grey, white, yellow, orange, red & green. Each page also

Includes:: a helpful factual clue about the animal. This is a beautiful special gift book that will encourage young readers to interact while teaching them something about the animals too.

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Iraqi Kurdistan at the turn of the twenty-first century is a territory ruled by strongmen, revolutionaries, fixers, bureaucrats & the ” Barons”, who control everything from livestock & land to Kurdish cultural life. Defying the absolute power wielded by the Barons, a band of friends led by a poet embarks on an odyssey to find the bodies of two lovers killed unjustly by the authorities. The Barons respond by attempting to crush these would-be avengers, though their real war is waged against the imagination itself
- despite the fact that imagination in its myriad forms is a prized, elusive commodity for which intellectuals, merchants, political elites & humble workers all search in one way or another. The stark realities of a rapidly changing yet still traumatised society are woven through with elements of the fantastic: a boy is born with a poem etched into his chest; a wild-eyed mystic consummates his love for a married woman in the spirit world; a political assassin discovers compassion & can no longer kill; a Hollywood film buff leads a cluster of blind children on an imaginary sea journey. Bakhtiyar Ali`s visionary novel is a soulful meditation on both political & poetic power. The Gardens of the Imagination is a trip, in more ways than one: a tale of people travelling great distances in their minds or with their feet. It is a phantasmagoric, lyrical interpretation of contemporary Kurdistan, so much in the news nowadays but otherwise so little known. Told by several unreliable narrators in a kaleidoscope of fragments that all eventually cohere, the author manages the neat trick of dipping the reader into a mesmerising fantasia just long enough before wrenching her or him back to hard, cold ”real life”. Bakhtiyar Ali has said that he wrote this novel in part to ”end the subordination of Kurdish writers to the will of politicians”
- but he has made real poetry out of this protest.I Stared at the Night of the City is a trip, in more ways than one: a tale of extraordinary people traveling great distances, in their minds or with their feet. It is a lyrical interpretation of contemporary Kurdistan, so much in the news nowadays but otherwise so little understood. Told by several unreliable narrators in a kaleidoscope of fragments that all eventually cohere, the novel manages the neat trick of dipping readers into a fantasia just long enough before wrenching them back to hard, cold `real life`.

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” When the world breaks you into pieces, sometimes you find what`s left scattered among other people`s broken parts.” Ellie Frias has never wanted to be popular, she just wants to blend in, to be accepted. But then Caleb Breward, tells her she`s beautiful & makes her believe it. Ellie loves Caleb, but sometimes she`s not sure she likes him that much
- his awkward smile, the possessive way he touches her, his harsh tone, how he ignores her one minute & can`t get enough the next. & then, on one black night, Ellie discovers the monster her boyfriend really is. Ellie wasn`t the first girl Caleb raped. But she was the first he murdered. Now, trapped, unable to move on, she witnesses him shatter the lives of other girls again & again. Powerless & alone, Ellie tries to keep hold of happier memories, always waiting
- hoping
- that someone will find her. But no one searches for a girl they never noticed in the first place. â The Lovely Bones meets Asking For It
- this is the searing, heartbreaking story of a lost teenager, & the town she leaves behind.



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In 2012, Paul Conibeer, an Australian traveler was jailed in Bali`s infamous Kerobokan Prison
- the home of Shapelle Corby,
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In these selected stories from her collections ” Aisha” & ” Sandpiper”, Ahdaf Soueif writes about love & displacement in prose that is delicately nuanced & acutely observed. These are achingly lyrical stories, resonant & richly woven. But they always retain an edginess as they explore areas of tension
- where women & men are ensnared by cultural & social mores & prescribed notions of `love`, where the place you are is not the place you want to be. She delivers her characters with infinite tenderness & compassion as they inhabit a world of lost opportunities, unfulfilled love & remembrance of times past.
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