Dari is one of the official languages of Afghanistan along with Pashto. It shares a long literary history both classical & modern with the Persian (Farsi) of Iran & the Tajik of Tajikistan but over the centuries the languages have been split by politics & geography. Dan is written in a modified form of the Arabic script but it has been transliterated here into the roman alphabet. This title contains a vast array of indispensable words supplying travellers & those working in Afghanistan with the resources needed to communicate effectively. ...

Daria Klimentova has been one of Britain's best-loved ballerinas for two decades having danced at Scottish Ballet & then
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Researcher & thought leader Dr. Brene Brown offers a powerful new vision in Daring Greatly the numbered 1 New York Times Bestseller Oprah pick & TED talk hit that encourages us to embrace vulnerability & imperfection to live wholeheartedly & courageously. Every time we are introduced to someone new try to be creative or start a difficult conversation we take a risk. We feel uncertain & exposed. We feel vulnerable. Most of us try to fight those feelings
- we strive to appear perfect. But in a powerful new vision Dr. Brene Brown challenges everything we think we know about vulnerability & dispels the widely accepted myth that it's a weakness. She argues that vulnerability is in fact a strength & when we shut ourselves off from revealing our true selves we grow distanced from the things that bring purpose & meaning to our lives. Daring Greatly is the culmination of 12 years of groundbreaking social research across the home relationships work & parenting. It is an invitation to be courageous; to show up & let ourselves be seen even when there are no guarantees. This is vulnerability. This is daring greatly. Brilliantly insightful. I can't stop thinking about this book". (Gretchen Rubin). "A wonderful book. I couldn't put it down". (Seth Godin). " This is big big big big BIG!" (Oprah Winfrey). Brene Brown Ph.D. LMSW is a New York Times bestselling author & a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. Her groundbreaking work was the subject of a PBS special & has been featured on NPR & CNN. Her 2010 TEDx talk on the topic of vulnerability went viral & has been translated into 38 languages. Brene is also the author of The Gifts of Imperfection & I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't)."
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REUNITED UNDER DEADLY CIRCUMSTANCES... Tasked with covertly investigating a string of suspicious deaths Charles Hunter finds himself reunited with Georgiana Huffington darling of the ton who broke his heart many years before. She's a woman with a mysterious past
- mere days after taking their vows Georgiana's two husbands have perished under mysterious circumstances. As Charles works with Georgiana to prove her innocence she finds herself captivated by the man he's become. Still devilishly handsome he's now more guarded more...dangerous. Georgiana fears she's losing her heart to him but will her love make Charles the killer's next victim?
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An intense & erotic tale of love across time from the New York Times ebook bestselling author of BECAUSE YOU ARE MINE. Chicago Detective Ryan Daire has many secrets: a love for Shakespeare an appreciation for the all the finer things in life & an absolute lack of restraint in the bedroom. Now he has an even bigger secret. In every shifting shadow of the sprawling mansion he's recently inherited he can see her
- tempting ethereal & untouchable. Hope Stillwater inhabited that mansion in 1906. Raw desire has formed a conduit between these two passionate souls who are separated by the barrier of time. Intoxicated by each other's presence Ryan & Hope are closer than ever to crossing that inviting boundary between two worlds. But there is one grave danger: Ryan's job has put him on the trail of a depraved criminal in an investigation that's risking Hope's eternal fate & happiness. Now he must do whatever it takes to change history protect Hope from harm & set his own desires free.
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It came like a malignant shadow with seductive promises of power. & somewhere in the night.. .a small girl smiled as her mother burned.. . Asylum inmates slaughtered their attendants.. .in slimy tunnels once-human creatures gathered. Madness raged as the lights began to fade & humanity was attacked by an ancient unstoppable evil... ...

Drugs murder & life in the ghetto all feature in this haunting portrait of an urban generation shadowed & often erased by violence. Centre stage is the 19 year old Thai. On the one hand he has a steady job but hes also running with a neighbourhood gang. When in a haze of jealousy he kills another man he is forced to go on the run & in the weeks that follow he discovers aspects of life that he never dreamed of in his narrow ghetto existence. Kenji Jasper has written a work of fiction so real that it scares me
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Laszlo is afraid of the dark. The dark lives in the same house as Laszlo but mostly it spends its time in the basement. It doesn't visit Laszlo in his room. Until one night it does. With emotional insight & poetic economy Lemony Snicket & Jon Klassen bring to light a universal & empowering story about conquering fear. Join a brave boy on his journey to meet the dark & see why it will never bother him again. ...

It should have all been so easy for Vincent Madigan. Take four hundred grand from the thieves who stole it in the first place & who could they turn to for help? Madigan is charming resourceful & knows how to look after himself. The only problem is that hes up to his neck in debt to Sandia
- the drug king of East Harlem. This one heist will free Madigan from Sandias control & give him the chance he needs to get his life back on track. But things go wrong when Madigan is forced to kill his co-conspirators & a child is shot in the crossfire. Now both Sandia & the collected might of the NYPD are hunting him down & the one cop assigned to lead the case is the very last person he could have expected. Employing every deception & ruse he can think of Madigan must stay one step ahead in a battle of wits that will test him to his limits. Can he evade justice for his crimes or will his own conscience be his final undoing?
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It should have been easy for Vincent Madigan. Take four hundred thousand dollars away from some thieves & who could they go to for help? No one at all. Madigan is charming effective & knows how to look after himself. The only problem is that he's up to his neck in debt to the drug kingpin of Harlem. This one heist will free Madigan & finally give him a chance to get his life back on track. But things go wrong when Madigan is forced to kill his co-conspirators & a child is shot in the crossfire. Now both sides of the law are hunting him down & the cop assigned to lead the case is the very last person he could have expected.. . ...