Download or read book Forbidden Love in Timbuktu written by Brenda Smith and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-05-27 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kieta Toures, a native of Timbuktu, finds herself in America trying to sort out how she got there. Her only memories are of how her life changed after she met Mahmoudou Ibrahaim. The two fell in love, and their relationship flourished until insurgents came, bringing new rules for citizens to follow. Their desire to be together trumped the law. Although they exercised caution, they were caught. She was captured and punished but did not know what happened to hima fate that should have ended their story. However, that was just the beginning of a riveting tale, Forbidden Love in Timbuktu (Woman from Another Land).

Download or read book Letters of Forbidden Love and Selected Poems written by Abdullah Mokaddam and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We take modern amenities for granted, and many of us rarely give a thought of the days when such things were only a dream. Our two protagonists in this story, faced against all the odds of their repressive age, innovated and nurtured their forbidden love with verve and passion. Their feelings expressed in a language that is beguiling, defying and passionate. Ruth Sanderson trapped in a loveless marriage relentlessly pursued all the ways possible to liberate her from marital tyranny. Then she met Phillip Hardy, a poet, and together they planned to surmount the impossible. Their secret love grew exponentially, but the obstacles did not go of their own volition. This is their story, and they relate it in memorable epistles. There are selected poems that convince us the power poetry is unconquerable and a strong anodyne when melancholia takes over the soul.

Download or read book Forbidden Love from a Savage written by Toy and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fackz Mitchell is known in the underground world as one of the best savages to ever master the art of killing. Even though Fackz has hung up his guns for hire, his reputation still precedes him. Factz was finally enjoying retirement and the fruits of his labor, he encountered the feisty Secret Matthews. Secret Matthews was finally tired of going round for round with her longtime boyfriend, Big Will. Just as quickly as he would deliver a blow to Secret, she would return with two back. One night, Secret took some time out to let her hair down and hang out with her favorite cousin, Van. In the midst of being a runaway to find peace of mind and save her sanity, she ran into the man who had the power to save her from her own decisions. Ficktion Mitchell has always been known as the funny guy of his mother’s three kids. He lived his life as he saw fit. No responsibilities or obligations to tie him down. That is until one night he finally gets to spend some time with the one woman he’s been low-key stalking. Vanessa, ‘Van,’ was just trying to work and stay away from unnecessary drama. Something that seemed to be impossible as long as Secret was her cousin. Not to mention, Ficktion has claimed her to be his future wife.

Download or read book Beyond Timbuktu written by Ousmane Kane and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam’s Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa. Ousmane Kane charts the rise of Muslim learning in West Africa from the beginning of Islam to the present day and corrects lingering misconceptions about Africa’s Muslim heritage and its influence.

Download or read book Love Forbidden written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having watched her dissolute father squander the family’s fortune on his disreputable and extravagant lifestyle, young flame-haired beauty Aria Milborne despises the empty glamour of Society.So she is dismayed when she is forced take a job with an American millionaire in order to save the beloved family home, Queen’s Folly, where her brother, Charles, works night and day to make ends meet.Appalled by Dart Huron’s arrogance and the behaviour of his spoilt film star floozy Lulu Carlo, who is desperately trying to marry him, Aria finds herself at loggerheads with her new employer while being pursued relentlessly by his amorous aristocratic friend, Lord BAuckleigh.When Dart offers Aria a fortune to agree to a pretend engagement designed to free him from the grasping Lulu, she finds herself emblazoned across the Press throughout the land to her shame and humiliation.Her heart fills with hate for the dashing Dart Huron until the news that he has been shot almost stops her own heart and she understands that this is not hate at all –This is love.

Download or read book Timbuktu Timbuktu written by and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2002 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timbuktu, Timbuktu contains the winning and short listed stories from the Caine Prize for African Writing 2001. Bringing together writers from Mozambique, Nigeria, Somalia and Tunisia, this collection is a showcase of African talent. It follows the publication in 2001 of the first Caine Prize anthology, Tenderfoots, which contained the winning and short listed stories of 2000.

Download or read book Forbidden Dreams of Love written by Nellie McHenry and published by Dreams of Forbidden Love. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the eighteen hundred and as the Civil War rages, the passionate story of the Southern gentlemen Van Walling, and the ingenuous Laura unfolds: Maggie resigned to her own shackles of white slavery, reveals to Van the dire situation of the virginal fourteen-year-old Laura, being held prisoner for the perverse entertainment of the highest bidder. Van rescues Laura from her chains of bondage but soon discovers, to his surprise, he is bound to her by a love he hadn't known he was capable of. Van tries to deny his own passion for Laura, attempting to send her away to safety and security. Laura refuses to go anywhere other than with him. Traveling together through the embattled South, as their relationship evolves, they become involved in the dangerous work of the "Underground Railroad."

Download or read book Mansa Musa Pilgrim of the desert King of Timbuktu written by Miguel Guerrero Antequera and published by Editorial Almuzara. This book was released on with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Emperor of Mali, along with ten thousand of his subjects and camels, travels through the Saharan Desert while making his pilgrimage to Mecca, Hajj, spending money without any limit and turning the city of Timbuktu into the cultural and religious capital of Western Africa. A perfectly well documented novel about the mesmerizing life of Mansa Musa, Emperor of Mali in the fourteenth century, 1312-1337, and his reign, whose Empire, located in Western Africa, extended through the territory that is occupied today by Southern Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Southern Algeria, Northern Nigeria and Chad. This is the story of the man who managed to rule over the totality of the production and trade of gold, salt and slaves from the jungle of Western Africa to the Mediterranean.

Download or read book Inferno of Love A Forbidden Lovers Fireman Romance written by Erin Wright and published by Wright Hot Sexy Cowboys. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sherlock Holmes Missing Years Timbuktu written by Vasudev Murthy and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This story has great richness of voice and will take you on a fascinating journey. It is both an adventure and a colourful experience." —Calvert Markham, Treasurer of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London It's 1893. King Kamehameha III of Hawaii declares Sovereignty Restoration Day ... Tension grows between China and Japan over Korea ... The Bengal Famine worsens ... A brilliant scientist in Calcutta challenges the system ... The senior priest at Kyoto's Kinkaku-ji temple is found dead in mysterious circumstances. Dr. John H. Watson receives a strange letter from Yokohama. Then the quiet, distinguished Mr. Hashimoto is murdered inside a closed room on a voyage from Liverpool to Bombay. In the opium dens of Shanghai and in the back alleys of Tokyo, sinister men hatch evil plots. Professor Moriarty stalks the world, drawing up a map for worldwide dominion. Only one man can outwit the diabolical Professor Moriarty. Only one man can save the world. Has Sherlock Holmes survived the Reichenbach Falls?

Download or read book Blood and Ink written by Stephen Davies and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part thriller, part love story, this contemporary YA novel is based on true-to-life events in Mali in 2012 and centers around the power of individuals to take a stand against terrorism. Kadi is the 15-year-old daughter of a librarian in modern-day Timbuktu. Ali is the son of shepherds and has been conscripted by the Defenders of Faith, an arm of Al Qaeda. When these two teens meet, it's hate at first sight. Forced together by a series of tumultous events, their feelings slowly but persistently turn into something more, causing Kadi to let her guard down and Ali to discover her family's secret hiding place for the manuscripts her family is tasked with safeguarding. Kadi undertakes a dangerous operation to smuggle the manuscripts out of the city, while Ali and his military commander are soon in pursuit. Ali's loyalties will never be more in question than when Kadi's life is in danger.

Download or read book The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu written by Charlie English and published by William Collins. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two tales of a city: The historical race to reach one of the world's most mythologized places, and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda, added another layer to the legend. To Westerners, the name "Timbuktu" long conjured a tantalising paradise, an African El Dorado where even the slaves wore gold. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, a series of explorers gripped by the fever for "discovery" tried repeatedly to reach the fabled city. But one expedition after another went disastrously awry, succumbing to attack, the climate, and disease. Timbuktu was rich in another way too. A medieval centre of learning, it was home to tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts, on subjects ranging from religion to poetry, law to history, pharmacology, and astronomy. When al-Qaeda-linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents, a remarkable thing happened: a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit the manuscripts into hiding. Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines these two suspenseful strands into a fascinating account of one of the planet's extraordinary places, and the myths from which it has become inseparable

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Download or read book Insane Circumstances written by Brenda Smith and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brandi L. Brown hears the fate of a college student who experiences hazing and is leaving the college because it is more than she can bear. Images of the distraught young lady evoke memories of her own college days, ones that had lain dormant for a couple of decades. She leaves work with the intent of writing a letter of consolation to the university student who is returning home. Under the watchful eye of her husband, she begins to tell her own story. The protagonists own story takes place during early integration, and she is among the first colored students to get a scholarship to Claxville University. Her parents do not want her to attend, but she does. While at the university she does experience some hazing and other acts that support her parents arguments about her being unable to succeed at the college. There are also wonderful experiences and good friends to be had, an interracial relationship with a fellow university student (one that is brief, but poignant, passionate, and one that she cannot tell her parents about.) Brandi also has a chance meeting with a taxi driver who proves to be more than thatThaddeus Jerome Pennington becomes her friend, that listening ear that she needs, and soon is the love interest and support she needs to continue at the school. The story has chapters like the Bus Ride, which tells of her trip to the school; Wash Day Folly in which some girls in the dorm steals her underwear from the laundry room; Cross Cultural Comparison Class (CCCC) which starts out comparing romance languages and culture, but soon turns to a comparison of Brandis culture with that of her classmates; and Flo, which helps the reader know who Taxi really is. Insane Circumstances has twenty-two chapters which aid the reader in knowing Brandis story and comprehending how it would serve to help the injured girl. Each action causes a reaction; some that she is proud of and some that she is not so proud of. When the story begins, it is Brandi Leigh Browns story. As events happen, the male character (Taxi) frequently appears. Soon, the novel becomes her story, his story, and their story. In spite of the acts of hazing, etc., she does succeed. She does graduate, and marry this man who becomes her friend for a lifetime. And Thaddeus is there to support her when she writes the letter to the girl she had seen on television, the one who enacted all the memories that lay dormant for so long. Insane Circumstances starts with the desire to write a letter of support to the girl who experienced hazing, and ends with the actual letter.

Download or read book Carnival Quest written by Brandon Mull and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nate and his friends must face a sinister carnival without their magical candy in the third and final book in the Candy Shop War series, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Beyonders and Fablehaven series. Nate, Summer, Trevor, and Pigeon know the third and most diabolical White sibling, Camila, is still at large. When she finally makes her move, it comes in the form of the Dreams and Screams International Carnival arriving at their small California town. Rumors quickly spread about those visiting the carnival feeling compelled to return, visitors to the labyrinthine Funhouse disappearing for days, and the Big Top being truly bewitching. When nightmares and weird dreams start to plague everyone who has visited the carnival, the worlds of magic and reality are both endangered. The friends are ready to fight, but the carnival forbids outside magic. Without their favorite enchanted treats, how can they salvage their sixth-grade year, rescue their families, and save their town?

Download or read book Landscapes Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past outlines new directions in the historiography of West Africa. Its chapters explore new trends across regional and disciplinary fields with a focus on how political conjunctures influence source production and circulation.

Download or read book The Falcon Thief written by Joshua Hammer and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “well-written, engaging detective story” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs—and the wildlife detective determined to stop him. On May 3, 2010, an Irish national named Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain’s Birmingham International Airport with a suspicious parcel strapped to his stomach. Inside were fourteen rare peregrine falcon eggs snatched from a remote cliffside in Wales. So begins a “vivid tale of obsession and international derring-do” (Publishers Weekly), following the parallel lives of a globe-trotting smuggler who spent two decades capturing endangered raptors worth millions of dollars as race champions—and Detective Andy McWilliam of the United Kingdom’s National Wildlife Crime Unit, who’s hell bent on protecting the world’s birds of prey. “Masterfully constructed” (The New York Times) and “entertaining and illuminating” (The Washington Post), The Falcon Thief will whisk you away from the volcanoes of Patagonia to Zimbabwe’s Matobo National Park, and from the frigid tundra near the Arctic Circle to luxurious aviaries in the deserts of Dubai, all in pursuit of a man who is reckless, arrogant, and gripped by a destructive compulsion to make the most beautiful creatures in nature his own. It’s a story that’s part true-crime narrative, part epic adventure—and wholly unputdownable until the very last page.