Download or read book The Thirty Names of Night written by Zeyn Joukhadar and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the ALA Stonewall Book Award—Barbara Gittings Literature Award Named Best Book of the Year by Bustle Named Most Anticipated Book of the Year by The Millions, Electric Literature, and HuffPost ​The author of the “vivid and urgent…important and timely” (The New York Times Book Review) debut The Map of Salt and Stars returns with this remarkably moving and lyrical novel following three generations of Syrian Americans who are linked by a mysterious species of bird and the truths they carry close to their hearts. Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new one. He has been unable to paint since his mother’s ghost has begun to visit him each evening. As his grandmother’s sole caretaker, he spends his days cooped up in their apartment, avoiding his neighborhood masjid, his estranged sister, and even his best friend (who also happens to be his longtime crush). The only time he feels truly free is when he slips out at night to paint murals on buildings in the once-thriving Manhattan neighborhood known as Little Syria. One night, he enters the abandoned community house and finds the tattered journal of a Syrian American artist named Laila Z, who dedicated her career to painting the birds of North America. She famously and mysteriously disappeared more than sixty years before, but her journal contains proof that both his mother and Laila Z encountered the same rare bird before their deaths. In fact, Laila Z’s past is intimately tied to his mother’s—and his grandmother’s—in ways he never could have expected. Even more surprising, Laila Z’s story reveals the histories of queer and transgender people within his own community that he never knew. Realizing that he isn’t and has never been alone, he has the courage to officially claim a new name: Nadir, an Arabic name meaning rare. As unprecedented numbers of birds are mysteriously drawn to the New York City skies, Nadir enlists the help of his family and friends to unravel what happened to Laila Z and the rare bird his mother died trying to save. Following his mother’s ghost, he uncovers the silences kept in the name of survival by his own community, his own family, and within himself, and discovers the family that was there all along. Featuring Zeyn Joukhadar’s signature “magical and heart-wrenching” (The Christian Science Monitor) storytelling, The Thirty Names of Night is a timely exploration of how we all search for and ultimately embrace who we are.

Download or read book The Mystery behind the Town written by Karen Rule and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shri Krishna Leela Rahasya written by Swami Akhandananda Saraswati and published by Srikanth s. This book was released on with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swami Akhandananda Saraswati Ji Maharaj of Vrindavan unfolds the mysticism of Shri Krishna in Shrimad Bhagwat Mahapuran and Bhagwad Geeta.

Download or read book The Bethesda Murder Mystery written by Rebekah M. George and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bethesda Murder Mystery By: Rebekah M. George Jenna’s transition from cop to detective turns out not to go as smoothly as she had hoped. While the first twist is a pleasant one—her husband becomes her new partner on the job—her first crime isn’t so easy to wrap up. It may just be the first of many.

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Download or read book The Second Messiah written by Glenn Meade and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Featuring a Pocket readers group guide"--P. [4] of cover.

Download or read book Southern Harm written by Caroline Fardig and published by Alibi. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little Southern charm never killed anybody—until now—in an enchanting cozy mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Southern Discomfort and the Java Jive novels. After solving a murder at a local restaurant, Quinn Bellandini just wants to get back to her comfortable life running her grandfather’s B&B in Savannah, Georgia, with her sister, Delilah. But those plans get buried when Quinn and her new boyfriend, Tucker Heyward, dig up an old skeleton while doing some landscaping in his aunt Lela’s backyard. Before long, Lela becomes the prime suspect in the thirty-three-year-old unsolved murder of a high school homecoming queen. Tucker is devastated. But Quinn’s conscience won’t let her risk an elderly woman spending her twilight years in jail for a crime she didn’t commit. And Delilah, bored by the quiet B&B biz, has been itching to do some more investigating of her own. Soon they’re questioning a growing list of suspects, from nosy neighbors and snooty Savannah socialites to mild-mannered teachers and old high-school friends of the victim—including Quinn and Delilah’s own parents. But no one is safe from a killer who’s totally old school. Discover all of Caroline Fardig’s gripping Southern B&B mysteries: SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT | SOUTHERN HARM | SOUTHERN DOUBLE CROSS And don’t miss Caroline Fardig’s thrilling Java Jive mysteries, which can be read together or separately: DEATH BEFORE DECAF | MUG SHOT | A WHOLE LATTE MURDER | BREW OR DIE | MURDER OVER MOCHAS

Download or read book Escape written by Emma Eggleston and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laila is Richardsville High's quirky girl. She's just biding her time until graduation when she has an unusual encounter with Matty, the all-American boy next door, everybody just can't get enough of. When Matty and Laila start to talk, he shares a secret with her. He's a part of a clinical study for a medication called effugium and it can really transport him to other places and times. Will Laila trust Matty enough to try the effugium?

Download or read book God Loved Her with High Heels written by Varsha Pratap and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is inspired by my deep interaction with Buddhist monk from South East Asia and by the right seeds of spirituality sown in me by my Guru. This story is an attempt to bring to light the energies and wisdoms of our soul that leads us to the divine master within us; which unites us with the powers of the universe. Laila was a child reared with wisdom imparted to her by her wise German mother Andrea and her worldly-wise businessman father, Anand Mallya of Chennai. The duality of her parenting led to the crisis within her which the proceeding chapters unravel telling the tale of compulsion that led her to seek the truth of her own existence and to change luck on lifes path. The crises of her soul began in her as a medical student, where she lost her serenity and soulfulness to the books that were never meant for her but was making long silent promises of a bright future. This by the grace of her soul led her to find temporary solace in the glamorous high heels which brought her unfelt joy. Material as the unwise believes is not the domain of all souls and that a soul is meant to be above the material pleasures of the world. This is true only for the advanced souls, the ones who have experienced the pleasures of the world that a advancing soul was meant to experience in the realm of this world, in a lifetime. As time rolled on she realised that, this wasnt enough of a measure to provide her with the keys of the door that her advanced soul was meant to unlock as she has soaked in the material pleasures of this world for a long time.

Download or read book Tumbling Blocks written by Earlene Fowler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the new novel in the “breezy [and] humorous” (Chicago Sun-Times) series, Benni Harper is carrying a bundle of holiday stress—as she unwraps the secrets of an elite and possibly murderous society… San Celina’s most exclusive society suddenly has an opening and Benni Harper has been tapped—not to join, but to investigate. The upper crust, female-only “49 Club” is restricted to exactly that many members, and one must die before another joins. When the latest socialite de-pledges in her sleep, Benni’s boss wants the mystery solved—and naturally, it’s landed on Benni’s to-do list. Reluctant at first, she profiles a few women whose social ambitions give them an obvious motive. But with a famously reclusive artist about to put Benni’s quilting museum on the map—and her daunting mother-in-law soon to arrive—Benni’s holiday is already hectic. Nevertheless, she’ll need to crack this exclusive circle of suspects, before one more gourmet goose gets cooked. “Benni delves into the secrets of the town's elite with her usual flair, unraveling a plot that is as dangerous as the bulls on her father's ranch and as cozy as the quilts she reveres.”—Publishers Weekly “The rich cast of secondary characters [and] plenty of humor…enrich this thirteenth in the long-running series.”—Booklist

Download or read book Day of Reckoning written by Valerie Massey Goree and published by Pelican Ventures Book Group. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Retrieval Organization Agent Lela Ortiz is assigned the kidnapping case of businessman, Chuck Davenport. When her boss allows Chuck's brother-in-law to assist, Lela accepts the help with reservations, especially when Jay Vashon, prays to God at the most inopportune times. Jay would do anything to help bring his brother-in-law home, even work with hesitant Agent Ortiz. As Jay helps Lela decipher the clues sent to Chuck's special-needs son, Jay begins to fall for the feisty IRO agent. Can Jay break through the barrier Lela has constructed around her heart? Will Lela be able to overcome her distrust of men and God? And what of Chuck? Can the pair locate him before the ransom deadline?

Download or read book The Killer Wore Cranberry written by Barb Goffman and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing says Thanksgiving like food and murder. If you've ever thought about knocking off Uncle Seymour when he grabs the last slice of pumpkin pie or you think the turkey might be giving you the evil eye, this is the anthology for you!Authors Barb Goffman, Stephanie Beck, Laird Long, Beth Mathison, Earl Staggs, Lance Zarimba, Lesley A. Diehl, Jack Bates and Kathleen Gerard bring you servings of your favorite Thanksgiving dishes with a dash of mystery and a hearty helping of humor. You may still have to deal with the in-laws, but this anthology may make Aunt Esmerelda's green bean casserole a bit more tolerable to handle. Think you'll be too full trying to digest an entire anthology? Each short story is also available individually.

Download or read book How to Sweeten a Mother in Law written by Stephanie Beck and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facing your in-laws at the holidays is hard enough without your mother-in-law also thinking you've stolen her prized serving dish. What Lela's about to find out is that there may be other members of her new family that have an ax to grind. This story appears in the Thanksgiving mystery anthology THE KILLER WORE CRANBERRY.

Download or read book Catchers Cows Nachos written by Melissa Dudek and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Gentry, like every other college student just about to graduate, is facing the most difficult decision of his life: what does he want to be when he grows up? Unlike most other graduating seniors, Mark Gentry is a thirty-one year old former professional baseball player without a notion of what he wants to do. Mark's career counselor proposes agriculture as the answer. Mark's girlfriend believes that the solution lies in a ballpark in Helena, Montana. Catchers, Cows, and Nachos, a sequel to 2001's Wildfire Summer, follows Mark Gentry's adventures in the Big Sky Country as he tries to determine his future on the other side of the backstop. While working undercover on the game-day staff of a baseball team, Mark not only stumbles across the answer to his question, he also learns that life is never more perfect than when one is surrounded by the three C's of baseball.

Download or read book A Kiss Before Doomsday written by Reagren Wright and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-04-28 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Dark World. For ten thousand years immortal monsters called Daimons have inhabited the Earth. Now at the dawn of the 21st century, they are all but extinct, and when that happens, it will the signal the beginning of Armageddon. Their only hope in diverting their future and the reality of the modern world is to convince two teenage lovers to join forces with them. Opposing them are agents of an ancient evil who will do anything to gain the couples' favor for their own sinister desires. Whom will the lovers ally themselves too, or will they simply allow everything on Earth to die by their own hands.

Download or read book I Wish We Weren t Related written by Radhika Sanghani and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a shocking phone call from her mother, Reeva Mehta’s life starts to sound like the plot of a Bollywood drama. From the outlandishly funny author of 30 Things I Love About Myself comes a hilarious, heartwarming novel about love, family, and new beginnings. Thirty-four-year-old Reeva thought her life couldn’t possibly get more complicated, until her semi-famous Bollywood mother calls to tell her that she’s been lying to her daughters for decades—the father they thought died thirty years ago has been alive this whole time. Only now he actually is dead. Worse? His dying wish was for Reeva and her sisters Sita and Jaya to attend his funeral prayers—which means spending a fortnight together at his house, surrounded by relatives they never knew existed. Reeva already has more than enough going on in her life. She’s an overworked London lawyer, her hair is falling out due to stress-induced alopecia, she can’t decide if her new boyfriend, Nick, is really as wonderful as he appears to be, and her brand-new cat is playing hard to get (even for a cat). And now she has to spend two weeks with the sisters she hasn’t spoken to since Jaya stole her boyfriend and Sita took her side. But as Reeva slowly learns more about their father and his life—with the help of his sister, aka her new, wise Satya Auntie—she starts to uncover the complicated truth of their past…and realizes she needs Jaya and Sita more than she ever could have imagined.

Download or read book Run The Elephant Weighs a Ton written by Adam Frost and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-12-24 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Participating in the birth of a baby elephant in the London Zoo, Tom and Sophie help with efforts to secure the newborn's survival when it refuses to eat, resists taking its place in the elephant herd, and joins the zoo's elephant demonstration.