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Raheen and her best friend Karim are raised together from birth. They share an idyllic childhood in upper-class Karachi with parents who are also best friends. But when Karim's family migrates from Pakistan to London, distance and adolescence split the young friends apart. Karim takes refuge in the rationality of maps while Racheen searches for the secret behind her parents' exchange. She uncovers a story not just of a family's turbulent history but that of a country - and finds herself poised between strained friendship and fated love with Karim.

This book brings together a selection of Newton's fashion catalog work from as early as 1962 through 2003 and his last editorial photographs for US and Italian Vogue - all work he made as a "gun for hire." The client list includes: BiBA, Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Versace, Thierry Mugler, Blumarine, "Italian Vogue", "US Vogue", "German Vogue", Villeroy & Boch, Bikini Calendar for "Sportsmagazine", "Absolute Vodka". His work is so powerful, so striking, that it defies categorization. In refusing to call his work "art," Newton leaves us free to do so, and judging from the amount of museum and gallery shows that have featured his work, it is clear that the option has been widely exercised.

In all that was left of humanity there was only one man who dared to think, seek, and love. He, Equality 7-2521, would place his life in jeopardy. For his knowledge was regarded as a treacherous blasphemy. He had rediscovered the lost and holy word..."I".

This title brings together some prominent authorities on globalization (including Susan George, David Korten and Naomi Klein), who take a hard-hitting look at the myths and reality behind this phenomenon and show us how we can all fight it.The book deals with a diverse range of the issues surrounding globalization, including human rights, the environment, international trade and finance, health, the food we eat and the clothes we wear. Ultimately, it is a call to action, showing how each and every one of us can take on the corporate giants and make a real difference.

A mother-daughter story about the strong pull of tradition, and the lure and cost of breaking free of it. When Shoko decided to marry an American GI and leave Japan, she had her parents' blessing, her brother's scorn, and a gift from her husband-a book on how to be a proper American housewife. As she crossed the ocean to America, Shoko also brought with her a secret she would need to keep her entire life... Half a century later, Shoko's plans to finally return to Japan and reconcile with her brother are derailed by illness. In her place, she sends her grown American daughter, Sue, a divorced single mother whose own life isn't what she hoped for. As Sue takes in Japan, with all its beauty and contradictions, she discovers another side to her mother and returns to America unexpectedly changed and irrevocably touched.

As sophomores at Ocean High, Winter and her best friend, Sloane, make a pact to do whatever it takes to make it to the top of the social pyramid. But once Sloane gets a taste of what it's like to fit in with the cool girls, she all but slams that door in Winter's face. Left without her best-friend-since-forever, Winter decides to take revenge the good old fashioned way: By airing Sloane's dirty secrets on an anonymous blog. But is her retaliation worth the consequences? And is the price for popularity one that Winter is willing to pay? Alyson Noel once again navigates the tricky waters of the high school social scene with the heart and humour her readers have come to love.

For over twenty years, "The Years Best Science Fiction" has been recognized as the best collection of short science fiction writing in universe and an essential resource for every science fiction fan. In 2005, the original "Best of the Best" collected the finest short stories from that series and became a benchmark in the SF field. Now for the first time ever, Hugo Award-winning editor Gardner Dozois sifts through hundreds of stories and dozens of authors, who have gone on to become some of the most esteemed practitioners of the form to bring readers the ultimate anthology of short science fiction novels from his legendary series. With such notable authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Michael Swanwick, Joe Haldeman, Frederick Pohl, Greg Egan, Robert Silverberg, Alastair Reynolds, and many more, the "Best of the Best Volume 2" will be the most significant science fiction short novel anthology ever published.

"Waddle!", like its predecessors "Gallop!" and "Swing!", uses 'scanimation' technology to simulate movement by the simple turning of a page. Unlike the previous two books, though, "Waddle!" also introduces colour into the text and illustrations, so children are learning two key preschool concepts at once: colours and motion. Leaping green frogs, flapping red hummingbirds, slithering yellow snakes, these animals are truly amazing to see.

Forfatteren forteller om hvordan han på 1990-tallet på dagtid jobbet i et reklamebyrå mens han på kveldstid jobbet som drag-queen, samtidig som han forsøkte å etablere et stabilt og kjærlig parforhold.

The '60s were the golden age of high-style flying. In this memoir, you'll find the true story of what flying the friendly skies was really like, written bye two audaciously outspoken young ladies who lived, and loved, the stewardess life. From the captain who's as subtle as a 747 when he's on the make to the passenger who mistakes the overhead luggage rack for an upper berth; from the names of celebrities who are a pleasure to serve (and some notables on the "bad guy" list) to the origins of some naughty stereotypes - Spaniards are the best lovers, actors the most foul-mouthed. This jet-age journal offers anecdotes from the aerial and amorous lives of those busty, lusty, adventuresome young "stews" of the swinging '60s.

This is the story of the family- proud landowner Asgeir Gunnarsson and his family. A small Norse settlement struggles for survival through increasingly harsh weather, famine, and witchcraft in fourteenth-century Greenland. While each year, the winter comes earlier and life gets a little harder, Asgeir has to deal with the feud between his own family and one of the neighbours.

Coy is a suspended sailor without a ship. At an auction in Barcelona, he meets a beautiful woman obsessed with the Dei Gloria, a Jesuit ship sunk by pirates in the seventeenth century. Tánger uses her considerable skills with men and her expertise with atlases and nautical maps to search for the ship's lost treasure. Coy is quickly drawn in to her search and finds himself falling in love as they search their fortune together - or do they?

The treasury presents ghost stories, horror stories, detective stories; stories of suspense, terror, fantasy and the plain macabre, written by authors as Rick Moody, Stephen King, Michael Crichton and Nick Hornby.

Troubled Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins of the L.A.P.D. finds two apparently disparate cases becoming one and centering on the fiendish psychiatrist, Doctor John the Night Tripper, as the two square off in a life or death struggle.

Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins can't stand music, or any loud sounds. He's got a beautiful wife, but he can't get enough of other women. And instead of bedtime stories, he regales his daughters with bloody crime stories. He's a thinking man's cop with a dark past and an obsessive drive to hunt down monsters who prey on the innocent. Now there's something haunting him. He sees a connection in a series of increasingly gruesome murders of women committed over a period of twenty years. Hopkins will dump all the rules and risk his career to make the final link and get the killer.

En hacker trenger inn i Vatikanets datasystem og planter en foruroligende beskjed. I all hast sender Vatikanets etterretningstjeneste sin beste mann til Sevilla for å oppklare to mystiske dødsfall i den kirka hackeren nevner og for å avsløre hackerens identitet. Den lokale presten nekter imidlertid å samarbeide, og noen har hyret en forbrytertrio til å forkludre saka for alle som har befatning med den.

Dig it. A famous musician-cum-draft dodger is plotting the perfect celebrity snatch- his own. An ex-con raging on revenge in High Darktown becomes a cop's worst nightmare. While chasing kidnappers, two cops stumble on an okie town as bloody as the O.K. Corral. A strongarm for Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen finds himself playing both ends against the middle, all for a murderously magnificent moll. This is L.A., Ellroy style- corrupt cops, goons with guns, rattling roadsters- and all in the staccato rhythm of the streets. "Hollywood Nocturnes" shows us the seedy side of glamorous Hollywood, laid out like a corpse in the morgue.

Trying to discover the identity of a murder victim brings together the vampire Dmitri and a hunter for the Guild, Honor. And as the gruesome murders continue, a lethal sensuality explodes between them.

This book tells the story of how American pop culture has evolved throughout the twentieth century to its current position as world cultural touchstone. From sex and music to fashion and commerce, the author tracks the arc of ideas as they move from subterranean Bohemia to Madison Avenue and back again. The book examines how hip has helped shape - and continues to influence - America's view of itself, and provides an incisive account of hip's quest for authenticity.

The author argues that the expanding European Union is becoming a second, and potentially superior, superpower to the United States, and outlines what the new Union will mean to world trade, politics, and power.

Den nøytrale verden Adumar har bestemt seg for å velge side i stjernekrigen. Delegasjoner fra begge sider blir invitert til Adumar, og de vil få tid til å fremlegge sin regjerings sak.

I juni 1994 dro Alvah Simon og hans kone Diana avgårde i seilbåten sin for å utforske områdene nord for polarsirkelen. Fire måneder senere fører uventede hendelser til at Simon blir fanget alene i isen når båten fryser fast langt fra nærmeste bebodde sted. Med bare en katt til selskap, klarer Simon å komme seg gjennom måneder med ensomhet, plutselig blindhet og private demoner.

Today more than ever, international headlines are dominated by dispatches from the many dictatorships that still dot the globe. Although Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been deposed, North Korea's Kim Jong-il continues to attract attention on the world stage; at the same time, other dictatorships, led by royal families, military juntas, and single political parties, persist in repressing and brutalizing their citizens without ever attracting anything like Saddam's or Kim Jong-il's level of international attention.In this fascinating, eye-opening read, New York Times bestselling author David Wallechinsky offers in-depth portraits of each of the twenty worst dictators -- and the governments they head -- currently in power: exposing their crimes, and revealing their strange personalities and mysterious backgrounds. Tyrants also reveals the extent that foreign corporations and governments support these tyrants despite their policies.Timely and provocative, crafted with the popular touch that has made Wallechinsky a bestselling author, Tyrants will awaken you to the criminal regimes of the present -- and pose challenging questions about America's role in curbing (or promoting) their power in the future.The Tyrant Hall of Shame includes:Kim Jong-il/North KoreaHu Jintao/ChinaSeyed Ali Khamenei/IranKing Abdullah/Saudi Arabia Muammar al-Qaddafi/LibyaOmar al-Bashir/SudanIslam Karimov/UzbekistanSaparmurat Niyazov/Turkmenistan Fidel Castro/Cuba

Anju wants a husband. Equally important, her entire family wants Anju to have a husband. Her life in Bombay, where a marriage can be arranged in a matter of hours, is almost solely devoted to this quest, with her anxious mother hauling her from holy site to holy site in order to consult and entreat swamis and astrologers. As Anju's twenties slip away, she's fast becoming a spinster by her culture.s standards. Only then is she able to persuade her parents to allow her to move to New York, where, she hopes, she will not be viewed as a failure.

Patty Taylor spiller i et band, og forsørge sin to år gamle sønn, Willie. En dag dukker faren til Willie opp. Han soner en lang dom, men er blitt løslatt på prøve. Nå kommer han for å kreve Patty og sønnen tilbake, selv om hun for lengst har brutt med ham. Dermed har det Patty fryktet mest av alt skjedd. Fortiden har innhentet henne.

Boken består av 4 noveller: Bestemødrene, Victoria og familien Staveney, Grunnen til det, og Et kjærlighetsbarn. Den første handler om to bestemødre som forelsker seg i hverandres unge sønner. I den andre fortellingen får en mørkhudet kvinne et barn med sønnen i en liberal middelklassefamilie. Den lille datteren hennes blir gradvis oppslukt av den hvite familiens livsførsel. I den tredje handler det om en eldgammel kultur som oppstår, blomstrer og faller sammen. I den siste fortellingen møter vi en soldat som under den andre verdenskrigen, blir forelsket i løpet av en lang sjøreise til India.

Påskeøya, 1913. Elsa Pendelton ankommer øya sammen med ektemannen, antropologen Edward Pendelton, som er sendt for å studere de berømte statuene, og søstra Alice. Elsa begynner si egen utforsking av øya. Siden de er isolert fra omverdenen, veit hun ikke at første verdenskrig er brutt ut, og at en tysk skvadron på flukt fra britene er på veg mot Påskeøya. Seksti år seinere reiser botanikeren Greer Farraday til Påskeøya for å forske på øyas flora. En serie hendelser fører til at historiene til to kvinner møtes.

How does he assess the information that is brought to him? How does his personal or political philosophy, or a moral sense, sustain him? How does he draw inspiration from those around him? How does he deal with setbacks and disasters? In this brilliant close-up look at Winston Churchill's leadership during the Second World War, Gilbert gets to the heart of the trials and struggles that have confronted the world's most powerful leaders, even up to current politicians such as George Bush and Tony Blair.Basing the book on his intimate knowledge of Churchill's private and official papers, Sir Martin Gilbert, Churchill's official biographer, looks at the public figure and wartime propaganda, to reveal a very human, sensitive, and often tormented man, who nevertheless found the strength to lead his nation forward from the darkest and most dangerous of times.

A magical mixture of East meets West, mothers in conflict with daughters, and the healing power of food. 'Maybe there are one hundred shades for explaining truth, a spectrum from light to dark, depending on the vulnerability of those who have to hear it. Things are not always clear cut, they are not either black or white, life just isn't like that.' Nalini and her two young children are transplanted from luxury in India to the bewildering confusion of London, only to be abandoned by her negligent husband. At first survival is a struggle, but Nalini turns to what she does best: cooking. Her mouthwatering pickles bring financial stability and domestic happiness, as well as affecting everyone who tastes them. Everyone, that is, except for her daughter, Maya. Maya loves fish fingers, burgers and chips. She's not interested in her history; that died with her father. Resisting the pull of her family, she follows her own chaotic journey which will take her back to India before she can face the truth about her parents, forgive them and herself - and admit that lime pickle is delicious, after all.

Boka inneholder utdrag fra forfatterens romaner The house on Mango street og Caramelo, et utvalg dikt fra diktsamlingene My wicked ways og Loose woman, og sju historier fra Woman hollering creek.