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The Eyes of the Dragon
A tale of archetypal heroes and sweeping adventures, of dragons and princes and evil wizards, here is epic fantasy as only Stephen King could envision it.A kingdom is in turmoil as the old King Roland dies and its worthy successor, Prince Peter must do battle to claim what is rightfully his. Plotting against him is the evil Flagg and his pawn, young Prince Thomas. Yet with every plan there are holes—like Thomas’s terrible secret. And the determined Prince Peter, who is planning a daring escape from his imprisonment…Stephen King has taken the classic fairy tale and transformed it into a masterpiece of fiction for the ages.
ISBN:2147483647
Author:Stephen King
Just After Sunset
Stephen King -- who has written more than fifty books, dozens of number one "New York Times" bestsellers, and many unforgettable movies -- delivers an astonishing collection of short stories, his first since "Everything's Eventual" six years ago. As guest editor of the bestselling "Best American Short Stories 2007," King spent over a year reading hundreds of stories.
His renewed passion for the form is evident on every page of "Just After Sunset." The stories in this collection have appeared in "The New Yorker," "Playboy," "McSweeney's," "The Paris Review," "Esquire," and other publications. Who but Stephen King would turn a Port-O-San into a slimy birth canal, or a roadside honky-tonk into a place for endless love?
A book salesman with a grievance might pick up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. Or an exercise routine on a stationary bicycle, begun to reduce bad cholesterol, might take its rider on a captivating -- and then terrifying -- journey. Set on a remote key in Florida, "The Gingerbread Girl" is a riveting tale featuring a young woman as vulnerable -- and resourceful -- as Audrey Hepburn's character in "Wait Until Dark." In "Ayana," a blind girl works a miracle with a kiss and the touch of her hand.
For King, the line between the living and the dead is often blurry, and the seams that hold our reality intact might tear apart at any moment. In one of the longer stories here, "N.," which recently broke new ground when it was adapted as a graphic digital entertainment, a psychiatric patient's irrational thinking might create an apocalyptic threat in the Maine countryside...or keep the world from falling victim to it."Just After Sunset" -- call it dusk, call it twilight, it's a time when human intercourse takes on an unnatural cast, when nothing is quite as it appears, when the imagination begins to reach for shadows as they dissipate to darkness and living daylight can be scared right out of you. It's the perfect time for Stephen King.
ISBN:2147483647
Author:Stephen King
Song of Susannah
The next-to-last novel in Stephen King's seven-volume magnum opus, Song of Susannah is at once a book of revelation, a fascinating key to the unfolding mystery of the Dark Tower, and a fast-paced story of double-barreled suspense.
To give birth to her "chap," demon-mother Mia has usurped the body of Susannah Dean and used the power of Black Thirteen to transport to New York City in the summer of 1999. The city is strange to Susannah...and terrifying to the "daughter of none," who shares her body and mind.
Saving the Tower depends not only on rescuing Susannah but also on securing the vacant lot Calvin Tower owns before he loses it to the Sombra Corporation. Enlisting the aid of Manni senders, the remaining katet climbs to the Doorway Cave...
and discovers that magic has its own mind. It falls to the boy, the billy-bumbler, and the fallen priest to find Susannah-Mia, who, in a struggle to cope with each other and with an alien environment "go todash" to Castle Discordia on the border of End-World. In that forsaken place, Mia reveals her origins, her purpose, and her fierce desire to mother whatever creature the two of them have carried to term.
Eddie and Roland, meanwhile, tumble into western Maine in the summer of 1977, a world that should be idyllic but isn't. For one thing, it is real, and the bullets are flying.
These are the simple vectors of a story rich in complexity and conflict. Its dual climaxes, one at the entrance to a deadly dining establishment and the other appended to the pages of a writer's journal, will leave readers gasping for the saga's final volume (which, Dear Reader, follows soon, say thank ya).
ISBN:2147483647
Author:Stephen King
Rich Kid Smart Kid by Robert T. Kiyosaki
In the Information Age, a good education is more important than ever. But the current educational system may not be providing all the information your child needs.
This book was designed to fill in the gaps: to help you give your child the same inspiring and practical financial knowledge that Robert Kiyosaki's rich dad gave him.
Rich Dad's Rich Kid will show you how to awaken your child's love of learning using the same methods that Robert's smart dad used to help Robert stay in school, even though he had bad grades and often wanted to drop out.
And Rich Dad's Rich Kidwill open doors that you never knew existed, enabling you to pass down the skills and understanding your child will use for the rest of his or her life.
When Women Walk Alone
More and more women are finding themselves alone in their Christian walk because of life's circumstances--a lack of support from people in her home, work, or church; being left out of the things she used to be included in; being misunderstood and unable to explain.
Cindi McMenamin, author of Heart Hunger, offers personal encouragement and practical, biblical steps for gaining strength in times of isolation and becoming resilient to, not resentful toward, loneliness.Cindi's audience for Women Who Walk Alone is a broad one--single women, women parenting alone, women alone as the spiritual head of their household, women facing challenging life situations, women without close friendships. And her message is timely--every woman feels alone at some point in her life, yet every woman needs someone to grow alongside her and to encourage her in her walk with the Lord.When Women Walk Alone encourages readers to see alone times as unique opportunities for personal and spiritual growth. Women will discover practical ways to... Find support from other women who feel alone in their lives celebrate their own uniqueness and grow through the lonely times gain strength for the challenges of parenting alone funnel "loneliness in prayer" into "a new power in prayer alone with God" rely on the Lord and others to overcome personal trials
Using examples of biblical and contemporary women who emerged from a time of loneliness stronger and more complete, Cindi also looks at the example of Jesus and the many times He was alone or sought out some "alone time" to draw strength from His Father.
ISBN:2147483647
Author:Cindi McMenamin
The Language of Sex
Relationship expert Gary Smalley, best-selling author of The Blessing and The Language of Love, finally tackles a topic that’s on everybody’s mind: sex. With his pastor and friend, Ted Cunningham, Smalley nudges past our hang-ups and sacred cows to answer the question, How can I have the best sex of my life?
The answer may surprise you. Did you know that great sex begins with security, which leads to intimacy, which leads to incredible sex? It's only as we take an honest look at the differences between men and women and find ways to bridge the gap that we can create the security and intimacy that great sex needs to flourish.
In The Language of Sex, Smalley and Ted Cunningham peel back the layers of mystery and show us how to do just that!
ISBN:2147483647
Author:Gary Smalley, Ted Cunningham
The Life of Mzee Ondego
The doctors released me at 5am. So we got into the Land Rover. By the time we reached Gatundu my heart was gone. I was worried I would be killed.
So when our time came to sing, we sang the song which says Kenya is a peaceful country, which was number one. We were on our way to sit down when I was collected by Kenyatta’s people. So I was taken to Kenyatta. He was very angry. "Kingora Giki . . . eh? Mzee, you are trying to compete with me?”
Mzee Ondego, Kenya’s greatest choirmaster and Kenyatta confidant tells the story of his relationship with Kenya’s founding father. Unknown as the man behind one of Kenya’s most influential songs - the haunting dirge that played on during those fateful days after the death of Kenya’s first president. Mzee Ondego remembers a time that has become part of our living memory.
ISBN:2147483647
Author:Enock Ondego
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a dazzling new novel: a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face difficult choices and challenges in the countries they come to call home.As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love.
Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are leaving the country if they can. Ifemelu—beautiful, self-assured—departs for America to study. She suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships and friendships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze—the quiet, thoughtful son of a professor—had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.Years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a writer of an eye-opening blog about race in America.
But when Ifemelu returns to Nigeria, and she and Obinze reignite their shared passion—for their homeland and for each other—they will face the toughest decisions of their lives.Fearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story set in today’s globalized world: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s most powerful and astonishing novel yet.
The Life and Times of Richard Onyango
Brief Summary
"I turned and I saw the very big face of the Drossi. Very big eyes, very red eyes, and you know I was stunned – ghafla- and my drum sticks fell down so I had to pick them up quickly.
I tried to smile, which did not succeed. She was sweating furiously, but she respected me and didn’t want to interrupt and so she went to the counter.
But I knew something was going to happen here. She was holding her dress strongly, very strongly. As if she was holding something very tough. I think she was practicing how she was going to make a grip on me.”
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ISBN:2147483647
Author:Richard Onyango
The Man Eaters of Tsavo
Brief Summary
St. Martin's is proud to present a new series of the greatest classics in the literature of hunting and adventure, chosen from the personal library of writer and big game hunter Peter Hathaway Capstick. These showcase volumes will once again make available the true masterpieces of Africana to collectors, armchair hunters, sportsmen, and readers at large.
Considered one of the greatest man-eating sagas of all time, The Man-Eaters of Tsavo is the firsthand account of the infamous Tsavo lions. These lions-- who for nearly a year terrorized East Africa-- succeeded in bringing the construction of a railway line to a complete halt, and have been credited with the deaths of some one hundred people. Written by the legendary officer who shot these lions and risked death several times in the attempt,The Man-Eaters of Tsavo is not only the story of this breathtaking hunt, but of Lieutenant-Colonel Patterson's other adventures in the African bush.
"I think that the incident of the Uganda man-eating lions...is the most remarkable account of which we have any record."--Theodore Roosevelt
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ISBN:9781626361942
Author:John Henry Patterson
Horn of Africa
When Vietnam veteran and foreign correspondent Charlie Gage is recruited by the shadowy Thomas Colfax to assist with something called Operation Atropos, he has no idea he is about to be enlisted for guerilla warfare in northeast Africa. Once he realizes he’s a mercenary, however, he is not at all concerned.
Ever since his young secretary was killed by a grenade at their bureau office in Beirut a couple of years before, he has lost all volition. Which is why he so readily capitulates not only to Colfax, but also, and more dangerously so, to every command of Jeremy Nordstrand, the mystical megalomaniac determined to achieve greatness on their seemingly suicidal mission.
Set in the forsaken yet exotic deserts of Ethiopia, Horn of Africa is a vividly detailed and masterfully plotted novel chronicling a broken man’s struggle for salvation and inner freedom in the midst of a broken nation’s fight for stability and peace.
ISBN:2147483647
Author:Philip Caputo
Remembering Africa
Brief Summary
Can you really re-member Afrika in the images, symbols and languages of the master? Can you really dream the dreams of liberation in the language of the oppressors? These are among the questions raised in a new book by Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Re-membering Africa, Issa Shivji writes in Pambazuka News.
In a commentary shared at the launch of the book, Shivji says that wa Thiong’o’s latest work ‘captures an important intellectual moment in the long struggle of African people to re-claim and recover our collective memory.’
European renaissance marked the beginning of the dis-membering of Africa, her body and soul were torn apart as her resources were raped and her beauty disfigured. Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1498 – ‘good hope’ for the invaders and ‘bad omen’ for the invaded.
In early 1500s the great city states of Kilwa, Mombasa and Malindi, which were the centres of blossoming Swahili civilization, were ruthlessly cannoned. European civilization came to Africa, (to use Marx’s phrase in relation to capital), ‘dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt’. Four centuries of slave trade dis-membered mother Africa into the continent and diaspora, as a century of colonialism dis-membered it into, what Mwalimu called, vinchi – statelets.
ISBN:9789966256287
Author:Ngugi wa Thiong’o
The Silk Merchant’s Daughter
Dinah Jefferies' stunning new novel is a gripping, unforgettable tale of a woman torn between two worlds... 1952, French Indochina. Since her mother's death, eighteen-year-old half-French, half-Vietnamese Nicole has been living in the shadow of her beautiful older sister, Sylvie. When Sylvie is handed control of the family silk business, Nicole is given an abandoned silk shop in the Vietnamese quarter of Hanoi. But the area is teeming with militant rebels who want to end French rule, by any means possible. For the first time, Nicole is awakened to the corruption of colonial rule - and her own family's involvement shocks her to the core... Tran, a notorious Vietnamese insurgent, seems to offer the perfect escape from her troubles, while Mark, a charming American trader, is the man she's always dreamed of. But who can she trust in this world where no one is what they seem? The Silk Merchant's Daughter is a captivating tale of dark secrets, sisterly rivalry and love against the odds, enchantingly set in colonial era Vietnam.
ISBN:2147483647
Author:Dinah Jefferies
The Quran Essential Teachings
Brief Summary
This work is intended to help readers gain a clear idea of the Qur'anic worldview, particularly the articles of Islamic faith, God-man relationship, religious duties and Islamic value system, bringing into sharper focus the God-oriented life as prescribed by Islam.
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ISBN:2147483647
Author:Abdur Raheem Kidwai
Muhammad:The Messenger of God
The most recent of the major religious prophets, Muhammad remains shrouded in mystery to much of the Western world.
This biography explores Muhammad's roots and the impact the religion he founded has had on the world around us. A seventh-century Arabian tribesman, Muhammad received a vision in a cave and emerged to unite the Arab world with his revelation.
The moral and ethical framework he established is still the guiding force for much of the Middle East. His visions and life are fully explored with an eye toward understanding the modern Arab world.
ISBN:2147483647
Author:Betty Kelen
The Messenger of God Muhammad
Brief Summary
The book is originally in Turkish. And derived from the preaches of Gulen in the Turkish mosques. It must be read by keeping in mind that.
Gulen had some series about life of Prophet Muhammad (pbuH) and that book comes from them. It's unique at this side, the book does not try to be "what happened, what happened, what happened bla bla" book, it focuses the life of Prophet (pbuH) from different sides, getting us daily life of Prophet,
His approach in real life as a servant of Allah, as a commander, as a leader of a nation, as a friend, as a husband, as a father and so on. A very good and unique book indeed.
ISBN:9781932099836
Author:Fethullah Gülen
Devoted to Allah
How many times have we felt that our Imaan is taking a dip? How many times it has happened that we felt disconnected with Allah? How many times have we found our hearts away from the remembrance of Allah?
This book is another masterpiece from the renowned Harun Yahya and a reminder and a naseeha for all those who feel detached from Allah. In his eloquent and cogent writing style, the author has dealt with this serious issue of low Imaan and exhorted the reader towards acquiring the attributes of the true believer.
The book invites the reader to question himself as to whether he/she is sincerely devoted to Allah or not and then tacitly encourage the reader to work towards the cure.
ISBN:2147483647
Author:Harun Yahya
A Handbook of Muslim Belief
Contents: I. Practical devotions: 1. Prayers to God. 2. Zakat or legal Alms. 3. Fasting. 4. Pilgrimage. II. Transactions: 5. Marriage. 6. Law of inheritance. 7. Sale and Usury. 8. Ownership. III. Penal laws: 9. Criminal intentional injury.
10. Adultery. 11. Theft and robbery. 12. Divisions of punishment. 13. Discretionary correction or Ta'zir. 14. Sinful acts classification. IV. Morality: 15. Muslim ethical basis of social life. 16. Muslim ethics and morality. 17. The moral conditions. 18. True believers. V. Muslim jurisprudence and theology: 19. The Quran and jurisprudence.
20. Quran-the first source of jurisprudence. 21. The tradition. 22. Transmission of the Hadith in the prophet's lifetime. 23. The earliest preservation of traditions. 24. The Quran is the greatest test for judging Hadith.
25. The style of composition employed in the imparting of traditions. 26. Degrees of authenticity of the narrators. 27. Rules for distinguishing false traditions. 28. Ijma'-the third foundation of Islamic laws. 29. Degrees of Ijtihad. 30. Payment of the tribute called "Jizia". VI. Spiritual aspect of Islam: 1. The treasures of happiness. References
ISBN:2147483647
Author:Ahmad A. Galwash
True Wisdom Described in the Quran
This book will define the true meaning of wisdom. "What are the circumstances that bring about wisdom?", "Can wisdom increase or decrease?", "Can there be factors that cloud reasoning?", "If so, can they be removed?" Questions such as these and probably questions which most people will learn the real answers to for the first time will be answered. Everyone will be reminded once again how valuable a blessing the mind is.Also, by drawing attention to examples of wiseness and unwiseness in the Qur'an, the clear distinction between the two will be portrayed. The great rewards, given in this world and the Hereafter, to the people of wisdom who obey the Qur'an will be explained. And the great losses experienced by those who don't use their minds and have strayed away from religion will be described: everyone will be exhorted to use his reason.This book, as is expressed in Surat al-Muzzammil, verse 19: "Let him who will take the right path to his Lord", aims to open up a path for those who wish to draw near to Allah, comprehend His greatness, live by the morals of the Qur'an, and benefit from the blessings of our mind.
ISBN:2147483647
Author:Harun Yahya
The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Abou...
It’s 2010 and Natasha, a half Russian, half Sudanese professor of history, is researching the life of Imam Shamil, the 19th century Muslim leader who led the anti-Russian resistance in the Caucasian War.
When shy, single Natasha discovers that her star student, Oz, is not only descended from the warrior but also possesses Shamil’s priceless sword, the Imam’s story comes vividly to life. As Natasha’s relationship with Oz and his alluring actress mother intensifies, Natasha is forced to confront issues she had long tried to avoid—that of her Muslim heritage.
When Oz is suddenly arrested at his home one morning, Natasha realizes that everything she values stands in jeopardy. Told with Aboulela’s inimitable elegance and narrated from the point of view of both Natasha and the historical characters she is researching, The Kindness of Enemies is both an engrossing story of a provocative period in history and an important examination of what it is to be a Muslim in a post 9/11 world.