Kismet Academy The Complete Series: A Multicultural Paranormal Academy Collection

Kismet Academy The Complete Series: A Multicultural Paranormal Academy Collection
Author: Sarah Biglow
Publisher: Biglow Fantasy Reads
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2023-09-15
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

Enjoy this magical series by USA Today Bestselling urban fantasy author Sarah Biglow.... Careful what you wish for...it just might come true. Mae Lin Zhou has struggled to live up to her father’s expectations all her life. She wishes just once she could make him proud, and when her dying grandmother chooses her to carry the family’s ability to make luck, she thinks this is her chance. If she can learn to control her new power. Thrust into the fantastical world of Kismet Academy, Mae Lin must learn to harness her new abilities all while facing threats from her family’s past. Along the way, she’ll gain allies and enemies who will help shape the person she will become. Getting to graduation day may feel like a long shot, but if she can master her skills, she might just have a hope of conquering the evil that’s coming for her and her friends. KISMET ACADEMY: THE COMPLETE SERIES contains all three books in the Kismet Academy paranormal academy series. This series is full of diverse characters, exciting magic and mystery. .If you’re a fan of Madeline Freeman, RaShelle Workman, Lena Mae Hill, C.S. Churton, Isadora Brown, Alicia Rades, Megan Linski, Jen L. Gray and Richelle Mead, you’ll love this supernatural academy box set. ??? Here's what paranormal academy fans are saying about Kismet Academy ????? “It’s a great introduction to this incredible world full of magic, mystery, murder and twists and turns and secrets.” – deboraheyre (Bookbub review) ????? “this was another great entry in the Kismet Academy series, it was what I was hoping for.” – darkphoenixfan2002 (Bookbub review) ????? “…an intriguing, action packed YA paranormal read that draws you in” – deboraheyre (Bookbub review)

Luck Breaker: A Multicultural Paranormal Academy Novel

Luck Breaker: A Multicultural Paranormal Academy Novel
Author: Sarah Biglow
Publisher: Biglow Fantasy Reads
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2022-10-15
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

Enjoy this magical series by USA Today Bestselling urban fantasy author Sarah Biglow.... Wish in one hand, djinn in the other… Secrets, lies, and visions of a coming threat haunt Mae Lin as she reenters Kismet Academy for her second year. But her connection to Bashir has grown increasingly stronger, and with it, her wisher magic...and her feelings for the djinn. She's just not sure if she can trust them to be true. Throwing herself into her studies in an effort to unravel what binds her and Bashir together, Mae Lin must reunite with old friends use their collective magic to find a way to stop the oncoming storm. But the fortune her grandmother made looms over her still, as does the mystery of who killed her. If her words come to pass, Mae Lin will be in even greater danger. The kind she may not be able to overcome. LUCK BREAKER is the second novel in the Kismet Academy young adult paranormal academy trilogy where magic fulfills your every wish. This series is best enjoyed in order. You can begin Mae Lin's journey in book 1, Luck Maker. Great for readers who love urban fantasy, Chinese lore, leprechauns and djinn. .If you’re a fan of Madeline Freeman, RaShelle Workman, Lena Mae Hill, C.S. Churton, Isadora Brown, Alicia Rades, Megan Linski, Jen L. Gray and Richelle Mead, you’ll love this supernatural academy novel.

"K" is for Killer

Author: Sue Grafton
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2009-11-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429911654

Lorna Kepler was beautiful and willful, a loner who couldn't resist flirting with danger. Maybe that's what killed her. Her death had raised a host of tough questions. The cops suspected homicide, but they could find neither motive nor suspect. Even the means were mysterious: Lorna's body was so badly decomposed when it was discovered that they couldn't be certain she hadn't died of natural causes. In the way of overworked cops everywhere, the case was gradually shifted to the back burner and became another unsolved file. Only Lorna's mother kept it alive, consumed by the certainty that somebody out there had gotten away with murder. In the ten months since her daughter's death, Janice Kepler had joined a support group, trying to come to terms with her loss and her anger. It wasn't helping. And so, leaving a session one evening and noticing a light on in the offices of Millhone Investigations, she knocked on the door. In answering that knock, Kinsey Millhone is pulled into the netherworld of unavenged murder, where only a pact with the devil will satisfy the restless ghosts of the victims and give release to the living they have left behind. Eleven books into the series that has won her readers around the world, Sue Grafton takes a darkside turn, pitching us into a shadow land of pain and grief where killers still walk free, unaccused, unpunished, unrepentant. With "K" is for Killer she offers a tale that is dark, complex, and deeply disturbing. "A" Is for Alibi "B" Is for Burglar "C" Is for Corpse "D" Is for Deadbeat "E" Is for Evidence "F" Is for Fugitive "G" Is for Gumshoe "H" Is for Homicide "I" Is for Innocent "J" Is for Judgment "K" Is for Killer "L" is for Lawless "M" Is for Malice "N" Is for Noose "O" Is for Outlaw "P" Is for Peril "Q" Is for Quarry "R" Is for Ricochet "S" Is for Silence "T" Is for Trespass "U" Is for Undertow "V" Is for Vengeance "W" Is for Wasted "X"

Gorilla, My Love

Gorilla, My Love
Author: Toni Cade Bambara
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2011-02-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307778002

Fifteen unforgettable short stories from an essential author of African American fiction gives us compelling portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from sassy children to cunning old men, from uptown New York to rural North Carolina. "Bambara grabs you by the throat ... she dazzles, she charms." —Chicago Daily News A young girl suffers her first betrayal. A widow flirts with an elderly blind man against the wishes of her grown-up children. A neighborhood loan shark teaches a white social worker a lesson in responsibility. And there is more. Sharing the world of Toni Cade Bambara's "straight-up fiction" is a stunning experience.

Beyond Bollywood

Beyond Bollywood
Author: Jigna Desai
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135887209

Beyond Bollywood is the first comprehensive look at the emergence, development, and significance of contemporary South Asian diasporic cinema. From a feminist and queer perspective, Jigna Desai explores the hybrid cinema of the "Brown Atlantic" through a close look at films in English from and about South Asian diasporas in the United States, Canada, and Britain, including such popular films as My Beautiful Laundrette, Fire, MonsoonWedding, and Bend it Like Beckham.

The Agency of Children

The Agency of Children
Author: David Oswell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2013
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0521843669

Uses the idea of children's agency to survey the main issues in childhood studies.

The Leaving

The Leaving
Author: Tara Altebrando
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2016-06-07
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1619638045

Six were taken. Eleven years later, five come back--with no idea of where they've been. A riveting mystery for fans of We Were Liars. Eleven years ago, six kindergartners went missing without a trace. After all that time, the people left behind moved on, or tried to. Until today. Today five of those kids return. They're sixteen, and they are . . . fine. Scarlett comes home and finds a mom she barely recognizes, and doesn't really recognize the person she's supposed to be, either. But she thinks she remembers Lucas. Lucas remembers Scarlett, too, except they're entirely unable to recall where they've been or what happened to them. Neither of them remember the sixth victim, Max--the only one who hasn't come back. Which leaves Max's sister, Avery, wanting answers. She wants to find her brother--dead or alive--and isn't buying this whole memory-loss story. But as details of the disappearance begin to unfold, no one is prepared for the truth. This unforgettable novel--with its rich characters, high stakes, and plot twists--will leave readers breathless.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Islam, 2nd Edition

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Islam, 2nd Edition
Author: Yahiya Emerick
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2004-11-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1101097426

An up-close and up-to-date look at an often misunderstood faith This completely revised and updated guide explores the tenets of the Qu’ran (a.k.a. Koran), examines the history of the religion and its relationship to Christianity and Judaism, and features an expanded section on the true story behind “jihad.” It explores Islamic views on war and terrorism, including the Muslim perspective on the tragic events of September 11, and the subsequent U.S. presence in both Afghanistan and Iraq. • Excellent sales for the first edition • Islam is the fastest growing religion in America, with more than six million devoted followers • Features an expanded section on women in Islam, including their status within the Taliban, and the Islamic practice of polygamy

Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans

Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans
Author: Thomas Chambers
Publisher: UCL Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2020-04-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1787354539

Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans provides an ethnography of life, work and migration in a North Indian Muslim-dominated woodworking industry. It traces artisanal connections within the local context, during migration within India, and to the Gulf, examining how woodworkers utilise local and transnational networks, based on identity, religiosity, and affective circulations, to access resources, support and forms of mutuality. However, the book also illustrates how liberalisation, intensifying forms of marginalisation and incorporation into global production networks have led to spatial pressures, fragmentation of artisanal labour, and forms of enclavement that persist despite geographical mobility and connectedness. By working across the dialectic of marginality and connectedness, Thomas Chambers thinks through these complexities and dualities by providing an ethnographic account that shares everyday life with artisans and others in the industry. Descriptive detail is intersected with spatial scales of ‘local’, ‘national’ and ‘international’, with the demands of supply chains and labour markets within India and abroad, with structural conditions, and with forms of change and continuity. Empirically, then, the book provides a detailed account of a specific locale, but also contributes to broader theoretical debates centring on theorisations of margins, borders, connections, networks, embeddedness, neoliberalism, subjectivities, and economic or social flux.

A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula

A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula
Author: Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 766
Release: 2010-05-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9027288399

A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula is the second comparative history of a new subseries with a regional focus, published by the Coordinating Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association. As its predecessor for East-Central Europe, this two-volume history distances itself from traditional histories built around periods and movements, and explores, from a comparative viewpoint, a space considered to be a powerful symbol of inter-literary relations. Both the geographical pertinence and its symbolic condition are obviously discussed, when not even contested. Written by an international team of researchers who are specialists in the field, this history is the first attempt at applying a comparative approach to the plurilingual and multicultural literatures in the Iberian Peninsula. The aim of comprehensiveness is abandoned in favor of a diverse and extensive array of key issues for a comparative agenda. A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula undermines the primacy claimed for national and linguistic boundaries, and provides a geo-cultural account of literary inter-systems which cannot otherwise be explained.