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Aisle Nine
by Ian X. Cho*A William C. Morris Award Finalist* It’s Black Friday—and the apocalypse is on sale!Ever since the world filled with portals to hell and bloodthirsty demons started popping out on the reg, Jasper’s life has gotten worse and worse. A teenage nobody with no friends or family, he is plagued by the life he can’t remember and the person he’s sure he’s supposed to be.Jasper spends his days working as a checkout clerk at the Here for You discount mart, where a hell portal in aisle nine means danger every shift. But at least here he can be near the girl he’s crushing on—Kyle Kuan, a junior member of the monster-fighting Vanguard—who seems to hate Jasper for reasons he can’t remember or understand.But when Jasper and Kyle learn they both share a frightening vision of the impending apocalypse, they’re forced to team up and uncover the uncomfortable truth about the hell portals and the demons that haunt the world. Because the true monsters are not always what they seem, the past is not always what we wish, and, like it or not, on Black Friday all hell will break loose, starting in aisle nine.Rising star Ian X. Cho delivers an unforgettably freaky and hilarious YA debut with Aisle Nine, perfect for fans of Grasshopper Jungle or The Last of Us.
Aisling and Other Irish Tales of Terror
by Peter TremayneShort stories of terror and horror set in Ireland. Includes: "Aisling," "Deathstone," "My Lady of Hy-Brasil," "The Samhain Feis" and seven more.
Aithihyamaala: The Garland Of Legends' From Kerala
by Kottaaraththil SankunniYakshis, gandharvas, gods and demi-gods. Famous poets and learned Ayurvedic doctors. Magicians, conceited kings and Kalari gurus. Faithful, intelligent elephants and their fatherly mahouts. A vibrant and diverse cast of characters brings to life the ancient, enduring legends of Kerala in the Aithihyamaala, the garland of legends. The original collection of 126 tales, were documented over 25 years and written in the 1900s by Kottaaraththil Sankunni. These stories of well-known figures in Kerala folklore were first published in Bhashaposhini, the renowned Malayalam literary magazine. This edition of 50 stories, meticulously curated and translated by Leela James, transports you to the magical world of history, myth and fantasy of more than 100 years ago. Wisdom and vice, revenge and loyalty, imagination and fact, faith and superstition are intricately intertwined to create a collector?s edition for lovers of legends, Malayalam folklore and Indian literature.
Aj Kal Parso
by Rajmohan Jha Shubhankar MishraAj Kal Parso is Hindi Translation of the famous Sahitya Akademi award winner Maithli story collection. This collection of stories depicts the ironies of middle-class life and is an effective and positive presentation of them. The book is one among the collectibles of the readers. The translator of the work, Shubhankar Mishra, is also a writer of fame who brings life to this translation work.
Ajapa the Tortoise: A Book of Nigerian Folk Tales
by Margaret BaumannLong before people could turn to books for instruction and amusement, they relied upon storytellers for answers to their questions about life. Africa boasts a particularly rich oral tradition, in which the griot -- village historian -- preserved and passed along cultural beliefs and experiences from one generation to the next. This collection of 30 timeless fables comes from the storytellers of Nigeria, whose memorable narratives tell of promises kept and broken, virtue rewarded, and treachery punished.Ajapa the Tortoise -- a trickster, or animal with human qualities -- makes frequent appearances among the colorful cast of talking animals. In "Tortoise Goes Wooing," he learns a valuable lesson in friendship and sharing. Ajapa's further adventures describe how, among other things, he became a chief, acquired all of the world's wisdom, saved the king, tricked the lion, and came to be bald. Recounted in simple but evocative language, these ancient tales continue to enchant readers and listeners of all ages.
Ajax Is All About Attack
by Jim ShepardA Vintage Shorts "Short Story Month" SelectionVelibor Vasovic is not political. He is a soccer player; has played for Partizan Belgrade and his national team. Scored Partizan's only goal against Real Madrid in the European Cup. He is the rock supporting any defense. But in 1966, he starts playing for Ajax Amsterdam, firmly in the West. And politics catches up to him. Jim Shepard is the wildly inventive guru of the historical fiction short story; a finalist for the National Book Award, and "one of the United States' finest writers" (Joshua Ferris). "Ajax Is All About Attack" is classic Shepard, from the collection Love and Hydrogen. An eBook short.
Ajay and the Mumbai Sun
by Varsha ShahA high-stakes adventure full of heart and the power of words to create change in modern day Mumbai, from debut author Varsha Shah, winner of the Times/Chicken House competition.Abandoned on the Mumbai railways, Ajay has grown up with nothing but a burning wish to be a journalist. And after finding an abandoned printing press, his dreams might just come true. But when he and his friends Saif, Vinod, Yasmin and Jai create their own newspaper, The Mumbai Sun, and begin to hunt down stories to fill their pages, the children uncover a plan to tear down their slum—which will leave hundreds of more people homeless.Can Ajay and his friends really succeed in bringing the truth to light against some of the most powerful forces in the city, fight for justice, and save their slum from bulldozers?
Ajaya Epic of the Kaurava Clan Book 2 Rise of Kali
by Anand NeelakantanTHE DARK AGE OF KALI IS RISING and every man and woman must choose between duty and conscience, honour and shame, life and death… As the Pandavas stake their claim to the Hastinapura throne, the Kaurava Crown Prince, Suyodhana, rises to challenge Krishna. As great minds debate dharma and adharma, power hungry men prepare for an apocalyptic war. The women, highborn and humble, helplessly watch the unfolding disaster with deep foreboding. And greedy merchants and unscrupulous priests lie in wait like vultures. Both sides know that beyond the agony and carnage the winner will take all. But even as gods conspire and men’s destinies unfold, a far greater truth awaits. From the pen of the author who gave voice to Ravana in the national bestseller, ASURA, comes this riveting narrative which compels us to question the truth behind the Mahabharata.
Ajeemah and His Son
by James BerryIn 1807, at the height of the slave trade, Ajeemah and his son, Atu, are snatched by slave traders from their home in Africa while en route to deliver a dowry to Atu's bride-to-be. Ajeemah and Atu are then taken to Jamaica and sold to neighboring plantations'never to see one another again. "Readers will come away with a new sense of respect for those who maintained their dignity and humanity under the cruelest of circumstances. "'SLJ. "Each moment here of the Jamaican-born poet's terse, melodious narrative is laden with emotion. . . . Brilliant, complex, powerfully written. "--K. Notable Children's Book of 1993 (ALA) 1993 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA) 1993 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book) 1992 Books for Youth Editors' Choices (BL) Notable 1992 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) Bulletin Blue Ribbons 1992 (C) 1993 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library) Children's Books of 1992 (Library of Congress) 1993 Boston Globe-Horn Book Fiction Award
Ajey - Duryodhanache Mahabharat: अजेय - दुर्योधनाचे महाभारत
by Anand Neelakanthan"अजेय - दुर्योधनाचे महाभारत" ही आनंद नीलकंठन यांची मराठीत अनुवादित कादंबरी आहे, जी "Ajaya: Roll of the Dice" या इंग्रजी कादंबरीचा अनुवाद आहे. ही कादंबरी महाभारतातील एक महत्त्वाची व्यक्तिरेखा असलेल्या दुर्योधनाच्या दृष्टीकोनातून लिहिलेली आहे. पारंपारिक कथांमध्ये जिथे दुर्योधनाला खलनायक म्हणून दाखवले जाते, तिथे नीलकंठन यांनी त्याला एका जटिल आणि विरोधाभासी व्यक्तिरेखेच्या रूपात सादर केले आहे. कादंबरीत दुर्योधनाचे बालपण, त्याची कौरव-पांडवांशी असलेली मैत्री आणि स्पर्धा, त्याचे शिक्षण, आणि त्याचे दृष्टिकोन यांचा सखोल अभ्यास केला आहे. लेखकाने कौरवांच्या बाजूने कथानक मांडले आहे, जिथे दुर्योधन एक न्यायप्रिय आणि धर्मनिष्ठ योद्धा म्हणून समोर येतो. त्याच्या भावनांचा, त्याच्या निर्णयांचा, आणि त्याच्या कार्यांचा मागोवा घेत, कादंबरी त्याच्या मनोवृत्तीला आणि महाभारताच्या घटनांवर त्याच्या दृष्टिकोनाला प्रकाशात आणते. कादंबरीत कर्ण, भीष्म, द्रोण, आणि कृष्ण या व्यक्तिरेखांचाही उल्लेख आहे, ज्यांच्याशी दुर्योधनाचे संबंध महाभारताच्या कथानकाचा भाग बनतात. ही कादंबरी पारंपारिक महाभारताच्या कथनात एक वेगळा दृष्टिकोन जोडते आणि वाचकांना दुर्योधनाच्या दृष्टिकोनातून एक वेगळा आणि नवीन दृष्टिकोन देते.
Ajoelhado Aos Teus Pés
by Tanya Anne Crosby Tânia NezioUma filha da floresta, sem ser leal a nenhum clã, diziam que Seana era uma filha das fadas, mas nem mesmo um pouco da magia Celta podia ajudá-la a ter o que ela realmente desejava — uma casa e uma lareira... antes que fosse tarde demais para seu pai enfermo. Seana colocava todas suas esperanças em Broc Ceannfhionn, mas o coração de Broc pertencia à outra. Para ganhar o coração de Broc, ela fez um acordo com Colin Mac Brodie — o maior malandro em toda a Escócia. Embora Colin já tivesse quebrado uma vez o coração de Seana... desta vez, ele estava impotente para resistir a garota que ele já tinha evitado... e se descobre de uma maneira que ele nunca tinha pensado ficar... “Ajoelhado Aos Teus Pés”
Ajuste de cuentas
by Benjamín Prado<P><P>Humor, ironía y misterio con la crisis financiera actual como telón de fondo. <P><P>Un retrato inquietante de la España del pelotazo. En un momento de crisis económica, literaria y personal, cuando se ve sin trabajo, al borde de la ruina e incapaz de escribir, el profesor Juan Urbano recibe una oferta envenenada: hacer un libro sobre el oscuro empresario y banquero Martín Duque, que acaba de salir de la cárcel con ganas de hacer justicia... o tal vez lleno de deseos de venganza. <P><P>La investigación que lleva a cabo mientras se debate entre sus principios y sus necesidades pone ante nuestros ojos un turbia imagen de la célebre España del pelotazo, un país en el que que había dos atajos hacia el éxito: el dinero fácil y la corrupción. Una nueva y trepidante aventura del profesor Juan Urbano, protagonista también de las novelas Mala gente que camina y Operación Gladio.
Ajuste de cuentas
by John Grisham«El mejor autor vivo de thriller.»Ken Follett Hay crímenes que hacen historia. Pete Banning era el hijo predilecto de Clanton, Mississippi. Héroe condecorado de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, patriarca de una notoria familia, granjero, padre, vecino y miembro incondicional de la iglesia metodista. Una mañana de octubre de 1946 se levantó temprano, condujo hasta la ciudad y allí cometió un asombroso crimen. Las únicas palabras que Pete pronunció ante el sheriff, sus abogados, el jurado, el juez y su familia fueron: «No tengo nada que decir». No temía a la muerte y estaba dispuesto a llevarse sus razones a la tumba. En esta novela John Grisham nos conduce en un viaje increíble desde la época de la segregación racial en Estados Unidos hasta la jungla de las islas Filipinas durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y desde un hospital psiquiátrico lleno de secretos hasta la sala del tribunal en la que el abogado de Pete trata desesperadamente de salvarlo. Reseñas:«Grisham continúa la rica tradición literaria de los autores del sur que se han enfrentado a la cultura del supremacismo blanco y sus derivados: corrupción, violencia y contaminación cultural.»The Washington Post «Maravillosamente estructurado y escrito. Te hechiza con su magia.»Daily Mail «Un asesinato, un juicio, una familia, una historia de crecimiento y de guerra: Ajuste de cuentas confirma que Grisham no es solo un escritor de thrillers de éxito.»USA Today «Me recordó sin duda a Matar a un ruiseñor de Harper Lee. Grisham sabe cómo tejer una historia.»Chicago Sun-Times «Hacer justicia es solo el comienzo de la historia de esta familia del sur.»Associated Press
Akaneiro
by Justin AclinFrom the brilliant imagination of video game auteur American McGee comes a dazzling reenvisioning of Red Riding Hood set in the wondrous world of Japanese folklore! Justin Aclin and Vasilis Lolos take Kani — a young woman torn between two cultures — on an epic adventure battling devious yokai for the fate of her world!
Akarnae
by Lynette NoniWith just one step, sixteen-year-old Alexandra Jennings' world changes--literally. Dreading her first day at a new school, Alex is stunned when she walks through a doorway and finds herself stranded in Medora, a fantasy world full of impossibilities. Desperate to return home, she learns that only a man named Professor Marselle can help her... but he's missing. While waiting for him to reappear, Alex attends Akarnae Academy, Medora's boarding school for teenagers with extraordinary gifts. She soon starts to enjoy her bizarre new world and the friends who embrace her as one of their own, but strange things are happening at Akarnae, and Alex can't ignore her fear that something unexpected... something sinister... is looming. An unwilling pawn in a deadly game, Alex's shoulders bear the crushing weight of an entire race's survival. Only she can save the Medorans, but what if doing so prevents her from ever returning home? Will Alex risk her entire world--and maybe even her life--to save Medora?
Akata Warrior (The Nsibidi Scripts #2)
by Nnedi OkoraforThe long-awaited sequel to the genre-breaking <i>Akata Witch</i> by multiple award-winner Nnedi Okorafor! <P><P>A year ago, Sunny Nwazue, an American-born girl Nigerian girl, was inducted into the secret Leopard Society. <P>As she began to develop her magical powers, Sunny learned that she had been chosen to lead a dangerous mission to avert an apocalypse, brought about by the terrifying masquerade, Ekwensu. <P>Now, stronger, feistier, and a bit older, Sunny is studying with her mentor Sugar Cream and struggling to unlock the secrets in her strange Nsibidi book. <P>Eventually, Sunny knows she must confront her destiny. With the support of her Leopard Society friends, Orlu, Chichi, and Sasha, and of her spirit face, Anyanwu, she will travel through worlds both visible and invisible to the mysteries town of Osisi, where she will fight a climactic battle to save humanity. <P>Much-honored Nnedi Okorafor, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards, merges today’s Nigeria with a unique world she creates. <P><i>Akata Warrior</i> blends mythology, fantasy, history and magic into a compelling tale that will keep readers spellbound.
Akata Witch (Akata Witch Series #1)
by Nnedi OkoraforRead Nnedi Okorafor's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. Twelve-year-old Sunny lives in Nigeria, but she was born American. Her features are African, but she's albino. She's a terrific athlete, but can't go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place where she fits. And then she discovers something amazing-she is a "free agent," with latent magical power. Soon she's part of a quartet of magic students, studying the visible and invisible, learning to change reality. But will it be enough to help them when they are asked to catch a career criminal who knows magic too?
Akata Woman (The Nsibidi Scripts #3)
by Nnedi OkoraforThe electrifying third book in the series that started with Akata Witch, named one of Time magazine's "100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time" and "100 Best YA Books of All Time," from award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor. <p><p> From the moment Sunny Nwazue discovered she had mystical energy flowing in her blood, she sought to understand and control her powers. Throughout her adventures in Akata Witch and Akata Warrior, she had to navigate the balance between nearly everything in her life—America and Nigeria, the "normal" world and the one infused with juju, human and spirit, good daughter and powerful Leopard Person. <p><p> Now, those hard lessons and abilities are put to the test in a quest so dangerous and fantastical, it would be madness to go...but may destroy the world if she does not. With the help of her friends, Sunny embarks on a mission to find a precious object hidden deep in an otherworldly realm. Defeating the guardians of the prize will take more from Sunny than she has to give, and triumph will mean she will be forever changed.
Akbar Birbal Ki Prasiddh Kahaniyan
by Shyam DuaThe Best of Akbar and Birbal by Mr shyam dua is a unique compilation of absorbing and entertaining stories of Akbar and Birbal. The stories are full of humour and depict ready-wittedness of Birbal. The author has related the stories very beautifully using plain and clear language. The book with all its specialities and necessary pictures is worth-read.
Akbar Meets Birbal and Other Stories from Indian Folklore
by Anitha VasanthStories from the legendary court of King Akbar and his court jester and constant companion Birbal
Ake: The Years of Childhood
by Wole SoyinkaA dazzling memoir of an African childhood from Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian novelist, playwright, and poet Wole Soyinka. Aké: The Years of Childhood gives us the story of Soyinka's boyhood before and during World War II in a Yoruba village in western Nigeria called Aké. A relentlessly curious child who loved books and getting into trouble, Soyinka grew up on a parsonage compound, raised by Christian parents and by a grandfather who introduced him to Yoruba spiritual traditions. His vivid evocation of the colorful sights, sounds, and aromas of the world that shaped him is both lyrically beautiful and laced with humor and the sheer delight of a child's-eye view. A classic of African autobiography, Aké is also a transcendantly timeless portrait of the mysteries of childhood.
Akeelah and the Bee
by James Whitfield EllisonMeet Akeelah. She's 11 years old and lives in South LA. She goes to Crenshaw Middle School. She has never missed a word on a spelling test. Can she beat the odds and go all the way to the National Spelling Bee, without a tutor? Based on the screenplay and movie of the same name.
Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth
by Naguib MahfouzIn this beguiling new novel, originally published in 1985 and now appearing for the first time in the United States, Mahfouz tells with extraordinary insight the story of the "heretic pharaoh" or "sun king" -- and the first known monotheistic ruler -- whose iconoclastic and controversial reign during the 18th Dynasty (1540-1307 B. C. ) has uncanny resonance with modern sensibilities. Narrating the novel is a young man with a passion for the truth, who questions the pharaoh's contemporaries after his death -- including Akhenaten's closest friends, his most bitter enemies, and finally his enigmatic wife, Nefertiti -- in an effort to discover what really happened in those strange, dark days at Akhenaten's court. As our narrator and each of the subjects he interviews contribute their version of Akhenaten, "the truth" becomes increasingly evanescent. Akhenaten encompasses all of the contradictions his subjects see in him: at once cruel and empathic, feminine and barbaric, mad and divinely inspired, his character, as Mahfouz imagines him, is eerily modern, and fascinatingly ethereal. An ambitious and exceptionally lucid and accessible book, Akhenaten is a work only Mahfouz could render so elegantly, so irresistibly.
Akherache Parv: अखेरचे पर्व
by Vijaya Rajadyakshaविजयाताईंच्या 'अखेरचे पर्व' या कथासंग्रहात पूर्वप्रकाशित बारा कथांचा अंतर्भाव आहे. त्या त्या दिवाळी अंकाचा स्वभाव किंवा अभिरुचीनुसार या लिहिल्या असल्या प्रत्येक कथेतून मानवी मनाचे... त्यातल्या भावभावनांचे वेगवेगळे पैलू अधोरेखित होतात. कथांतून जे काही घडतं ते वास्तवाच्या परिघातलं असतं. स्वभावदोषामुळे कधी विस्कळीत होणारी, तर सद्भावनेमुळे जोडली जाणारी नाती नित्य प्रसंगांतून व्यक्त होत राहतात. पिढ्यांतील वैचारिक अंतर... मतभेद... क्वचित्प्रसंगी निर्माण होणारा संघर्ष हा सार्वत्रिक अनुभव विजयाताईंच्या सिद्धहस्त लेखणीतून वेगवेगळ्या रूपाने कथाबद्ध होतो. या कथा वाचताना आपल्याला असे जाणवते, की त्या अतिरंजित किंवा अ-वास्तव नाहीत. त्यात कल्पनाविलास नाही. दाद मिळवण्याच्या अभिप्सेने अनिवार्यपणे येणारा लालित्याचा अभिनिवेश नाही. भाषा साधीसोपी मनाला भिडणारी... कथाप्रवाहात वाहून नेणारी आहे. कथेत नाट्य असलेच तरी ते जीवनानुभवाच्या स्तरावरचे आहे. कथा सुखांतिक असेल, तर आपण मोरपिसांचा स्पर्श अनुभवतो आणि शोकांतिक असेल, तर मळभ दाटल्यासारखे अस्वस्थ होतो. कथांतील काही प्रसंग आपल्या पाहण्यातले किंवा कदाचित आपल्या घरात घडल्यासारखे वाटत राहतात. कधी त्यातल्या पात्रांची विचारसरणी आपल्याशी कुठेतरी जुळते असे जाणवत राहते. थोडक्यात, कथाबीजातील 'सर्वसमावेशकता' हे विजयाताईंच्या लेखनातील महत्त्वाचे वैशिष्ट आहे. या संग्रहातील काही कथांचा शेवट वाचकांनी कल्पावा, असा विजयाताईंचा मानस दिसतो. एकूणच अवश्य वाचावा आणि 'फील' करावा असाच हा कथासंग्रह आहे.
Akhmed and the Atomic Matzo Balls
by Gary BuslikIranian president Akhmed teams up with the leaders of Venezuela and Cuba and their American intelligence agents to smuggle radioactive matzo balls into Miami Beach. But intelligence being as slippery a concept to these nincompoops as chicken fat on linoleum, when each member of the gang decides to ladle out his own personal nuke soup, holy terror Akhmed is left steaming. Will his plan to destroy America float like a fly or sink like a lead dumpling?Star-crossed lovers, conniving academics, and blustery social climbers collide with ravenous termites, international do-badders, and multi-level marketing in a plot as fast-paced and hilarious as a runaway mountain bus. Radioactivity has never been so much fun.