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Dans ce récit littéraire d'une infinie beauté, Arundhati Roy revient sur son passé : une enfance chaotique dans le sud de l'Inde, son émancipation précoce, le goût de l'écriture, la fulgurance du succès international avec le Booker Prize en 1997, puis la découverte que sa plume peut devenir une arme pour déjouer les injustices et la violence du gouvernement indien. Au fil des chapitres, c'est aussi le portrait de sa mère, Mary Roy, qui prend forme.

It’s a mystery every month from popular A to Z Mysteries author Ron Roy! With the younger siblings of the A to Z Mysteries kids! February is for Friend... In the second book of the Calendar Mysteries—an early chapter book mystery series —it's a Valentine's Day party! Bradley is passing out...

Z was just the beginning! With A to Z Mysteries Super Editions, chapter book readers keep on collecting clues and solving mysteries with Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose. Now with over 8 million copies in print, this classic kid-favorite series is back with a bright new look! Look out, London! Dink...

Human bone is versatile and entirely unique: It repairs itself without scarring, it's lightweight but responds to stresses, and it's durable enough to survive for millennia. In Bones, orthopedic surgeon Roy A. Meals explores and extols this amazing material that both supports and records vertebrate life.

Are you ready for the adventure of a lifetime? Buckle up: Serial entrepreneur Brian Scudamore is your guide on the journey of entrepreneurship, taking you through inspiring stories, hilarious anecdotes, and just a few industry secrets so you can start your own startup—today.

Solve Animal Mysteries from A to Z! Inspired by Ron Roy's A to Z Mysteries series, this exciting animal adventure mystery is perfect for budding young chapter book readers. This time, 8-year-old Abbi and her friends solve a mystery in a Gecko-themed escape room! G IS FOR GECKOS . . . Don't trust...

As a lifelong eater, Blount always got along easily with food - he didn't have to think, he just ate. But food doesn't exist in a vacuum; there's the global climate and the global economy to consider, not to mention Blount's chronic sinusitis, which constricts his sense of smell and, consequently, his taste buds. So while he's always frowned on eating with an ulterior motive, times have changed. Save Room for Pie grapples with these and other food-related questions in Blount's signature style.

From popular A to Z Mysteries author Ron Roy comes a red, white, and blue mystery perfect for the election period! In the tenth book of the Capital Mysteries—an early chapter book mystery series featuring fun facts and famous sites from Washington, D.C.—KC and her best friend, Marshall...

Learn how you can start your own lucrative trucking business with very little funding in this comprehensive guide that is easy and simple to follow.

This book guides listeners through best practices around planning, designing, building, and implementing a design system, with insights and first-hand experiences from lead designers at Shopify, Google, Apple, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

On a dark Kentucky night in 1952, exactly halfway between her 15th and 16th birthdays, Annie Holleran crosses into forbidden territory. Everyone knows Hollerans don't go near Baines - not since Joseph Carl was buried two decades before - but armed with a silver-handled flashlight, Annie runs through her family's lavender fields toward the well on the Baines' place. At the stroke of midnight, she gazes into the water in search of her future.

The metaphysical classic It Works is one of the briefest yet most incredible catalysts for supercharging your life. Beloved by millions since 1926, this concise program delivers a three-step technique that can give you a renewed sense of progress and possibility in your career, finances, home, and anything that matters to you. This new edition of It Works includes an introduction by popular voice of esoteric ideas Mitch Horowitz, who reveals the background of the book’s unnamed author, the sources of his ideas, and, most important, why they work.

An adventure-packed, character-building book created for kids of any age! The gang and the Gorillas are busy preparing for a big celebration, and everything is going just as planned—at least for now! But something sinister seems to be lurking just below the surface… Will everyone be ready when it attacks? Lucifer thinks he has the gang right where he wants them. But with a little advice from Obadiah and a lot of help from Pops, the boys feel they might just be ready to face their biggest enemy yet.

In 1940, native West Texan Roy H. Elrod joined the Marine Corps. By the time his unit, the 8th Marine Regiment, went into the fight at Guadalcanal, he was commanding a platoon of 37 mm gunners. They endured Japanese attacks, malarial tropical weather, and starvation rations. His combat leadership earned him a Silver Star and a battlefield promotion. Based on more than 50 hours of interviews, this book is a view of the war from the perspective of a young Marine infantry officer, a job that had an extremely low survival potential.

Each year, the storyteller, Hassan, gathers listeners to the city square to share their recollections of a young, foreign couple who mysteriously disappeared years earlier. As various witnesses describe their encounters with the couple, Hassan hopes to light upon the details that will explain what happened to them, and to absolve his own brother, who is in prison for their disappearance. but is this annual storytelling ritual a genuine attempt to uncover the truth, or is it intended instead to weave and ambiguous mythology around a crime?

Assorted issues crop up at his laundromat, but, as he solves them, he installs more security equipment in the store and becomes closer with his employees. When it's suggested that he start training new staff so he can open a second laundromat in another location, Ryoma seeks out the ideal spot for his new store by going on a solo adventure for the first time! Ryoma's connections with the kind people around him further expand his world in the fourth installment of this daily life fantasy!

A rip-roaring account of the dramatic four-year siege of Britain’s Mediterranean garrison by Spain and France—an overlooked key to the British loss in the American Revolution For more than three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded...

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The first spirit Sanjoy Roy encountered was one that haunted his ancestral house in Calcutta; he was five then. A few years later, the otherworldly made its presence felt again in his parents' sprawling bungalow in Lutyens' Delhi. Over the decades that followed, he and his family and friends...

The world watched in horror in April 2007 when Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho went on a killing rampage that resulted in the deaths of thirty-two students and faculty members before he ended his own life. Former Virginia Tech English department chair and distinguished professor Lucinda Roy saw the tragedy unfold on the TV screen in her home and had a terrible realization. Cho was the student she had struggled to get to know–the loner who found speech torturous.