Vivian Carter is fed up. Fed up with her small-town Texas high school that thinks the football team can do no wrong. Fed up with sexist dress codes and hallway harassment. But most of all, Viv Carter is fed up with always following the rules.
Viv's mom was a punk rock Riot Grrrl in the ’90s, so now Viv takes a page from her mother’s past and creates a feminist zine that she distributes anonymously to her classmates. She’s just blowing off steam, but other girls respond. Pretty soon Viv is forging friendships with other young women across the divides of cliques and popularity rankings, and she realizes that what she has started is nothing short of a girl revolution.
Moxie girls fight back!
King Hall kicks off a fresh, meaty, sink-your-teeth-in-and-hold-on-tight new adult fantasy series. It is the place where Mysticals go to learn their craft, get their degrees, and transition into adulthood. Four new Rulers will rise and meet their destinies.
Lily Ruckler is adept at one thing: survival. Born a Mystical hybrid, her mere existence is forbidden, but her nightmare is only about to start. Fluke, happenstance, and a deep personal loss find Lily deeply entrenched with those who would destroy her simply for existing — The Mystical Kings. Being named future Queen of the Shifters shoves Lily into the spotlight, making her one of the most visible Mysticals in the world.
But with risk comes a certain solace — her burgeoning friendships with the other three Prodigies: a wicked Vampire, a wild-child Mage, and a playboy Elemental. Backed by their faith and trust, Lily begins to relax into her new life.
Then chaos erupts as the fragile peace between Commoners and Mysticals is broken, and suddenly Lily realizes the greatest threat was never from within, and her fear takes on a new name: the revolution.
How do you fall in love when your society has no word for it? The Last Concubine is an epic love story closely based on historical events, chronicling 19th century Japan's extraordinary change from a medieval to a modern country.
This is the story of a shogun, a princess, and the three thousand women of the women's palace—all of whom really existed—and of the civil war that brought their way of life to an end.
Japan, 1865: The women's palace in the great city of Edo is a sprawling complex much like a Middle-Eastern harem. Bristling with intrigue and erotic rivalries, the palace is home to three thousand women and only one man—the young shogun. Sachi, a beautiful fifteen-year-old girl, is chosen as his concubine. But Japan is changing.
Black Ships have arrived from the West, bringing foreigners eager to add Japan to their colonial empires. As civil war erupts, Sachi flees for her life. Rescued by a rebel warrior, she finds unknown feelings stirring within her; but this is a world in which private passions have no place and there is not even a word for 'love'.
Before she dares dream of a life with him, Sachi must unravel the mystery of her own origins—a mystery that encompasses a wrong so terrible that it threatens to destroy her.
From the timeless beauty of the Women's Palace in Edo to bloody battles fought outside its walls, The Last Concubine is an epic evocation of a country in revolution, and of a young woman's quest to find out who she really is.
Het huis van de moskee vertelt het verhaal van de familie van Aga Djan, die al eeuwenlang de belangrijkste familie is in de Iraanse stad Senedjan. Zij wonen in het huis naast de Djomè-moskee, de grootste moskee van een stad waar het vrijdaggebed wordt gehouden.
Van generatie op generatie komt de imam van de moskee uit de familie van Aga Djan; als het verhaal opent, is dit zijn neef Alsaberi. Als tapijtverkoper staat Aga Djan bovendien aan het hoofd van de bazaar en heeft economische macht.
Kader Abdolah zoomt in deze roman in op de invloed van de gebeurtenissen in Iran op deze familie. Wanneer de revolutie wordt voorbereid en uitbreekt, komt de samenleving onder druk te staan en verliest de familie langzaamaan al hun invloed en zekerheden.
The Revolution Betrayed is one of Marxism's most important texts, offering a profound evaluation of Stalinism from a Marxist standpoint. Written by Leon Trotsky in 1936 and published the following year, this brilliant analysis prophesied the collapse of the Soviet Union and related events.
Following the October Revolution, a nationalized planned economy was established, demonstrating the practicality of socialism for the first time. However, by the 1930s, the Soviet workers' democracy had crumbled into bureaucratic decay, giving rise to a totalitarian regime. Trotsky uses facts, figures, and statistics to illustrate how Stalinist policies rejected the productive potential of the nationalized planned economy in favor of a corrupt bureaucratic system.
Readers from all political persuasions can gain an insider's view of what went wrong, as Trotsky's work remains relevant even six decades later. The book is an essential read for anyone interested in understanding the dynamics of the Soviet Union and its historical impact.
By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular uprisings against established orders throughout history.
And yet, with an eye toward the French Revolution and its regicides and deicides, he shows how inevitably the course of revolution leads to tyranny. As old regimes throughout the world collapse, The Rebel resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times.
Translated from the French by Anthony Bower.