Author : Suzanne Selfors
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 31,73 MB
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0802721761
Sixteen-year-old Katrina's kindness to a man she finds sleeping behind her grandmother's coffeehouse leads to a strange reward as Malcolm, who is actually a teenage guardian angel, insists on rewarding her by granting her deepest wish.
Author : Carlos Allende
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 32,88 MB
Release : 2022-06-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781636280356
Last November, I found a dead body inside the freezer that my roommate keeps inside the garage. My first thought was to call the police, but Jignesh hadn't paid his share of the rent just yet. It wasn't due until the thirtieth, and you know how difficult it is to find people who pay on time. Jignesh always does. Also, he had season tickets for the LA Opera, and well . . . Madame Butterfly. Tosca. The Flying Dutchman . . . at the Dorothy Chandler . . . you cannot say no to that, can you? Well, it's been a few good months now--Madame Butterfly was just superb, thank you. However, last Friday, I found a second body inside that stupid freezer in the garage. This time I'm evicting Jignesh. My house isn't a mortuary . . . alas, I need to come up with some money first. You'll understand, therefore, that I desperately need to sell this novel. Just enough copies to help me survive until I find a job . . . what could I do that doesn't demand too much effort? We have a real treasure here, anyhow. Some chapters are almost but not quite pornographic. You could safely lend this to nana afterward!
Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 43,4 MB
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1617973157
Mahfouz's last novel, an evocative depiction of life in Egypt in the twentieth century as told through the lives of a group of friends, is now available in paperback for the first time On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys become friends for life, making a nearby café, Qushtumur, their favorite gathering spot forever. One is the narrator, who, looking back in his old age on their seven decades together, makes the other four the heroes of his tale, a Proustian, and classically Mahfouzian, quest in search of lost time and the memory of a much-changed place. In a seamless stream of personal triumphs and tragedies, their lives play out against the backdrop of two world wars, the 1952 Free Officers coup, the defeat of 1967 and the redemption of 1973, the assassination of a president, and the simmering uncertainties of the transitional 1980s. But as their nation grows and their neighborhood turns from the green, villa-studded paradise of their youth to a dense urban desert of looming towers, they still find refuge in the one enduring landmark in their ever-fading world: the humble coffeehouse called Qushtumur. The Coffeehouse is a powerful and timeless novel of loss and memory from one of Egypt's most celebrated literary masters.
Author : Ed Cyzewski
Publisher : Tyndale House
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 26,72 MB
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1615215182
Theology should breathe life and unity among God's people, but today’s culture creates a barrier of ignorance and misunderstanding in the study of God. Author Ed Cyzewski seeks to build a method for theology that is rooted in a relationship with God and thrives on dialogue.
Author : Robert A. Bofman
Publisher : Author House
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 35,4 MB
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1449082335
This is a book about life written in the form of poetry and song. It is all about our every day thoughts, emotions, desires, and struggles as seen through the eyes of one man who struggles to find the meaning of his own existence. Each experience is a true and real life experience. Your heart will be touched and your mind will be intrigued as you will be able to relate these experiences to your own life.
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Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 16,33 MB
Release : 1743
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Author : Peter Ustinov
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822206972
THE STORY: In the conference room of a four-power zone in Germany, four Colo-nels, representing their respective countries, The United States, England, France, and Russia, are apparently getting nowhere with their negotiations except deeper into a
Author : Etienne Van Heerden
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0143530984
After his heart bypass operation, former champion athlete Christian Lemmer needs to take stock. When a Cape Flats gang begins to target him, this becomes vitally important. Christian commutes between Johannesburg and Stellenbosch, where he returns at weekends to his amnesiac wife Christine and his confrontational son Siebert. But he also has a hideaway that no one knows about, a flat in Sea Point where his drug dealer meets him, and a Swazi prostitute becomes his confidante. And in Matjiesfontein the staff of the Lord Milner Hotel and the local pigeon breeders are in a state of excitement with the approach of the Southern Cross Derby - the most important event in the Karoo's pigeon racing calendar. But other things are afoot in Matjiesfontein as well, things in which the lives of the Lemmers are soon to become involved, from the arrival of the Piss-Man to the disappearance of prodigy Snaartjie Windvogel who, it is said, bewitches her father's pigeons with her violin playing. The Lemmers come to the village to try to unravel one mystery, only to find themselves caught up in another.
Author : J G Russell
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 11,10 MB
Release : 2007-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595475671
Forty-four years old and divorced in the Being single is not the way Maya had imagined her forties. The small house and a yard, two kids and a little dog vision of life in the Midwest is not how it turned out. Instead, Maya lives in a small house with a big dog, finding friendship at Martha's Coffeeshop and occasionally in forays with internet dating.
Author : Dalia Mostafa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 11,43 MB
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0755635280
The coffeehouse is a microcosm of the larger Egyptian society with its history of multiculturalism and great diversity. It is not only a social space which was created and shaped by the people over decades in their streets, neighbourhoods and cities, but it also occupies a sphere in the popular imagination full of stories, memories and social networks. Despite the coffeehouse's cultural centrality and socio-political importance in Egypt, academic research and publications on its significance remain sparse. This volume aims to fill this gap by presenting, for the first time in English, a full study analysing the importance of the coffeehouse as an urban phenomenon, with its cultural, historical, economic and political significance in contemporary Egyptian society. The volume shows how historically the coffeehouse has always played a key role as a commercial enterprise; and culturally, as a place for rich literary and artistic production which has multi-layered representations in Egyptian novels, cinema and popular music, amongst other genres. Economically, the coffeehouse has been vital for accessing job opportunities, especially for informal workers; in addition to having played a crucial role in political mobilisation during decisive historical events, as well as in recent years during the 2011 revolution and its aftermath. Through extended interviews with six residents in Cairo, the authors further examine the role and influence of the coffeehouse as a significant feature of contemporary Egyptian life and urban landscape.
