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Il problema fondamentale è che non riesce a conciliare l'appartenenza alla cultura pakistana e l'accettazione di quella norvegese, soprattutto a causa delle pressioni da parte della famiglia, da un lato, e della società, dall'altro. Nella Oslo degli anni Ottanta, Sajjad vive una condizione esistenziale disperata che lo porta a provare ansia e a isolarsi dal mondo circostante. ![]() ![]() Sajjad è un ragazzo norvegese-pakistano di sedici anni, giunto in Norvegia quando ne aveva quattro. ![]() ![]() ![]() Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999)Ĥ. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998)ģ. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (1997)Ģ. Here’s a quick catalog of the series, so that you know what you’re in for:ġ. That’s why we’ve decided to simply present all the Harry Potter books in order of chronology/publication, hitting the highlights for longtime fans to happily reminisce… and to help budding fans get a taste of the series’ genuine magic. Fortunately, he always has clever, loyal friends Ron and Hermione by his side - plus the invaluable mentorship of eccentric but wise Hogwarts headmaster, Dumbledore.Īs fellow Potterheads will know, it’s virtually impossible to rank these books from best to worst, since each one is brilliant in its own way. An incredibly imagined fantasy bildungsroman, it follows the eponymous boy wizard as he attends the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and contends with his destiny to fight the Dark Lord, Voldemort. ![]() Of all the zeitgeist-defining fiction to come out of the past twenty years, perhaps none has been more universally beloved than the Harry Potter series by J.K. 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I've worked in publishing for about ten years now, and I've always been particularly drawn to copyediting and catching mistakes before a book goes to print. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This unique status appears to be why someone killed her Ina family and their symbionts, and why she is herself being hunted. She discovers that she’s a unique Ina, the product of a genetic experiment using human DNA that makes her able to withstand sunlight (her African-American pigmentation helping her do so). Soon, Shori meets other vampires, a millennia-old race who call themselves the “Ina.” She starts to drink the blood of humans (whom the Ina call “symbionts” and regard as their children, or lovers). Once she’s drunk someone’s blood-as quickly happens with Wright, a man who picks her up on the side of the road-that person becomes tied to her in a relationship that’s closer to love than it is to slavery, though it’s an uncomfortable mix of the two. ![]() Shori wakes up horribly injured and starving, knowing only that she needs to feed, preferably on blood, and that she doesn’t necessarily want to kill anyone. ![]() A little girl suffering from amnesia wakes to find that she’s actually a middle-aged vampire, in this suspenseful novel from Butler, her first in seven years. ![]() ![]() Suffice to say the life for Harry and his friends are imperiled once again. There’s a lot going on here Were-goats, the Archive, the Knights of the Cross, Marcone, Mab, and last but not least, Nicodemus and the Denarians. Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness, calls in an old favor from Harry Dresden, and immediately all hell breaks loose. Just when he thought his life is looking up, everything seems to be at peace, but then the past visits. “Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do.” I actually wish I can prolong my speed, but it seems likely that by October or November, I’ll be fully caught up with the series. ![]() ![]() To the longtime fans of the series, here’s a brief reminder that Peace talks, the long-awaited sequel in The Dresden Files series, is out now! As for me, I’m still slowly catching up. For better or worse, Small Favor is a fully action-packed packed-have I mentioned packed?-volume. ![]() ![]() Then one day a ten-year-old boy turns up, claiming to be her son, and her simple ordered world turns upside down. Now in her mid thirties, she’s restless and can’t work out why. ![]() ![]() ![]() Self-made business owner Dale McGuire has always enjoyed two things in life: women and fast cars. But will she ever forgive Casey for using her to expose royal secrets? Read moreĪ well-written story with multi-layered characters When they’re grouped together for a class assignment, Poppy’s enthusiasm for life and love may just save Casey’s soul. Poppy meets Casey during her night classes and is instantly annoyed, distracted, and intrigued. When Casey is tasked with a royal exposé on the court of Denbourg, she only has one way in, the Crown Consort’s sister, Poppy. After witnessing so much corruption, greed, and death, she’s losing sight of who she truly is. Undercover reporter Casey James has spent her career exposing the worst vices of humanity. The realities of a career in the fashion industry leave her disillusioned and, after years working with UNICEF to improve the working conditions of families exploited by the unethical garment industry, Poppy returns home to start her business degree and create her own ethical clothing brand. Poppy King wants to save the world, but if she can’t do that, then she’ll save her own little corner of it. ![]() ![]() ![]() But that epic story has never been told with this kind of breadth, insight, and style.īased on original interviews with DJs, b-boys, rappers, graffiti writers, activists, and gang members, with unforgettable portraits of many of hip-hop's forebears, founders, and mavericks, including DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, Chuck D, and Ice Cube, Can't Stop Won't Stop chronicles the events, the ideas, the music, and the art that marked the hip-hop generation's rise from the ashes of the 60's into the new millennium. ![]() In a post-civil rights era defined by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop crystallized a multiracial, polycultural generation's worldview, and transformed American politics and culture. Jackson Can’t Stop Won’t Stop From its birth to modern day Hip Hop has had an incredible journey. Can't Stop Won't Stop is a powerful cultural and social history of the end of the American century, and a provocative look into the new world that the hip-hop generation created.įorged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining movement. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Go on, now,” he urges, his gruff voice cracking. ![]() He’s had it since he walked back from the pay phone. ![]() I’ve never seen that look on Daddy’s face before. ![]() Hardened by her tragic past, Kacey is determined to keep everyone at a distance, but their mutual attraction is undeniable and Trent is determined to find a way into Kacey's guarded heart-even if it means that an explosive secret could shatter both their worlds. Trent Emerson has smouldering blue eyes, deep dimples, and he perfectly skates that irresistible line between nice guy and bad boy. She can handle anything-anything but her mysterious neighbour in apartment 1D. Struggling to make ends meet, Kacey needs to figure out how to get by. Armed with two bus tickets, twenty-year-old Kacey and her fifteen-year-old sister, Livie, escape Grand Rapids, Michigan, to start over in Miami. Still haunted by memories of being trapped inside, holding her boyfriend's lifeless hand and listening to her mother take her last breath, Kacey wants to leave her past behind. Love them.įour years ago Kacey Cleary's life imploded when her car was hit by a drunk driver, killing her parents, boyfriend, and best friend. ![]() |