In the celestial realm, a fierce battle erupted between the seventh and fifth heavens, shattering the tranquility among angelic beings. At the center of this cosmic conflict stood Raphael, a formidable angel known as "The Shining One Who Heals," chosen to be a messenger of truth and protector of the Tree of Life. However, fate had other plans for him. Cast out from the seventh heavens, Raphael plummeted to Earth, stripped of his wings and immortality. Now a mortal angel, he must confront his deepest fears and embrace his newfound vulnerability. A chance encounter leads him to Lilith, a charismatic outcast from the fifth heavens whose powers were stolen by pagan gods. Bound by their shared exile and enmity with fiery serpent angels, Raphael and Lilith discover an unexpected kinship. United by their common struggle, they embark on a journey through ancient utopias like Atlantis, Ancient Crete, and Egypt-each adorned with breathtaking architecture and advanced water management systems. Navigating a world of hidden prophecies and divine intervention, Raphael and Lilith become entwined in a greater cosmic plan. A prophetic vision intertwines their destinies as they decipher its meaning to confront the darkness threatening both earthly and heavenly realms. In this world governed by forces from the fifth heavens, someone had to pay the price. The enigmatic outer gods orchestrated a malicious game designed to sow suffering and division. Their objective: conquer Earth by subdividing humanity into two factions - a superior class loyal to the fifth heavens, and an inferior class subjected to unmitigated oppression. Enjoying deep bonds and financial rewards from the fifth heavens, the superior class flourished despite their hardship. Trapped Between Two Worlds: The Angel Without Wings is an enthralling tale of redemption, resilience, and the unyielding power of love. Join Raphael and Lilith as they rise above their pasts to unite against forces aiming to destroy them and restore harmony in heaven and on Earth. Will they fulfill their roles as healers and guardians or be consumed by chaos? The fate of both worlds hangs in the balance as they undertake a quest redefining the very essence of angels and celestial order. In ancient Egyptian history, this period fashioned the Eighteenth Dynasty. With influences from Crete's Minoans and the Israelites, the empire underwent revitalization during the New Kingdom era and introduced remarkable personalities. The era of the Eighteenth Dynasty, part of the New Kingdom, is considered to have produced some of the greatest rulers who reunified Egypt under native rule. The epidemic brought Egypt, the most powerful nation in the world during this era, to its knees. Some of the most extraordinary characters appeared in the New Kingdom on the African coast and throughout the Nile Delta. There was the radical Akhenaten and his mysterious wife, Queen Nefertiti, who captivated the heart of the empire with charisma and beauty, to his son, one of the most famous pharaohs, King Tutankhamun, also known as King Tut. There was also Prince Moses, born of Israelite blood but raised as an Egyptian, who followed a path to worship his one and only God at a time when polytheistic deities overran the nation. His complexion was dark, resembling the Egyptians, due to living in the dry heat of the Mediterranean.

Zainab Salbi was eleven years old when her father was chosen to be Saddam Hussein's personal pilot and her family's life was grafted onto his. Her mother, the beautiful Alia, taught her daughter the skills she needed to survive. A plastic smile. Saying yes. Burying in boxes in her mind the horrors she glimpsed around her. "Learn to erase your memories," she instructed. "He can read eyes." In this richly visual memoir, Salbi describes tyranny as she saw it - through the eyes of a privileged child, a rebellious teenager, a violated wife, and ultimately a public figure fighting to overcome the skill that once kept her alive: silence. Between Two Worlds is a riveting quest for truth that deepens our understanding of the universal themes of power, fear, sexual subjugation, and the question one generation asks the one before it: How could you have let this happen to us?

“Between Two Worlds is an extraordinary story of how an innocent young woman got caught up in the current of political events and met individuals whose stories vividly depict human rights violations in Iran.” — Shirin Ebadi, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Between Two World is the harrowing chronicle of Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi’s imprisonment in Iran—as well as a penetrating look at Iran and its political tensions. Here for the first time is the full story of Saberi’s arrest and imprisonment, which drew international attention as a cause célèbre from Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and leaders across the globe.

Reports on conditions in Turkey at the beginning of the twenty-first century, looking at the country's potential to become a world leader, and examining the factors that could keep that from happening.

“JK Rowling meets Georgette Heyer” in this series debut, a scintillating fusion of urban fantasy and court intrigue from the Hugo Award-winning author (The Guardian). Between Mundanus, the world of humans, and Exilium, the world of the Fae, lies the Nether, a mirror-world where the social structure of 19th-century England is preserved by Fae-touched families who remain loyal to their ageless masters. Born into this world is Catherine Rhoeas-Papaver, who escapes it all to live a normal life in Mundanus, free from her parents and the strictures of Fae-touched society. But now she’s being dragged back to face an arranged marriage, along with all the high society trappings it entails. Crossing paths with Cathy is Max, an Arbiter of the Split Worlds treaty with a dislocated soul who polices the boundaries between the worlds, keeping innocents safe from the Fae. After a spree of kidnappings and the murder of his fellow Arbiters, Max is forced to enlist Cathy’s help in unravelling a high-profile disappearance within the Nether. Getting involved in the machinations of the Fae, however, may prove fatal to all involved. “Between Two Thorns shows the darkness beneath the glamour of the social Season. Learning to be a young lady has never seemed so dangerous.”—Mary Robinette Kowal, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the Lady Astronaut series “Emma Newman has built a modern fantasy world with such élan and authority her ideas of why and how the seemingly irrational world of Fairy works should be stolen by every other writer in the field . . . This book of wonders is first rate.”—Bill Willingham, Eisner Award-winning author of Fables

Emily Redfern is seven years of age when she goes to live with her father, Danny, and volatile stepmother, Betty, in the vibrant world of Travelling People. And its a world far removed from the one shes known on a farm outside Lancaster, called Jenny Wren Cottage. But her grandmother has died; things have changed; this is where her future lies now. As she learns to come to terms with her new life and the challenges it brings, she forms a close bond with her father and new brother, David, when he arrives. But her heart will always remain at her real home, Jenny Wren Cottage. Little does she know of the past and her fathers private struggle with a love that transcends death. When she meets the ambitious young Nick on a fleeting visit, her loyalties are severely tested. However, theres a devious man amongst them, and its his actions that will ultimately decide both futures. Spanning the 60s and 70s, this is a heart-rending story of pride, prejudices, and conflicting traditionstold with humour, wit and candour.

Hyperkinetic and relentlessly inventive, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is Haruki Murakami’s deep dive into the very nature of consciousness. Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws readers into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect. What emerges is a novel that is at once hilariously funny and a deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind.

By the Lake of Sleeping Children explores the post-NAFTA and Proposition 187 border purgatory of garbage pickers and dump dwellers, gawking tourists,and relief workers, fearsome coyotes and their desperate clientele. In sixteen indelible portraits, Urrea illuminates the horrors and the simple joys of people trapped between the two worlds of Mexico and the United States - and ignored by both. The result is a startling and memorable work of first-person reportage.

Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy-tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.

Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa is a special volume on Jean Price-Mars that reassesses the importance of his thought and legacy, and the implications of his ideas in the twenty-first century’s culture of political correctness, the continuing challenge of race and racism, and imperial hegemony in the modern world. Price-Mars’s thought is also significant for the renewed scholarly interests in Haiti and Haitian Studies in North America, and the meaning of contemporary Africa in the world today. This volume explores various dimensions in Price-Mars’ thought and his role as historian, anthropologist, cultural critic, public intellectual, religious scholar, pan-Africanist, and humanist. The goal of this book is fourfold: it explores the contributions of Jean Price-Mars to Haitian history and culture, it studies Price-Mars’ engagement with Western history and the problem of the “racist narrative,” it interprets Price-Mars’ connections with Black Internationalism, Harlem Renaissance, and the Negritude Movement, and finally, the book underscores Price-Mars’ contributions to post colonialism, religious studies, Africana Studies, and Pan-Africanism.