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At the Arab Spring's hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother's apartment, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parents' decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling the people who lived in the Tahaan building, past and present, Alia portrays the Syrians—the Muslims, Christians, Jews, Armenians, and Kurds—who worked, loved, and suffered in close quarters, mirroring the political shifts in their country

When Alia Dastagir published a story for USA Today as part of an investigation into child sexual abuse, she became the tar­get of an online mob launched by QAnon and encouraged by Donald Trump, Jr. While female journalists, politicians, academ­ics, and influencers receive a disproportionate amount of online attacks because of the nature of their professions, all women online experience hate, creating profound harms for individual women and society.

A young girl has died and the family’s maid is being interrogated. She must tell the whole story before arriving at the girl’s death.

During the '70s in San Francisco, Alia's mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies, delivering upwards of 10,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia's future father, and thereafter had a partner in business and life. Exhilarating, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartbreaking, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family, taking us through love, loss, and finding home.

Estela deja a su madre en el sur para trabajar en la casa de una familia en Santiago de Chile y allí se queda los siguientes siete años, limpiando y criando a una niña acosada por la ansiedad, cuya muerte conocemos al comienzo de la novela. Como en una tragedia griega, la tensión crece con cada página, con cada personaje o elemento: la perra callejera, el veneno, la pistola, la confesión inconfesable del “señor”, la aparición de Carlos, hasta un desenlace tan poderoso como inevitable.

We assume that heroes are wired differently from the rest of us. They overcome fear, doubt and pain to thrive under the most challenging conditions. But the only difference between them and us is choosing resilience: the ability to dig deep and be curious enough to explore life at the edge of possibility. In this practical handbook on building and sustaining your own resilience, peak-performance psychologist Dr. Alia Bojilova draws on her work with the SAS, Olympic athletes, contemporary leaders and successful entrepreneurs to help you unlock your potential in everyday life.

Clean begins with an inescapable fact: a girl has died. Told by Estela, a maid to a wealthy, middle class family who speaks to us from a locked room, we hear of her plight and the circumstances that led to this moment. As we enter into her account of her daily existence, we see how her apparently simple life begins to sour, but would that drive her to the unthinkable? Disturbing and profound, Clean explores domestic work, class and violence, against the backdrop of Chile’s changing political landscape. This is one of the most daring and compelling thrillers in international literature.

Iquela y Felipe son jóvenes tocados por la muerte, habitados por las sombras que la dictadura arrojó sobre sus biografías. Felipe, obsesivo y delirante, aspira a un número perfecto, un monto que sirva de clausura, que lo libere de la insoportable carga de llamarse como su padre. Más contenida y racional, menos atada a conjeturas aritméticas, Iquela busca la manera de enfrentarse a su herencia, una historia que le impide protagonizar su propia vida.

Premier quart du XXIe siècle. La dictature s'est installée aux États-Unis. La télévision, arme suprême du nouveau pouvoir, règne sans partage sur le peuple. Une chaîne unique diffuse une émission de jeux suivie par des millions de fans : c'est "La Grande Traque". Ben Richards, un homme qui n'a plus rien à perdre, décide de s'engager dans la compétition mortelle. Pendant trente jours il devra fuir les redoutables "chasseurs" lancés sur sa piste et activement aidés par une population encouragée à la délation. Tous les moyens sont bons pour éliminer Ben Richards.

Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination. You will discover advice that will help you throughout your stay. This book will not tell you exact addresses or store hours, but instead, will give you excitement and knowledge from a local that you may not find in other smaller print travel books.

Una mujer que estrangula a su pareja, otra que descuartiza a varias personas y oculta los restos en los bordes del río Mapocho, una escritora que le dispara a quemarropa a su amante y una empleada doméstica que, uno a uno, envenena a los tres hijos del matrimonio con el cual trabaja. Esos son los casos que la escritora Alia Trabucco, con gran exhaustividad y rigor, investigó por años para luego, con prosa concisa y convincente, escribir estos ensayos biográficos que trazan un inaudito relato de la historia de Chile desde un ángulo inquietante y provocador.

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want to try something new? Would you like some guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Greater Than a Tourist travel guide is for you. Greater Than a Tourist: Kenya by Gloria Omundo Alia offers the inside scoop on Kenya. As part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this guide will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

As a girl, Alia Joy came face to face with weakness, poverty, and loss in ways that made her doubt God was good. There were times when it felt as if God had abandoned her. What she didn't realize then was that God was always there, calling her to abandon herself. In this deeply personal exploration of what it means to be "poor in spirit", Joy challenges our cultural proclivity to "pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps." She calls on listeners to embrace true vulnerability and authenticity with God and with one another....

On the heavily forested planet of Lumin, the Network has slept, dormant, for over 600 cycles. Only a select few remember that it resides beneath the crust of the planet, waiting, and for those who do, the battle for Lumin's future has raged in the shadows.

Real stories, from real people, doing real drugs. Hosted by Alia Janine, How to Do Drugs is a podcast not just about doing drugs, but why people do them. What motivates drug use, what makes people abuse drugs, how some people function daily on drugs, what drugs can be helpful, which ones are not helpful, what real addiction and recovery looks like, and so much more. People need to be more open and honest about drugs to help with the stigma of addiction, recovery, and recreational use. This podcast is to help start those conversations. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/how-to-do-drugs...

Avoiding hackers. Easy? With our podcast it can be. Stay in the know on cybersecurity tips, tools, and more in the Secure AF Cyber Security Podcast. Join our hosts, Donovan Farrow and Jonathan Kimmitt, as they cover all things cybersecurity with Alias and outside guests. No matter where you are in your cybersecurity expertise, there’s an episode here for you. The views, information, or opinions expressed during this podcast are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of Alias.

You have a magnetic, mystifying, and alluring version of you lying just beneath the surface. It vibrates underneath your skin, yearning to be set free, and only you have the key to unleashing the infinite woman within you!

La fillette meurt. Voici le fait par lequel Estela commence son récit. Estela, qui a quitté sa famille dans le sud du Chili pour la capitale où elle travaille comme employée de maison. Estela, qui s'est occupée pendant sept ans de la jeune victime, l'a bercée, nourrie, rassurée, grondée aussi. Qui connaît chaque étape ayant mené au drame : la chienne, les rats, les aveux, le poison, le pistolet. Chaque étape jusqu'à l'inéluctable.

Santiago de Chile amanece cubierto de cenizas. El cadáver de Ingrid Aguirre, exiliada de la dictadura chilena, queda atrapado en un pequeño aeropuerto de Los Andes. Repatriar ese cuerpo será la excusa para que tres amigos emprendan un viaje por la cordillera andina en un coche fúnebre. Felipe, Iquela y Paloma, hijos de exmilitantes, viven atrapados en un pasado común: el de sus padres.

Garraty, un jeune adolescent natif du Maine, va concourir pour "La Longue Marche", une compétition qui compte cent participants. Cet événement est très attendu. Il sera retransmis à la télévision, suivi par des milliers de personnes. Mais ce n'est pas une marche comme les autres, plutôt un jeu sans foi ni loi... Garraty a tout intérêt à gagner. Le contraire pourrait lui coûter cher. Très cher.