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في مُستقبل بعيد، وفي توقيت مرور الُمَذَّنب بالسماء، يستيقظ "نديم" على وميضٍ بعدسته؛ "تم تسجيل حلم واحد"؛ سيدة غجرية حمراء الشعر تقف في قاع البحر، ترفع رأسها لتنظر ناحيته. وبعد ساعاتٍ من حلمه، وفي أثناء إلقاء محاضرته على المسرح، يتفاجأ بالغجرية تجلس بين الحاضرين!

في ذلك اليوم سيتلقى "نديم" دعوة لزيارة غير متوقعة، تجربة يتمنى الكثيرون خوضها... ما داموا لا يدركون نهايتها... فبعض الحقائق من الأفضل أن تبقى في الظلام.

في روايته السادسة، وبدون مرور بالحاضر، ينطلق الكاتب أحمد مراد مباشرةً من التاريخ المصري القديم إلى المستقبل.. رواية تتنبأ بعالَم تُلقَى بذورە الآن، وتناقش الصراع الأبدي بين العقل، وأعظم القناعات على الإطلاق.

ما مشكلة مصر بالضبط؟
هل هي مشكلة اقتصادية؟ هل تحل التنمية الاقتصادية مشكلات سوء الإدارة وتراجع المكانة الإقليمية والدولية التي نعيشها؟ وهل يمكن أصلًا تحقيق تنمية اقتصادية في ظل هذه الظروف؟
هل هي مشكلة ديمقراطية؟ هل تحل الديمقراطية هذه المشكلات أم تزيدها؟ وهل يمكن أصلًا التحول للديمقراطية وهذا هو حال المجتمع؟ ثم ألمْ تنجح نُظُم غير ديمقراطية في تنمية بلادها، فلِمَ لا تنجح عندنا؟
أم هي مشكلة ثقافية نابعة من ضعف التفكير العلمي وقِيَم الإنجاز وثقافة العمل الجماعي وبقية القِيَم اللازمة لتطور الدولة والمجتمع؟ وهل الحل يكمن في التعليم؟ لكن كيف نُقِيم تعليمًا يخالف ثقافة أغلبية المجتمع بما في ذلك القائمون على الدولة والتعليم؟
جربنا كل الأجوبة تقريبًا: من الحُكم الدستوري إلى الاستبداد المستنير، من الليبرالية إلى اشتراكية الدولة، من التحالف مع الاستعمار إلى مواجهته، من التحديث العلماني إلى خَلْط الدين بالسياسة، ومن الانصياع للحكام إلى الثورة. وما زالت المشكلة مستمرة، بل وتتفاقم. فهل نظل في هذه الحلقة المفرغة، أم أن هناك طريقًا يأخذنا نحو مصر التي نحلم بها؟

‘The world's leading expert on habits’ – Matthew Syed, bestselling author of Black Box Thinking and Rebel Ideas

What if you could harness the extraordinary power of your unconscious mind to achieve your goals?

Shockingly, we spend nearly half our day repeating things we've done in the past without thinking about them. How we respond to the people around us; the way we conduct ourselves in meetings; what we buy; when and how we exercise, eat and drink – a truly remarkable number of things we do every day, we do by habit.

And yet, whenever we want to change something about ourselves, we rely on willpower alone. We hope that our determination and intention will be enough to effect positive change. And that is why almost all of us fail.

Professor Wendy Wood is the world's foremost expert on habits. Drawing on three decades of original research, she explains the fascinating science of how we form habits and provides the key to unlocking our habitual mind in order to make the changes we seek.

Combining a potent mix of neuroscience, case studies and experiments conducted in her lab, Good Habits, Bad Habits is a comprehensive, accessible and highly practical book that will change the way you think about almost every aspect of your life.

‘Wendy Wood is the world’s foremost expert in the field, and this book is essential’ – Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of Grit

THE VIRAL TIKTOK SENSATION AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR!
The conclusion to the Cat and Mouse Duet is here…
The Diamond
Death walks alongside me,
But the reaper is no match for me.
I’m trapped in a world full of monsters dressed as men, and those who aren’t as they seem.
They won’t keep me forever.
I no longer recognise the person I’ve become,
And I’m fighting to find my way back to the beast who hunts me in the night.
They call me a diamond,
But they’ve only created an angel of death.
The Hunter
I was born a predator,
With ruthlessness ingrained in my bones.
When what’s mine is stolen from me in the night,
Like a diamond hidden within a fortress,
I find that I can no longer contain the beast.
Blood will paint the ground as I tear apart this world to find her.
And bring her back to where she belongs.
No one will escape my wrath,
Especially not those who have betrayed me.
Warning: This is the second and final installment to the Duet. You must read Haunting Adeline first.

In this gripping crime thriller set in the Wyoming wilderness, Joe Pickett is made an offer he just can't refuse...

Joe Pickett, fired from his job as Wyoming Game Warden, receives an unexpected visit from Governor Rulon. The wily governor has a special request, one Joe knows he can't refuse.

Lawyer Clay McCann slaughtered four campers in a far-off corner of Yellowstone, then immediately turned himself in. Yet as the crimes were committed on a sliver of land with overlapping jurisdictions, the so-called free-fire zone, nobody can try the worst mass murderer in Wyoming history for his crime.

Rulon, aware of the public outrage, will reinstate Joe if he'll investigate. With McCann deeply involved with unusually dangerous illegal activity, Joe realises the key to the murders may be hidden in the rugged terrain of Yellowstone itself.

When wealthy matriarch Opal Scarlett vanishes, Joe Pickett is sure one of her greedy sons did her in. But when Joe becomes the victim of violent pranks, he wonders if what's happening has less to do with Opal's disappearance than with the darkest chapter of his own past.

Game warden Joe Pickett returns in a twisting, action-packed tale of greed, power, and murder.
Joe Pickett is attempting to enjoy-all right, survive-his mother-in-law's wedding to a local big-shot rancher when he receives some disturbing news: Will Jensen, a fellow Wyoming game warden and a good friend, has killed himself. And Joe's been picked to temporarily run Jensen's Teton district.
Jackson, Wyoming, is a far cry from Joe's hometown of Saddlestring-it's the epicenter for many environmental extremists and an elite playground for the rich and powerful-and Joe quickly finds himself in over his head. Yet despite the pressures of his new job, he can't get his friend's suicide out of his mind. By all accounts, Will had changed in the last few months, becoming violent and unpredictable.
The closer Joe comes to the truth about Will's death, the more his own life spirals out of control-and he realizes that if he's not careful, he may end up as Jackson's next victim. "Out of Range" proves once again that C. J. Box is one of the most original and entertaining voices in mystery fiction.

A month ago, fifteen-year-old Feline Jagow disappeared, presumed abducted, on her way to school. Her distraught mother asks private investigator Alexander Zorbach, a former police detective, to discover her whereabouts.

Despite a month having elapsed since her disappearance, Feline's music playlist was changed just a few days ago. Could a seemingly innocuous list of songs contain a hidden clue to where the girl is being held - and how she can be rescued - or is the truth something more sinister?

Zorbach needs Alina Grigoriev's help, but enlisting the medium will prove difficult given their shared past. The mystery of the playlist plunges Zorbach into a horrifying nightmare, in which the chances of survival for everyone involved are close to zero.

Dr Suker is one of the best eye surgeons in the world. He is also a psychopath who abducts women and removes their eyelids.

So far, all the victims of the twisted doctor's crimes have committed suicide shortly thereafter. The police are unable to proceed against him due to the lack of evidence.

When another woman is abducted, her mother turns to Alina Gregoriev for help. Gregoriev, the blind physiotherapist, has been considered a medium since her abilities helped capture an infamous serial killer.

She reluctantly gets involved in the Suker case, where she is drawn into a world of madness and violence that also engulfs her old friend, police officer turned journalist Alexander Zorbach.

First he kills the mother, then he kidnaps the child. The grieving father is given 45 hours to search. If the child isn't found, they die, captive.

The press call him the Eye Collector. Because the horror doesn't end with the murders. Every body discovered has had the left eye removed.

When evidence implicates police officer turned journalist Alexander Zorbach, who has championed the case against the Eye Collector, he becomes the main suspect.

Meanwhile, a mysterious witness comes forward. Alina Gregoriev, a blind physiotherapist, claims to be able to see into the lives of her patients simply by touching them.

She says she treated the Eye Collector yesterday...

Perfect for fans of Adrian McKinty, John Marrs and Chris Carter.