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An approved textbook at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry since first publication, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an indispensable guide to the magical beasts of the wizarding world. Muggles who have seen the eponymous film or read the Harry Potter novels will be familiar with some of these beasts – the Niffler, the Thunderbird, the Hippogriff ... This new paperback edition features the recently revised 2017 text, which includes six curious new creatures that inhabit the…

Emma is considered by many readers to be Jane Austen's crowning achievement, a timeless comedy of manners that lays bare the limits on women's autonomy in Regency England. The disparity between Emma Woodhouse's self-confidence and self-knowledge, and her determination to arrange marriages for her friends while avoiding one for herself, leads to a painful series of misunderstandings for everyone who suffers from her well-meaning altruism – and with Mr Knightley being the only person of her…

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وفيما كان حد السكين يغوص في رقبة الخروف، راح مختار ولد أختي يفرد فرخ ورق سميكًا – من ورق اللحمة الذي اشتريناه لنلف فيه الأنصبة – فوق رقبة الخروف ليمنع نافورة الدم من الوصول إلى وجوهنا. أما أنا فقد ثبتُّ عيني على رسغ اليد اليسرى للجزار وهو يعيد ترديد الشهادتين عدة مرات ليريحني ويرضيني، فرأيت رسمًا دقيقًا باللون الأخضر الغامق مدقوقًا في رسغ الجزار؛ حينئذٍ داخَلني شعور فائق بنشوة عظيمة لا أستطيع وصفها على الإطلاق، وقد امتلأ سمعي بما يشبه زغاريد مدوية تجلجل في سماء الكون بغير انقطاع.

تدور أحداث الرواية في مرحلةٍ بالغة الأهمية من تاريخ مصر المعاصر، من خلال موظف في إدارة المراسم عمل لسنوات بمعيّة الرئيسين السادات ومبارك ، فاقترب بما يكفي ليصبح شاهدًا على كواليس عصرٍ كامل؛ تكشف الرواية في واقعيةٍ مشوّقة عن مرحلة الانتقال من دهاليز المراسم إلى أروقة السلطة.. حيث تُدار الأمور في صمتٍ مُحكم، وتُحاك المؤامرات بدهاء. هذه الرواية عن إنسان عادي حين تفتك به سلطة المناصب، وتمزّقه التناقضات ويظلله الخوف. وبين قسوةٍ تربّى عليها منذ طفولته، ورقّة الموسيقى التي يُجيد عزفها على آلة…

Food supplies are dwindling and Sam Temple is facing mutiny from the kids in Perdido Beach. Driven into town by hunger, Caine and his psychotic sidekick are spreading fear and violence. And deep in the ground, the biggest danger of all is getting hungry. The GONE series is Lord of the Flies for the 21st century. In turns breathtaking, harrowing, and utterly terrifying. Its complex characters and moral dilemmas will delight fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent and The Maze Runner. This is…

The bestselling novel from international literary phenomenon Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist.A chance meeting in Rio takes Maria to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune, yet ends up working the streets as a prostitute. In Geneva, Maria drifts further and further away from love while at the same time developing a fascination with sex.Eventually, Maria''s despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery,…

A novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho – a dramatic story of love, life and death that shows us all why every second of our existence is a choice we all make between living and dying.Veronika has everything she could wish for. She is young and pretty, has plenty of boyfriends, a steady job, a loving family. Yet she is not happy; something is lacking in her life, and one morning she decides to die. She takes an overdose of sleeping pills, only to wake up some time later in…