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Capturing the beauty of a mother-daughter relationship, Divya Dutta, in this moving memoir, celebrates her mother’s struggles to turn her into the woman she is today. Divya walks us through the most intimate memories of her life, those that strengthened her relationship with her mother. The incredible bond she forged with her mother helped her through tragedies and difficulties, discouragements and failures, and led her to become an award-winning actor of stature, both in the Hindi as well as the Punjabi film industry.

When Janie Ryan is born, she is destined to be the latest in a long line of Aberdeen fishwives. Ahead of her lies a life filled with feckless men, filthy council flats, and bread & marge sandwiches. But Janie isn’t like the rest of them. She wants a different life. And Janie, born and bred for combat, is ready to fight for it.

In this historical novel, Jurgi Zydan recounts events from the Abbasid period focusing on the dispute between Al-Amin and Al-Ma'mun following the death of their father, Caliph Harun Al Rashid. The author paints the alliances and loyalties, the intrigues and conspiracies, that led to the fall of Baghdad and the killing of one of the brothers.

Fiecare povestire din Aş vrea să mă aştepte şi pe mine cineva este astfel gîndită încît soarta fiecărui personaj să se decidă într-un unic moment crucial. În Evenimentul zilei, agentul comercial Jean-Pierre nu află de consecinţele catastrofale ale unui moment de neatenţie decît a doua zi, din paginile ziarului Le Figaro. Personajul feminin central din Catgut îşi decide singur viitorul în cele cîteva secunde urmînd unui incident traumatic.

Pe relatia Targu-Mures-Atena-Bucuresti-Buenos Aires nu circula niciun avion direct. Ramane sa va imbarcati intr-un roman care promite, de la bun inceput, o croaziera improbabila, geografica dar si istorica. Nu in ultimul rand, romanul lui Draghici ar putea fi premiat nu doar literar, ci si gastronomic.