The Legacy of Lost Things
The Legacy of Lost Things

Author: Aida Zilelian

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group

Published: 2015-03-03

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0990573230

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Aida Zilelian’s breathtaking debut novel, The Legacy of Lost Things, follows three generations of a family of Armenian immigrants living in the United States, as they struggle with one another and against the Old World expectations of their community. When Araxi, the oldest daughter of the desperately unhappy Levon and Tamar, goes missing, the remaining family members are forced to confront their painful histories together, and the role each of them has played in driving Araxi away. Through Araxi and her family, readers are given a unique look at the generational and cultural tensions that both keep families together and tear them apart. Using spare, poignant prose, Zilelian deftly explores the themes of romance, duty, infidelity and guilt. Because of the mature content, this book is intended for adult and young adult audiences.

Engineering Happiness
Engineering Happiness

Author: Manel Baucells

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2012-03-12

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 0520951425

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Manel Baucells and Rakesh Sarin have been conducting ground-breaking research on happiness for more than a decade, and in this book they distill their provocative findings into a lively, accessible guide for a wide audience of readers. Integrating their own research with the latest thinking in the behavioral and social sciences—including management science, psychology, and economics—they offer a new approach to the puzzle of happiness. Woven throughout with wisdom from the world’s religions and literatures, Engineering Happiness has something to offer everyone—regardless of background, profession, or aspiration—who wants to better understand, control, and attain a more joyful life. • Shows how a few major principles can explain how happiness works and why it is so elusive • Demonstrates how the essence of attaining happiness is choice • Explores how to avoid happiness traps • Tells how to recognize happiness triggers in everyday life

In Search of Sarina
In Search of Sarina

Author: Sharron Larter Akers

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Published: 2011-09

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1617777404

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In this postapocalyptic world, tyranny has taken over, and moral conduct has been forgotten. The Truth Sayers have been forced underground to survive, but when two groups joined forces to form the Freedom Fighters and took down the Walled City of the West, they brought a bit of hope back to the families in hiding. Unfortunately on their return from the battle, Sarina McCary, one of the Freedom Fighters, went missing. Now former bodyguard Laird has promised her parents he'll go In Search of Sarina and won't return without her. Starting with the group of Freedom Fighters who last saw her, Laird tracks Sarina across the border and back, all the while discovering that his band of Truth Sayers aren't the only ones hiding out. Laird and his new comrades encounter raiders, sex slave traders, and tyrannical governors and satraps in their quest to rescue Sarina from the talons of the evil Satrap Hall, ruler of the Walled City of the North. Will Laird be able to rescue Sarina before Satrap Hall has his way with her? Will Laird convince more Truth Sayers to join the cause of the Freedom Fighters and take down the Walled City of the North? Find out inIn Search of Sarina, the second installment of the Truth Sayers trilogy.

Sarina's Challenge
Sarina's Challenge

Author: Bob Hambleton

Publisher: eBook Partnership

Published: 2016-09-19

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1911113496

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Jaxaal Oostedd is on his way with Sarina, his racing kertle, to compete in The Challenge the hardest, most gruelling race on the Island Continent of Fameral. Jaxaal hopes to win fame, fortune and possibly the hand of the girl he loves. Little does he realise that far more rests on his winning the Challenge for he must correct an old injustice and prevent a civil war before any hopes of personal gain. Meeting and helped by relations he never knew he had, Jaxaal tackles the challenges and all the hardships that are thrown at him while combating the highest nobles in the land.

Entrepreneurs Creating Educational Innovation
Entrepreneurs Creating Educational Innovation

Author: Laura Hougaz

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-09-18

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 303028655X

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This book examines the contribution of entrepreneurs in diversifying and redefining the tertiary education landscape in Australia. The book explores how and why entrepreneurs have decided to enter a sector which, traditionally, has been predominated by public providers. The book focuses on ways in which entrepreneurs have identified and engaged with opportunities in tertiary education, and created new educational organisations that are also, at the same time, new businesses. In so doing, they have disrupted the tertiary education sector, and their actions are having a major impact on the society, economy and educational profile of Australia, and around the world.

Chains of the Earth
Chains of the Earth

Author: David Mealing

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 2023-12-12

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 0316552380

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The epic story of a young street artist, a military general, and a warrior fighting for the fate of the universe comes to its thrilling conclusion in the final book of this fantasy trilogy. The Divide separating the east from the west, the realms of death from the realms of life, has fallen. Sarine and her champions find themselves overwhelmed, assaulted on every side by swordsmen, assassins, and skinchangers infiltrating, killing, and twisting even their most loyal allies against them. Every victory hides a defeat, and yet there is still hope. If Sarine can learn the true nature of her powers, she can make a final stand against the Regnant, to challenge him and remove his death grip on the world's heart. To find the truth, she must journey to a new continent and find new allies, rallying their strength, and wielding every strain of magic in the world in a final battle between life and death. Read the final book in this sweeping epic fantasy, perfect for readers of Brandon Sanderson, Brian McClellan, and Miles Cameron. The Ascension Cycle Soul of the World Blood of the Gods Chains of the Earth