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Pierced by the sun
Lupita hard-knock life has gotten the better of her time and time again. A childhood robbed of innocence set off a chain of events that she still has not managed to control, no matter how hard she tries. Every time she thinks she has a handle on things, unexpected turns make her question everything, including herself. When Lupita witnesses the murder of a local politician whom she greatly admires, the ghosts of her past resurface as she tries to cope with the present. She quickly falls back into her old self-destructive habits and becomes a target of Mexico corrupt political machine. As the powers that be kick into high gear to ensure the truth remains hidden, Lupita finds solace in the purity of indigenous traditions. While she learns how to live simply, like her ancestors, she comes to understand herself and rediscovers light within a dark life. And if there is hope for Lupita redemption, perhaps there is hope for Mexico.
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Kirusi Kipya
Askari wa kike, Hannan Halfani anagundua siri kubwa ya kupangwa kwa mpango wa kumuua rais Mark Mwazilindi akiwa katika maliwato ya ikulu. Kutoka katika mdomo wa Hannan, anaisafirisha siri hiyo hadi katika sikio la mpelelezi mahiri nchini Tanzania, Daniel Mwaseba. Daniel na Hanna wakishirikiana na mpelelezi wa kujitegemea, Martin Hisia, wanaingia kazini na kuanza kuchunguza kisa cha kupangwa kwa kifo cha rais. Unakuwa ni uchung uzi mgumu sana. Uchunguzi unaowa-pitisha katika msitu mnene na unaowapitisha katika matukio ya kutisha isivyo kawaida. Uchunguzi unaowafanya wawe karibu na kifo kuliko wakati wowote katika maisha yao ya kipelelezi. Kwa hakika, kunakuwa na mstari mwembamba sana kati ya maisha yao na kifo Bila kujua, kumbe walikuwa wameingia katika anga hatari sana za wafanyabiashara wakubwa wa madawa ya kulevya nchini Tanzania. Madawa ambayo kwa sasa yamekuwa ni KIRUSI KIPYA. Wafanyabiashara hawa wanapanga kumuua rais Mark kwa kuwa amekuwa ni kikwazo kikubwa sana katika biashara zao. Wakina Daniel wanajikuta na kazi kuu mbili ngumu sana kuliko zote walizowahi kuzifanya, ya kwanza ni kuzuia kuawa kwa rais, ya pili ni kuwatia mbaroni watanvabiashara wote wa madawa havo haramu. Je wakina mpelelezi Daniel Mwaseba na wenzake watafanikiwa? Askari wa kike, Hannan Halfani anagundua siri kubwa ya kupangwa kwa mpango wa kumuua rais Mark Mwazilindi akiwa katika maliwato ya ikulu. Kutoka katika mdomo wa Hannan, anaisafirisha siri hiyo hadi katika sikio la mpelelezi mahiri nchini Tanzania, Daniel Mwaseba. Daniel na Hanna wakishirikiana na mpelelezi wa kujitegemea, Martin Hisia, wanaingia kazini na kuanza kuchunguza kisa cha kupangwa kwa kifo cha rais. Unakuwa ni uchung uzi mgumu sana. Uchunguzi unaowa-pitisha katika msitu mnene na unaowapitisha katika matukio ya kutisha isivyo kawaida. Uchunguzi unaowafanya wawe karibu na kifo kuliko wakati wowote katika maisha yao ya kipelelezi. Kwa hakika, kunakuwa na mstari mwembamba sana kati ya maisha yao na kifo Bila kujua, kumbe walikuwa wameingia katika anga hatari sana za wafanyabiashara wakubwa wa madawa ya kulevya nchini Tanzania. Madawa ambayo kwa sasa yamekuwa ni KIRUSI KIPYA. Wafanyabiashara hawa wanapanga kumuua rais Mark kwa kuwa amekuwa ni kikwazo kikubwa sana katika biashara zao. Wakina Daniel wanajikuta na kazi kuu mbili ngumu sana kuliko zote walizowahi kuzifanya, ya kwanza ni kuzuia kuawa kwa rais, ya pili ni kuwatia mbaroni watanvabiashara wote wa madawa havo haramu. Je wakina mpelelezi Daniel Mwaseba na wenzake watafanikiwa?
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When I use a word . . . . Medical counterfactuals
A counterfactual statement or narrative, originally a philosophical concept, expresses an assessment of what might have happened if certain unfulfilled conditions had actually occurred. “If this happened [instead of what actually happened] that would have occurred as a result [instead of what actually occurred].” In this statement, the protasis [“If this happened”] is false and the apodosis [“that would have occurred …”] is therefore indeterminable. The use of counterfactual ideas is a popular device in fiction, and there are many examples. However, some regard counterfactual speculation as more than just an entertaining game, considering it also a mode of historical analysis, which might, for example, promote reflection on past actions, suggest possible causes of outcomes, and lead to different actions in the future, or lead to the repetition of previously successful strategies, avoiding other possibilities. In medical practice counterfactual considerations are relevant to the testing of hypotheses, the conduct of clinical trials, and the use of the Precautionary Principle when contemplating preventive or therapeutic interventions.
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Reaper : ghost target
\"The explosive new thriller series written by Nicholas Irving, the New York Times bestselling author of The Reaper and star of Fox's American Grit. American hero, or unhinged vigilante? In Reaper: Ghost Target, Vick \"The Reaper\" Harwood is an esteemed sniper with a record kill count--33 kills in 90 days--when he is knocked out under mortar attack in Afghanistan. He wakes up back in the United States with little memory of what happened, his spotter and gun both unrecovered from the battlefield. Harwood has resigned himself to slowly picking up the pieces of his life, training Special Forces snipers in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and starting a promising relationship with an Olympic medalist named Jackie. But when a series of assassinations start occurring in the area, Harwood can't explain why he just happens to be nearby for each killing--or how a sniper rifle that matches the description of the one he lost seems to be involved. His memory of the past few days is hazy and full of blackouts, and even he has to wonder, is he being framed? Or is he the killer? As Harwood runs from the authorities, his girlfriend falls off the radar, his missing spotter resurfaces, and the assassinated men are outed as drug and sex traffickers. Nothing is adding up. Harwood realizes he has to unravel this mystery, and fast, or find himself paying the ultimate price for crimes he may not have committed\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Living in Death: The New Dystopian Reality of Israeli Settler Colonialism in Gaza
The contemporary case of settler colonialism in Palestine/Israel generates debates about the different types of violence - physical, territorial, and mental - experienced by the Palestinians. For more than 15 years, the Gaza Strip has been under blockade and isolated from the other Palestinian territories and the world. This reality has led to interpretations of Gaza as a laboratory, where remote-controlled weapons and the limits of human survival are tested. This makes Gazans use expressions such as 'slow death' or 'living death' to describe their lives. This article analyses six short stories from the science fiction book 'Palestine +100: Stories from a century after the Nakba' (2019) to investigate how the Israeli settler colonialism impacts Palestinian fictional production on Gaza. We argue that the persistence of the Nakba in the Palestinian present through continued expulsions, destruction and assassinations by Israel has made life an everyday dystopia. Furthermore, it made Palestinians' imaginations regarding their future no longer utopian dreams of liberation, but dystopian and cyclical nightmares of confinement and death. Living eternally in the nightmare, as observed in Palestinian artistic productions, works as a colonial counterrevolutionary strategy. In this bleak reality, Gazans are leftwith the alternative of 'living in death.'
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Between summer's longing and winter's end : the story of a crime /
The first entry in a trilogy inspired by the unsolved 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme traces an investigation into an unknown American's death in Stockholm that reveals a complex web of espionage and intelligence failures.
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A Gnostic Noir: Y.B.'s Explication of the Algerian Crisis
The Algerian writer Y.B. (Yassir Benmiloud) originally established himself as a satirical journalist and critic of the Algerian regime before publishing his first novel, L'Explication , from exile in Paris in 1999. Although it was met with a relative lack of critical attention, reserved more for his third novel Allah Superstar (2003), which examines the place of Muslims in post 9/11 France, L'Explication is a dynamic reimagining of noir that \"others\" the classically Western genre. While respecting many of the tropes of detective and noir fiction, including the gradual unveiling of the criminals and their motives for murder, an investigator-focused narrative, temporal doubling, and sassy one-liners, L'Explication deviates from reader expectations with its autobiographical elements, hybridity, and its refusal to provide a rational resolution to the investigation. The novel is imbued with a Sufi mystical structure and ideology that exist uncomfortably alongside, and call into question, French rationalism, the underpinning of a classical detective story. Y.B.'s criminal investigation proceeds along unexpected lines to become an esoteric interpretation of the history of Islam in North Africa and the rise of Algeria's cabinet noir during the 1990s civil war. This article will show that L'Explication is at once a detective novel and a parody of both that genre and of Islamic exegesis. The parodic elements allow Y.B. to circumvent censure, while offering an indirect means of giving voice to national trauma as he endeavors to explain the seemingly inexplicable Algerian civil war.
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John Kennedy Sometimes Hallucinates Brings A New Spin to Shireen Abu Akleh's Journey
Yusri Al-Ghoul, an award-winning Palestinian writer and storyteller, was born in Gaza in 1980, where he also had his education. Al-Ghoul just released a new series of stories in his book John Kennedy Sometimes Hallucinates, published by the Beirut-based Arab Institute for Research & Publishing. The book, written in Arabic, evokes the media blackout of Palestine by reimagining a naked fiction infused with a reality that is hardly covered in Western media. Here, Omer relates the idea of the story series.
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