Sitt Zubaida’s idyllic childhood on the al-Ajami Beach in Jaffa is nothing short of paradise. She spends her days with her loving family and with the enchanting sea, and spends her nights reading novels, immersing herself in stories of romance. But Sitt Zubaida’s world is changed with the arrival of the Palestinian Nakba in 1948, and her paradise is lost forever. The girl and her family join the more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs displaced from their homes. Due to the tumultuous Israel-Palestine conflict, Sitt Zubaida and her family move from home to home, city to city, and country to country, causing years of anguish as she reflects on what was and yearns to return to her paradise. The partly autobiographical, partly fictionalized narrative of daily life and family traditions before and after the Nakba is interspersed with nostalgic memories and emotional reflections. Sitt Zubaida’s story captures the deeply human experience of loss and displacement, combined with a love and longing that can never be extinguished. A Girl’s Paradise Lost shines a humanizing light on the personal and social impact of a tragedy too often ignored in political accounts of historic Palestine and portrayals of Palestinians as either victims or terrorists.

The New York Times bestselling J.A. Jance is back! Cochise County, Arizona, and Sheriff Joanna Brady faces her most personal and dangerous case when her daughter discovers a body in the Arizona wilderness. When Cochise County, Arizona, Sheriff Joanna Brady′s daughter Jenny goes off on a Memorial Day weekend girl scout camp-out in nearby Apache Pass, Joanna trusts that her 12-year-old daughter will behave. But with boy-crazy Dora Matthews as a tentmate, Jenny is seduced into taking a late night unauthorized hike into the wilderness where--instead of smoking a clandestine cigarette--she and Dora stumble upon the body of a murdered Phoenix woman. Knowing that her little girl will be traumatized by her experience, Joanna must balance concern for Jenny with the demands of her new marriage and possible bid for reelection. But when young Dora Matthews herself turns up dead two days later, Joanna′s concern turns to terror. For if Constance Haskell′s killer is murdering potential witnesses, Jenny may be next.

Required reading for fans excited about the upcoming television series PARADISE LOST, announced by James Gunn as part of the first chapter of the new DC Universe media slate! Batman finds himself in the need of help from Wonder Woman. Gotham City is being transformed into a land resembling ancient Greece, lorded over by evil gods. The Amazon princess finds that even the aid of Gotham’s other protectors, Nightwing and Robin, as well as her own protégé, Wonder Girl, may not be enough to end this evil reign. Collecting the first seven issues of Phil Jimenez's critically-acclaimed run! WONDER WOMAN #164-170 and the "Who is Troia?" story from WONDER WOMAN Secret Files #2. This also features the 4-part "Gods Of Gotham" storyline.

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institut für Anglistik & Amerikanistik), course: Caryl Churchill: From „Top Girls“ to „Serious Money“, language: English, abstract: The first part of the work answers different questions about English Literature in general. It regards in detail some fundamental aspects of Geoffry Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", the first collected editions of Shakespear's works, the central theme of Milton's "Paradise Lost", as well as it comments the thesis of "all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings". Furthermore the first part includes questions about the interpretation of Jane Austen's "Emma", the narrative structure of George Eliot's "Middlemarch" and other important works of English Literature. The second part contents the analysis of the play "Top Girls" and its main themes of travelling, motherhood and the loss of children. This play was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1982 and was written during the time when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister. It is a study of career-driven women like her who succeeds in the men’s world only by adopting their achievements.