Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had her parents and her big brother; she still had her home. She had a normal teenager?s life. Now Salama volunteers at a hospital in Homs, helping the wounded who flood through the doors daily. Secretly, though, she is desperate to find a way out of her beloved country before her sister-in-law, Layla, gives birth. So desperate, that she has manifested a physical embodiment of her fear in the form of her imagined companion, Khawf, who haunts her every move in an effort to keep her safe. But even (Read Now) The Winners (Beartown, #3) *ePub
Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there?s something about this place that prevents it. The residents continue to grapple with life?s big questions: What is a family? What is a community? And what, if anything, are we willing to sacrifice in order to protect them?As the locals of Beartown struggle to overcome the past, great change is on the horizon. Someone is coming home after a long time away. Someone will be laid to rest. Someone will fall in love, someone will try to fix their marriage, and someone will do anything to save their children. Someone will submit to hate, someone will fight, and someone will grab a gun and walk towards the ice rink.So what are the residents of Beartown willing to sacrifice for their home?Everything.The long-awaited conclusion to the beloved New York Times bestselling and ?engrossing? (People) Beartown series?which inspired an HBO series of the same name?follows the small hockey
Author : Fredrik Backman
Pages : 673 pages
Publisher :
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 60209470-the-winners
ISBN-13 : 9781982112790
with Khawf pressing her to leave, Salama is torn between her loyalty to her country and her conviction to survive. Salama must contend with bullets and bombs, military assaults, and her shifting sense of morality before she might finally breathe free. And when she crosses paths with the boy she was supposed to meet one fateful day, she starts to doubt her resolve in leaving home at all. Soon, Salama
Author : Zoulfa Katouh
Pages : 417 pages
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 57390604-as-long-as-the-lemon-trees-grow
ISBN-13 : 9780316351379