Van Gujjari (Language variety of Gujjari language)
Van Gujjari is a language variety of Gujari and the native language of Van Gujjars of India that mostly reside in the Sivalik Hills in Uttarakhand. Van Gujjari is related to Dogri and Punjabi. By 2024, 20 children's books were translated into Van Gujjari for teaching young Van Gujjar children.
Karanni (or Lanni) was king of Hayasa-Azzi in 15th century BC. Karanni attacked the city of Šamuḫa and seized city to Azzi,[clarification needed] so the capital had to be moved to Šapinuwa.
In Chinese folklore, ghosts building a wall (simplified Chinese: 鬼打墙; traditional Chinese: 鬼打牆; pinyin: Guǐ dǎ qiáng; lit. 'ghosts beating the wall') refers to ghosts using some means to trap people in a certain area at night without being able to leave, so named because it is similar to building a wall to trap people.
Una flor amarilla (A Yellow Flower) is a story by the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar. It belongs to the book Final del juego (End of the Game), published in its first edition by the publishing house Los presentes in 1956.
Yesterday and Tomorrow (French: Hier et Demain) is a posthumous collection of short stories by Jules Verne, first published in 1910 by Louis-Jules Hetzel.
Shandilya Smriti (Sanskrit: शाण्डिल्यस्मृति) (Romanised: Śāṇḍilyasmṛti) also known as Shandilya Dharmashastra is a traditional Hindu scripture that provide guidelines on dharma of moral and ethical duties. It is attributed to the Vedic sage Sandilya. It provides information on various aspects of life, including rituals, duties, and social conduct.
Introduction to the Science of Law (Persian: مقدمه علم حقوق) is the name of a legal book by Nasser Katouzian, an Iranian academic, writer and jurist, which is taught in many Iranian universities.
A coletilla (Spanish word meaning: "tagline", in English), is the term used in the English language to describe the political disclaimers published in Cuban newspapers, in the immediate aftermath of the Cuban Revolution. The coletillas began in early 1959 at the behest of government controlled print unions.
“Pomegranate Seed” is a short story by American writer Edith Wharton. This story was first published by The Saturday Evening Post on April 25, 1931. The story was then included in Wharton's collection of short fiction, The World Over in 1936, and in her collection, Ghosts, published in 1937.
The EuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize has been awarded since 2015 by the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS). The prize is awarded to the best academic book on Southeast Asia published in the social sciences, including anthropology, economics, law, politics, international relations, and sociology.
The Wandering Inn is a 2016 fantasy series written by "Pirateaba" (pseudonym). Throughout its publication, the series has been positively received by critics and consumers. The series is known in part for its robust length of 13,000,000 words, claimed by some as "the longest series ever written."
Beyond Aesthetics: A Passion for African Art is a book of essays by Wole Soyinka,a renowned playwright, poet, essayist, novelist, and Nobel Laureate. This play offers insights into Soyinka's personal motivations as an art collector and explores the politics of aesthetics and collecting.
Essays on the active powers of the human mind is a book written by the Scottish philosopherThomas Reid. The first edition was published in 1788 in Edinburgh. It is the third and last volume in a collection of his essays on the powers of the human mind and was preceded by the first book: Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (1764), in which Reid focussed on the senses, and the second volume: Essays on the Intellectual Po ...
You Must Set Forth at Dawn is an autobiographical work by the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian playwright, poet and political activist Wole Soyinka. In this compelling memoir, Soyinka provides an intimate glimpse into his life as an adult, detailing his experiences in and out of Nigeria during some of the nation's most tumultuous periods.
Alan Grant is a fictional police detective created by Scottish author Josephine Tey. He appears in six mystery novels, including The Daughter of Time, Tey's most acclaimed work.
The Cemetery of Untold Stories: A Novel (2024) is a work of magical realism and the 7th novel by Dominican-American novelist, poet and essayist Julia Alvarez. The book follows Alma, a prolific author who, after retiring from her teaching job and writing career, inherits a plot of land in the Dominican Republic where she decides to create a cemetery for her unfinished manuscripts and notes.
Antimatter Blues: A Mickey7 Novel is a 2023 science fictionnovel by Edward Ashton. Antimatter Blues is a direct sequel and picks up two years after the events in the 2022 novel Mickey7 .
Mushaf of Aisha is a purported mushaf of the Quran that according to certain Islamic traditions was in the possession of Aisha, the youngest wife of Muhammed.
Lazarus is a short story by Russian author Leonid Andreyev, published in 1906. Instead of confirming the traditional interpretation of the Biblical story as the triumph of life over death, Andreyev’s “Lazarus” shows the opposite—the titular character infects those around him with a cosmic indifference to life.
Rental House is a 2024 novel by Weike Wang, set to be released on December 3, 2024 under Riverhead Books. It follows a Chinese American couple, Keru and Nate, as they share a rented cottage on Cape Cod with their families visiting as well as the couple five years later renting a bungalow in the Catskill Mountains.
Uncle Abner is a fictional character and the protagonist of a series of mystery stories by mystery author Melville Davisson Post. The Abner stories are considered benchmarks of the locked room mystery, and, being set in the 1840s, are among the earlier examples of the historical mystery sub-genre.
Dick's Kiss (1992 novel by Fernando Molano Vargas)
Dick's Kiss (in Spanish: Un beso de Dick) is the first novel by Colombian writer Fernando Molano Vargas [es], first published in 1992. The plot follows the story of Felipe and Leonardo, two Colombian teenagers and high school classmates who fall in love and begin a romantic relationship, which is soon put to the test by the people around them.
The codex of Ubayy ibn Ka'b is a mushaf of the Quran that differs from the Uthmanic codex and is attributed to Ubayy ibn Ka'b, a companion of Muhammad. The codices of Ubayy and Uthman differ on point of several textual variants between the two, but more importantly, Ubayy's codex possesses a total of 116 surahs, whereas the codex of Uthman possesses 114.
Shami Stovall (born July 18, 1986) is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for her fantasy young adult series The Frith Chronicles and the sequel series Astra Academy. The Astra Academy series books Academy Arcanist and Death Lord Arcanist were nominated for the Dragon Award in 2023 and 2024 respectively in the Best Young Adult / Middle Grade Novel category.
Tartarin (Fictional character created by Alphonse Daudet)
Tartarin is the main character in the French writer Alphonse Daudet's novels Tartarin of Tarascon (1872), Tartarin on the Alps (1885) and Port Tarascon (1890). He is a plump and gullible man who is spurred by the small-town dynamics of Tarascon in Provence to go on a series of misadventures abroad.
