When sixteen-year-old Asha Kennedy discovers her older sister Maya's dead body in their home, her world falls apart. Desperate for answers, and to stay out of the hands of the social services she grew up in, Asha turns to her hacker friends for help. Her search leads her to Zu Tech, the hit games studio where Maya was a lead coder, and as Asha begins to unravel the riddle of her death, she realises that the only way to uncover the truth is from the inside.
This volume is a collection of nine papers by various authors focussing on issues of etymology, historical language contact, morphology and syntax, typological modelling, and folk practices in the Caucasus-Iran-Central Asia area and its immediate vicinity. The volume is a humble token of appreciation offered by the authors to Dr Agnes Korn to honour her continuing support for young researchers during her time in Paris and to highlight her wide array of research interests.
Cuatro semanas no son demasiado para encontrar a alguien dispuesto a acompañarte a la boda de tu hermana al otro lado del Atlántico, y menos aún si tiene que fingir que te ama. Suena ridículo, sí, pero lo es aún más que Aaron Blackford, el compañero de trabajo al que Catalina no soporta, se ofrezca a hacerlo.Pero Lina está desesperada, y deberá sopesar qué es peor: aguantar a Aaron, con su aire petulante y sus ojos de hielo, o admitir a su familia que ha mentido y que es todo una farsa.Como diría su abuela: que Dios nos pille confesados.
<p>The best funny new YA crime thriller of 2023!</p>
<p><em>Sex Education</em> meets <em>A Good Girl's Guide to Murder</em> in this darkly hilarious YA murder mystery by Comedy Women in Print Prize and Carnegie Medal nominated author, Kate Weston.</p>
Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. With music pulsing on every page, A Visit from the Goon Squad is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption.
