Elisa Banfi Boeken

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK! “Brave, fresh . . . unforgettable.”—The New York Times Book Review “A celebration of girls who dare to dream.”—Imbolo Mbue, author of Behold the Dreamers (Oprah’s Book Club pick) Shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and recommended by The New York Times, Marie Claire, Vogue, Essence, PopSugar, Daily Mail, Electric Literature, Red, Stylist, Daily Kos, Library Journal, The Everygirl, and Read It Forward! The unforgettable, inspiring story of a teenage girl growing up in a rural Nigerian village who longs to get an education so that she can find her “louding voice” and speak up for herself, The Girl with the Louding Voice is a simultaneously heartbreaking and triumphant tale about the power of fighting for your dreams. Despite the seemingly insurmountable obstacles in her path, Adunni never loses sight of her goal of escaping the life of poverty she was born into so that she can build the future she chooses for herself – and help other girls like her do the same. Her spirited determination to find joy and hope in even the most difficult circumstances imaginable will “break your heart and then put it back together again” (Jenna Bush Hager on The Today Show) even as Adunni shows us how one courageous young girl can inspire us all to reach for our dreams…and maybe even change the world.

Paul Janson is een voormalig geheim agent die niets meer van 'het werk' wil weten. Totdat de steenrijke Peter Novak, die ooit Pauls leven redde, wordt ontvoerd door terroristen die hem dreigen te executeren. Janson stelt haastig een team samen om Novak te redden, maar als dat misloopt is hij de enige overlevende. De geheime diensten menen dat hij bewust Novaks dood heeft veroorzaakt en zetten hem op een dodenlijst. Jansons enige kans ligt in het achterhalen van de waarheid over Peter Novak. Een waarheid die oorlogen kan veroorzaken, regeringen ten val kan brengen en de loop van de geschiedenis kan veranderen...

When twenty-year-old Pat rents a room from handsome and cocky Bruce, she inherits some delightfully colourful neighbours: Domenica, an insightful and eccentric widow; Bertie, a five-year-old whos̕ mastered both saxophone and Italian; and Irene, his overbearing mother. Pats̕ new job at a gallery seems easy enough. Her boss spends most of his time drinking coffee in a local café and discussing matters great and small, and Pats̕ duties are light. That is until she realizes that one of their paintings may be an undiscovered work of a renowned Scottish artist and she discovers that one of their customers may be in on the secret. Add to this a fancy ball, love triangles and an encounter with a famous crime writer, and you have Alexander McCall Smiths̕ entertaining and witty portrait of Edinburgh society.

Dura la vita per gli dei dell'Olimpo nel Ventunesimo secolo. Ridotti a un manipolo di sfaccendati, vivono in una grande casa ormai fatiscente a Hampstead Heath, a Londra. Di Zeus ed Era, confinati al terzo piano, non si sa più nulla da decenni. Ares, il dio della guerra, è l'unico a cui il lavoro non manca mai, mentre Artemide fa la dog-sitter, la splendida Afrodite lavora per una chat-line erotica, Dioniso ha aperto un night club, Eros è diventato cattolico praticante, Apollo cerca la fama in televisione e per vincere la noia va in giro a fare dispetti alle mortali... A spezzare la monotonia di queste grigie e immortali esistenze, entra in scena Alice, una ragazza dolce e onesta quanto ingenua, che bussa alla loro porta per offrirsi come donna delle pulizie (di cui la casa ha più che mai bisogno). Complice una freccia di Eros, Apollo si innamora perdutamente di lei, che però è già fidanzata, o quasi, con Neil, un ingegnere timido e un po' imbranato. Ma il dio del sole non si rassegna a essere rifiutato da una mortale: la sua reazione finirà per scatenare una serie di eventi drammatici, trasformando il divertente romanzo di Marie Phillips in una storia d'amore avventurosa e tenera, sulla scia del mito di Orfeo ed Euridice.

Dieses Buch bietet eine vergleichende Untersuchung islamischer Wohlfahrtsaktivitäten in städtischen Gebieten der Schweiz und Italiens, um zentrale Fragen zum Engagement islamischer Organisationen in Europa zu beleuchten. Es beschreibt die Struktur und Koordination islamischer Organisationen in Genf, Mailand, Rom und Zürich, vier Städten, die bislang in der Literatur über islamische Wohlfahrt nicht analysiert wurden. Zudem werden die institutionellen Möglichkeiten und Beschränkungen untersucht, die die Formen sozialer religiöser Aktivitäten auf lokaler und internationaler Ebene beeinflussen können. Dabei werden zwei selten miteinander verbundene Forschungsbereiche zusammengeführt: die Analyse sozialer Netzwerke und die Theorie politischer Möglichkeiten. Das Buch richtet sich an Soziologen, Anthropologen und Religionswissenschaftler, die sich mit der sozialen und politischen Integration von Muslimen in Europa sowie den sozialen Aktivitäten islamischer Organisationen in westlichen Ländern befassen. Die Kapitel umfassen eine Einführung, die Analyse des islamischen Wohlfahrtsaktivismus in Westeuropa, spezifische Untersuchungen zum soziokulturellen Aktivismus in Zürich, Rom, Genf und Mailand sowie eine intranationale und länderübergreifende Datenanalyse, gefolgt von einer Schlussfolgerung.