Ring in the New Year with one of “Little Pearls” ‘s Sarah Ayman’s top reads for 2011.
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The Secret contains wisdom from modern-day teachers — men and women who have used it to achieve health, wealth, and happiness. By applying the knowledge of The Secret, they bring to light compelling stories of eradicating disease, acquiring massive wealth, overcoming obstacles, and achieving what many would regard as impossible.
Other Colors: Though the latest book from Nobel Prize-winning Pamuk (Istanbul, Snow) is a standard late-career essay collection, it makes clear the reasons behind the Turkish author’s acclaim. Eschewing flash and flourish, Pamuk’s style is plain, simple and persuasive-but therein lies its subtle power, well represented over more than 75 pieces divided into sections like “Living and Worrying” and “Politics, Europe, and Other Problems of Being Oneself.”
The Alchemist: This inspirational fable by Brazilian author and translator Coelho has been a runaway bestseller throughout Latin America and seems poised to achieve the same prominence here. The charming tale of Santiago, a shepherd boy, who dreams of seeing the world, is compelling in its own right, but gains resonance through the many lessons Santiago learns during his adventures. He journeys from Spain to Morocco in search of worldly success, and eventually to Egypt, where a fateful encounter with an alchemist brings him at last to self-understanding and spiritual enlightenment.
Veronika Decides to Die: Veronika, 24, works in a library in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and rents a room in a convent; she is an attractive woman with friends and family, but feelings of powerlessness and apathy tempt her to find “freedom” in an overdose of sleeping pills. When Veronika awakens in the purgatory of Villete, the country’s famous lunatic asylum, she is told her suicide attempt weakened her heart and she has only days to live.
ترانيم في ظل تمارا :آخر ما كتب الأديب محمد عفيفى وقد تناول مشاهد عديدة فى ظل شجرته تمارا وبوجود شخصيات حيوانية كالقط والضفدع والفراشة
The definitive book for Body Language: It is a scientific fact that people’s gestures give away their true intentions. Yet most of us don’t know how to read body language–and don’t realize how our own physical movements speak to others. Now the world’s foremost experts on the subject share their techniques for reading body language signals to achieve success in every area of life.
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Stephen Covey, an internationally respected leadership authority, realizes that true success encompasses a balance of personal and professional effectiveness, so this book is a manual for performing better in both arenas. His anecdotes are as frequently from family situations as from business challenges.
Self esteem for Women: This guide shows how, by using a mixture of visualization techniques, positive affirmations and a five-step programme for change, women can change their lives. Women can learn to believe in themselves, increase their self-esteem, how to succeed in love and enjoy their personal power.
Harry Potter(all seven books): Follow Harry from his first days at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, through his many adventures with Hermione and Ron, to his confrontations with rival Draco Malfoy and the dreaded Professor Snape, He who shall not be named and many more.
Collected Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Collected here are twenty-six of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s most brilliant and enchanting short stories, presented in the chronological order of their publication in Spanish from three volumes: Eyes of a Blue Dog,Big Mama’s Funeral, and The Incredibleand Sad Tale of lnnocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother. Combining mysticism, history, and humor, the stories in this collection span more than two decades, illuminating the development of Marquez’s prose and exhibiting the themes of family, poverty, and death that resound throughout his fiction.
Eat, Pray, Love: At the age of thirty-one, Gilbert moved with her husband to the suburbs of New York and began trying to get pregnant, only to realize that she wanted neither a child nor a husband. Three years later, after a protracted divorce, she embarked on a yearlong trip of recovery, with three main stops: Rome, for pleasure (mostly gustatory, with a special emphasis on gelato); an ashram outside of Mumbai, for spiritual searching; and Bali, for “balancing.”
A Million Little Pieces: Frey is pretender to the throne of the aggressive, digressive, cocky Kings David: Eggers and Foster Wallace. Pre-pub comparisons to those writers spring not from Frey’s writing but from his attitude: as a recent advance profile put it, the 33-year-old former drug dealer and screenwriter “wants to be the greatest literary writer of his generation.” While the Davids have their faults, their work is unquestionably literary. Frey’s work is more mirrored surface than depth, but this superficiality has its attractions.
رجال حول الرسول: سيرة وحياة ستين شخصية إسلامية كان لها أثر مباشر في نشر الدين الإسلامي، والدعوة إلى الله تعالى
Memoirs of a Geisha: “I wasn’t born and raised to be a Kyoto geisha….I’m a fisherman’s daughter from a little town called Yoroido on the Sea of Japan.” How nine-year-old Chiyo, sold with her sister into slavery by their father after their mother’s death, becomes Sayuri, the beautiful geisha accomplished in the art of entertaining men, is the focus of this fascinating first novel.
The picture of Dorian Gray: Dorian Gray’s picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, “as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife,” Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. “The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden.”
الزيني بركات :تعد رواية الزيني بركات لجمال الغيطاني من الروايات البارزة في الروايات العربية التي عالجت ظاهرة القمع والخوف واتكأت على أسبابها وبينت مظاهرها المرعبة في الحياة العربية
النبي :الترجمة العربية لكتاب “النبى” لمؤلفه جبران خليل جبران والذى يصور فيه نبى يحاول أن ينشر دعواه فى الناس وأسلوبه فى سبيل ذلك
Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran: Set in the 1960 in Paris’ Jewish Quarter, Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran is about a troubled Jewish boy, Moses, or Momo, who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a solitary Muslim shopkeeper named Monsieur Ibrahim.
Tuesdays with Morrie: We meet Morrie Schwartz–a one of a kind professor, whom the author describes as looking like a cross between a biblical prophet and Christmas elf. And finally we are privy to intimate moments of Morrie’s final days as he lies dying from a terminal illness. Even on his deathbed, this twinkling-eyed mensch manages to teach us all about living robustly and fully.
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