Aya: Life in Yop City, Marguerite Abouet and Clement OubrerieExperience the award winning series about independent young women growing up in 1970s Ivory Coast Ivory Coast, 1978. It's a golden time, and the nation, too an oasis of affluence and stability in West Africa seems fueled by something wondrous. Aya is loosely based upon Marguerite Abouet's youth in Yop City. It is the story of the studious and clear sighted nineteen year old Aya, her easygoing friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and

Narayana Murthy offers a fairly simple solution to these problems in his book A Better India

to emerge as a critical voice in Weimar Germany’s most influential journals

it vividly evokes the atmosphere of pre-war Berlin

Your story is “a strategic tool with irresistible power

Annie is marrying Paulo

Weaving the story of each of these counterrevolutions into a brisk

and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries

""—Steve Coll

The decolonization of the British Empire

many are the guests—but only a few are the survivors

From the exiled reformer who risked death to advocate for Mandarin as a national language to the imprisoned computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup

The must-read book for 2018