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| Author | : N. S. Vishwanath |
| Publisher | : Archway Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2020-12-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 148089575X |
It is the sixteenth century in South India and the Vijayanagara Empire is in the throes of a succession struggle that threatens to disrupt the peace of the realm. Far away from the chaos, the splendorous estate of Madhuvana sits in relative heaven where its seventy-year-old patriarch, Rajanna, has just died. After elders decree that his widows are to perform an ancient ritual in which a widow is cremated alive, the lives of three people intersect. Aadarshini is Rajanna’s twenty-two-year-old third wife and mother of his heir. Azam Khan is Rajanna’s trusted bodyguard, left rudderless after the death of his master. Prabhakara Swami is the enigmatic temple priest who holds the strings that control the fates of others. When Aadarshini is thrust into a forbidding darkness, she discovers what it means to become the hero of her own story as destiny tosses her around like a straw in the wind. While events in the capital close in around her, she must seize her fate and overpower not just those who want to see her down, but also her inner demons. In this intriguing historical thriller, the widow of a South Indian patriarch embarks on a journey of self-discovery to take control of her destiny and survive in an uncertain world.
| Author | : Alexis Okeowo |
| Publisher | : Hachette Books |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 2017-10-03 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0316382914 |
WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD "A rich and urgently necessary book" (New York Times Book Review), A Moonless, Starless Sky is a masterful, humane work of journalism by Alexis Okeowo--a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent's wave of fundamentalism. In A Moonless, Starless Sky Okeowo weaves together four narratives that form a powerful tapestry of modern Africa: a young couple, kidnap victims of Joseph Kony's LRA; a Mauritanian waging a lonely campaign against modern-day slavery; a women's basketball team flourishing amid war-torn Somalia; and a vigilante who takes up arms against the extremist group Boko Haram. This debut book by one of America's most acclaimed young journalists illuminates the inner lives of ordinary people doing the extraordinary--lives that are too often hidden, underreported, or ignored by the rest of the world.
| Author | : Hena Khan |
| Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 2008-09 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780811860628 |
Yasmeen has a wonderful time celebrating the Muslim holy month of Ramadan with her family and friends.
| Author | : Shanna Wilson |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 139 |
| Release | : 2013-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 148363762X |
| Author | : Dai Sijie |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2009-08-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307272036 |
A precious scroll inscribed with a lost Buddhist sutra—once owned by Pu Yi, the last emperor of China—is illicitly sold to an eccentric French linguist, Paul d’Ampere, who is imprisoned as a result. In jail, he devotes himself to studying its ancient text. A young Western scholar in China hears this account from the grocer Toomchooq, whose name mysteriously connects him to the document. She falls in love with both teller and tale, but when d’Ampere is killed in prison, Toomchooq disappears, and she, pregnant with his child, embarks on a search for her lost love and the scroll that begins, “Once on a moonless night . . .”
| Author | : Brandon Collins |
| Publisher | : Page Publishing Inc |
| Total Pages | : 299 |
| Release | : 2017-12-18 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1640829911 |
Dark and evil forces are working hard in the background to end the days when humanity rules the world. Demons crave to make mankind a meal, dark mages want to destroy the mage-hood that has been hunting them down for years, and ambitious unholy priests seek to supplement the holy god for an evil unholy one. They all get their chance when a rare double lunar eclipse covers the two moons and casts the lands of men into eerie darkness. Unbeknownst to the priests and mages, it also allows for the darkest of magic to be cast. The dark forces attempt to take advantage and cast evil magic that could bring the dead back to aid them. Racing against time and unholy creatures are a lone priest out of his depth, a couple of mages with young apprentices struggling to survive the dark mage attack, and a strange barbaric warrior who has been trying to die but now he has a reason to live. Together they have to try to convince people of the horrors coming their way and end the threat against their world.
| Author | : Cornelia Amiri |
| Publisher | : Cornelia Amiri |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 2022-06-30 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Hope Swims In the Darkest Seas Vevay can’t escape her parents or see her future ending any other way than by dying at their hands. Then hope swims up to her in the form of a seaman. His legs extended in normal fashion from his body, but he has two small fishtails instead of feet, and his forearms are covered in silver scales. But Dylan’s more than a seaman…he’s a god. He understands the pain of not having a mother’s love. Born an unwanted child and a sea creature, his mother, goddess Arianrhod dropped him into the ocean to survive on his own. By helping Vevay face the truth that she bears no responsibility for her parent’s crimes and cruelty, they both have a chance to heal through love, hope, and freedom. But Vevay’s mortal and can’t live with Dylan in the depths of the ocean. And she can’t stay on earth with her parents. The only place he knows where they can be together is Annwn. But what dangers await a lonely sea god and a scared human girl in the home of the gods?
| Author | : Floriminda Reid |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
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| ISBN | : 1329885228 |
| Author | : Jane Struthers |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2010-07-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1407029517 |
The indispensable guide to everything we knew and loved before modern life got in the way. This gorgeous and beautifully illustrated countryside miscellany is the perfect purchase for anyone wanting to go back to their roots and rediscover a lost world... 'Beautiful book' -- ***** Reader review 'A delightful book with some lovely illustrations' -- ***** Reader review 'A heart-warming read, I love this book' -- ***** Reader review 'Magical' -- ***** Reader review 'Lovely book to just DELVE into' -- ***** Reader review 'A little gem!' -- ***** Reader review 'Sheer delight!' -- ***** Reader review **************************************************************************************************** Ever wondered how to predict the weather just by looking at the sky? Or wanted to attract butterflies to your garden? Is there a knack to building the perfect bonfire? And how exactly do you race a ferret? In this world of traffic tailbacks, supermarket shopping and 24-hour internet access, it's easy to feel disconnected from the beauty and rhythms of the natural world. If you have ever gazed in awe at stars in the night's sky, tried to catch a perfect snowflake or longed for the comfort of a roaring log fire, then this is the book for you. From spotting Britain's five kinds of owl to gardening by the phases of the moon, from curing a cold to brewing your own ale, and from navigating by the stars to making sloe gin, Red Sky at Night is packed with instructions and lists, ancient customs and old wives tales, making it an indispensable guide to countryside lore.
| Author | : Edward Robert Harrison |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780674192713 |
In tracing this story of discovery, astronomer and physicist Harrison explores the concept of infinite space, the structure and age of the universe, the nature of light, and other subjects that once were so perplexing.
