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Author: Evy Journey Publisher: ISBN: 9780996247474 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 403
Book Description
After two heartbreaking losses, Luna hungers for adventure. Something and somewhere very different from the affluent, sheltered home in California and Hawaii where she grew up. An adventure in which she can also make some difference. Lucien, a worldly, well-traveled young architect, finds a stranger's journal at a café. He has qualms and pangs of guilt about reading it. But they don't stop him. His decision to go on reading changes his life. Months later, they meet at a bookstore. Fascinated by his stories and adventurous spirit, Luna goes to a rural rice-growing village in a country steeped in an ancient culture and a deadly history. What she finds there defies anything she could have imagined. Will she leave this world unscathed? An epistolary tale of courage, resilience, and the bonds that bring diverse people together.
Author: Evy Journey Publisher: ISBN: 9780996247474 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 403
Book Description
After two heartbreaking losses, Luna hungers for adventure. Something and somewhere very different from the affluent, sheltered home in California and Hawaii where she grew up. An adventure in which she can also make some difference. Lucien, a worldly, well-traveled young architect, finds a stranger's journal at a café. He has qualms and pangs of guilt about reading it. But they don't stop him. His decision to go on reading changes his life. Months later, they meet at a bookstore. Fascinated by his stories and adventurous spirit, Luna goes to a rural rice-growing village in a country steeped in an ancient culture and a deadly history. What she finds there defies anything she could have imagined. Will she leave this world unscathed? An epistolary tale of courage, resilience, and the bonds that bring diverse people together.
Author: Grahame Kerr Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers ISBN: 1528970829 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 393
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Singapore in 1942 saw the greatest defeat of the British and Allied forces of WW2. Much has been written about the terrible time endured by the 85,000 troops who surrendered to the Japanese forces on 15 February 1942. Much less has been written about the circumstances surrounding the many civilians caught up in the fighting and subsequently interned or forced to endure occupation. Such was the speed with which the Japanese captured the Island that little time was given to removing resources that may assist them in furthering their aim of creating an Asian empire. One example is the fact that the island had become the centre for all the gold reserves of the Malay States and Singapore. The Japanese knew this and for nearly four years searched the island for the gold. To this day some of this gold may still be at large as no one ever kept a record of what gold was on the island and how much was consumed in paying the cost of the subsequent guerrilla warfare.
Author: Shamim Khan Publisher: Austin Macauley ISBN: 9781398407848 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Inaya - the daughter who knows her father to be dead. Imaad - the son who has persistently betrayed and disappointed his father. Zahra - in search of the man who saved her childhood and protected her mother. Salmaan - An autistic youngster who finds it difficult to navigate himself in the big, wide world. Today. Inaya - The news of her father being alive shatters her existence completely as she is left with an air ticket and a damning decision. Salmaan - Her brother, autistic and confused escapes through an unlocked front door and discovers a world that is cruel and far from safe. Imaad - A drug dealer on the brink of uncertainty drowning in a sea of betrayal and animosity. Zahra - Finders not keepers of the man who changed her life and future. Then, one moment, a fatal incident rips their souls apart and transforms their landscapes forever.
Author: Dale Hornsby Publisher: Gaviglio Publishing ISBN: 9780966912500 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 340
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Natalie Woodson, a rich and beautiful but impossibly spoiled woman, and a handsome and carefree pilot, Derek Thomas, whom she has chartered to fly her from New York City to San Jose, Costa Rica. Incurring catastrophic phenomena en route beyond their control, they soon find themselves isolated in a hostile land. What begins as a simple exercise in survival soon develops into a daily fight for existence against almost insurmountable odds. Confronted with their mutual animus toward each other, they soon realize that their salvation and only way out is to unit in purpose and in spirit.
Author: Sterling Watson Publisher: Akashic Books ISBN: 1617750646 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 321
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“A brilliant, fearless look at the savage rites of passage that exist in the fraternity of American sports . . . gripping and unforgettable.” —Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River In 1964, seventeen-year-old Billy Dyer is a newcomer to Oleander, a Gulf Coast Florida town whose old guard define football as the ancient Spartans did their Agoge. It is a mode of brutal tutelage that forges the hearts and minds of the town’s elite youth for a future of power. Billy’s parents are recently divorced and he lives in a bad neighborhood with his secretive, alcoholic father. Through the brutal and fiery days of summer practice, Billy fights for a starting spot on the team, the Spartans. He makes the team, but in a horrific hazing scene far from the town, he rebels and in the process badly injures his rival for the flanker position. The events that follow force Billy into exile from football, then later back into the game when powerful men realize that the Spartans cannot win without him. “Fighting in the Shade is less a sports novel than a coming-of-age story wound around a mystery, with football as symbol and symptom.” —St. Petersburg Times “A powerful, beautifully written book about attitudes and practices that we want to believe are safely in the past. Instead, as Watson reminds us, corruption and cruelty survive through their uncanny ability to take on new shapes.” —Laura Lippman, New York Times–bestselling author “High school football mixes with Faust in this blitz of a novel from Watson . . . a big Dennis Lehane-like story of society, opportunity, and consequences, revealing Watson as an accomplished storyteller.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Author: Sean Scalmer Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139494570 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 255
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The non-violent protests of civil rights activists and anti-nuclear campaigners during the 1960s helped to redefine Western politics. But where did they come from? Sean Scalmer uncovers their history in an earlier generation's intense struggles to understand and emulate the activities of Mahatma Gandhi. He shows how Gandhi's non-violent protests were the subject of widespread discussion and debate in the USA and UK for several decades. Though at first misrepresented by Western newspapers, they were patiently described and clarified by a devoted group of cosmopolitan advocates. Small groups of Westerners experimented with Gandhian techniques in virtual anonymity and then, on the cusp of the 1960s, brought these methods to a wider audience. The swelling protests of later years increasingly abandoned the spirit of non-violence, and the central significance of Gandhi and his supporters has therefore been forgotten. This book recovers this tradition, charts its transformation, and ponders its abiding significance.
Author: Rajmohan Gandhi Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520255708 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 762
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The author, the grandson of Mohandas Gandhi, describes the life of the Indian leader as well as the history of India during Gandhi's time.
Author: Evy Journey
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