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Author: Elizabeth Jones Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1642993506 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 212
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Lily is at it again. The shock of seeing a sweeper girl on a back street of Nellore, India, was just too much for her. No one should have to sweep poop off the streets. Lily has to do something, but what? No, she couldn't use her college fund. What if she grew a crop and then bought the sweeper's freedom with that? But where will she find land? Asha has a friend, Raju. He has land. But is he too high and mighty for Lily to work with? He wants her to grow rice. She wants to grow sunflowers. Then will a serious illness stop Lily from succeeding? She has to get better. Can Asha keep Raju and Lily working together? Will a tsunami destroy all Lily has worked for? Lily's adventure is just beginning.
Author: Elizabeth Jones Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1642993506 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 212
Book Description
Lily is at it again. The shock of seeing a sweeper girl on a back street of Nellore, India, was just too much for her. No one should have to sweep poop off the streets. Lily has to do something, but what? No, she couldn't use her college fund. What if she grew a crop and then bought the sweeper's freedom with that? But where will she find land? Asha has a friend, Raju. He has land. But is he too high and mighty for Lily to work with? He wants her to grow rice. She wants to grow sunflowers. Then will a serious illness stop Lily from succeeding? She has to get better. Can Asha keep Raju and Lily working together? Will a tsunami destroy all Lily has worked for? Lily's adventure is just beginning.
Author: Lee Edward Fodi Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062845349 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 368
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Featuring a failed young wizard and her cleanup crew, this delightfully dysfunctional middle grade fantasy is an imaginative twist on magic school that’s perfect for fans of Nevermoor and The School for Good and Evil. Cara Moone is a wizard—but she’s basically flunked out of wizard school. Now she’s in training to be a MOP, also known as Magical Occurrence Purger, also known as it’s Cara’s job to sweep up the hazardous dust a real wizard’s spells leave behind. A real wizard, that is, like Harlee Wu, the so-called Chosen One destined to save the magical world. But when one of Harlee’s spells goes awry and leaves behind a rift in the fabric of magic itself, it'll take more than magic to clean up the mess. Luckily, messes are kind of Cara’s thing. Magic is messy—and fantastically fun—in this underdog story packed with humor, adventure, and attitude.
Author: Sonia Sikka Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317370988 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 232
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Looking beyond exclusively state-oriented solutions to the management of religious diversity, this book explores ways of fostering respectful, non-violent and welcoming social relations among religious communities. It examines the question of how to balance religious diversity, individual rights and freedoms with a common national identity and moral consensus. The essays discuss the interface between state and civil society in ‘secular’ countries and look at case studies from the the West and India. They study themes such as religious education, religious diversity, pluralism, inter-religious relations and exchanges, dalits and religion, and issues arising from the lived experience of religious diversity in various countries. The volume asserts that if religious violence crosses borders, so do ideas about how to live together peacefully, theological reflection on pluralism, and lived practices of friendship across the boundaries of religious identity-groupings. Bringing together interdisciplinary scholarship from across the world, the book will interest scholars and students of philosophy, religious studies, political science, sociology and history.
Author: Mulk Raj Anand Publisher: Orient Paperbacks ISBN: 9788122202342 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 124
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In Lajwanti, Mulk Raj Anand focuses on a woman's predicament and struggle to find an identity for herself. Frustrated by a rigid pattern of social relationships, gender bias, religious bigotry and her own petty human foibles, her abject condition serves as a metaphor for sacrifice and servility which forms the thematic heart of these stories.
Author: Elliot Perlman Publisher: Random House Australia ISBN: 174166618X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 577
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"'Excellent... Harrowing, humane and brilliant.' - The Times (UK)How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away.From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanity in Europe, there are more stories than people passing each other every day on the bustling streets of every crowded city. Only some survive to become history. Recently released from prison, Lamont Williams, an African American probationary janitor in a Manhattan hospital and father of a little girl he can't locate, strikes up an unlikely friendship with an elderly patient, a Holocaust survivor who had been a prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau. A few kilometres uptown, Australian historian Adam Zignelik, an untenured Columbia professor, finds both his career and his long-term romantic relationship falling apart. Emerging out of the depths of his own personal history, Adam sees, in a promising research topic suggested by an American World War II veteran, the beginnings of something that might just save him professionally and perhaps even personally. As these two men try to survive in early twenty-first-century New York, hi
Author: Shauna Singh Baldwin Publisher: Vintage Canada ISBN: 0307362930 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 562
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The Selector of Souls begins with a scene that is terrifying, harrowing and yet strangely tender: we're in the mid ranges of the Himalayas as a young woman gives birth to her third child with the help of her mother, Damini. The birth brings no joy, just a horrible accounting, and the act that follows--the huge sacrifice made by Damini out of love of her daughter--haunts the novel. In Shauna Singh Baldwin's enthralling novel, two fascinating, strong-willed women must deal with the relentless logic forced upon them by survival: Damini, a Hindu midwife, and Anu, who flees an abusive marriage for the sanctuary of the Catholic church. When Sister Anu comes to Damini's home village to open a clinic, their paths cross, and each are certain they are doing what's best for women. What do health, justice, education and equality mean for women when India is marching toward prosperity, growth and becoming a nuclear power? If the baby girls and women around them are to survive, Damini and Anu must find creative ways to break with tradition and help this community change from within.
Author: Christopher Key Chapple Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 1438498381 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 319
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The Sāṃkhya System brings new life to an ancient Hindu system of thought. Sāṃkhya spans the fields of philosophy, physics, metaphysics, psychology, and ethics. Although notably not theological, its key premises can be found in virtually all religious traditions that originate from India. Sāṃkhya espouses a reciprocity between Prakṛti, the realm of activity, and Puruṣa, the silent witness. It also delineates the phenomenal experiences that arise from Prakṛti, including the operations of the human body, the five great elements, and the eight mental states. Sāṃkhya proclaims that knowledge of world and self can lead to freedom. This book presents a new translation of Īśvarakṛṣṇa's Sāṃkhya Kārikā, with grammatical analysis. It includes interpretive essays that explore the philosophical aspects of the Sāṃkhya system by Geoffrey Ashton, Ana Funes Maderey, Mikel Burley, Christopher Key Chapple, and Srivatsa Ramaswami, as well as its sociological and psychological applications as delineated by Marzenna Jakubczak, McKim Marriott, and Alfred Collins.