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Author: Theophilus O Ogunkunle Publisher: ISBN: 9781636257907 Category : Languages : en Pages : 230
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When the root of a tree is weak, the branches suffer. Our yesterday may be painful to forget, but it should not consume today's freshness. Moving beyond the past is using the present strength to create a better today and greater tomorrow. Life is a continuous journey where the baton of functionalism can be transferred amongst generations. However, the occurrence of unwanted events during the journey should not be the determinant of how far we can go. My action today is part of the sum of our collective tomorrow. The 'Global Village' is a beautiful place for YOU and I, if only we can do our parts cognitively.
Author: Theophilus O Ogunkunle Publisher: ISBN: 9781636257907 Category : Languages : en Pages : 230
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When the root of a tree is weak, the branches suffer. Our yesterday may be painful to forget, but it should not consume today's freshness. Moving beyond the past is using the present strength to create a better today and greater tomorrow. Life is a continuous journey where the baton of functionalism can be transferred amongst generations. However, the occurrence of unwanted events during the journey should not be the determinant of how far we can go. My action today is part of the sum of our collective tomorrow. The 'Global Village' is a beautiful place for YOU and I, if only we can do our parts cognitively.
Author: Ranabir Sen Publisher: Notion Press ISBN: 1637147090 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 123
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August 1945. The Japanese onslaught on Vietnam and Philippines came to an end. Netaji Subhash Bose's sudden death was a big blow for the Indian diaspora in South East Asia, who were backing him for their motherland's freedom. Many of them remained in South East Asian countries instead of moving back to India. Two of these countries were Vietnam and the Philippines. The book is a tearful story about the Indian migrants who are still risking everything in their pursuit for a better life. Crossing boundaries and breaking barriers with every generation, their fates are tied to their adopted country’s economic and political merry go around. After 75 years, they still ask, where do we belong? You may find an answer in this book.
Author: Elissa Altman Publisher: Ballantine Books ISBN: 0399181601 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 274
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“I’m reading this book right now and loving it!”—Cheryl Strayed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild How can a mother and daughter who love (but don’t always like) each other coexist without driving each other crazy? “Vibrating with emotion, this deeply honest account strikes a chord.”—People “A wry and moving meditation on aging and the different kinds of love between women.”—O: The Oprah Magazine After surviving a traumatic childhood in nineteen-seventies New York and young adulthood living in the shadow of her flamboyant mother, Rita, a makeup-addicted former television singer, Elissa Altman has managed to build a very different life, settling in Connecticut with her wife of nearly twenty years. After much time, therapy, and wine, Elissa is at last in a healthy place, still orbiting around her mother but keeping far enough away to preserve the stable, independent world she has built as a writer and editor. Then Elissa is confronted with the unthinkable: Rita, whose days are spent as a flâneur, traversing Manhattan from the Clinique counters at Bergdorf to Bloomingdale’s and back again, suffers an incapacitating fall, leaving her completely dependent upon her daughter. Now Elissa is forced to finally confront their profound differences, Rita’s yearning for beauty and glamour, her view of the world through her days in the spotlight, and the money that has mysteriously disappeared in the name of preserving youth. To sustain their fragile mother-daughter bond, Elissa must navigate the turbulent waters of their shared lives, the practical challenges of caregiving for someone who refuses to accept it, the tentacles of narcissism, and the mutual, frenetic obsession that has defined their relationship. Motherland is a story that touches every home and every life, mapping the ferocity of maternal love, moral obligation, the choices women make about motherhood, and the possibility of healing. Filled with tenderness, wry irreverence, and unforgettable characters, it is an exploration of what it means to escape from the shackles of the past only to have to face them all over again. Praise for Motherland “Rarely has a mother-daughter relationship been excavated with such honesty. Elissa Altman is a beautiful, big-hearted writer who mines her most central subject: her gorgeous, tempestuous, difficult mother, and the terrain of their shared life. The result is a testament to the power of love and family.”—Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance
Author: Ben Lawson Publisher: Allen & Unwin ISBN: 1761060902 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 96
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Ben Lawson was preparing for another Christmas away from home when the Black Summer bushfires began to burn their way across Australia's eastern coast. As the bushfires continued to rage into the new year on an unprecedented scale, Ben, feeling angry, helpless and broken-hearted as he watched the devastation from across the ocean, sat down and put his feelings into words. To My Country is an ode to the endurance of the Australian spirit and the shared love of our country. In the true Aussie spirit, Ben and Allen & Unwin will be donating proceeds of To My Country to The Koala Hospital. 'A delightful love letter to a homeland: the kind only an Australian could write. Full of humour, charm and deeply felt belonging. And to think of all the orphaned koalas who will benefit from you buying and enjoying this wonderful little book ...' -Stephen Fry- 'An impassioned cry from the big, kind heart of a big, kind man.' -Tim Minchin- 'Ben Lawson's love of his homeland inspires us all to think of our own roots . . . and the need to protect them.' -Dolly Parton- 'Ben Lawson's book is a heartfelt reminder of how desperately we need to think about our future as a country. His sincerity is moving. I dare you not to cry.' -Julia Stone- 'Ben Lawson writes in the tradition of his namesake Henry Lawson; an eloquent bush ballad that mourns the tragic fate of one billion bushfire victims.' -Barry Humphries-
Author: Daisy Hernández Publisher: Beacon Press ISBN: 0807062928 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 201
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The PEN Literary Award–winning author “writes with honesty, intelligence, tenderness, and love” about her Colombian-Cuban heritage and queer identity in this poignant coming-of-age memoir (Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street). In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hernández chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race. Her mother warns her about envidia and men who seduce you with pastries, while one tía bemoans that her niece is turning out to be “una india” instead of an American. Another auntie instructs that when two people are close, they are bound to become like uña y mugre, fingernails and dirt, and that no, Daisy’s father is not godless. He’s simply praying to a candy dish that can be traced back to Africa. These lessons—rooted in women’s experiences of migration, colonization, y cariño—define in evocative detail what it means to grow up female in an immigrant home. In one story, Daisy sets out to defy the dictates of race and class that preoccupy her mother and tías, but dating women and transmen, and coming to identify as bisexual, leads her to unexpected questions. In another piece, NAFTA shuts local factories in her hometown on the outskirts of New York City, and she begins translating unemployment forms for her parents, moving between English and Spanish, as well as private and collective fears. In prose that is both memoir and commentary, Daisy reflects on reporting for the New York Times as the paper is rocked by the biggest plagiarism scandal in its history and plunged into debates about the role of race in the newsroom. A heartfelt exploration of family, identity, and language, A Cup of Water Under My Bed is ultimately a daughter’s story of finding herself and her community, and of creating a new, queer life.
Author: Lyuba Vinogradova Publisher: MacLehose Press ISBN: 1681440105 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 517
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Plucked from every background and led by an NKVD Major, the new recruits who boarded a train in Moscow on October 16, 1941, to go to war had much in common with millions of others across the world. What made the members of the 586th Fighter Regiment, the 587th Heavy-Bomber Regiment, and the 588th Regiment of light night-bombers unique was their gender: the Soviet Union was creating the first all-female active combat units in modern history. Drawing on original interviews with surviving airwomen, Lyuba Vinogradova weaves together the untold stories of the female Soviet fighter pilots of the Second World War. From that first train journey to the last tragic disappearance, Vinogradova's panoramic account of these women's lives follows them from society balls to unmarked graves, from landmark victories to the horrors of Stalingrad. Battling not just fearsome Aces of the Luftwaffe but also patronizing prejudice from their own leaders, women such as Lilya Litvyak and Ekaterina Budanova are brought to life by the diaries and recollections of those who knew them, and who watched them live, love, fight, and die.
Author: B.O. Durodola Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1467880485 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 224
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This book captures the essence of my journey to growth and maturity as a humble man who loves and obeys OUR FATHERs WORD, as I prove HIS perfect WILL and walk in accordance to HIS WAYS; it reflects my faith and articulates my love for the living GOD and challenges anyone to question the void within them to love any other. It personifies the complexity of my state of mind as I wonder the face of this Earth seeking to please GOD and I have found myself asking questions about my moments in time that quintessentially embeds choice, strengths, weaknesses, order and faith into the essence of my being.
Author: Theophilus O Ogunkunle
Author: Theophilus O Ogunkunle
Author: Ranabir Sen
Author: Elissa Altman
Author: Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani
Author: Ben Lawson
Author: Ken Kookjoo Choi
Author: Tŏk-sin Chʻoe
Author: Daisy Hernández
Author: Lyuba Vinogradova
Author: B.O. Durodola