Author: Ruskin Bond Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 8184754639 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 328
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For over five decades, Ruskin ond has written charming tales that have mesmerized readers of all ages. This collection brings together his finest stories for children in one volume. Published previously as A Treasury of Stories for Children, this attractive rejacketed edition includes two new stories, 'The Big Race' and 'Remember This Day'. Filled with a rich cast of characters and superb illustrations, The Room of Many Colours: A Treasury of Stories for Children is the defnitive book for all Ruskin Bond fans and truly a collector's Item.
Author: Ruskin Bond Publisher: ISBN: 9780141314150 Category : Languages : en Pages : 260
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Ruskin Bond, The Master Storyteller, Is At His Inventive Best When Spinning Out Yarns For Children. For Over Four Decades, The Author Has Conjured Up An Enchanting Literary Landscape In Which Children Play An Integral Role. This Collection Brings Together Thirty-Seven Of His Finest Stories For Children, Including Some That Have Never Been Published In India Before. The Themes Of The Stories Are Refreshingly Simple: The Close Bond Between A Young Boy And His Grandmother And Their Long Trek To Buy A New Pair Of Reading Glasses In A Long Walk With Granny ; A Bicycle Ride Which Becomes A Nightmare For A Young Boy When He Encounters The Strange Duo Of A Brother And A Sister On A Lonely Road In The Haunted Bicycle ; The Hilarious Adventures Of A Family Travelling On A Train With Their Unusual Pets: A Tiger, A Squirrel, A Parrot, And A Whimsical Python, In Animals On The Track . A Rich Cast Of Characters Exert Their Magical Spell, Whether It Is Uncle Ken, Who Flits From Job To Job, Living Off His Doting Sisters With Great Aplomb; Or Miss Mackenzie, Whose Love For Flowers Becomes A Common Link Between Her And A Young Schoolboy; Or Toto, The Little Frisky Monkey, Whose Exploits Make For Delightful Reading. With A Personal, Nostalgic Introduction By The Author And Some Superb Illustrations, This Edition Is Certain To Become A Collector S Item. ̈ The Best Of Ruskin Bond S Stories For Children. ̈ This Special Edition Is A Collector S Item.
Author: Sarah Thankam Mathews Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0593489144 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 321
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2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES' TOP 5 FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF TIME AND SLATE'S TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR Named one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by NPR, Vogue, Vulture, BuzzFeed, Harper's Bazaar, and more “One of the buzziest, most human novels of the year…breathless, dizzying, and completely beautiful.” —Vogue “Dazzling and wholly original...[written] with such mordant wit, insight, and specificity, it feels like watching a new literary star being born in real time.” —Entertainment Weekly From a brilliant new voice comes an electrifying novel of a young immigrant building a life for herself—a warm, dazzling, and profound saga of queer love, friendship, work, and precarity in twenty-first century America Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She’s moved to Milwaukee for an entry-level corporate job that, grueling as it may be, is the key that unlocks every door: she can pick up the tab at dinner with her new friend Tig, get her college buddy Thom hired alongside her, and send money to her parents back in India. She begins dating women—soon developing a burning crush on Marina, a beguiling and beautiful dancer who always seems just out of reach. But before long, trouble arrives. Painful secrets rear their heads; jobs go off the rails; evictions loom. Sneha struggles to be truly close and open with anybody, even as her friendships deepen, even as she throws herself headlong into a dizzying romance with Marina. It’s then that Tig begins to draw up a radical solution to their problems, hoping to save them all. A beautiful and capacious novel rendered in singular, unforgettable prose, All This Could Be Different is a wise, tender, and riveting group portrait of young people forging love and community amidst struggle, and a moving story of one immigrant’s journey to make her home in the world.
Author: Lisa Cregan Publisher: Hearst Books ISBN: 9781588169792 Category : Color in interior decoration Languages : en Pages : 0
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House Beautiful has created the ultimate vibrant, gorgeous guide to using color in the home, filled with photos, swatches, and lively commentary from designers explaining exactly how and why they make their choices. Going shade by shade, it shows how to select the perfect hue for any room, create modern twists on traditional colors, make a subtle statement or a bold one, experiment with colors you might never have considered, and more!
Author: Ruskin Bond Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 9351187659 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 166
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Ruskin Bond wrote his first short story, ‘Untouchable’, at the age of sixteen in 1950. Since then he has written over a hundred stories, including the classics ‘A Face in the Dark’, ‘The Kitemaker’, ‘The Tunnel’ and ‘Time Stops at Shamli’. Two of his autobiographical works, ‘Life with Father’ and ‘My Father’s Last Letter’, are also included in this selection. Filled with characteristic warmth, gentle humour and keen observations on daily life, this collection brings together some of the fi nest short fiction by one of India’s best-loved authors.
Author: David Burrell Publisher: OTCEditions ISBN: 1849860114 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 219
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The third world war ended in great devastation but the mindset of the survivors had Fundamentally changed. new ways of governing the world had to be found and implemented. the war ended with the discovery of 'the Darkness' a force, that infects people leaving them victim to their baser thoughts and instincts. Many hundreds of years had passed when Marc a young street fighter is caught by the local watch and would have been sent to a correction prison or labour camp, but Sir Rueben steps in and recruits Marc to fight against the 'darkness' and in doing so Marc's eyes are opened to the possibilities that the world may offer. However, before he is able to develop these possibilities Marc is called upon to betray Sir Rueben or forfeit his mother's life. Has the story come to an end before it has begun?
Author: Hemendra Kumar Roy Publisher: Niyogi Books ISBN: 9389136458 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 109
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Calcutta nights (Raater Kolkata) is the real-life story and memoir of the enigmatic ‘Meghnad Gupta’, pen name of famed Bengali fiction writer Hemendra Kumar Roy. Translated into English by Rajat Chaudhuri almost a century after the first publication of Raater Kolkata in 1923, Roy reveals to contemporary readers The darkest secrets of an earlier Calcutta. The first two decades of the last century, the backdrop for this book, were politically turbulent times. Those days, Calcutta, the erstwhile capital of British India, was teeming with people from different parts of the country besides Europeans and other foreigners. It was a city of sin, pleasure and suffering. Indians who arrived and settled here mingled with locals, some of them picking up dress, manners and the wanton lifestyles of the Bengali ‘Babu’, while others kept their identities intact. All this created a unique cosmopolitan setting, coloured with shades of debauchery, darkness and crime that this first-hand account brilliantly recounts. Written in an age very different from ours, certain views of the author could be jarring for the present times. However, these need to be tempered by the understanding of the sociopolitical contexts and the distance of a century separating us from Meghnad Gupta’s Calcutta. Calcutta nights is the hootum pyanchar naksha (published in 1862 and penned by kaliprasanna Sinha) of the early twentieth century, a book that will help anyone understand the contrasts and colours of a unique Indian metropolis.
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