Author: Fwanyanga Matale Mulikita
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Zambia
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Author: Shahrukh Husain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781846862267
Category : Fables, Arabic
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Meet Mulla Nasruddin, a legendary character whose adventures and misadventures are enjoyed across the Islamic world. This witty collection of stories portrays his eccentric, engaging and irreverent character. Nasruddin always has a twinkle in his eye, a sliver of wisdom in his ramblings and a few good surprises up his sleeve! AGES: 6 and up AUTHOR: Shahrukh Husain writes for both adults and children and is the author of THE BAREFOOT BOOK OF STORIES FROM THE OPERA. When she is not writing, Shahrukh practices as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, specialising in transcultural work. Micha Archer has always loved the way words and pictures go together. Her illustrations are created using gouache, watercolour, pen and ink, and collage. She is influenced by her travels in West Africa, Mexico and Central America and the folk arts and crafts she saw there. She has also illustrated LOLA'S FANDANGO. REVIEWS: ". . . Husain's accessible and lively prose delivers satisfying morals that are rarely predictable; for example, when the Mulla concocts an inventive story to keep his pupils from eating his baklava and returns to find the plate empty, he praises a pupil who tells a tall tale of his own. Rendered in vibrant golds, greens, and blues, Archer's collages, created from a variety of papers and homemade stamps, seamlessly intermesh with the spirited vignettes" -- Publishers Weekly

Author: François Rabelais
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780437425126
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: Margaret Gray
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805068474
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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When plain-looking Princess Rose longs for the beauty to snare handsome Prince Parsley, and the wise fool Jasper longs to restore wisdom to the kingdom, they end up working together and find they must face the magical Godmother Board of Trustees.

Author: Sean Beaudoin
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316235105
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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You want ninety? Fine, I'll give you ninety. I'll give them to you coming and going. Teen rocker Ritchie Sudden is pretty sure his life has just jumped the shark. Except he hates being called a teen, his band doesn't play rock, and "jumping the shark" is yet another dumb cliché. Part of Ritchie wants to drop everything and walk away. Especially the part that's serving ninety days in a juvenile detention center. Telling the story of the year leading up to his arrest, Ritchie grabs readers by the throat before (politely) inviting them along for the (max-speed) ride. A battle of the bands looms. Dad split about five minutes before Mom's girlfriend moved in. There's the matter of trying to score with the dangerously hot Ravenna Woods while avoiding the dangerously huge Spence Proffer--not to mention just trying to forget what his sister, Beth, said the week before she died. Acclaimed author Sean Beaudoin's latest offering is raw, razor-sharp, and genuinely hilarious.

Author: Joan Silber
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 0393088707
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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A dazzling new collection of interconnected stories by the National Book Award finalist. When is it wise to be a fool for something? What makes people want to be better than they are? From New York to India to Paris, from the Catholic Worker movement to Occupy Wall Street, the characters in Joan Silber’s dazzling new story cycle tackle this question head-on. Vera, the shy, anarchist daughter of missionary parents, leaves her family for love and activism in New York. A generation later, her own doubting daughter insists on the truth of being of two minds, even in marriage. The adulterous son of a Florida hotel owner steals money from his family and departs for Paris, where he takes up with a young woman and finds himself outsmarted in turn. Fools ponders the circle of winners and losers, dupers and duped, and the price we pay for our beliefs. Fools is a luminous, intelligent, and rewarding work of fiction from the author for whom the Boston Globe said, "No other writer can make a few small decisions ripple across the globe, and across time, with more subtlety and power."

Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374530254
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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Twelve short stories about Jewish life in Poland.

Author: Tony C.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735542805
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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The story of a boy and his struggle with the transition to manhood.

Author: Mohammed Ali Vakil
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578601083
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Sufi Comics are short illustrations from Islamic traditions. It aims to simplify spiritual wisdom to help the reader to:* Inspire the soul with timeless quotes & stories* Find inner peace despite life's challenges* Apply practical advice to be happy & contentAlongside each comic are relevant verses from the Holy Qur'an.Sufi Comics makes the learning of spiritual teachings easy, fun & practical so that you can apply them to your life and share the wisdom with your family and friends.

Author: Elijah
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1602668264
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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"The Wisdom of a Fool" is chock-full of meaningful tidbits about truth, life, religion, and wisdom, which range from a few words to a handful of pages in length. (Motivation)