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Book Synopsis In the House of My Bibi by : Nastaran Kherad
Download or read book In the House of My Bibi written by Nastaran Kherad and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the powerful memoir of a girlhood spent during the upheaval of the Iranian Revolution. The author chronicles her early childhood with her Bibi (grandmother) as well as her imprisonment at the age of eighteen on trumped-up political charges. During her brutal incarceration in the women's cell block of the Adelabad Prison, in the southern Iran city of Shiraz, she was tortured and made to live in harsh, over-crowded conditions. Her brother, Mohammed, twenty-four, was on death row for his political views. The Ayatollah Khomeini's secret police had executed tens of thousands of students. Nastaran was torn between the traditional upbringing of a girl her age and the call of the modern world. Bibi mesmerized her granddaughter with countlesss stories, traditional prayers and simple, yet profound wisdom gleaned from a difficult life"--Page 4 of cover
Book Synopsis Emeralds Included by : Betsy Woodman
Download or read book Emeralds Included written by Betsy Woodman and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feathers fly and cultures clash as the Jolly Grant House prepares to welcome a special delivery from Scotland In the third installment of the Jana Bibi series, Betsy Woodman takes us back to the Jolly Grant house for the arrival of Jana's son, Jack, from Scotland, and his Hungarian bride-to-be, Katarina Esterhazy. The whole gang is excited to welcome their international visitors—and Jana is determined to repair the house to Jack's high standards and those of her grandfather, from whom she inherited the eccentric building. But this puts a strain on Jana, both emotionally and financially, and she risks her most prized and valuable possession—the (surprisingly real!) emeralds she got from the Treasure Emporium—to help her through it. Jana saved the town from a government dam in Jana Bibi's Excellent Fortunes and foiled an international bird-smuggling ring in Love Potion Number 10, but in Emeralds Included, Jana faces her biggest challenges yet: preparing for her son's arrival and planning a wedding in the upside-down town of Hamara Nagar!
Book Synopsis Love Potion Number 10 by : Betsy Woodman
Download or read book Love Potion Number 10 written by Betsy Woodman and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the newest Jana Bibi adventure from Betsy Woodman, Jana, Mr. Ganguly, and the gang are back as their small town in India is rocked by an espionage scandal and a homemade remedy that has love on everyone's mind The Jolly Grant House still welcomes all its visitors with the sign Jana Bibi's Excellent Fortunes hanging proudly outside its front door. Jana's fortune-telling has brought a lot of attention to the small town of Hamara Nagar, and now that the dust has settled and the town is safe from the threat of being flooded by a government dam, all eyes are on the Scottish-born card-reader Jana and her feisty, loose-beaked parrot, Mr. Ganguly. Some people, though, are not to be trusted, and Mr. Ganguly finds himself the target of a potential kidnapping that puts Jana and her household on edge. Meanwhile, love is in the air and, thanks to Abenath's Apothecary, it's also in a bottle. Abenath has created an intoxicating brew that he calls Love Potion Number 10, which seems to have Jana in a tizzy. While she explores her newest hobby, dream interpretation, her head is swimming with questions: Is a new love possible at age fifty-nine? If so, would she ever marry again? All around her she sees different kinds of love and connection—family, arranged marriages, chemical attractions, even intercontinental romance between people who have only met through letters—so when an old flame arrives and rekindles long-gone feelings, Jana begins to think that Love Potion Number 10 just might be the magic elixir its inventor thinks it is.
Book Synopsis Negotiating Identities by : Ildikó Bellér-Hann
Download or read book Negotiating Identities written by Ildikó Bellér-Hann and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2015 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten chapters of this book, all of them published previously in specialist works, derive from the author's ethnographic research among the Uyghur of Xinjiang and Kazakhstan in the mid-1990s. Approaching beliefs and practices as politically embedded, the articles have historical value in documenting the possibilities and constraints of fieldwork in this region in the 1990s. They also offer a point of departure for new studies of the Uyghur and their relations with their neighbors in the increasingly difficult conditions which characterize the early twenty-first century. (Series: Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia, Vol. 31) [Subject: Sociology, Anthropology]
Book Synopsis House of Yesterday by : Deeba Zargarpur
Download or read book House of Yesterday written by Deeba Zargarpur and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking inspiration from the author's own Afghan-Uzbek heritage, this contemporary YA debut is a breathtaking journey into the grief that lingers through generations of immigrant families, and what it means to confront the ghosts of your past. Struggling to deal with the pain of her parents’ impending divorce, fifteen-year-old Sara is facing a world of unknowns and uncertainties. Unfortunately, the one person she could always lean on when things got hard, her beloved Bibi Jan, has become a mere echo of the grandmother she once was. And so Sara retreats into the family business, hoping a summer working on her mom’s latest home renovation project will provide a distraction from her fracturing world. But the house holds more than plaster and stone. It holds secrets that have her clinging desperately to the memories of her old life. Secrets that only her Bibi Jan could have untangled. Secrets Sara is powerless to ignore as the dark truths of her family’s history rise in ghostly apparitions -- and with it, the realization that as much as she wants to hold onto her old life, nothing will ever be the same. Told in lush, sweeping prose, this story of secrets, summer, and family sacrifice will chill you to the bone as the house that wraps Sara in warmth of her past becomes the one thing she cannot escape...
Book Synopsis Let My People Know by : Aryeh Lightstone
Download or read book Let My People Know written by Aryeh Lightstone and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aryeh Lightstone, former Senior Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Special Envoy for the Abraham Accords, is uniquely poised to unravel the past, present, and, most importantly, the future of U.S. foreign policy with the Middle East. "A powerful affirmation of humanity’s capacity to achieve the extraordinary." —Jared Kushner, Senior Advisor to the President, 2017-2021 "Aryeh demonstrates that faithful adherence to one’s core beliefs—in both his faith and his nation—are not only possible but necessary. Read and enjoy." —Mike Pompeo, U.S. Secretary of State, 2018-2021 The Trump Administration's "Peace to Prosperity" vision for the Middle East was unveiled on January 28, 2020. What followed over the next eleven months, concluding with the signing of the Israel-Morocco normalization agreement was one of the most fascinating and consequential periods of U.S. foreign policy in a generation, leading to five normalization agreements between Israel and Muslim states. The Abraham Accords achieved what had seemed impossible for decades and set the Middle East on a trajectory toward a broad regional peace. Aryeh Lightstone is uniquely positioned to tell the story. As the senior advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, he was in the room for nearly every major discussion and decision involving Middle East policy. He was tasked with the most complex and sensitive component of the Abraham Accords: turning them into practical action and doing it quickly—during a pandemic, no less. In addition, he led the Abraham Accords Business Summit and the Abraham Fund, and served as the key contact between Israel and the other Accords nations. Let My People Know provides a behind-the-scenes account of the strategies that allowed the Abraham Accords to be struck, and an unvarnished look at the region's idiosyncrasies that factored into the process. A rabbi and an enthralling storyteller, Lightstone paints a vivid picture of the varied cultures and personalities involved. He also offers a glimpse into the day-to-day activities of an embassy. Finally, he explains what the Biden administration must do better to advance America's interests abroad. We now have a paradigm for a forward-looking Middle East policy that ultimately benefits the United States. Lightstone makes the case for strategic action to maintain the momentum.
Book Synopsis Bibi's Rainbow: Hilarious Ordeals of Assimilation by : Majid Amini
Download or read book Bibi's Rainbow: Hilarious Ordeals of Assimilation written by Majid Amini and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2014-01-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibi's Rainbow is a delightfully narrated novel centered around a large Iranian immigrant family and their old, wise and faithful nanny, Bibi, a talented cook armed with inexhaustible secret recipes, who is resolutely determined to ease the transition of four generations of her "family" into American society. Using her wits and miraculous recipes as weapons, she ultimately manages to avert a "Clash of Civilizations" in their Beverly Hills neighborhood, winning over the hearts and souls of her extended family and their neighbors during the tumultuous period between 1979-2008. It is a tale of the long, sometimes tragic, often-hilarious, journey to assimilation.
Book Synopsis Jana Bibi's Excellent Fortunes by : Betsy Woodman
Download or read book Jana Bibi's Excellent Fortunes written by Betsy Woodman and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Jana Bibi, a Scottish woman helping to save the small town in India she has grown to call home and the oddball characters she considers family Janet Laird's life changed the day she inherited her grandfather's house in a faraway Indian hill station. Ignoring her son's arguments to come grow old in their family castle in Scotland, she moves with her chatty parrot, Mr. Ganguly and her loyal housekeeper, Mary, to Hamara Nagar, where local merchants are philosophers, the chief of police is a tyrant, and a bagpipe-playing Gurkha keeps the wild monkeys at bay. Settling in, Jana Bibi (as she comes to be known) meets her colorful local neighbors—Feroze Ali Khan of Royal Tailors, who struggles with his business and family, V.K. Ramachandran, whose Treasure Emporium is bursting at the seams with objects of unknown provenance, and Rambir, editor of the local newspaper, who burns the midnight oil at his printing press. When word gets out that the town is in danger of being drowned by a government dam, Jana is enlisted to help put it on the map. Hoping to attract tourists with promises of good things to come, she stacks her deck of cards, readies her fine-feathered assistant—and Jana Bibi's Excellent Fortunes is born.
Download or read book One False Step written by Joseph Flynn and published by Stray Dog Press Inc. This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two cops…Bibi Ferrer, San Diego homicide, receives a warning: Billionaire Anson Williams, will be done in by his new wife, Alexandra. Despite her best efforts, Bibi fails to prevent Williams’ death. Worse, she can’t prove Alexandra is the killer. All she can do is follow Alexandra to her Caribbean lair, the island of St. Bertram.Things are even more personal for retired Chicago police captain Terry Dunne. His younger brother is killed by a contract assassin. His only clue: The hit-man might have unfinished business waiting for him on St. Bertram.Two killers . . .Avice Toussaint, formerly Alexandra Williams, isn’t every man’s idea of a knockout—only those with a pulse. She’s bored with luring wealthy men to their deaths. Problem is, her father wants her to continue. He’s ex-KGB. He kills people who defy him, no exceptions made for family.George Beecher was an SAS commando, a master of combat. He was far less suited to following orders. After his court martial and discharge from the military, he continued to do the only thing he knew how: kill people. This time for money.One plan . . .Bibi and Terry cross paths. Not wanting to alert their prey, they decide to shadow each other’s killer. Get the goods on the killers and see that justice is done.It’s a plan…but when do those things ever work out?
Book Synopsis Behind Enemy Lines: A Novel of the Battle of the Bulge by : Steven Blair Wheeler
Download or read book Behind Enemy Lines: A Novel of the Battle of the Bulge written by Steven Blair Wheeler and published by Kiger Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind Enemy Lines is the second part of the three book trilogy Still in the Woods. The trilogy, beginning with Fight to Survive, tells the heroic story of American soldiers engulfed in Hitler’s surprise winter offensive in December, 1944. In the opening days of what came to be known as the Battle of the Bulge, American units were overrun or swept aside. American soldiers fought against overwhelming odds only to face the choice of surrender, or risk evading the enemy to regain US lines. Rallying to an intrepid American lieutenant, several dozen GIs decide that they will hold out in the Belgian forest until the Allies push the Nazis back into Germany. Lieutenant Arthur Hill organizes his volunteers into a unit to wage their own winter war. Their success in raiding supply dumps and ambushing German convoys gains needed food and supplies, but attracts the attention of the SS commander in the area. Sturmbannführer Karl Grabner becomes determined to wipe out the troublesome band of American “partisans.” The Still in the Woods series reaches the thrilling conclusion in Forest Battles.
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Book Synopsis A Help to Candidates for Lower and Higher Standard Examinations in Hindustani by : Narayan Das (munshi.)
Download or read book A Help to Candidates for Lower and Higher Standard Examinations in Hindustani written by Narayan Das (munshi.) and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cuba Diaries written by Isadora Tattlin and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2002-05-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isadora Tattlin is the American wife of a European energy consultant posted to Havana in the 1990s. Wisely, the witty Mrs. Tattlin began a diary the day her husband informed her of their new assignment. One of the first entries is her shopping list of things to take, including six gallons of shampoo. For although the Tattlins were provided with a wonderful, big house in Havana, complete with a staff of seven, there wasn't much else money could buy in a country whose shelves are nearly bare. The record of her daily life in Cuba raising her two small children, entertaining her husband's clients (among them Fidel Castro and his ministers and minions), and contending with chronic shortages of, well . . . everything (on the street, tourists are hounded not for money but for soap), is literally stunning. Adventurous and intuitive, Tattlin squeezed every drop of juice--both tasty and repellent--from her experience. She traveled wherever she could (it's not easy--there are few road signs or appealing places to stay or eat). She befriended artists, attended concerts and plays. She gave dozens of parties, attended dozens more. Cuba Diaries--vividly explicit, empathetic, often hilarious--takes the reader deep inside this island country only ninety miles from the U.S., where the average doctor's salary is eleven dollars a month. The reader comes away appalled by the deprivation and drawn by the romance of a weirdly nostalgic Cuba frozen in the 1950s.
Download or read book Revolt written by Qaisra Shahraz and published by Arcadia Books. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Delightfully detailed, emotionally rich and relevant" Anora McGaha, editor of Women Writers, Women Books A multi-layered, multi-faceted story of love, loss and mixed-race marriage, Revolt is the tale of three wealthy sisters and the problems that no amount of money can solve. There is a daughter, abandoned because of an impulsive marriage, an aunt who pines for lost love, and a bridegroom with the biggest problem of them all. Set in England and the fictional village of Gulistan in Pakistan, with its fascinating array of quirky, eccentric and unforgettable characters, Revolt centres on the forthcoming marriage of two rich cousins and the often hilarious but always deeply moving pitfalls of living in a place where everyone knows everybody else s business. Underpinning the action is the compulsive and pervading need to resolve the conflict between Pakistani Muslim values and those of the modern West. A brilliantly incisive portrait of small-town life, exploding into a panoramic portrayal of the nature of change, freedom, pride and prejudice, Revolt also reminds us of a darker, more threatening world. Immensely readable, dramatic and beautifully evocative, this book will enthral, as the action unfolds and the tensions play out to their startling resolution.
Download or read book Under Five Flags written by S. Afsheen and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the progress of an Émigré family of Iranian ancestry from ancient times of the royal family of Nadir Shah of Iran via Ashraf Afshar, through many generations, against the larger historical backdrop of the societies and cultures in which they lived. Jacob J Ross (FRSL), a reader from Literary Consultancy comments, "This book has clearly been an enormous undertaking, covering as it does much of the seminal events that shaped the twentieth century as well as the origins of the State of Iran (from 1835 onwards) and the emergence of this country as a major focus in the global, geopolitical and ideological debates of the present century. On top of all this, he has layered his own personal history. ... overall, he has succeeded in writing a book that is often times insightful, at times funny and for me, quite elucidating." The author, Shahrukh, shows how significant happenings around the world affected and wrapped each decade of his life. The 19th century was described as an age of progress. With the help of the telegraph, railway, and steamships, boosting trade, the Europeans imperial ambitions reach its heights of development. Cultural, artistic and political changes emerged that fundamentally modify the way they thought about the world and their place in it. Shahrukh, born in the 1930s in Burma, grew up in a close-knit conservative community, living a life of luxury in mansion houses with servants and nannies in attendance. Then an abrupt convulsion ruptures the serenity of their scene; the Second World War erupts, and seemingly the world implodes around them. Having lost everything they leave Rangoon, fleeing from village to village in pursuit of preserving life, like Nomads, not in search for new pastures, but trying to escape from the British and Japanese bombs, local bandits, and succumbing to disease and death in the jungles of Burma. Many survive by selling their precious heirlooms and jewellery. After the wreckage of war in Burma, they arrive in Calcutta in December of 1945. Shahrukh is eight years old. The authors exploration of the political dynamics that led to the partition of India and Pakistan gives a deeper understanding, not only the 'creation' of Pakistan but the religious and ideological ideas that underpinned its formation. It therefore helps give a better appreciation of the present situation prevailing in that country. In India, Shahrukh and family witness the gruesome communal riots and killings between the Hindus and Muslims. The Great Calcutta Killing, started on 16 August 1946, a day of widespread riot and manslaughter in the city. The force and ferocity of this fury in Calcutta leads to the massacre of about three thousand people within twenty-four hours, with bodies strewn uncounted in the bamboo thickets; vultures fed off them. Starvation threatened to add to the crisis faced by hospitals. At Grammar School he is taught Latin but not Urdu, the local language. He is taught Shakespeare, which he masters, but not Allama Iqbal, the national poet. Their heroes are Nelson and western movie stars. He narrates about the aim of school in trying to produce replicas of English public schoolboys. After completing his Senior Cambridge Exams, Shahrukh gets admitted to D. J. Science College, part of Karachi University. For his Bachelor degree he takes Maths and Physics as his major subjects. In his final year at the college, the Principal appoints Shahrukh as President of the College Student Council. He takes this enterprise very seriously and is determined to make it succeed. After much debate and discussion, a budget is drawn up and finalised; it is printed and displayed on the main notice board. Each programme of the year proceeds with clockwork precision. This is accomplished for the first time in the history of the college; Shahrukh exclaims, "It was worth all the tears, sweat and toil". The Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States play
Download or read book The Patna Law Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Lockdown written by Julia Sudbury and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
