Download or read book Always Anjali written by Sheetal Sheth and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Anjali! She's the spunky star of this picture book with a timeless message about appreciating what makes us special and honoring our different identities. Anjali and her friends are excited to buy matching personalized license plates for their bikes--but Anjali can't find a plate with her name. She is often teased about her "different" name, and this is the last straw. Anjali is so upset that she demands her parents let her pick a new name! When they refuse, Anjali decides to take a closer look at who she is--beyond her name--and why being different means being marvelous. Actress and activist Sheetal Sheth has penned a deeply personal picture book about the experience of feeling othered and the journey toward embracing yourself.

Download or read book Bravo Anjali written by Sheetal Sheth and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anjali is back for an encore in this follow-up to Always Anjali! And she isn't going to let anyone make her feel bad for being good at something, especially something she loves. For Anjali, playing the tabla is something that comes naturally--she loves feeling the drum beneath her fingers and getting lost in the music. She doesn't care that some people say it's an instrument for boys. But she does care when her skills make others treat her differently. Anjali starts downplaying her talent, and even messes up on purpose. When her teacher announces a music contest, Anjali can’t deny her dreams of playing the tabla. From actor, author, and activist Sheetal Sheth, this second book in the Anjali series is an important message about never dimming your light.

Download or read book ANJALI written by M. Chitra and published by Éditions Encre Rouge. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Puducherry, Anjali is the granddaughter of a Franco-Indian soldier who was a big fan of the French general Charles De Gaulle. Arriving in France in 1994, after her arranged marriage at the age of 25, she is abandoned by her husband on the very first day in her new country. Despite her initial disillusionment, she survives the culture shock and adversity, thanks to the love and support of the French people she meets. She is finally leading a quiet life with her three-year-old daughter, born under strange circumstances, when she meets Raphael. Believing to have finally found a knight in shining armour, a true gentleman, she quickly becomes disenchanted. Anjali must now take her destiny into her own hands for the second time in four years. But this time will she come out unscathed?

Download or read book Faint Promise of Rain written by Anjali Mitter Duva and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2016 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing It is 1554 in the desert of Rajasthan. On a rare night of rain, a daughter is born to a family of Hindu temple dancers just as India’s new Mughal Emperor Akbar sets his sights on their home, the fortress city of Jaisalmer, and the other Princely States around it. Fearing a bleak future, Adhira’s father, the temple’s dance master—against his wife and sons’ protests—puts his faith in tradition and in his last child for each to save the other: he insists that Adhira is destined to “marry” the temple’s deity and to give herself to a wealthy patron. Thus she must live in submission as a woman revered and reviled. But Adhira’s father may not have the last word. Adhira grows into an exquisite dancer, and after one terrible evening she must make a choice—one that will carry her family’s story and their dance to a startling new beginning.

Download or read book ANJALI written by Atharva R Inamdar and published by The Book Nexus. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kavita believed Anjali had the perfect husband in Rohit. But when Kavita finds out that Anjali is cheating on Rohit, she couldn't help but tell her husband Arjun. Arjun warns Kavita not to interfere in their matter but Kavita has other plans. Will the curiosity to get to know more about Anjali land Kavita in trouble? Do find out.

Download or read book Southbound written by Anjali Enjeti and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A move at age ten from a Detroit suburb to Chattanooga in 1984 thrusts Anjali Enjeti into what feels like a new world replete with Confederate flags, Bible verses, and whiteness. It is here that she learns how to get her bearings as a mixed-race brown girl in the Deep South and begins to understand how identity can inspire, inform, and shape a commitment to activism. Her own evolution is a bumpy one, and along the way Enjeti, racially targeted as a child, must wrestle with her own complicity in white supremacy and bigotry as an adult. The twenty essays of her debut collection, Southbound, tackle white feminism at a national feminist organization, the early years of the AIDS epidemic in the South, voter suppression, gun violence and the gun sense movement, the whitewashing of southern literature, the 1982 racialized killing of Vincent Chin, social media’s role in political accountability, evangelical Christianity’s marriage to extremism, and the rise of nationalism worldwide. In our current era of great political strife, this timely collection by Enjeti, a journalist and organizer, paves the way for a path forward, one where identity drives coalition-building and social change.

Download or read book Anjali s Dreams written by Jai Danglar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: love is forgiveness, Ironic love triangle, A childhood lost, and memories regained

Download or read book Stalking God written by Anjali Kumar and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anjali Kumar, a pragmatic lawyer for Google, was part of a rapidly growing population in America: highly spiritual but religiously uncommitted. But when her daughter was born, she became compelled to find God -- or at least some kind of enlightenment. Convinced that traditional religions were not a fit for her, and knowing that she couldn't simply Google an answer to "What is the meaning of life?", Kumar set out on a spiritual pilgrimage, looking for answers -- and nothing was off limits or too unorthodox. She headed to the mountains of Peru to learn from the shamans, attended the techie haunt of Burning Man, practiced transcendental meditation, convened with angels, and visited saints, goddesses, witches, and faith healers. She even hired a medium to convene with the dead. Kumar's lighthearted story offers a revealing look at the timeless and vexing issue of spirituality in an era when more and more people are walking away from formal religions. Narrated from the open-minded perspective of a spiritual seeker rather than a religious scholar, Kumar offers an honest account of some of the less than mainstream spiritual practices that are followed by millions of people in the world today as she searches for the answers to life's most universal questions: Why are we here? What happens when we die? Is there a God?

Download or read book The Parted Earth written by Anjali Enjeti and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning more than half a century and cities from New Delhi to Atlanta, Anjali Enjeti's debut is a heartfelt and human portrait of the long shadow of the Partition of India on the lives of three generations of women. The story begins in August 1947. Unrest plagues the streets of New Delhi leading up to the birth of the Muslim majority nation of Pakistan, and the Hindu majority nation of India. Sixteen-year-old Deepa navigates the changing politics of her home, finding solace in messages of intricate origami from her secret boyfriend Amir. Soon Amir flees with his family to Pakistan and a tragedy forces Deepa to leave the subcontinent forever. The story also begins sixty years later and half a world away, in Atlanta. While grieving both a pregnancy loss and the implosion of her marriage, Deepa's granddaughter Shan begins the search for her estranged grandmother, a prickly woman who had little interest in knowing her. As she pieces together her family history shattered by the Partition, Shan discovers how little she actually knows about the women in her family and what they endured. For readers of Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins, The Parted Earth follows Shan on her search for identity after loss uproots her life. Above all, it is a novel about families weathering the lasting violence of separation, and how it can often takes a lifetime to find unity and peace.

Download or read book Why Should I Love You written by Anjali Rai and published by Om Books International. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book Saloni, an ambitious and independent woman, moves away from the comforts of her hometown, Patiala, to New Delhi, a metro in an endless whirl. Saloni needs to champion the cause of gender equality and women empowerment, and set out on the quest for an ultimate soulmate, at the same time. Three men enter her life—Manish, whom she loves unreservedly, Piyush, who loves her unconditionally, and a mentor who could guide her to enlightenment. Will either be the soulmate Saloni hopes to find? Anjali Rai's debut novel, Why Should I Love You? is not an ordinary tale of love. Wrapped in a blanket of spiritualism, this riveting read is Saloni's journey of excitement, passion, pleasure and pain. About the Author Hailing from a family of freedom fighters, Anjali Rai began her career as a newscaster for Doordarshan. She later joined politics and served as a member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly for a decade. Her artistic inclination motivated her to record a music album with T-Series. She has acted in short films and directed various documentaries. Her debut novel, Why Should I Love You? is an extraordinary journey of a woman in search of eternal love.

Download or read book All the Names They Used for God written by Anjali Sachdeva and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the best collections I’ve ever read. Every single story is a standout.”—Roxane Gay WINNER OF THE CHAUTAUQUA PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • Refinery29 • BookRiot “Fuses science, myth, and imagination into a dark and gorgeous series of questions about our current predicaments.”­—Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See A dystopian tale about genetically modified septuplets who are struck by a mysterious illness; a love story about a man bewitched by a mermaid; a stirring imagining of the lives of Nigerian schoolgirls in the aftermath of a Boko Haram kidnapping. The stories in All the Names They Used for God break down genre barriers—from science fiction to American Gothic to magical realism to horror—and are united by each character’s brutal struggle with fate. Like many of us, the characters in this collection are in pursuit of the sublime. Along the way, they must navigate the borderland between salvation and destruction. NAMED A MUST-READ BOOK BY Harper’s Bazaar • Entertainment Weekly • AM New York • Reading Women AND A TOP READ BY Elle • Fast Company • The Christian Science Monitor • Bustle • Shondaland • Popsugar • Refinery29 • Bookish • Newsday • The Millions • Asian American Writers’ Workshop • HelloGiggles “Strange and wonderful . . . delightfully unexpected.”—The New York Times Book Review “Completing one [story] is like having lived an entire life, and then being born, breathless, into another.”—Carmen Maria Machado “Captivating.”—NPR “Gripping.”—Los Angeles Review of Books “[A] remarkable debut . . . Sachdeva is seemingly fearless and her talent limitless.”—AM New York “This phenomenal debut short-story collection is filled with stories that bring the otherworldly to life and examine the strangeness of humanity.”—Bustle “So rich they read like dreams . . . They are enormous stories, not in length but in ambition, each an entirely new, unsparing world. Beautiful, draining—and entirely unforgettable.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Download or read book Seducing Anjali written by Diana Persaud and published by Diana Persaud. This book was released on 2017-07-29 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tick. Tock. The clock is ticking. Successful author Anjali Singh wants to live the American Dream, to own a house, get married and have children but the men in her life are too career focused to settle down. Tired of waiting for Mr. Right, she takes charge of her own destiny and decides have a baby on her own. So when Anjali's charming new neighbor, Tom, seems determined to play house, she's tempted to put her plans on hold. Easy going high school dropout Tom Keller has an ambitious goal, to become a successful business owner. Out to prove himself, he buys an auto body shop. When an exotic Indian woman moves in next door, seemingly immune to his charm, Tom decides he's ready for both challenges. But when Tom’s business is plagued with one problem after another, he sinks his time, energy and money into saving his business. Time is running out for Tom to convince her to have a baby the old fashioned way. With him.

Download or read book Bravo Anjali written by Sheetal Sheth and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anjali is back for an encore in this follow-up to Always Anjali! And she isn't going to let anyone make her feel bad for being good at something, especially something she loves. For Anjali, playing the tabla is something that comes naturally--she loves feeling the drum beneath her fingers and getting lost in the music. She doesn't care that some people say it's an instrument for boys. But she does care when her skills make others treat her differently. Anjali starts downplaying her talent, and even messes up on purpose. When her teacher announces a music contest, Anjali can’t deny her dreams of playing the tabla. From actor, author, and activist Sheetal Sheth, this second book in the Anjali series is an important message about never dimming your light.

Download or read book Ahimsa written by Supriya Kelkar and published by Tu Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her mother is jailed for being one of Gandhi's freedom fighters, ten-year-old Anjali overcomes her own prejudices and continues her mother's social reform work, befriending Untouchable children and working to integrate her school.

Download or read book Anjali Other Stories written by Pratap Mitra and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dear Anjali written by Melissa Glenn Haber and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her best friend dies at the age of thirteen, Meredith writes letters to her as she tries to endure her grief and other confusing emotions.

Download or read book ABC Science Book written by Anjali Joshi and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABC learning through the power of S.T.E.A.M. for ages 0 to 3 Give your little scientist a jump-start with this fun, inspiring way to master their ABCs. From astronaut to zoologist, ABC Science Book introduces young children, up to age 3, to basic scientific concepts and careers with each letter of the alphabet. This S.T.E.A.M.-themed ABC book for kids features: Levels of discovery—Explore a tiered learning approach that grows with your child; focus first on letters, then on words, and then on understanding concepts. Colorful images—Rich and vibrant illustrations add to the learning and keep your child engaged. Full S.T.E.A.M. ahead—Encourage a lifelong love of learning with all the books in the S.T.E.A.M. Baby series. ABC Science Book makes learning the alphabet a fun, exciting adventure for any toddler.