Download or read book Anjali the Brave written by Adjoa Smalls-Mantey and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anjali is a brave girl but, like many kids, she's nervous about getting the COVID-19 vaccine. She has lots of questions for her doctor and learns about how vaccines work and the amazing scientists who made them. Join Anjali The Brave on this educational journey where she discovers how vaccines keep us safe and healthy.

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 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 My Little Brave Girl written by Hilary Duff and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Actress, singer, and mother Hilary Duff offers a beautiful and inspiring picture book about bravery and love -- a perfect mother-daughter read-aloud! The world is big, my little brave girl. It’s all here for you. A poetic text encourages girls to reach higher, dream bigger, and approach the world with their hearts wide open. This love letter to little girls was inspired by Hilary Duff’s own experience as a mother as she considered all the ways her daughter had to be brave even as an infant. With lush illustrations and an empowering message, My Little Brave Girl is the perfect gift for baby showers, birthdays, Mother’s Day, graduation, and any time a girl—or woman—is embarking on a new chapter of her life!

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 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 Blessed Ring written by Arabinda Bhanja and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going back in time with a beautiful tale studded with ancient splendor is not a bad diversion. Here is a story of adventure, romance, bravery, treachery, love and devotion. A naval soldier, with dreams in his eyes and courage in his heart, sets forth to do extraordinary achievements, even though he is uncertain of his future. This brave soldier wins battles, by sheer prowess, which makes him the cynosure of all eyes. He wins the heart of the princess of the kingdom of Sribijaya and finds himself in trouble. Under all circumstances, he sticks to his principles and is loved by all the people. This enrages some powerful people at the royal court and he is compelled to leave the kingdom in the darkness of the night. Does he come back to save his fellowmen from dreaded pirates and hostile nobles? Or does he leave forever with no intention of returning back?

Download or read book Standing in the Way written by Sarah Symons and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling memoir shares Anjali's incredible story of being trafficked at age twelve from her village in Nepal to the red light areas of Kolkata, India. Despite enduring the worst abuse imaginable, today Anjali is working to combat trafficking and protect the next generation of girls in her community. She is able to do so because of the help and healing she has received since being rescued in 2008. The stories of the courageous people who freed her and helped in her recovery are woven into the book alongside personal recollections and insights. This book explores the root causes of human trafficking and the factors in Anjali's family and community that made her vulnerable. It describes vividly her journey to India as a young child, and the large, complex network of traffickers. brothel owners and madams who were involved in selling, transporting and, exploiting her. The book sensitively portrays the difficult life of a young girl in a brothel. It is suitable for readers 15 and up.Anjali was eventually rescued, and the book tells that part of the story from the perspective of the rescuers as well as the girls themselves. Standing in the Way describes the innovative counseling and loving care that Anjali received after being rescued, which enabled her to recover from her trauma, develop her uniquely positive world view, and become a leader and activist. Anjali was able to return to Nepal, return to school and make up the many lost years of education. Now in college, she is planning to go back to her village and open a school and anti-trafficking charity that will prevent other girls in her village from having to suffer as she did. While child sex trafficking is a difficult subject, the book is ultimately hopeful and inspiring

Download or read book Freedom s Horizon written by Cora Buhlert and published by Pegasus Pulp Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once, Anjali Patel and Mikhail Grikov were soldiers on opposing sides of an intergalactic war. They met, fell in love and decided to go on the run together. Now Anjali and Mikhail are trying to eke out a living on the independent worlds of the galactic rim, while attempting to stay under the radar of those pursuing them. After a run-in with a Republican spy on the rim world of Metra Litko, Anjali and Mikhail need to get off planet fast. So they sign on as security aboard the freighter Freedom's Horizon, which is supposed to transport a valuable cargo through pirate infested space. But they have far bigger problems than pirates, for the Republic of United Planets sends no less than three battlecruisers after them, commanded by none other than Colonel Brian Mayhew, Mikhail's former superior and now their most determined pursuer. The chase culminates in a stand-off in orbit around Metra Litko, where Anjali and Mikhail have to make a fatal choice. Fight and endanger the innocent crew of the Freedom's Horizon or surrender and face death and worse at the hands of the Republic. This is a short novel of 55000 words or approximately 185 print pages in the "In Love and War" series, but may be read as a standalone.

Download or read book By Thumb Hoof and Wheel written by Prabhu Ghate and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-20 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prabhu Ghate takes us off the beaten track on selected journeys in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Antarctica, and shows us that you don't have to be rich to travel simply, or even young for that matter – just young at heart, empathetic, and curious. The book should stimulate interest in a variety of trips in our extended neighbourhood, and in the South generally, where travelling is not only more affordable, but in countless ways more interesting. The author takes us through his adventures and brushes with history, whether the building of the Berlin Wall, wandering into Somaliland, running smack into a civil war in Cyprus, taking a front seat in the People Power revolution in the Philippines, getting arrested during the Dirty War while trying to track down a group of Sikh settlers in a remote part of Argentina, catching a cargo boat down the Mekong from China, or riding a paddle steamer up the Nile for ten days in what is today South Sudan. By Thumb, Hoof and Wheel is entertaining, educative, and completely from a different world – a world that is rapidly changing with the forces of global homogenization. Experience a bit of it before it is lost forever.

Download or read book Shadows of Expectation written by KHRITISH SWARGIARY and published by ERA, US. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the rapidly evolving world of education, the role of societal expectations on schoolgirls remains a subject of profound importance. The perception that we have made substantial progress in gender equality is a half-truth that overlooks the deeply ingrained cultural, societal, and economic challenges many young girls in India still face today. As I set out to write this book, "Shadows of Expectation: The Unseen Struggles of School Girls in Modern India," my primary aim was to shed light on these often-overlooked narratives—the real, raw stories of girls across different regions of India who, despite the modern age, continue to battle the invisible chains of tradition, expectation, and societal pressure.

Download or read book High Yella written by Steve Majors and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They called him “pale faced or mixed race.” They called him “light, bright, almost white.” But most of the time his family called him “high yella.” Steve Majors was the white passing, youngest son growing up in an all-Black family that struggled with poverty, abuse, and generational trauma. High Yella is the poignant account of how he tried to leave his troubled childhood and family behind to create a new identity, only to discover he ultimately needed to return home to truly find himself. And after he and his husband adopt two Black daughters, he must set them on their own path to finding their place in the world by understanding the importance of where they come from. In his remarkable and moving memoir, Majors gathers the shards of a broken past to piece together a portrait of a man on an extraordinary journey toward Blackness, queerness, and parenthood. High Yella delivers its hard-won lessons on love, life, and family with exceptional grace.

Download or read book That Book Woman written by Heather Henson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exquisitely illustrated paean to everyone who struggles to learn how to read, and to everyone who won’t give up on them. Cal is not the readin' type. Living way high up in the Appalachian Mountains, he'd rather help Pap plow or go out after wandering sheep than try some book learning. Nope. Cal does not want to sit stoney-still reading some chicken scratch. But that Book Woman keeps coming just the same. She comes in the rain. She comes in the snow. She comes right up the side of the mountain, and Cal knows that's not easy riding. And all just to lend his sister some books. Why, that woman must be plain foolish—or is she braver than he ever thought? That Book Woman is a rare and moving tale that honors a special part of American history—the Pack Horse Librarians, who helped untold numbers of children see the stories amid the chicken scratch, and thus made them into lifetime readers.

Download or read book From Shadow to Star Fire written by Rohit Tandava and published by Amazon. This book was released on 2024-02-11 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tara, a 12-year-old living in our modern world, is haunted by strange whispers from the past. Visions of an ancient darkness threaten to break through, and her secretive father Vikram is the only one who understands. Together, they embark on a thrilling adventure to unravel the secrets of their family's past and fight the shadows that threaten to engulf the world. As Tara delves deeper, she discovers a hidden legacy that connects her to a forgotten battle against evil. Ancient symbols, hidden archives, and forgotten legends become their weapons as they unlock the truth about their power and destiny. Their journey strengthens the bond between Tara and her father, who reveals his past battles with the darkness. Each step brings them closer to understanding the enemy's plan but also throws them into the face of fearsome creatures and chilling truths. With courage and resourcefulness, Tara and Vikram face a showdown that could decide the fate of their world. Will they be able to defeat the ancient darkness and protect the future? This story is perfect for young adults who love fantasy, mystery, and adventure. It explores themes of family legacy, confronting the past, and finding strength in unity. Join Tara on her journey and discover the truth about the Whispers of Shadow and how she becomes from Shadow to Star fire

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 Aryas written by Dr. Charles J. David and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aryas--Warrior of Brahma is a passionate tale of heroism and valor set in the early days of India. This dynamic epic tale follows the transformation of Aryas, a young spiritual man studying to be a Hindu priest as he follows his true destiny as a warrior. Pulled by the forces around him from his chosen path, Aryas finds himself training for war to avenge his family and protect his countrymen. Aryas--Warrior of Brahma shows the beauty and delights of Indian culture while entertaining the reader with a cast of richly developed characters and fast-paced action.

Download or read book Looking For Bapu written by Anjali Banerjee and published by Wendy Lamb Books. This book was released on 2009-03-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anu's beloved grandfather Bapu moved from India to Anu's home in the Pacific Northwest when Anu was small, and Anu is devastated when Bapu dies. But when he is visited by Bapu's ghost, he knows that there must be a way to bring him back to life -- he's just not sure how. Anu enlists his friends Izzy and Unger to help him. From shaving his head to making up fortunes in the hope of becoming more holy, Anu tries everything. He even journeys to the island of the Mystery Museum. Perhaps there, Karnak the Magician will be able to help? From the Hardcover edition.