Download or read book Journey to the Unknown written by Christine Frances and published by eXtasy Books. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathen and Authia's story continues as they risk everything, including the people they love, in the hope that Africa holds the answers for Nathen and he will, at last, find his origins.

Download or read book Twisted written by Porsha Denay and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newspaper journalist Amina is ready to take her career to the next level as a published author. While doing some research, she somehow manages to come across an obituary of a woman named Paulette Ghram. The brief summary of this womans life intrigues Amina, and quickly becomes her foundation. Paulette was successful, beautiful, powerful, and, in her own eyes, perfect. Married to the father of her two children, vice president of a fortune 500 company, and only 26 yrs young. It was only right she felt she was perfect. Until one night of celebration with the girls changes it all. Paulettes eyes become wide open, and so does her hunger for vengeance. Needing to hurt her husband just as much as he hurt her, Paulette doesnt realize the extent of secrets, lies, deceit, and life threatening decisions she stirs up from her love affair with Terrance Johnson. Even with all shes learned and written, Amina hasnt yet realized just how twisted things are about to get for everyone.

Download or read book The Fourth Finger written by Latifat Balogun and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-08-06 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fourth Finger narrates the story of Ahdia a beautiful young woman that seems to have been able to accomplish all life has to offer except a successful love relationship. Love seems to hate her, and eludes her every time she thinks she has finally found the perfect man. She hopelessly and tirelessly goes through heartbreaking relationships leaving her to doubt her own ability to love and be loved. To compound her problems, she is from a conservative Islamic African background that views marriage and child rearing as a necessity/obligation for every woman. She represents a clash of cultures and is ultimately torn in between accepting her African or Western cultural belief systems pertaining to gender, marriage, love, and divorce

Download or read book Baby Young Gifted and Black written by Jamia Wilson and published by Wide Eyed Editions. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are so many things I am and can be... There's a whole world waiting for me." Introduce your baby to Black excellence with this lyrical board-book edition of Young, Gifted and Black. Includes a mirror at the back so young dreamers can see themselves next to their heroes. Meet icons of color from past and present in this baby board book celebration of inspirational achievement. A collection of positive, yet simple, affirmations to encourage the next generation. Highlighting the talent of Black leaders and changemakers from around the world, young dreamers will develop confidence, self-assurance, and self-belief. Created in the spirit of Nina Simone’s song “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black,” meet figureheads, leaders and pioneers such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, as well as cultural trailblazers like Zadie Smith and athletes like Serena Williams. Jamia Wilson has carefully curated this range of Black icons and the book is stylishly brought together by Andrea Pippins’ colorful and celebratory illustrations. All children deserve to see themselves represented positively in the books they read. *Remove packaging before giving to a child* Praise for the hardback edition “...to be revisited again and again…The candy-colored pages and straightforward stories are hard to resist…” –The New York Times “...diverse collection of iconic figures…vibrantly illustrated…beautifully crafted volume…” –Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review “…exuberant…exquisitely designed…a launching point for more discoveries.” –School Library Journal, Starred Review “A luminous and diverse tribute to black movers and shakers across the centuries.” –Publishers Weekly For readers 9-12, check out Step Into Your Power and Big Ideas for Young Thinkers, by the same author-illustrator team.

Download or read book REJECTION IS NOT MY NAME written by Regeneis Winters and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of us have experienced some form of rejection and many of us simply sweep it under the rug and pretend it is unimportant. Regeneis Winters knows how important it is to deal with the pain that stems from rejection right away. She herself went through moments of rejection in her life and by God's grace, she was able to prevail and learn from the experience. Now you, too, can do the same! When Winters wrote REJECTION IS NOT MY NAME, she realized that she still had some deep-seated pain inside her. More importantly, she knew that she needed to be delivered from this hurt before she could move on to the next chapter in her life. In her book, she shares inspiration and insights on how she was able to overcome the things that held her back from living a life of joy and true healing. Honest, deeply moving and filled with hope, REJECTION IS NOT MY NAME is both a true story of Winters' journey of redemption and finding lasting peace and a triumphant testament of the power of love and forgiveness.

Download or read book This Book Is Feminist written by Jamia Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book is Feminist is a stylishly illustrated introduction to intersectional feminism and its roots for young feminists in training.

Download or read book Norby and Yobo s Great Adventure Norby and the Oldest Dragon written by Isaac Asimov and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eighth volume of the complete children’s sci-fi series features a history-obsessed admiral and trouble at a dragon’s birthday party. Norby and Yobo’s Great Adventure The illustrious Adm. Boris Yobo wants to travel through time to discover the origins of a treasured family heirloom. And since Norby is the only way to time travel, he and Jeff become Admiral Yobo’s companions on a supposedly innocent weekend trip that turns into a dangerous adventure. Norby and the Oldest Dragon Jeff Wells is feeling decidedly out of sorts, and not even the prospect of the Grand Dragon’s birthday party on the planet Jamyn can cheer him up. In fact, that’s part of the problem. Jeff had wanted to stay at the Space Academy for the weekend. Instead, his sometimes-bossy personal robot, Norby, is making him pack for what he is sure will be an adventure-free trip. Boy, does he turn out to be wrong!

Download or read book Indianapolis Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1997-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indianapolis Monthly is the Circle City’s essential chronicle and guide, an indispensable authority on what’s new and what’s news. Through coverage of politics, crime, dining, style, business, sports, and arts and entertainment, each issue offers compelling narrative stories and lively, urbane coverage of Indy’s cultural landscape.

Download or read book Norby and the Invaders Norby and the Queen s Necklace written by Isaac Asimov and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth volume of the complete children’s sci-fi series includes a mission to foil evildoing aliens and a quick trip to eighteenth-century France. Norby and the Invaders Jeff Wells and his robot, Norby, must rescue the Grand Dragon of Jamya from strange, blimplike aliens known as the Hleno. Determined to protect the environment from the overuse of technology, the Hleno take Norby and Jeff prisoner, too. Encased in an impenetrable plastic bubble, Norby is helpless. And without Norby, Jeff is lost in outer space. Norby and the Queen’s Necklace Sent to 1785, France, Jeff and Norby get mixed up with an extravagant necklace intended for Marie Antoinette—and accidentally alter events that led to the French Revolution. Now they must shuttle back and forth through time and space to set world history straight.

Download or read book Dr Zakir Hussain Quest for Truth written by Z̤iāʼulḥasan Fārūqī and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Zakir Husain, 1897-1969, president of India.

Download or read book Palestine Commission on the Disturbances of August 1929 written by Great Britain. Commission on the Palestine Disturbances of August 1929 and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Norby s Other Secret Norby and the Lost Princess written by Isaac Asimov and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second volume of the complete children’s sci-fi series, a boy and his robot venture to a dangerous planet and go in search of a missing princess. Norby’s Other Secret Scheming scientists want to find the secrets behind Norby’s antigravity abilities, but they have to dismantle him to do it! To evade them, Norby and Jeff flee to the planet Jamya, where Norby was created. But can these friends survive a planet is inhabited by angry robots and intelligent, hungry dragons? Norby and the Lost Princess Jeff and Norby travel unintentionally to the distant planet Izz, where they are forced to join a search for the missing princess. Their journey takes them to the muddy world of the Slithers, strange creatures who imprison the travelers, sting them into submission, and communicate with them only through musical sounds. Then things go from bad to worse when they discover that the missing princess has been turned into a tree!

Download or read book The Jamia Educational Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Call From Pakistan written by Bhawani Singh Chhagan Singh Bhati and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Call from Pakistan is a fiction novel that describes the lives of minorities. The story takes place before the partition in a village of central Pakistan. Where all religious people live happily. Then, suddenly news of the partition destroys everything. They who are friends turn foes and seeds of enmity start growing. Two groups among them - one who advocates stiff, rigid religious rules! Whereas the other who tries to convince them that love, peace, and harmony are above all. A story details how minorities of two nations enjoy religious freedom. Their trail of growth, and freedom of expression including the treatment, and the way they behave among the majority. And most of all it warns - what happens if religion becomes an obsession for someone when they want to add it everywhere, impose their superiority without accepting other’s truth! This is a story of Pakistani minorities who are fighting against bias, prejudices, and injustice.

Download or read book Norby Finds a Villain Norby Down to Earth written by Isaac Asimov and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixth volume of the complete children’s sci-fi series, Jeff and Norby reunite with an adventurous princess and uncover the mystery of Norby’s maker. Norby Finds a Villain Jeff and his mixed-up robot, Norby, are joined by red-headed Rinda, Crown Princess of the planet Izz, and Rinda’s small robot, Pera. Their time-travelling adventures take them from the Pleistocene period to five hundred years into a false future. Along the way, they must tame evil forces of Ing the Incredible Ingrate and bring back the Others, the intelligent and wise beings from ancient times. Norby Down to Earth Jeff Wells has a space dynamics test coming up at the academy, but when he hears that his brother, Fargo, is in trouble down on Earth, he and Norby blast into hyperspace and head home to help. It turns out that Fargo has tripped into a mystery involving zapped robots and stolen computer parts. Norby, in his inimitable mixed-up way, manages to jump into the middle of the mystery through his research into MacGillicuddy, his maker. It seems that MacGillicuddy left behind a very strange family. . . .

Download or read book Dr Rajendra Prasad Correspondence and Select Documents written by Rajendra Prasad and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scratch Deeper written by Chris Simms and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing feisty Detective Constable Iona Khan – the first in a thrilling new crime series. In sun-soaked Mauritius, a retired Law Lord is brutally murdered, while in rain-sodden Manchester, the Labour Party conference is beginning. Promoted to Greater Manchester Police’s Counter Terrorism Unit, Detective Constable Iona Khan’s first case appears to be a trivial use of false identity regarding a Sri Lankan student asking suspicious questions about Manchester’s tunnel system. But when she learns the identity of the conference’s guest speaker, Iona realizes it may not be so trivial after all, and she must enter the dark world beneath the city to prevent a possible catastrophe.