Download or read book RIPPLES and Other Stories written by Shih-Li Kow and published by Buku Fixi. This book was released on 2023-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This polyphonic collection of twenty-five stories presents a multitude of Malaysian perspectives spanning age, gender, and class. Yow char kwai hawkers compete for customers on a busy city street. Marital dynamics unfurl at an abortion clinic. On an island, a man's infatuation with a veiled woman takes a supernatural turn. A woman writes to her brother about their dead cat. Characters in these stories connect through chance encounters and fateful events. Their narratives are inevitably coloured by the social tension and occasional absurdities of a multicultural society. Shortlisted for the 2009 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize.
Download or read book Ripples and Other Stories written by Kow Shih-Li and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the skillful hands of the author, these stories reveal dimensions and facets of our Malaysian context with unerring accuracy.--Carol Leon, "The Asian, Vol. 3, No. 1."
Download or read book Beyond the Ripples written by Dede Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How might a small decision you make, an action you take, a phone call you initiate change your path? Impact other lives? Months after spying a bottle wedged into a fallen cottonwood snag in the Columbia River, Ernest pulls it from the river. The bottle's note connects Ernest, an old man living in a tiny Oregon town, to teenage Annie, provoking a mysterious and sudden friendship between Ernest's daughter Amelia with Sarah, the daughter of the most recent resident of the home Annie once occupied. The two middle-aged women's quest to learn more about Annie and her secret introduces readers to stories about family members through backstory, and introduces new characters, all connected through the finding of the bottle. Together, Amelia and Sarah explore their unfinished business with their mothers, intimate relationships, and regrets over life choices as they embark on their personal searches for something bigger in their very different lives.
Download or read book Ripples of Joy written by Cheryl Kirking and published by . This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like pebbles dropped in a pond, acts of courage, love, and faith create ripples that extend far and wide. In this gift edition, poignant stories of people from all walks of life demonstrate the principle of giving and receiving. Contributors include Fred Rogers, James Robinson, and Florence Littauer.
Download or read book Ripples from the Zambezi written by Ernesto Sirolli and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After six years of economic development work in Africa, Ernesto Sirolli witnessed how little most foreign aid programs were actually doing for the people they hoped to help-from creating a communal tomato field on the banks of the Zambezi river (only to be demolished by the river's hippos at harvest time) to donating snow-plows to African nations! However well intentioned, Sirolli points out, inappropriate development often creates more problems than it solves. Thus was the genesis of this exciting and unique alternative to traditional economic development termed "Enterprise Facilitation"- where depressed communities can build hope and prosperity by first helping individuals to recognize their talents and business passion, and then providing the skills to transform their dreams into meaningful and rewarding work.
Download or read book Rippler written by Cidney Swanson and published by Williams Press. This book was released on 2011-05-29 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ripple Effect written by Alex Prud'homme and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AS ALEX PRUD’HOMME and his great-aunt Julia Child were completing their collaboration on her memoir, My Life in France, they began to talk about the French obsession with bottled water, which had finally spread to America. From this spark of interest, Prud’homme began what would become an ambitious quest to understand the evolving story of freshwater. What he found was shocking: as the climate warms and world population grows, demand for water has surged, but supplies of freshwater are static or dropping, and new threats to water quality appear every day. The Ripple Effect is Prud’homme’s vivid and engaging inquiry into the fate of freshwater in the twenty-first century. The questions he sought to answer were urgent: Will there be enough water to satisfy demand? What are the threats to its quality? What is the state of our water infrastructure—both the pipes that bring us freshwater and the levees that keep it out? How secure is our water supply from natural disasters and terrorist attacks? Can we create new sources for our water supply through scientific innovation? Is water a right like air or a commodity like oil—and who should control the tap? Will the wars of the twenty-first century be fought over water? Like Daniel Yergin’s classic The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power, Prud’homme’s The Ripple Effect is a masterwork of investigation and dramatic narrative. With striking instincts for a revelatory story, Prud’homme introduces readers to an array of colorful, obsessive, brilliant—and sometimes shadowy—characters through whom these issues come alive. Prud’homme traversed the country, and he takes readers into the heart of the daily dramas that will determine the future of this essential resource—from the alleged murder of a water scientist in a New Jersey purification plant, to the epic confrontation between salmon fishermen and copper miners in Alaska, to the poisoning of Wisconsin wells, to the epidemic of intersex fish in the Chesapeake Bay, to the wars over fracking for natural gas. Michael Pollan has changed the way we think about the food we eat; Alex Prud’homme will change the way we think about the water we drink. Informative and provocative, The Ripple Effect is a major achievement.
Download or read book Ripples of Life a Story of Hope Renewal written by Tom Gnagey and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is another of the author's beloved, sensitive contrasts between a young person adrift and an eccentric, older character. The story is set around and about the winter holidays in a northern Midwestern city. When, on a cold, snowy, December night, the world of a wise and generous old man collides with that of a bright, fifteen-year-old runaway boy, wonderful changes begin taking place. It restores their faith - the old man in youth and the life he has lived; the boy in himself and his future. Good conversations abound. It is an entertaining and meaningful read for young adults and adults (12 and older).
Download or read book Humanity s Grace written by Dede Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salty air, low lying clouds, and crooning of seagulls near the towering Astoria Column and the flowing Columbia River set the scene for Humanity's Grace, a collection of linked short stories. Frank, Anne, Monica, and Sarah all reappear from the pages of Montgomery's novel, Beyond the Ripples. New characters: An elderly mother and her son, a police office and spouse, a childhood friend, a counselor, a bystander appear, are all uniquely connected to a murder in downtown Astoria, Oregon. Frank's untimely death creates a spectrum of consequences for his loved ones, acquaintances, and strangers. The ensuing murder accusation throws a trio of characters into darkness, as they reassess earlier beliefs, past decisions and actions. Other characters are impacted in unique and unexpected ways. A police officer is haunted by his past. A young woman awakens from a vivid dream of a friend from before. A mother wonders what she did wrong. A son aches for others to be kind. A daughter questions her father's past, while her mother remembers parts of the man she had forgotten. A stranger ponders the significance of a message she's received. The characters in Humanity's Grace intertwine as they laugh, scream, and cry, do good or create evil. Most of all, they meander through sorrow and sadness, joy and regret, as they remind the reader of the startling and collective beauty of life's connections.
Download or read book The Sum of Our Follies written by Shih-Li Kow and published by Buku Fixi. This book was released on 2023-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sum of Our Follies is a novel set in Lubok Sayong, an imaginary Malaysian town. Two narrators describe Lubok Sayong and its community of quirky inhabitants. The first is Auyong, a retiree from the city who operates a lychee factory in Lubok Sayong. The other is eleven-year-old Mary Anne, an orphan who is taken in by an irascible woman in charge of the Big House. Through anecdotes and gentle humour, the two narrators observe the events that change the town and their lives as modernity sets in and Mary Anne grows up.
Download or read book Ripples on the Pond written by Sebnem E. Sanders and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man infatuated with ivy. A woman pining for lost love. In a Turkish square, ancient buildings lament a devastating explosion. An unlikely friendship struck up with a homeless person. A journey to a magical place that once visited can never be found again. The camaraderie between the patients in a cancer ward. A writer who has lost his muse. A tragedy that leads to dementia. These are just a few of seventy individual tales set in locations straddling continents, which portray war, love, hate, hope, greed, revenge, despair, humour, mystical happenings, fantasy, and so much more. Like ripples expanding on the surface of a pond to reach its banks, they converge in this anthology of flash fiction and short stories by Sebnem E. Sanders in her debut release.
Download or read book Ripples of Love written by Hammad Khan and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-27 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception in November 2013, Author's United (AU) is committed to produce books of international standards. Its first anthology “A Pinch of Love, Peace and Humanity” was a collection of short stories and poetry written by 10 internationally published authors from different parts of the world. “A Pinch of Love, Peace and Humanity” has successfully advocated the message of peace, love and humanity throughout the world. Reviewers from print, electronic and social media have appreciated the anthology and its positive impact on the readers. Author's United is proudly presenting the second anthology “Ripples of Love” in continuation of its previous efforts. “Ripples of Love” is a collection of short stories and poetry written by 16 internationally acclaimed authors from nine different countries including Canada, India, Israel, Nigeria, Pakistan, Trinidad & Tobago, USA, Zambia and Zimbabwe. As apparent from the lineup of authors, the readers will again find a true blend of different styles, different cultures and different social norms in this anthology. However, there is only one thing that put aside our differences and bind us, that beautiful thing is called “Love” and the “Love” is portrayed by all authors in their diversified styles within their work. A reader's mind will oscillate between the real-life experiences and world of imagination, as he or she is presented with 24 different stories, formulated by authors of different age groups and literary experiences.The fictional lovers will find the paintings of love in many different canvasses within “Ripples of Love”. This anthology is a compilation of stories, poems, prose poetry, essays, anecdotes, short poems and Haiku etc. “Ripples of Love” has as many ripples of different wavelengths and frequency as an anthology could have. You just have to touch one of the ripples with love to create more ripples of love. The preface from Kulbhushan Trehan has expressed the true soul of this anthology.It is an honor to thank all the authors who contributed to this anthology – Archana Kapoor Nagpal, Brian Johnston, Bruce Colbert, Daren Despot, Dominique Wilkins, Earlymay Chibende, Hammad Khan, Kulbhushan Trehan, Lakshmi C Radhakrishnan , Lori Ann McNeilly, Madhu Kalyan, Mbono Dube, Ndaba Sibanda, Rita Odeh, Sugata Mukhopadhyay and Sunday Igwebuike who made this international project feasible through their sincere participation and dedication.
Download or read book Ripples in Time written by L a Casey and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escaping Earth for twenty-one year old Levi meant fleeing a monster who caged her, and abandoning a mother who loved her. Elation and misery were her constant companions. Bred a slave, hardship is all Levi has ever known ... but now she is on Ealra, home to the Maji species that saved her, and many human women like her.She is no longer a slave, she has protection, a home, friendship, a purpose ... but everything seems too good to be true, especially with a member of the royal family takes a keen interest in Levi.Existing from day to day for the past few decades has become the norm for Ezah. Ever since he failed to protect his intended from a vicious beast, he allowed himself to drift into misery. Born a prince, Ezah has had everything he has ever wanted ... but the one being he truly wanted was dead, and it was his fault.He is still a prince, and still has everything he could ever need ... but then life takes a strange turn, and just when Ezah thought he heart was dead and buried, a brown skinned human female made it beat again. Protecting, and loving, Levi is all Ezah wants to do, and when her very life is threatened, he vows to not make the same mistake as he had done before.He would protect Levi, even if he has to lay down his life to do so.
Download or read book Ripples of a Lie written by Esther Barnett Goffinet and published by . This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trial of the century did not involve a celebrity or well known public figure. The trial of the century centered around a man with character and integrity unmatched by most men. When the American Legion attacked the union hall in Centralia, Washington on November 19, 1919, it was the first time in history the union men fought back, leaving four soldiers dead. Innocent and unarmed, union man Eugene Barnett stood in the window of the hotel next door, a witness who could not be allowed to talk. We know you had nothing to do with this, the prosecutor said, but unless you keep your mouth shut, we're gonna send you up. Barnett had an extraordinary life through a turbulent time in our nation's history. Because of his willingness to sacrifice his life and freedom, every American has been touched by his contributions to our nation's history. Laws, beliefs and lives were transformed by his strength in doing what he believed was right -- to tell the truth. This is the true story of Eugene Barnett.
Download or read book Ripple written by Tui Allen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what goes on in the great marine intellects which evolved tens of millions of years before humans came down from the trees? Recently, forces from the universe decided that the time had come for humans to hear the defining story of their planet. This book is that story, straight out of ancient dolphin history. Are humans the last intelligent beings in the developed universe to hear it? Live awhile in Ocean Mind. Be prepared to forget your human material obsessions as you slip away and dance the waves with the young female dolphin Ripple. A divine narrator of the Hereafter sweeps you from Ripple's life in the unimaginably distant past to the not-so-distant future where you can see Ripple's impact on modern humanity. Follow Ripple as she negotiates the beauties and horrors of the ancient oceans and falls in love with the fighter Cosmo in the wild surf of Point Savage. Be there beside her when love stimulates her to a single achievement which brings renown to this planet, changes the universe forever, exalts the angels and ensures Ripple's fame will outlive the planet itself--Back cover.
Download or read book Like Ripples in Water written by Garrett Willis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garrett Willis shares a series of short stories and poems about love and loss in this introspective new collection. As his characters encounter trauma, heartache, and harsh realities, they reveal important truths about the moments that matter in life. In the first of eight short stories, a young man experiences a heartbreaking coming-of-age when he attempts to reach out to the girl of his dreams. She remains a distance away, and the boy tries to connect with her without revealing himself. As he daydreams and reflects on past mistakes, he will have to decide whether to take this chance encounter as a sign from the universe. Another story follows a pair of unlikely traveling companions on a transatlantic flight. As a melancholic author gets to know his older seatmate, a conversation turns into a connection. Each of the two men has something to teach the other about the nature of love. In addition to stories full of these surprising connections and deeper meanings, Willis also includes a collection of poems and short prose pieces that further illustrate his main themes and go beyond personal moments to explore universal truths.
Download or read book On the Golden Porch written by Tatyana Tolstaya and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
