Download or read book Strange Tales a Girl Like Her and a Crocodile written by Nayla Khan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-07-25 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laila Ahmed is sceptical-about all things. Muslim by birth, solicitor by profession and self-confessed degenerate, Laila is convinced that love is not for her, but on a whim she signs up to a dating site. Along comes a Muslim man: spiritual, cultured and charming. Almost everything Laila wants in a mate. The fact that he is also married is one problem. She should tell him shes not interested. But there is something strangely irresistible about him. What is in Lailas destiny? A quick fling, real love or a broken heart?

Download or read book Louisiana Indian Tales written by Alice Wilbert Couvillon and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1990-03-31 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An engaging and informative book. It is a charming narrative, as accessible to twelve-year-olds as to us ancients. For one realizes soon enough that the authors know exactly what they are doing: telling the truth about the archeology and the traditions of Louisiana Indians." Walker Percy Louisiana Indian Tales vividly recreates the struggles and triumphs of the state's first inhabitants. Dating back to 10,000 b.c. when the Paleo-Indians occupied the area and huge woolly mammoths and mastodons roamed the land, these poignant stories are based on archaeological evidence and historical knowledge traced through modern-day findings. As archaeologist Dr. Ben Dominique and his young friends Richard and Rob soon discover while on an expedition in the first story, Louisiana is a state rich in Indian culture. Together the trio unearth the proud, industrious, and resourceful life-styles of the many cultures that contributed to this state's fascinating history. The tales in this collection for young readers focus on many tribes from around the state-the Tchefuncte, Choctaw, Chitimacha, Caddo, Houma, and Bayougoula.

Download or read book Tushpa s Story Touch My Tears Tales from the Trail of Tears Collection written by Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer and published by RockHaven Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mississippi, 1834 “Protect the book as you do our seed corn. We must have both to survive.” The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek changed everything. The Choctaw Nation could no longer remain in their ancient homelands. Young Tushpa, his family, and their small band embark on a trail of life and death. More death than life lay ahead. On their journey to a new homeland, the faith of his father and one book guide Tushpa as he learns what it means to become a man and a leader. But before long, betrayal from within and without rip at the unity of the band. Can Tushpa help keep his tattered people together? Or will they all be lost to sickness of the mind, body, and spirit on the four hundred mile walk? A continuation of the anthology Touch My Tears: Tales from the Trail of Tears, this story follows an original manuscript written by Tushpa’s son, James Culberson. “As the great-granddaughter of Tushpa, a boy on the Trail of Tears, I grew up far away from Oklahoma with little knowledge of our history. It is through reading the moving stories collected by Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer that I have a better understanding of the struggles, endurance and bravery of our Choctaw ancestors.” Beverly Bringle, direct descendant

Download or read book Life of the Abb Adrien Ro u quette Chahta Ima written by Susan Blanchard Elder and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Raw Choctaw written by Lady Nellie M. Thompson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nellie M. Thompson has thrived even before she learned to read at the age of 88. A descendent of Chief Pushmataha ... her powerful memoir tells of growing up as a Choctaw Indian in the small-town Midwest of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, and eventually California in the late 1940s. Her faith in God was shaped after she was healed of polio by an Indian medicine man at the age of eight-- this experience dictated her personal commitment to a lifetime of service. She herself became an Indian Medicine woman treating human ailments with herbs and Indian techniques. This inspiring account of a Choctaw Indian woman, whose courage and faith in God move her through many difficult trials, weaves memorable anecdotes into a fresh, first-hand perspective of her history and culture."--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book The Word Collector written by Peter H. Reynolds and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beloved bestselling creator of The Dot and our own Happy Dreamer comes an inspiring story about the transformative and profound power of words. Some people collect stamps.Some people collect coins.Some people collect art.And Jerome?Jerome collected words . . . In this extraordinary new tale from Peter H. Reynolds, Jerome discovers the magic of the words all around him -- short and sweet words, two-syllable treats, and multisyllable words that sound like little songs. Words that connect, transform, and empower. From the creator of The Dot and Happy Dreamer comes a celebration of finding your own words -- and the impact you can have when you share them with the world.

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Download or read book Love Tales written by Soulitaire and published by Booksclinic Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "‘Every love story is unique and special’. Soulitaire has compiled many such enticing and adorable love stories to create a cascade of emotions. None can ever explain the worth of love in words. The term ‘LOVE’ includes a storm of feelings, expressions, acquisitions, several told and untold moments, and much more. Without daring to define the feeling, ‘Love Tales’ is a fetching collection of a few love stories where each has own emotion stapled with. Some surprises and some flows like a whiff. This collection of stories is able to create a chimera that can hold the love sensations for long. ‘Love Tales’ is indeed a delightsome book to present love, in various forms and natures."

Download or read book Tales of a Chahta Girl written by Samantha Lee and published by . This book was released on 2019-12 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of a Chahta Girl: Growing Up in Indian Territory is based on the true memories of a little girl named Annie that grew up in the late 1800's in Indian Territory. The west was still wild and the territory was young. It was not an easy place to grow up in. Her tales are that of sickness, war, and the cultural events that surrounded her.

Download or read book Unmarriageable written by Soniah Kamal and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This inventive retelling of Pride and Prejudice charms.”—People “A fun, page-turning romp and a thought-provoking look at the class-obsessed strata of Pakistani society.”—NPR Alys Binat has sworn never to marry—until an encounter with one Mr. Darsee at a wedding makes her reconsider. A scandal and vicious rumor concerning the Binat family have destroyed their fortune and prospects for desirable marriages, but Alys, the second and most practical of the five Binat daughters, has found happiness teaching English literature to schoolgirls. Knowing that many of her students won’t make it to graduation before dropping out to marry and have children, Alys teaches them about Jane Austen and her other literary heroes and hopes to inspire the girls to dream of more. When an invitation arrives to the biggest wedding their small town has seen in years, Mrs. Binat, certain that their luck is about to change, excitedly sets to work preparing her daughters to fish for rich, eligible bachelors. On the first night of the festivities, Alys’s lovely older sister, Jena, catches the eye of Fahad “Bungles” Bingla, the wildly successful—and single—entrepreneur. But Bungles’s friend Valentine Darsee is clearly unimpressed by the Binat family. Alys accidentally overhears his unflattering assessment of her and quickly dismisses him and his snobbish ways. As the days of lavish wedding parties unfold, the Binats wait breathlessly to see if Jena will land a proposal—and Alys begins to realize that Darsee’s brusque manner may be hiding a very different man from the one she saw at first glance. Told with wry wit and colorful prose, Unmarriageable is a charming update on Jane Austen’s beloved novel and an exhilarating exploration of love, marriage, class, and sisterhood. Praise for Unmarriageable “Delightful . . . Unmarriageable introduces readers to a rich Muslim culture. . . . [Kamal] observes family dramas with a satiric eye and treats readers to sparkling descriptions of a days-long wedding ceremony, with its high-fashion pageantry and higher social stakes.”—Star Tribune “Thoroughly charming.”—New York Post “[A] funny, sometimes romantic, often thought-provoking glimpse into Pakistani culture, one which adroitly illustrates the double standards women face when navigating sex, love, and marriage. This is a must-read for devout Austenites.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Download or read book Thoughts Become Things Transform Your Life Through Spiritual Scientific Practical Approach written by Sushil Hinge and published by White Falcon Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today in this competitive world, where people are running for money, fame and success, they are losing excess time, health, love and peace of mind. On the other hand, there are people who are peaceful, but in their comfort zone with no goals and purpose in life. The Magic of this book “THOUGHTS BECOME THINGS” will help people to achieve success in life along with the purpose, peace of mind, health, wealth, love, happiness and abundance in all spheres of life. You will find many of the fundamentals from this book already read in the other National Best seller and International Best Seller books. However, the uniqueness of this books lies with the combinations of 3 important aspects which are Spiritual, Scientific and Practical fundamentals. Spirituality to connect your higher self and following the truth by some of the life’s amazing secrets. One of the greatest mediation techniques which enables to develop a higher focus and also to see the things as they really are. Such spirituality helps in opening all the mental blocks and makes the law of attraction to manifest things faster. The Secret of Science is already known. Science it is what we are made of and it is what every human being believes. It explains the power of your subconscious mind and conscious mind as a standard operating process on how your mind works. The book gives wisdom on the power of positive thoughts and affirmation process along with gratitude and visualization as the three major powerful processes that help people manifest their dreams and desires. Practical approach are the very basic foundations that we need to apply for everything in a right way. It includes some of the aspects including the power of habit like waking up in Brahmi Muhurta that is in the 5 AM. All the basic practical approach are very critical that creates and gives a long term highly impactful results transforming the entire life.

Download or read book A Listening Wind written by Marcia Haag and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of stories from several different tribal traditions in the American Southeast includes introductory essays showing how they fit into Native American religious and philosophical systems."--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Kingdom Come A Few Other Tales written by Unni M. Kakanadan and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-07-11 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy rotates a spin wheel at a fair, unaware of the dangerous consequences. A man obsessed with finding evidence of extraterrestrial life learns an unexpected truth. Ultra-powerful aliens, who are hell-bent on taking over Earth, meet their son who has a different view. A man falls in love with a ghost and tries to achieve the impossible. A dangerous contagion is set loose in a spacecraft. And display of unnatural scenarios when Death decides to teach Life a lesson. Read these and 7 other intriguing tales of adventure in Kingdom Come & A Few Other Tales, a collection of short stories constituting various genres ranging from thrillers to sci-fi.

Download or read book Bollygeek written by Diptakirti Chaudhuri and published by Hachette India. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MERE PAAS...BOLLYWOOD TRIVIA HAI!The Indian cine-goer’s fascination for Bollywood is unending – and then there are those who really like to get their elbows into it dum lagaa ke! Which is why this book, stuffed with super-gyaan (yes, there is a science to the movies as well!) and sprinkled with quirky illustrations is a must-have for anyone in love with or just plain confused by all that goes on in Bollywood. Among the many masaaledar nuggets it features are:• The rulebook on how to plan a filmi elopement; • Fifteen jailers who terrorized prisoners (and the jailbreaks that had wardens quaking at the knees);• Colourful stories that reveal why people get drunk in the movies; • Ten on-screen detectives who had crime on their minds, even if they could never solve them; • Three ways suhaag raats unfold *cough* in Hindi cinema.And there’s much more! From tragedy and mystery to heartbreak and victory – Bollygeek opens up the obsessive, compulsive and addictive world of Hindi cinema like never before. You don’t want to miss out on this one!

Download or read book Anumpa Warrior Choctaw Code Talkers of World War I written by Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer and published by RockHaven Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DISCOVER THE EPIC STORY OF THE ORIGINAL WWI CODE TALKERS… The day I betrayed Isaac, I vowed never again to speak my native language in front of white men. When America enters the Great War in 1917, Bertram Robert (B.B.) Dunn and his Choctaw buddies from Armstrong Academy join the army to protect their homes, their families, and their country. Hoping to find redemption for a horrible lie that betrayed his best friend, B.B. heads into the trenches of France—but what he discovers is a duty only his native tongue can fulfill. Stationed in worn-torn Europe since 1914, war correspondent Matthew Teller, B.B.’s uncle, is ready to quit until an encounter with a fellow Choctaw sets him on a path to write the untold story of American Indian doughboys. But entrenched stereotypes and prejudices tear at his burning desire to spread truth. With the Allies building toward the greatest offensive drive of the war, the American Expeditionary Forces face a superior enemy who intercepts their messages and knows their every move. Can the solution come from a people their own government stripped of culture and language? Experience the powerful tale of these courageous first American people through Anumpa Warrior. Based on true events, this faith-filled historical fiction takes you on a journey of our shared world history—and of hope for all people. “Anumpa Warrior (Language Warrior) is the first novel on the Choctaw Code Talkers of World War I. Combining extensive historical research on the code talkers, insights into Choctaw culture, solid character development, and stimulating narrative, Choctaw author Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer has written a gem.” —Dr. William C. Meadows, Missouri State University, Code Talker scholar “As the granddaughter of a WWI Choctaw Code Talker, I was spellbound, speechless, and teary-eyed.” —Beth (Frazier) Lawless, granddaughter of Tobias Frazier “Sarah’s eloquent style and words give the story so much life and spirit. I say châpeau, hats off to you!” —Jeffrey Aarnio, former superintendent, American Battle Monuments Commission

Download or read book The Sound of Musicals written by Steven Cohan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite having had its obituary written many times, the movie musical remains a flourishing twenty-first century form, and as this volume demonstrates, one that exists far beyond the confines of Broadway and Hollywood. The Sound of Musicals examines the films, stars, issues and traditions of the genre from the 1930s to the present day. Featuring sixteen original essays by leading international scholars, this illuminating collection addresses the complex history and global variety of the movie musical, and considers the delight and passionate engagement that musicals continue to inspire in audiences around the world. The contributors address key issues for understanding the movie musical: questions of genre and generic traditions; questions of history, bringing fresh perspectives to a consideration of Classical Hollywood musicals; and the musical beyond Hollywood, looking at alternatives to the Hollywood model from the 'New Hollywood' and American independent cinema to Bollywood and other national musical traditions. Individual chapters consider key musical stars such as Frank Sinatra, Julie Andrews and Barbra Streisand; film-makers including Robert Altman and Christophe Honoré, and classic musicals such as South Pacific (1958) and Hairspray (1988). In his introduction to the volume, Steven Cohan addresses the significance and enduring appeal of this multi-faceted genre, and considers its recent renaissance with movies such as the High School Musical franchise, and the success of the television series Glee.

Download or read book The People Who Stayed written by Janet McAdams and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-hundred-year-old myth of the “vanishing” American Indian still holds some credence in the American Southeast, the region from which tens of thousands of Indians were relocated after passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830. Yet, as the editors of this volume amply demonstrate, a significant Indian population remained behind after those massive relocations. The first anthology to focus on the literary work of Native Americans who trace their ancestry to “people who stayed” in southeastern states after 1830, this volume represents every state and every genre, including short stories, excerpts from novels, poetry, essays, plays, and even Web postings. Although most works are contemporary, the collection covers the entire post-Removal era. Some of the contributors are well known, while others have only recently emerged as important literary voices. All of the writers in The People Who Stayed affirm their Indian ancestry, though many live outside the Southeast today. As this anthology demonstrates, indigenous Southeastern writing engages the local and the global, the traditional and the modern. While many speak to the prospects and perils of acculturation, all the writers bear witness to the ways, oblique or straightforward, that they and their families continue to honor their Indian identities despite the legacy of removal. In an introduction to the volume and in headnotes on each contributor, the editors provide historical context and literary insight on the diversity of writing and lived experiences found in these pages. All readers, from students to scholars, will gain newfound understanding of the literature — and the human experience — of Native people of the American Southeast.