Download or read book Written in the Stars written by Aisha Saeed and published by Nancy Paulsen Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Naila's vacation to visit relatives in Pakistan turns into a nightmare when she discovers her parents want to force her to marry a man she's never met"--

Download or read book My Little Epiphanies written by Aisha Chaudhary and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a movie tie-in edition and any reviews posted before October 10, 2019 are from the previous edition of the same title published in 2015. Aisha Chaudhary was born with SCID (severe combined immune deficiency) and underwent a bone-marrow transplant when she was six months old. She lived in New Delhi, where she was born. The year 2014 was brutal for Aisha as her disease progressed, and her lungs started giving up on her. The last few months of the year felt like a roller-coaster ride, one that seemed to be mostly going down. Spending almost all her time lying in bed, Aisha wrote down her thoughts to get some relief, to get them out of her head. Aisha's life was not anything like the average life of an urban teenager, but she had experienced a lifetime of emotions; life and death, fear and anger, love and hate, the depths of utter sorrow and the happiest one can be. In My Little Epiphanies she took a hard look at her own feelings and what it was that gave her a sense of hope and control. This book gave her life purpose and meaning, something to hold on to. Sometimes, Aisha's little epiphanies had morphed into doodles that capture what was going on in her mind as her destiny played itself out. Through the book she wanted the world to understand her unusual life and she hoped that it will inspire others, going through similar hardships, to find peace.

Download or read book Calamities written by Renee Gladman and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER of the 2017 Firecracker Award for Nonfiction from CLMP A collection of linked essays concerned with the life and mind of the writer by one of the most original voices in contemporary literature. Each essay takes a day as its point of inquiry, observing the body as it moves through time, architecture, and space, gradually demanding a new logic and level of consciousness from the narrator and reader.

Download or read book Instigating Profligacy written by E. Barbuto and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-something Aviva moved to Cairo shortly after graduating from college with a degree in elementary education. She became a teacher not because she cared passionately about educating the young, but for the traveling opportunities the career provided. Aviva's best friend, Aisha, has visited her mother's family in Cairo on several occasions. When she's twenty-four, she decides to move to Egypt to live with them for a year or two. But there are problems from the beginning. When Aviva's roommate abandons her, the two friends become roommates, setting them up for some unforgettable exploits. Aviva and Aisha's worldly adventures range from hilarious to traumatic, taking them from Egypt to its neighbors and even farther east. Together, they suffer from culture shock that is worse the second year than the first. It comes from realizing that they've been desensitized to things that once stunned or saddened them-and causes them to question their own sanity. They get into and out of trouble, both at work and on vacation; learn new languages; and make friends and enemies along the way. One important lesson is reiterated everywhere they go-if they don't try to apply American logic, everything makes more sense! Instigating Profligacy: Aviva and Aisha's Adventures in the World is based on author E. G. Barbuto's experiences living, working, and vacationing in the Middle East and Asia.

Download or read book Girls of the Factory written by M. Laetitia Cairoli and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Morocco today, the idea of female laborers is generally frowned upon. Yet despite this, many women are beginning to find work in factories. Laetitia Cairoli spent a year in the ancient city of Fes; Girls of the Factory tells the story of what life is like for working women. Forced to find a factory job herself so that she could speak more intimately with working women, she was able to learn firsthand why they work, what working means to them, and how important earning a wage is to their sense of self. Cairoli conveys a general sense of the working life of women in Morocco by describing daily life inside a Moroccan sewing factory. She also reveals the additional work they face inside their homes. More than an ethnography, this volume is also for those who want to better understand what life is like for a new generation of young women just entering the workforce.

Download or read book Conference of the Books written by Khaled Abou El Fadl and published by Rlpg/Galleys. This book was released on 2001 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abou El Fadl (Islamic law, UCLA School of Law) wrote the 62 brief essays here over the course of five years. Through a combination of musings and critical reflections on classical Muslim authors, he both traces Muslim intellectual history and also confronts questions of ethics, faith, law, politics, culture, and modern identity. He ranges over many facets of Islam in the contemporary world, exploring censorship, political oppression, terrorism, the veil and the treatment of women, marriage, parental rights, the dynamics between law and morality, the character of the prophet Muhammad, and other topics. About half the essays first appeared in The minaret magazine. c. Book News Inc.

Download or read book Self Inflicted Wounds written by Aisha Tyler and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her book Self-Inflicted Wounds, comedian, actress, and cohost of CBS’s daytime hit show The Talk, Aisha Tyler recounts a series of epic mistakes and hilarious stories of crushing personal humiliation, and the personal insights and authentic wisdom she gathered along the way. The essays in Self-Inflicted Wounds are refreshingly and sometimes brutally honest, surprising, and laugh-out-loud funny, vividly translating the brand of humor Tyler has cultivated through her successful standup career, as well as the strong voice and unique point of view she expresses on her taste-making comedy podcast Girl on Guy. Riotous, revealing, and wonderfully relatable, Aisha Tyler’s Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation is about the power of calamity to shape life, learning, and success.

Download or read book Diana and the Island of No Return written by Aisha Saeed and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warrior. Princess. Hero. Diana's destiny is to be the world's greatest female super hero... if she can survive this action-packed adventure! Witness young Wonder Woman come into her own powers as she fights to save her island! Young Princess Diana is fierce and whip-smart, and she loves her island home of Themyscira. Her deepest wish is to be able to train with the rest of the Amazons and protect her homeland--but she's told it's out of the question. This is the year Diana hopes to persuade her mother, Queen Hippolyta, to let her learn how to fight when the world's most powerful women gather on Themyscira for a festival to celebrate their different cultures. But at the start of the festivities, an unexpected and forbidden visitor--a boy!--brings news of an untold danger that threatens Themyscira and all of its sacred neighboring lands. It's up to Diana and her best friend, Princess Sakina, to save them, even if it means tangling with a cunning demon who reveals that a terrifying force is out to capture Diana against her will. In the first of three high-octane, breathtaking Wonder Woman Adventures, Diana finally gets the chance to prove her worth as a warrior and save not just her friends and family but their entire way of life. As long as she can make it out alive herself....

Download or read book The Slap written by Christos Tsiolkas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basis for the NBC event series directed by Lisa Cholodenko and starring Uma Thurman, Peter Sarsgaard, and Zachary Quinto. In this powerful and riveting novel reminiscent of Liane Moriarty's Truly, Madly, Guilty, literary phenomenon Christos Tsiolkas unflinchingly exposes the inner workings of domestic life, friendship, and parenthood in the twenty-first century, and reminds us of the passions and malice that family loyalty can provoke. When a man slaps another couple’s child at a neighborhood barbecue, the event send unforeseeable shock waves through the lives of all who are witness to it. Told from the points of view of eight people who were present, The Slap shows how a single action can change the way people think about how they live, what they want, and what they believe forever.

Download or read book The Complete Philosophy Files written by Stephen Law and published by Orion Children's Books. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a God, should I eat meat, where does the universe come from, could I live for ever as a robot? These are the big questions readers will be wrestling with in this thoroughly enjoyable book. Dip into any chapter and you will find lively scenarios and dialogues to take you through philosophical puzzles ancient and modern, involving virtual reality, science fiction and a host of characters from this and other planets. The text is interspersed on every page with lively cartoons, and there is a list of philosophical jargon at the end.. Stephen Law has a gift for communicating complex ideas. He offers few answers, but his unstuffy, highly personal approach will have the reader thinking and arguing with as much pleasure as he does himself.

Download or read book Emotional Transitions in Contemporary Afrodiasporic Women s Writing written by Ángela Suárez-Rodríguez and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an in-depth study of the category "stranger" as represented in four contemporary Afrodiasporic novels of female authorship: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, Sefi Atta’s A Bit of Difference, NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names and Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers. Examined from an interdisciplinary perspective that brings together different approaches to the figure of the stranger and Affect Theory, the plurality of experiences of estrangement, disorientation and unbelonging portrayed in these texts allows expansion upon Sara Ahmed’s (2000) investigation of "stranger fetishism" and, in so doing, contributes to the recent call for a more nuanced understanding of the idea of "stranger". In particular, the critical and comparative study of the different migration experiences of the protagonists reveals that, within the framework of the contemporary African diaspora to the West, "strange(r)ness" is a situated, embodied and emotional condition that depends on the politics of location and of identity from which it emerges. This book will particularly appeal to scholars and students in the fields of Postcolonial Studies, African Diaspora Studies and Black Women’s Literature, and will also be suitable for students at graduate and advanced undergraduate levels in English Studies.

Download or read book The Interpretation of The Meaning of The Hadith Volume 3 Virtues of Solat Tahajud written by Nasoha Bin Saabin and published by . This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I believe there is a great need in the whole world for the correct interpretation of the Holy Quran and Hadith to be written in English. Currently, there is a great misunderstanding about Islam among Muslims and non-Muslims globally. The misunderstanding of the meaning of the Holy Quran and Hadith among Muslims will lead to the wrong practice of Islam which leads to the wrong actions of Muslims. The wrong actions of Muslims will lead to misunderstandings about Islam among Muslims and non-Muslims. The wrong actions of the Muslims have led to many miseries and wars among Muslims. The wrong actions of Muslims have also led to many wars and clashes between Muslims and non-Muslims. In order to avoid miseries, wars and clashes from taking place between the whole mankind in the whole world, the whole mankind in the whole world need to understand the true teaching of Islam. There is no other way for the whole mankind to understand the true teaching of Islam unless the whole mankind is able to read and understand the correct interpretation of the Holy Quran and Hadith. With the grace of Allah, I have completed the interpretation of the Holy Quran with 84 books, and Hadith with 7 books. The series of the interpretation of the hadith consist of 7 books that are Virtues of Tabligh or Dakwah, Virtues of Solat, Virtues of Solat Tahajud, Virtues of The Holy Quran, Virtues of Charity, Virtues of Ramadhan and Virtues of Pilgrimage. Among all the 7 above orders of Allah, the first 5 books focus on the order of Allah that should be done daily, fasting should be done in the month of Ramadhan every year and pilgrimige to Mekah should be done once in a lifetime for those who are able to do it financially, healthy and safely and all these orders are to be done in the way of Prophet Muhammad saw and with the intention to please Allah. Besides the 84 books on the interpretation of the Holy Quran, these 7 books of Hadith should be read daily in every mosque and in every house in the whole entire world in order to have the correct mindset on the orders of Allah, and when the mankind will practice all the orders of Allah what has been mentioned in the Holy Quran and Hadith in the way shown by Prophet Muhammad saw and with the intention to please Allah, only then the entire mankind will have the correct belief in Allah and in the orders of Allah. When the entire mankind have the correct belief and mindset towards Allah and the orders of Allah, only then the entire mankind will have the correct actions or deeds. When the entire mankind will have the correct deeds only then the entire mankind in this world will be able to live with peace and happiness in this world and the hereafter. Prof. Nasoha Bin Saabin

Download or read book California Court of Appeal 1st Appellate District Records and Briefs written by California (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Last Mile written by A Global Friend and published by PartridgeIndia. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of parents throughout the world don't even know thalassemia exists let alone what it is. But for the parents of children born with thalassemia it is a rude awakening to a life of despair and desperation for their child's future. This book is one mother's quest to try and save her daughter's life irrespective of what she has to endure. The initial realisation that her daughter had a genetically inherited disease that she had never heard of gave Aisha the drive and determination to not only research the illness but to also find a cure for her daughter.

Download or read book The Reporter Series Books 1 5 written by Thomas Fincham and published by Thomas Fincham. This book was released on with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This omnibus edition includes the first FIVE books in the best-selling Hyder Ali series, plus the introductory novella, and is over 1000 pages of murder, mystery, crime, and suspense. THE SILENT REPORTER (Book 1) A reporter investigates the suicide of his professor, only to stumble upon a conspiracy that is bigger than he had imagined. Hyder Ali, a Muslim-American, is working as a reporter when his university professor and mentor is found hanging inside his home. What looks like an apparent suicide soon turns into something more sinister when Hyder begins searching for the truth. THE ROGUE REPORTER (Book 2) Hyder Ali returns to cover a perplexing and dangerous case that quickly becomes more personal than he ever thought. Hyder Ali, a Muslim-American, is working on a story about the brutal death of a scientist. When the story is hijacked by a rogue reporter, Hyder must confront his own beliefs and ethics. What seems like a senseless murder at first soon turns into something entirely different when someone from Hyder's family becomes tangled in the investigation. THE RUNAWAY REPORTER (Book 3) Hyder Ali is charged for attempted murder and the victim is his best friend. Hyder Ali, a Muslim-American, is dispatched to cover the death of three young people. It is the month of Ramadan and Hyder is fasting, which makes his task all that much difficult in the summer heat. Soon everything turns upside down when one act forces Hyder to run for his life, while his best friend is sent to the hospital to fight for his. THE SERIAL REPORTER (Book 4) A serial killer is targeting Muslims in the city of Franklin and Hyder Ali could be his next victim. Hyder Ali, a Muslim-American, loses a story to a rival newspaper which makes him question his position at the Daily Times. When a young man's body is found in the dumpster, things suddenly begin to spiral out of control, leaving Hyder more alone than ever. THE STREET REPORTER (Book 5) A killer is beheading journalists and he wants the residents of Franklin to see his gruesome acts. Hyder Ali, a Muslim-American, is suddenly under pressure when a legendary investigative journalist shows up in Franklin to make a mark for himself. Meanwhile, a killer is beheading his victims and hiding their heads for the police to find. Hyder begins to question his decision to be a reporter when someone close to him becomes the next target. THE STUDENT REPORTER (Book 0) Before there was the Daily Times, there was the Franklin University Student Enquirer. Hyder Ali, a Muslim-American, is a freshman at the Franklin University. He is on a business scholarship with the aim of becoming an accountant someday. He never imagined a horrific event ten years before would change his life forever. KEYWORDS: Hyder Ali, reporter mystery, murder mystery series, police procedural mysteries, mystery series, police procedural series, detective thriller series, crime fiction, suspense fiction, thriller fiction, detective fiction, collection, box set, anthology

Download or read book The Love of Payne written by Maisha Johnson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-11-25 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A very sensitive and introverted female child, Dana Payne grows up moms favorite but suffers tremendously from emotional and spiritual neglect. Somehow she is able to share an unconditional love without ever experiencing it or knowing the origin of the love that flowed through her. Her mom sheltered her and her sisters a great deal. Even from their father! Was it protection or just control? Developing into a capable adult and experiencing several failed attempts at love she finds the man with whom she will later experience the joy of baring his children and the painful reality of still never receiving the love of a man. She also finds herself a victim of the infidelity that a lack of love was sure to bring. On the brink of insanity, balled up in the corner in the back of her clothes closet she hears a calm and comforting voice that will change her life foreverThen begins her journey to finding out who she is and her purpose in life!

Download or read book Self Esteem and Early Learning written by Rosemary Roberts and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-10-18 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the period from birth to school, this book is about babies′ and young children′s feelings, their learning; and the ways in which the adults in their lives can support their emotional, social and cognitive development. Looking at the perspectives both of the child and the adult, it presents thought-provoking ideas and questions on how adults can make the most of opportunities to support the children with whom they live and work. A story, in episodes embedded throughout the book, makes this an accessible and enjoyable read. In this third edition, there are new and updated chapters on: • Young children′s transitions, with a particular focus on starting school • Young children′s positive ′learning dispositions′ • Brain research and its possible implications • Further reading, signposting some enchanting children′s books as well as important new texts. The book explores the basis of the ′key person′ relationship, looking at attachment ′in practice′, and linking developmental issues with the early development of self esteem. Written for students on early childhood courses and staff in early childhood care and education settings and integrated Children′s Centres, the book will also be of interest to parents and carers.