Download or read book On the Banks of the River Sarayu written by Bharati Sen and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Banks of a River written by Siv and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India needs more entrepreneurs who can build sufficient social wealth and create additional employment opportunities in the country. Mahathi can never know where she was born and who her parents are. Will she achieve her goal of becoming a successful entrepreneur and emerge as a game-changer? On the Banks of a River is an intriguing story that traces the journey of the protagonist, Mahathi, who, from very humble beginnings, becomes a hero by realizing her long-cherished dream of becoming a successful entrepreneur. But the biggest challenge for her is to live with her disability – she suffers from polio since her childhood and is also an orphan – and fight against all odds associated with it. A social activist called Sathyam picks her up from a roadside dustbin and joins her in an orphanage. Mahathi befriends her schoolmate Rina and their bonding lasts for a lifetime. Rina initially resists joining hands with Mahathi but eventually becomes a partner in her entrepreneurial journey. The book in your hands is an interesting read, which will surely leave you after reading with a sense of hope and a lot of empathy for the myriad underprivileged people struggling for their survival.
Download or read book One More River written by Lynne Reid Banks and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lesley lives in Canada and thinks life is just great, she has got friends, she likes school and they are very comfortably off. But then her father makes a fateful decision, the whole family is going to emigrate to Israel and lead a more fully Jewish life. Lesley is horrified and very resistant. However, once she gets to her new country and a very different life, she begins to find it stimulating and enjoyable. A strange relationship with Palestinian boy Mustafa, who lives on the other side of the Jordan river, is a big part of the new Lesley. A very exciting book, set in the 1960s about life in a pioneering new country.
Download or read book On the Banks of the Ga g written by Kelly D. Alley and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the collision of sacred purity with environmental pollution of the river Ganga (Ganges)
Download or read book The Third Bank of the River and Other Stories written by João Guimarães Rosa and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reissue of Barbara Shelby Merello's 1968 English translation of João Guimarães Rosa's 'Primeiras Estórias, ' with the short stories restored to Rosa's original order.
Download or read book On Jordan s Banks written by Darrel E. Bigham and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Ohio River and its settlements are an integral part of American history, particularly during the country's westward expansion. The vibrant African American communities along the Ohio's banks, however, have rarely been studied in depth. Blacks have lived in the Ohio River Valley since the late eighteenth century, and since the river divided the free labor North and the slave labor South, black communities faced unique challenges. In On Jordan's Banks, Darrel E. Bigham examines the lives of African Americans in the counties along the northern and southern banks of the Ohio River both before and in the years directly following the Civil War. Gleaning material from biographies and primary sources written as early as the 1860s, as well as public records, Bigham separates historical truth from the legends that grew up surrounding these communities. The Ohio River may have separated freedom and slavery, but it was not a barrier to the racial prejudice in the region. Bigham compares early black communities on the northern shore with their southern counterparts, noting that many similarities existed despite the fact that the Roebling Suspension Bridge, constructed in 1866 at Cincinnati, was the first bridge to join the shores. Free blacks in the lower Midwest had difficulty finding employment and adequate housing. Education for their children was severely restricted if not completely forbidden, and blacks could neither vote nor testify against whites in court. Indiana and Illinois passed laws to prevent black migrants from settling within their borders, and blacks already living in those states were pressured to leave. Despite these challenges, black river communities continued to thrive during slavery, after emancipation, and throughout the Jim Crow era. Families were established despite forced separations and the lack of legally recognized marriages. Blacks were subjected to intimidation and violence on both shores and were denied even the most basic state-supported services. As a result, communities were left to devise their own strategies for preventing homelessness, disease, and unemployment. Bigham chronicles the lives of blacks in small river towns and urban centers alike and shows how family, community, and education were central to their development as free citizens. These local histories and life stories are an important part of understanding the evolution of race relations in a critical American region. On Jordan's Banks documents the developing patterns of employment, housing, education, and religious and cultural life that would later shape African American communities during the Jim Crow era and well into the twentieth century.
Download or read book The River Bank written by Kij Johnson and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this delightful dive into the bygone world of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows staunch Mole, sociable Water Rat, severe Badger, and troublesome and ebullient Toad of Toad Hall are joined by a young mole lady, Beryl, and her dear friend, Rabbit. There are adventures, kidnappings, lost letters, and family secrets—lavishly illustrated throughout by award-winning artist Kathleen Jennings. Praise for Kij Johnson: “The Fox Woman immediately sets the author in the front rank of today’s novelists.” —Lloyd Alex-ander “Johnson has a singular vision and I’m going to be borrowing (stealing) from her.” —Sherman Alexie “Johnson’s language is beautiful, her descriptions of setting visceral, and her characters compellingly drawn.” —Publishers Weekly (starred re-view) “Johnson would fit quite comfortably on a shelf with Karen Russell, Erin Morgen-stern and others who hover in the simultaneous state of being both “literary” and “fantasy” writ-ers.” —Shelf Awareness Kij Johnson’s stories have won the Sturgeon, World Fantasy, and Nebula awards. She has taught writing and has worked at Dark Horse, Microsoft, and Real Networks. She has run bookstores, worked as a radio announcer and engineer, edited cryptic crosswords, and waitressed in a strip bar. Kathleen Jennings was raised on fairytales in western Queensland. She trained as a lawyer and filled the margins of her notes with pen-and-ink illustrations. She has been nominated for the World Fantasy award and has received several Ditmar Awards. She lives in Brisbane, Australia.
Download or read book Along the Banks of the Spoon River written by Kevin Wallick and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up poor in the 1940's farming along the Spoon River, the Wallick children learned to look out for each other, using their imaginations and playfulness to soften the edges of lives filled with hard work and an alcoholic parent, escaping to the safety of the woods, streams, and river whenever possible. The adventures of Chuck, his seven siblings, and neighborhood kids galore in the countryside and farmstead capture the innocent, but often dangerous, mischief of the time. The facts of the stories told are as true as memories allow with just the details filled in with imagination and seasoned by the flavors of the land. Chuck Wallick came close to getting killed many times over his life, ten by my count with more than once the others present as witness thinking he was sure enough dead. Other times things were close to going the other way and might have easy enough. That I am his son and passing on his stories as told me is something of a spoiler, but the protagonist of these stories survives and makes it through his trials having lived fuller than most and with stories matched by only a few.
Download or read book The Four Banks of the River of Space written by Wilson Harris and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book God Bless You Mr Rosewater written by Kurt Vonnegut and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Vonnegut] at his wildest best.”—The New York Times Book Review Eliot Rosewater—drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation—is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature . . . with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is Kurt Vonnegut’s funniest satire, an etched-in-acid portrayal of the greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the flesh we are all heir to. “A brilliantly funny satire on almost everything.”—Conrad Aiken “[Vonnegut was] our finest black humorist. . . . We laugh in self-defense.”—The Atlantic Monthly
Download or read book I Found Out I m Dying written by Sporty King and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses life in ancient Egypt, with an overview and timeline of the years between 3050 and 30 B.C., and looks at agriculture, belief systems, art, health, the role of women and children, rulers, war, and other aspects of life along the Nile.
Download or read book The River That Made Seattle written by BJ Cummings and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With bountiful salmon and fertile plains, the Duwamish River has drawn people to its shores over the centuries for trading, transport, and sustenance. Chief Se’alth and his allies fished and lived in villages here and white settlers established their first settlements nearby. Industrialists later straightened the river’s natural turns and built factories on its banks, floating in raw materials and shipping out airplane parts, cement, and steel. Unfortunately, the very utility of the river has been its undoing, as decades of dumping led to the river being declared a Superfund cleanup site. Using previously unpublished accounts by Indigenous people and settlers, BJ Cummings’s compelling narrative restores the Duwamish River to its central place in Seattle and Pacific Northwest history. Writing from the perspective of environmental justice—and herself a key figure in river restoration efforts—Cummings vividly portrays the people and conflicts that shaped the region’s culture and natural environment. She conducted research with members of the Duwamish Tribe, with whom she has long worked as an advocate. Cummings shares the river’s story as a call for action in aligning decisions about the river and its future with values of collaboration, respect, and justice.
Download or read book On the Banks of the River written by Tony Hays and published by Tennessee River Museum.. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Is a River written by Monika Vaicenavičiene and published by Enchanted Lion Books. This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A river is a thread, embroidering our world. This non-fiction picture book brings attention to the rivers that stitch and thread our world together.
Download or read book On the Banks of River Godavari written by Subba Rao and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-02-20 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the book titled On the Banks of River Godavari, the author presents his random and outside-the-box thoughts in the form of short stories and essays. In Sardines for Dinner, he introduces an educated couple with socialist ideas. In Turtle Patrol, he narrates the daily patrol of a pet box turtle named Gopal along with other turtles in the backyard.
Download or read book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept written by Paulo Coelho and published by . This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Pilar, an independent and practical yet restless young woman, whose life is forever changed by an encounter with a childhood friend.
Download or read book On the Banks of the Bayou written by Roger Lea MacBride and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Rose Wilder. . .. . . Luara Ingalls Wilder's daughter, and the last of the Little House girls. Rose is leaving Rocky Ridge Farm and moving to Louisiana to finish high school and live with her aunt Eliza Jane. In a city brimming with excitement and adventure, sixteen-year-old Rose finds herself growing into a strong and independent young woman with firm convictions, ambitions, and dreams.ON THE BANKS OF THE BAYOU is the seventh book in an ongoing series about the adventures of another girl from America's favorite pioneer family.
