Download or read book Seema s Show written by Sara Halprin and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating life of a cultural and political icon.

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Download or read book The Sky at Our Feet written by Nadia Hashimi and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This middle grade novel by bestselling author Nadia Hashimi tells the affecting story of an Afghan-American boy who believes his mother has been deported. For fans of Inside Out and Back Again and Counting by 7s. Jason has just learned that his Afghan mother has been living illegally in the United States since his father was killed in Afghanistan. Although Jason was born in the US, it’s hard to feel American now when he’s terrified that his mother will be discovered—and that they will be separated. When he sees his mother being escorted from her workplace by two officers, Jason feels completely alone. He boards a train with the hope of finding his aunt in New York City, but as soon as he arrives in Penn Station, the bustling city makes him wonder if he’s overestimated what he can do. After an accident lands him in the hospital, Jason finds an unlikely ally in a fellow patient. Max, a whip-smart girl who wants nothing more than to explore the world on her own terms, joins Jason in planning a daring escape out of the hospital and into the skyscraper jungle—even though they both know that no matter how big New York City is, they won’t be able to run forever.

Download or read book Muslim Women Are Everything written by Seema Yasmin and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 International Book Awards Winner of American Book Fest's 2020 Best Book Awards in Women’s Issues A full-color illustrated collection of riveting, inspiring, and stereotype-shattering stories that reveal the beauty, diversity, and strength of Muslim women both past and present. Tired of seeing Muslim women portrayed as weak, sheltered, and limited, journalist Seema Yasmin reframes how the world sees them, to reveal everything they CAN do and the incredible, stereotype-shattering ways they are doing it. Featuring 40 full-color illustrations by illustrator Fahmida Azim throughout, Muslim Women Are Everything is a celebration of the ways in which past and present Muslim women from around the world are singing, dancing, reading, writing, laughing, experimenting, driving, and rocking their way into the history books. Forget subservient, oppressed damsels—say hello to women who are breaking down barriers using their art, their voices, and their activism, including: Tesnim Sayar from Denmark, a Muslim goth-punk who wears a red tartan mohawk on top of her hijab American superstar singer SZA Nura Afia, CoverGirl’s first hijabi ambassador Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, America’s first Muslim congresswomen Ilyana Insyirah, a hijaab-wearing scuba-diving midwife from Australia Showcasing women who defy categorization, Muslim Women Are Everything proves that to be Muslim and a woman is to be many things: strong, vulnerable, trans, disabled, funny, entrepreneurial, burqa or bikini clad, and so much more.

Download or read book The Inimitable Chaos Of Life written by Maliny Mohan and published by StoryMirror Infotech Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2017 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The Inimitable Chaos Of Life’ is a collection of fourteen heart-rending stories, which bring to life the intensity, complexity and sheer beauty of human emotions. The stories are varied; delving mostly into the vagaries of life and the many tricky circumstances that life throws at us unexpectedly. Each individual reacts to those situations in a different manner. During times of happiness, one may shriek out of joy; another may erupt into bouts of soulful tears. Similarly, during times of sorrow, one may be numb out of despair, another may spend long hours wailing and lamenting, whereas some others may even find themselves entrapped in the clutches of psychosis. Come, taste these wonderful stories of Life, penned by Dr. Maliny Mohan.

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Download or read book The Angina Monologues written by Rosamund Kendal and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2010 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of three very different women finding courage, love, and compassion in the most unlikely places, this narrative follows medical interns as they work in a rural South African hospital. Spoiled Rachel struggles to establish her independence and learns to love across the cultural ÷ conservative Seema attempts to end a relationship that has become increasingly abusive; and street-savvy Nomsa finally accepts a past that she has spent a lifetime denying. Coping with rogue snakes, gang assassinations, and the public's denial of AIDS, these women demonstrate what it takes to be a doctor in South Africa.

Download or read book Modern Hindi Short Story written by Mahendra Kulasrestha and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Colour Matters written by Anuranjita Kumar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are all different in some ways, yet, very similar because we all respond to emotions of love, affection, joy and sorrow. These feelings are common to all-across ethnicities, geographies and boundaries. Yet there are certain factors which contribute to our identity, which visibly make us look dissimilar, and impacts how we connect and belong. The colour of the skin, through its subtle and attached symbolism and beliefs, its presence or the lack of it, tells a story of human dynamics that is constructive and/or destructive, depending on the lens used. It has the visual power to influence, pronounce judgements, divide, confer privileges and even influence the right to love, hate, embrace, protect or kill merely based on colour-the colour of the skin. Colour Matters? explores these cross-cultural dynamics and highlights the difficulties of being a minority in different geographies. The book is replete with stories of individuals across continents and multi-ethnic, multi-professional backgrounds narrating their personal experiences and, hence, learnings from their own encounters. In a world where the race and racism debate continues to occupy a crucial space in public discourse it is worthwhile to embark on an exploratory journey to deconstruct such ideas and discover what really lies beneath.

Download or read book The Oracle Rift written by Fyl Frazee and published by Rogue Bard Media LLC. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Android 42 heads deep into the unexplored sector 7G to return her new Terranaut friends to their homeworld Terra. There she meets the leader of their government, the Holy Mother who looks exactly like 42, and a sect of Terranauts who view 42 as a messiah. She must navigate acting as an intermediary between the Terranauts and the rest of the known galaxy, try to learn the secrets of the Holy Mother, and avoid becoming a religious leader that brings discord to Terra.

Download or read book Radiant Fugitives written by Nawaaz Ahmed and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION FINALIST FOR PUBLISHING TRIANGLE'S EDMUND WHITE DEBUT FICTION AWARD In the last weeks of her pregnancy, a Muslim Indian lesbian living in San Francisco receives a visit from her estranged mother and sister that surfaces long held secrets and betrayals in this "sweeping family saga . . . with the beautiful specificity of real lives lived, loved, and fought for" (Entertainment Weekly) Working as a consultant for Kamala Harris’s attorney general campaign in Obama-era San Francisco, Seema has constructed a successful life for herself in the West, despite still struggling with her father’s long-ago decision to exile her from the family after she came out as lesbian. Now, nine months pregnant and estranged from the Black father of her unborn son, Seema seeks solace in the company of those she once thought lost to her: her ailing mother, Nafeesa, traveling alone to California from Chennai, and her devoutly religious sister, Tahera, a doctor living in Texas with her husband and children. But instead of a joyful reconciliation anticipating the birth of a child, the events of this fateful week unearth years of betrayal, misunderstanding, and complicated layers of love—a tapestry of emotions as riveting and disparate as the era itself. Told from the point of view of Seema’s child at the moment of his birth, and infused with the poetry of Wordsworth and Keats and verses from the Quran, Radiant Fugitives is a moving tale of a family and a country grappling with acceptance, forgiveness, and enduring love.

Download or read book Miss Prim and the Maverick Millionaire written by Nina Singh and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In paradise…with the boss! When CEO Cabe Jordan accidently insults employee Jenna Townsend, he needs to make amends, and fast! Whisking her away on a business trip to the Caribbean could be the perfect opportunity. After a difficult childhood, Jenna has always made work her priority. Only, Cabe is very distracting… How can she impress him when all she can think about is, well, kissing him! The dreams she's spent her life suppressing are soon to be awakened—if only she'd let down her defenses!

Download or read book A Plague of Shadows written by C. Rene Astle and published by C. Rene Astle. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mina Sun needs to die. Despite being one of the undead already. Too bad she’s a bit busy right now. Her best friend is missing. Her family is pestering her to visit. And she’s struggling to fit in with the group of vampires that invited her to join their conclave. These same vampires make their second thoughts clear in the whispers and sidelong glances when she enters the room. But Mina doesn’t need their whispers to tell her she’s different. She hears it when her blood sings and feels it when her gut twists, fighting a losing battle against the monster inside. The monster she’s doomed to become. And now bodies are turning up, sucked so dry they look like mummies. It’s not the gargoyles: they leave a mangled, gnawed-on corpse...if they leave a corpse at all. Instead, a new evil stalks the night. The best clue to its identity are the dying words of a homeless man, raving about the reign of night, the death of light and a blade of darkness. Can Mina unravel the riddle, find this new evil and save her friend without releasing the monster inside?

Download or read book After the Dark written by Rohit Pagare and published by Rohit Pagare. This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Dark is a tale of a prisoner’s resolute fightback for freedom. Not by jumping over walls, but by conquering his inner-self and then winning over his outer handicaps by becoming larger than beliefs. About the author Rohit Pagare was sentenced to life imprisonment by court on charges of murder. But he had set one more condition for himself: that he would obtain release only when he selflessly brings smile to someone, or he would brace death. What he needed was one chance to partly atone his doing. One day, administration asked suggestions from him to smoothen prison processes. This was his chance. He gathered a team of inmates, motivated them to develop a prison software and outperformed expectations. Impressed administration implemented it in all prisons of the state which won him accolades from DG Prisons and a place in Limca Book of Records. At present, software is aiding agencies in crime investigations and is thus securing citizen lives and winning their smiles. Then administration began saying, ‘Rohit, it’s been 8 years of sincere work, time for you to get out of here.’ About the book In the story, author’s prison fightback is personified by Gopi (11 years), and his sister Seema (15 years). Gopi is poor and a 3rd standard village-school dropout who promises Ria, a rich but handicapped city-school girl of sixth standard, that he would bring her smile. Little does he know that his promise will push him on a turf of war with his debilitated inner self - can he, can he not? He will have to tame his mind into a passionate mission-oriented machine. In a distant hostage camp, Seema knows escape was impossible. One day when cornered, she stared at her horrendous-self - that she could murder. And she also incredulously saw herself escaping from the camp with another captive, only to agonizingly return to embrace her death. But destiny wasn't through. Back came another foggy chance but with a frustrating rider - it was to help her captor!

Download or read book Endgame The New Beginning written by James Kult and published by Rajeev Vashista. This book was released on with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raj, the MD of Shipotics, is a restless, married, workaholic who always feels empty within. Raj is a cofounder of a company called Shipotics. He has acquired a company called Picker, which causes financial issues for his company. It is when Raj asks for help from General Engineering, who turns down his request. Upon hearing it, he has a heart attack and is hospitalized. Seema, the director of Shipotics and owner of UniMach. UniMach is a business consulting company. Seema is a middle-aged, single, attractive, and smart lady. She dislikes having anybody exercise control over her and wants to be in charge of everything. She has an attraction to the married Raj (who is unaware of her infatuation) but is afraid of being alone. Raman – the conductor of the bus attached to Raj’s company, Shipotics. Poor and married to Shyama (Shyama is a firm believer in the universe). Whatever happens, Shyama keeps on accepting it without losing her peace and calmness. Raman oscillates between Shyama's beliefs and his internal demons. Raj, Seema, and Raman are kidnapped by terrorists and thrown into a hill area of India. Shyama knows that the universe is sending them to a storm that will shake their lives. Will they be able to pass through the storm? Will the universe help them in their journey? Will they learn anything from it?

Download or read book A Place for Us written by Fatima Farheen Mirza and published by SJP for Hogarth. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD “5 UNDER 35” NOMINEE • NEW YORK’S “ONE BOOK, ONE NEW YORK” PICK Named One of the Best Books of the Year: Washington Post • NPR • People • Refinery29 • Parade • BuzzFeed “Mirza writes with a mercy that encompasses all things.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post Hailed as “a book for our times” (Christiane Amanpour), A Place for Us is a deeply moving and resonant story of love, identity, and belonging. As an Indian wedding gathers a family back together, parents Rafiq and Layla must reckon with the choices their children have made. There is Hadia: their headstrong, eldest daughter, whose marriage is a match of love and not tradition. Huda, the middle child, determined to follow in her sister’s footsteps. And lastly, their estranged son, Amar, who returns to the family fold for the first time in three years to take his place as brother of the bride. What secrets and betrayals have caused this close-knit family to fracture? Can Amar find his way back to the people who know and love him best? A Place for Us takes us back to the beginning of this family’s life: from the bonds that bring them together, to the differences that pull them apart. All the joy and struggle of family life is here, from Rafiq and Layla’s own arrival in America from India, to the years in which their children—each in their own way—tread between two cultures, seeking to find their place in the world, as well as a path home. A Place for Us is a book for our times: an astonishingly tender-hearted novel of identity and belonging, and a resonant portrait of what it means to be an American family today. It announces Fatima Farheen Mirza as a major new literary talent.

Download or read book Lake Success written by Gary Shteyngart and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Spectacular.”—NPR • “Uproariously funny.”—The Boston Globe • “An artistic triumph.”—San Francisco Chronicle • “A novel in which comedy and pathos are exquisitely balanced.”—The Washington Post • “Shteyngart’s best book.”—The Seattle Times The bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story returns with a biting, brilliant, emotionally resonant novel very much of our times. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND MAUREEN CORRIGAN, NPR’S FRESH AIR AND NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • Mother Jones • Glamour • Library Journal • Kirkus Reviews • Newsday • Pamela Paul, KQED • Financial Times • The Globe and Mail Narcissistic, hilariously self-deluded, and divorced from the real world as most of us know it, hedge-fund manager Barry Cohen oversees $2.4 billion in assets. Deeply stressed by an SEC investigation and by his three-year-old son’s diagnosis of autism, he flees New York on a Greyhound bus in search of a simpler, more romantic life with his old college sweetheart. Meanwhile, his super-smart wife, Seema—a driven first-generation American who craved the picture-perfect life that comes with wealth—has her own demons to face. How these two flawed characters navigate the Shteyngartian chaos of their own making is at the heart of this piercing exploration, a poignant tale of familial longing and an unsentimental ode to America. LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION “The fuel and oxygen of immigrant literature—movement, exile, nostalgia, cultural disorientation—are what fire the pistons of this trenchant and panoramic novel. . . . [It is] a novel so pungent, so frisky and so intent on probing the dissonances and delusions—both individual and collective—that grip this strange land getting stranger.”—The New York Times Book Review “Shteyngart, perhaps more than any American writer of his generation, is a natural. He is light, stinging, insolent and melancholy. . . . The wit and the immigrant’s sense of heartbreak—he was born in Russia—just seem to pour from him. The idea of riding along behind Shteyngart as he glides across America in the early age of Trump is a propitious one. He doesn’t disappoint.”—The New York Times