Author: Mitali Perkins
Publisher: Hachette Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 9780316734530
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Originally published in 1993 as "The Sunita Experiment," this touching yet lighthearted tale is back in print with a snappy new title, a spectacular jacket design, and a reader's guide. Young Adult.
Author: Michelle Superle
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136720871
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 207
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Concurrent with increasing scholarly attention toward national children’s literatures, Contemporary English-language Indian Children’s Literature explores an emerging body of work that has thus far garnered little serious critical attention. Superle critically examines the ways Indian children’s writers have represented childhood in relation to the Indian nation, Indian cultural identity, and Indian girlhood. From a framework of postcolonial and feminist theories, children’s novels published between 1988 and 2008 in India are compared with those from the United Kingdom and North America from the same period, considering the differing ideologies and the current textual constructions of childhood at play in each. Broadly, Superle contends that over the past twenty years an aspirational view of childhood has developed in this literature—a view that positions children as powerful participants in the project of enabling positive social transformation. Her main argument, formed after recognizing several overarching thematic and structural patterns in more than one hundred texts, is that the novels comprise an aspirational literature with a transformative agenda: they imagine apparently empowered child characters who perform in diverse ways in the process of successfully creating and shaping the ideal Indian nation, their own well-adjusted bicultural identities in the diaspora, and/or their own empowered girlhoods. Michelle Superle is a Professor in the department of Communications at Okanagan College. She has taught children’s literature, composition, and creative writing courses at various Canadian universities and has published articles in Papers and IRCL.
Author: Nina Milne
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488015163
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
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Married for their baby? Or for real… Crown Prince Frederick of Lycander needs a wife and an heir, and discovering he has a secret son with beautiful supermodel Sunita makes him determined to claim them both! But Sunita has no desire to live and raise baby Amil as part of Frederick’s royal entourage! Until he persuades her it’s the best thing for their son. Their engagement reveals that their passion still simmers but, to keep Sunita and Amil by his side, Frederick discovers he must also admit his love…
Author: Lisa Lucas
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 519
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Mr. G and His Ladies is a beautiful and gritty tale of loyalty, love, and spiritual connection between societies lost and overlooked. These new bonds create a family born in the blood of society's wretches. Govinda's story begins when karma baptizes him as an agent after the murder of his mother and the violation of his sister, but being karma's agent takes him away from his home and family to New York. There, Govinda creates a new life of love, joy, and retribution. The growing family strengthens and elevates with each trial and tragedy that tests their bonds. Celebration and joy never allow the eclectic family to be defeated by life's darkest corners. The karmic wheel Govinda began turning decades before comes full circle under the marquee of Mr. G's legacy.
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Publisher: Pustak Mahal
ISBN: 8122311458
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 255
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Author: Zishan Shah
Publisher: Ink of Knowledge
ISBN: 9358260335
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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"Wings of Dreams" is an enchanting love story that unfolds amidst a backdrop of soaring aspirations and heartfelt desires. This tale of romance takes flight as two souls, bound by a shared longing for love and fulfillment, discover a profound connection that transcends the boundaries of time and circumstance.
Author: Enid Blyton
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
ISBN: 1444950991
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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It's time to welcome new girls to Malory Towers, the famous boarding school by the sea, in four brand-new stories by outstanding authors, set in Enid Blyton's much-loved school. YA and Waterstones Book Prize-winner Patrice Lawrence introduces us to proud Marietta with her magnificent head of braided hair. A dormitory argument reveals something unusual about Marietta, and something equally unexpected about Alicia. In Guardian and Stylist columnist Lucy Mangan's story, student librarian Evelyn is wary of her lively, lacrosse-playing classmates. When one of them becomes a regular visitor to the hushed domain of the library, can Evelyn really trust her? Sunita Sharma joins Malory Towers surrounded by a sense of mystery, in Narinder Dhami's fabulous story. But is Sunita really as glamorous as Gwendoline imagines? In Rebecca Westcott's heartwarming story, Darrell and friends fear the worst when spoilt Gwendoline's cousin joins the school. But Maggie is very different from her stuck-up relative . . .
Author: Narinder Dhami
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448101654
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Sunita starts at her new school determined to hide her horrible secret. But class 'goddess' Celina soon becomes Sunita's arch-enemy and their classmates soon find out that Sunita's dad is an infamous fraudster on the run. Sunita has her work cut out to prove that she's no criminal herself. She tries to be ultra-careful about making friends but somehow she can't hide her natural instinct for helping people. As she's trying to keep her head down, she starts doing little favours for people secretly. And, oddly, a rash of helpful book-mending, locker-tidying and present-leaving quickly takes over the class and, then, the whole school. Even Celina seems to have been affected - but when she tries to take the credit for the scheme, Sunita can see her motives are far from innocent. Should Sunita put up or shut up?
Author: Jerry Pinto
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9352140869
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 295
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It is now over two decades since the Hindi-film heroine drove the vamp into extinction, and even longer since the silver screen was ignited by the true Bollywood version of a cabaret. Yet, Helen – nicknamed ‘H-Bomb’ at the height of her career – continues to rule the popular imagination. Improbably, for a dancer and a vamp she has become an icon. Jerry Pinto’s gloriously readable book is a study of the phenomenon that was Helen: Why did a refugee of French-Burmese parentage succeed as wildly as she did in mainstream Indian cinema? How could otherwise conservative families sit through, and even enjoy, her ‘cabarets’? What made Helen ‘the desire that you need not be embarrassed about feeling’? How did she manage the unimaginable: vamp three generations of men on screen? Equally, the book is a brilliantly witty and provocative examination of middle-class Indian morality; the politics of religion, gender and sexuality in popular culture; and the importance of the song, the item number and the wayward woman in Hindi cinema.
Author: Conrad Mason
Publisher: David Fickling Books
ISBN: 178845197X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Brokewood Valley is a strange and mysterious place. There are old magics under the earth, and dark forces at play. So when Hattie and her brother, Jonathan, arrive to find their Granny missing, they suspect something sinister is going on.Hattie uncovers these unusual powers in the land and is determined to find out the truth. Where is Granny? How is this connected to her mum's death, seven years go? And who exactly is the girl in wooden armour?
