Author: Mashkura Begum
Publisher: Saathi House
ISBN: 1999587707
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Published in 2018 to mark Saathi House’s 40th anniversary, we embarked on collecting stories and photographs of twenty individuals who have used Saathi House over the past 40 years. These memories were collected stories from some of the first service users of Saathi House way back in 1978 to those using its services in 2018. A beautifully produced full-colour book to accompany a short film and stunning exhibition exploring heritage; Saathi House Stories highlights the crucial role grassroots organisations play in shaping the journey of those who use vital local services. Apsana Khatun, at the tender age of two, accompanied her Mum to Saathi House to attend language classes during the mid 1980s. As a teenager, Apsana engaged with a Saathi House girls’ group and progressed on to becoming one of Saathi House’s youngest female youth workers. Apsana now has a well-established career in youth and community development work; and has now come full circle with her involvement with Saathi House as her young son attends the centre’s Saturday Club. That’s three generations of the same family using the socially engaging services at Saathi House! The collection of stories captured in this tome are a way of inspiring others to become more involved with local community organisations like Saathi House, where committed volunteers have long campaigned to generate local support, which has ensured city-wide respect for a project that is now one of the city’s oldest organisations set up to serve immigrant communities. Saathi House, located a stone’s throw from the Aston Villa Football Club, prides itself on the the diversity of its participants and supporters, as local people have embraced the establishment as a neutral, safe space over the decades. Now enjoying its 40th anniversary, it continues this legacy by keeping itself relevant and moving in sync with the changing needs, times and trends of the people of Aston and wider Birmingham. The Saathi House Stories project - conceived and presented by Mashkura Begum - has been funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). © Saathi House / Mashkura Begum, 2018.
Author: Soma Vira
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595163718
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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In his quest to rule earth, the alien captain has five invincible weapons: the LDM (land destruction machine); his invisible third eye that when activated burns everything; the powerful religious sect, who have crowned him as god kalki; his partnership with a planetary movie producer who has manufactured an army of killing robots; and his robotic schooner star kahuna that changes shape and disappears. Humans keep falling in his vicious traps despite the help of mysterious blue-skin beings. Using his third eye, when the alien burns his partner, and, using star kahuna kidnaps five human leaders, surrounded by the victory claiming priests, earth's only choice is to surrender. Two factors the alien had missed- homo-robot birds, and a translink necklace...
Author: Soma Vira
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595156037
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Has the corrupted alien captain coverted "Operation Earth Shield" to "Operation Kill Earth?" The Doomsday question confronting both: humans living on man-made islands due to water-logged earth land erosion; and, the alien planet's rulers who had sent their navy captain on the rescue mission. Another dilemma: What's the connection between this crisis and the alien children growing up as humans, who were secretly planted on earth by unknown beings for reasons not yet discovered? And, what about those mysterious blue-skinned species being who reveal themselves only to these homo-alien children? Will the truant captain controlling the fate of two planets win?
Author: Poul Anderson
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Discover the golden age of science fiction with some of the best stories of intergalactic battles, space adventures and alien contact in this Poul Anderson collection of selected SF stories: Captive of the Centaurianess Lord of a Thousand Sun Out of the Iron Womb Sargasso of Lost Starships Star Ship Swordsman of Lost Terra The Virgin of Valkarion Tiger by the Tail Witch of the Demon Seas
Author: Tarun J. Tejpal
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612191630
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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“Spine chilling … written with flair and clear-eyed acidity.” — The New Yorker Based on actual events, The Story of My Assassins tells the story of a journalist who learns that the police have captured five hitmen on their way to kill him. Landing like a bombshell on his comfortable life, just as he’s started a steamy affair with a brilliant woman, the news prompts him to launch an urgent investigation into the lives of his aspiring murderers—a ragtag group of street thugs and village waifs—and their mastermind. Who wanted him dead, and why? But the investigation forces him to reexamine his own life, too—to confront his own notion of himself, his job, and his treatment of the women in his life, as well as his own complex feelings about the country that crafted his would-be killers. Part thriller and part erotic romance, full of dark humor and knife-edged suspense, The Story of My Assassins is a piercing literary novel that takes us from the lavish, hedonistic palaces of India’s elite to its seediest slums. It is a novel of corruption, passion, power, and ambition; of extreme poverty and obscene wealth. It is an awesome adventure into the heart of today’s India.
Author: Mehar
Publisher: Vantage Press, Inc
ISBN: 9780533159888
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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A Journey of Unexpected Blessings is an autobiography of self-determination. Rags to riches, riches to rags and back againthis intriguing and enchanting book tells the story of a most courageous person born in a Third World country, who, despite overwhelming odds to the contrary, finds unwavering faith and a determination to succeed-- even during the most difficult times and with everything going the wrong way.
Author: Soma Vira
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059516370X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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Gidhas, a homo-eagle species, banished from earth in mid-historic times recruit lord Kito to launch a surprise assault on earth. Kito, a navy commander; exiled by his mother planet for treason, has his own secret goals. On the Gidha intergalactic space ship the leaders are divided in secret factions generating treachery, kidnapping, espionage, cosmic clashes, double-dealing and an impossible romance. Shola kilom, a Gidha leader, finds her Gidha-kuberian daughter, Maya Kiran, whom she had hidden on earth. Without shola's knowledge her ambassador teaches Maya to fly, which leads to a death duel on Lord Kito's planet to win the lovely Loko-human for whom Kito was exiled. It doesn't end up the way you'd expect.
Author: Abha Sahgal & Sandra De Souza & Preetika Sawhney & Kusum Wadhwa & Anju Loomba & Pooja Sachdeva
Publisher: New Saraswati House India Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 9352727940
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Author: Ashta-deb
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525521330
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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In this heartbreaking, extremely personal memoir of a life touched by profound tragedy, author Ashta-deb invites readers into her world in the hopes that they might benefit from the discovered remedies that at last elevated her above it. Here is a soul who had suffered abuse at the hands of both parents, abandonment by her mother, and the tragic death of her thirteen-year-old sister by the time she was just nine years old. As she struggles to emerge from this devastation over the next long stretch of her life, her past is relentless in its haunting. It takes many years before doctors diagnose her with PTSD, and many more for her to find the right combination of Western medicine and Eastern wisdom to heal her. Her medication with cannabis, experimentation with Ayahuasca in Peru and finally a breakthrough healing with psilocybin offers a diverse look at mental healing. In the background of it all is her dedicated cultivation of yogic and psychic abilities. At last, Life Happens to Us endorses the importance of embracing unresolved childhood experiences. It is a must-read for anyone who wishes to understand their true potential as a human being.
Author: Shivon Sudesh
Publisher: Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks
ISBN: 186151252X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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ÿWhat really happened to Sathi?s mother ?the mother she never knew?Throughout her eighteen years, Sathi has carried the burden of her grief and guilt over the death of her own mother while giving birth to her. But then she starts investigating ? and unearths hidden documents that suggest her mother did not die in childbirth after all. This shocking discovery sends Sathi to India, the land of her forefathers, on a trail which opens up a world of intrigue she had no idea existed. What secrets are her family keeping from her? What is she to make of the charming but infuriating Zakiy, who is not quite the simple young man he claims to be? And what really happened to her beloved Amma? This page-turner of a story from a talented young novelist is a wonderful read from start to finish. To be continued in the next instalment of the Prism of Truth trilogy, Doves in Flight
