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Author
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Publisher
Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Guide books or book notes are primarily written to make students understand the original text better, especially from all those angles which are often overlooked by a casual reader. But, in the recent years it has been noticed that a very large majority of the students, without reading the original texts, rely on the guide books or notes prepared by their teachers or others. This is definitely not a healthy habit because students do pass their exams...
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Publisher
Gene Parola
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"Lehua won the 'Best in Genre' Award by Author Stand in December 2012. It became the second Award from that e-publisher for a Parola work. See 'Portraits of a Young Artist in Istanbul" in the collection, 'The Little American Blonde".""Descendants", George Clooney's film captured the interest in land in Hawaii. Gene Parola's new book shows the upheaval that radically touched the lives and gives a solid understand to what Clooney was only able to touch...
43) Artifact
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Publisher
K T Bowes
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
Description
From bestselling New Zealand author, K T Bowes, comes this cross-continental romance, reaching from the sunshine of New Zealand to the depths of wintry England."The harsh English winter battered Market Harborough, grid locking roads and railways. But the sun-dial on the side of St. Dionysius Church spire still did its best despite the lack of sun that made its job harder. The position of the sun-dial gave away the location of the secret priest hole,...
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Publisher
Lauren Jagger
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"Warning: For readers 18 & up! This title features: a passionate romance in Paris and HOT, HOT, HOT sex! Alexie works as Emaus' muse full-time. His artistic whims always have her on edge-she clearly needs to relax. He's sexy, mysterious, and oh-so talented-what's a girl not to love? Emaus is a top artist in Paris. Alexie is a beautiful woman and his art, and his libido, are at his best when he paints her fully nude.Will Emaus and Alexie be able to...
45) Compunction
Author
Series
Publisher
Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Generally, he used to get his payment right after the completion of the job, but this time the money had been given to him after some days. He had plans in his mind. He was going to buy a lot of things with that money. He had been waiting for that money for many days, and eventually it was delivered to him this evening. He did not understand why the payment was made after so many days while he and his friends had completed the task very efficiently....
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English
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Published ahead of Paul Scott's Raj Quartet and long before Midnight's Children, Abdullah Hussein's ambitious saga of social struggle The Weary Generations was a bestseller in Urdu. Published in 1963 and now beyond its 40th edition, it has never been out of printing A vivid depiction of the widespread disillusionment and seismic upheavals of the Partition era that lead to the creation of Pakistan and Bangladesh, there has never been a more opportune...
47) Deep Blood
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Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (254 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Deep Blood is the story of Mississippi sheriff Colt Harper, whose moral compass is slightly askew - separated but not divorced from his wife, he sleeps with a New Orleans stripper who regularly violates the drug laws of Lowndes County, he drinks too much and habitually ignores the more mundane aspects of his sworn duty. Even when he must investigate the death of a young man - the son of a close friend - his mind wanders from the subsequent investigation....
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Set in 1863, the novel follows Lieutenant John Dunbar on a magical journey from the ravages of the Civil War to the far reaches of the imperiled American frontier, a frontier he naively wants to see "before it is gone".His posting to a desolate and deserted outpost is the springboard for contact with the lords of the southern plains... the Comanche. Though he does not speak their language, has no know-ledge of their customs, and is considered a trespasser,...
49) Woman Master
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Publisher
Cutting Edge Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (310 pages)
Language
English
Description
An elegantly written tale of one Persian woman's journey--she marries for love, and eventually loses everything and must start again. The author says "I wanted to tell a Persian story and I wanted Westerners to hear it the way an Iranian might hear it."Strong, independent, and always with an opinion of her own, Pari grew up in an environment where women were expected to marry young and bear children, but she elopes with a wealthy older man who already...
50) All this Time
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Publisher
Booktrope
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (146 pages)
Language
English
Description
Syrian-American Lydia Fadoul has spent a year waiting for her fiance' to return from war in Iraq, only to discover that he is broken by trauma and the devastating effects of PTSD. Just when he finally agrees to seek help, he takes his own life and leaves behind a story of murder, betrayal, and mystery. In her second, contemporary fiction novel since Budapest, Tiffani Burnett-Velez weaves a fast-paced literary tale about the rumors we believe and the...
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Publisher
Bedazzled Ink Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (328 pages)
Language
English
Description
Funny how memories work, the things you remember, the things forgotten, the things that change you. Back in the summer of 1962, ten year-old Cassandra Parsons has her life all figured out. She lives with her father and mother in the upstairs flat of a well-appointed two family house in a pleasant neighborhood of Racine, Wisconsin. Her maternal aunt and grandfather live right downstairs and her best friend Kitty has always lived two doors down. Cassandra's...
52) One Heartbeat
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Series
Publisher
K T Bowes
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Nothing in the world scared Logan Du Rose but this one tiny detail - that the thing which made his life worth living - was the one thing he had no human way of keeping."A face from the past disturbs Hana's second chance at love, pitching her backwards as her old life bleeds irrevocably into her new start with her Maori husband. Hana is forced to deal with buried hurts and to learn that forgiveness is a two part process. When a body is discovered at...
Author
Publisher
Parthian Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (450 pages)
Language
English
Description
Trouble is brewing in Ystrad. It is time to defend jobs, the pits, and a way of life that has formed both the life of valley and the nation. The union is squaring up to the Coal Board, the government, and the country. Gwyn Pritchard, overman at Blackthorn colliery, believes that the way to save his pit is to keep his men working and production high. His men disagree and when an old collier dies on Gwyn's shift, the men's simmering resentment spills...
54) Storyteller
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Publisher
Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Storytelling is definitely one of the most beautiful arts. Only few people are blessed with such gifts. We have several such storytellers at our academy. The teachers at our academy often come out with the stories that really touch hearts. Having seen that the stories written by our authors must be shared with more people, we decided to publish this anthology. This book is also available in its paperback form on Amazon. We hope that these stories...
Author
Series
Publisher
Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
He stepped into the house and found a few papers scattered on the floor. He bent down and picked a few of them. He found two envelopes, a post card, and a folded piece of paper. The postman may have pushed these letters inside the house. It was almost dark inside the house, so he was unable to read the senders' names. He groped his way to the staircase on the right side of the door and found the electric switch board there. When he used to live here,...
56) Am I Unwanted?
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Series
Publisher
Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Ten years have passed and now I am Mrs. Sonia Lawson. My husband, Mike Lawson, was an orphan brought up in an orphanage. He works in a bank. We have been married for four years. I have a little daughter, one year old. We are very happy together. I now believe that God is not cruel. He writes stories of the lives of all his people. I am happy and wish for the happiness of all the children who are in child care homes or orphanage. Am I Unwanted? CopyrightChapter...
57) Kingdom
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Series
Publisher
Parthian Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (220 pages)
Language
English
Description
After an elderly farmer dies, following an accident on a remote Welsh smallholding, he leaves the kingdom over which he had ruled so fiercely to his two daughters, Lucy and Cadi. As they prepare for the funeral, the novel--the last written by the prolific James Hanley--relates the events and experiences that made each sister what she is now: Lucy, the runaway, who fled the farm secretly and without warning, never to see the old man again, and Cadi,...
Author
Publisher
Banana Tree Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (318 pages)
Language
English
Description
"This action-paced adventure story, centered in the world of Asian antiques, involves colorful characters in settings ranging from the remote mountains on northern Thailand and Bangkok's exotic nightspots to an antique shop in America."--
59) Welsh Folk Tales
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Language
English
Description
This book, a selection of folk tales, true tales, tall tales, myths, gossip, legends and memories, celebrates and honors unique Welsh stories. Some are well known, others from forgotten manuscripts or out-of-print volumes, and some are contemporary oral tales. They reflect the diverse tradition of storytelling, and the many meanings of 'chwedlau'. If someone says, "Chwedl Cymraeg?" they are asking, "Do you speak Welsh?" and "Do you tell a tale in...
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Publisher
Peter Owen Publishers
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (240 pages)
Language
English
Description
The picaresque story of 96-year-old Lily Bourbon, who marries her way from prostitute to Poet Laureate in the USSR and finds a new life in the U.S.Lily was a beautiful young prostitute recruited by the Bolsheviks to service the Communist elite. As a result of a fortuitous marriage to Andrei Bourbon, famous poet, futurist and artistic associate of Malevich and Mayakovsky, her own verse is delivered to the official Communist newspapers, together with...
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