Rock & Role
When Diana meets pop star Tasha Kane while on her way to drop off a vest for a customer of Cinderella Cleaners, Tasha offers her the chance at a role in her new video, but only if she wears the vest.
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Silent Eloquence
The male and female alter egos, Satya and Maya, come together to create Silent Eloquence as a collection of stories each distinct from the other. Spanning their own age difference and biological distinctions, their collection puts forth the viewpoint of the different ways in which a man and a woman express their innate thoughts on the vast canvas of words, and collate them as stories for everyone to ponder. Silent Eloquence comes in two distinct parts of Satya, the male, and Maya, the female, who—through their own experience in their own ages—see the same world differently and focus on the human relationship differently. A unique experience of expressions that put the ordinary trivial happenings of life onto a larger canvas through observation and imagery.
The Bangle Seller
The story focuses on a princely family. Rajiv and Radha are heirs of the family. Samantha, a soft spoken American girl has come to do a project on India and is their guest. Damien, a photographer is on an assignment on ancient Indian monuments. Penny and Pitambar return to India after their marriage. Unhappy with the joint family system, Penny runs away to join a band of Gypsies as ?Kajri?. Visiting a bangle seller?s stall, Samantha and Damien recognise Penny their old college-mate. Samantha accompanies Damien and they visit a Nadi Shastri who makes some amazing predictions. Damien meets his friend John and joins him on the Ganges trail hoping to find focus in his disturbed life. Romance and marriage celebrations in the Rajput host?s household are rudely disrupted by a sudden abduction. Will Kajri alias Penny free herself from the gypsies? Would she move back to America? Can she find her true love? The story is not without its twists and turns, drama and suspense till you reach the final catharsis.
Invisible Children
Maya Ajmera and Greg Fields provide the architecture of a new perspective on the global agenda for children, based on a new global web of relationships stemming from the community level. Arguing that the existing global agenda for children has failed, this book reimagines how society can support the world’s most vulnerable children. In doing so, Invisible Children identifies and gives voice to the millions of children globally living on society’s margins, while showing a way forward as to how we can best invest in children.
Mask Appeal
Diana finds the perfect gown and mask for the town's masquerade ball, and even gets to dance with her new crush, but the arrival of some unexpected guests threatens to unravel her perfect evening.
Harlequin Presents June 2014 - Bundle 2 of 2
Harlequin Presents brings you four new titles for one great price! Escape with these four stories by USA TODAY bestselling authors. This Presents bundle includes Playboy's Lesson by USA TODAY bestselling author Melanie Milburne, The Man She Can't Forget by USA TODAY bestselling author Maggie Cox, What the Greek Can't Resist by Maya Blake and An Heir to Bind Them by Dani Collins. Look for 8 new exciting stories every month from Harlequin Presents!
Awake but Dreaming
Wake up in New York, fly to London, limo to hotel, hair and make up and breakfast, race to a radio interview, dash to a TV interview, sound check at a concert hall, eat lunch on the go, wardrobe change, magazine photo shoot, newspaper interview, live performance, private jet to Rome, get swarmed by paparazzi, sleep for three hours in a hotel, wake up, coffee, hair and make up, another photo shoot, go shopping, sign autographs on the street, television interview, attend a fashion show, drink three flutes of Veuve, lose your purse but find the hors d’oeuvres, smile for pictures with random strangers, meet a cute guy but have to fly to Paris in the morning, debate going to sleep but hit a club instead, photos snapped as you trip in your stilettos... Forty-eight hours in the life of Jenna Ramsay may seem magical, but it’s a reality her two friends can’t wait to escape. Signed up for a year of being her personal assistants, Riley and Eleanor travel the world supporting their childhood friend’s rags to riches success as the current “It Girl” of the music industry. But their personal callings outweigh the glamour and drama, and they must decide whether to stand by Jenna, or step away from her rollercoaster ride. Awake but Dreaming shares a compelling glimpse into the life of a celebrity who must determine whether she will be led by the glare of the spotlight. Add the public scrutiny to her mistakes and choices, and you’ll regret ever wishing to be famous.
Puran Singh, a Life Sketch
Puran Singh (1881-1931) Was The First Punjabi Poet, Who Freely Used Free Verse For His Poetic Writings. In This Slender Volume An Attempt Has Been Made To Give A Glimpse Of Puran SinghýS Works To The Benefit Of The Non-Punjabi Readers To Acquaint Themselves, To A Certain Extent On The Life And Works Of Puran Singh.
Hindu Selves in a Modern World
This book explores devotional Hinduism in a modern context of high consumerism and revolutionised communications. It focuses on a fast-growing and high-profile contemporary Hindu guru faith originating in India and attracting a transnational following. The organisation is led by a vastly popular female guru, Mata Amritanandamayi, whom devotees worship as an avatar and a healer of the ills of the contemporary world. By drawing upon multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork among the mata's primarily urban, educated 'middle class' Indian devotees, the author provides crucial insights into new trends in popular Hinduism in a post-colonial and rapidly modernising Indian setting.
Women's Power to Heal
Women have absolute power within themselves to heal. A living testament to the healing efficacy of her teachings, the author freed herself from "terminal" ovarian cancer at the age of 23. More than 25 years later--having been recognized by the Parliament of the World's Religions for her outstanding contribution to humanity--she shares the healing wisdom that literally saved her life.
Loving Women
By a leading feminist scholar, covers contemporary lesbian scene in India, religious and social issues, role of lesbians in the women's movement. also politics. basic review
Beyond the Journey
Beyond the Journey features the voices of women who have experienced the challenge of living in Canada's immigrant communities. Some women were brought to Canada as children, while others immigrated as adults; yet others were born in Canada to immigrant parents. The women chronicle their journey of settlement in Canada through life-writing, poetry, and essays. In all instances, they focused on reaching for a sense of belonging in Canada as they engaged in community building. This required transcending their "immigrantness" to create that new reality. While the end result is gratifying, the journey required adapting to the culture shock, alienation, and loss of identity that are inevitably part of the immigrant's experience. The contributors are from Albania, Antigua, Barbados, China, Germany, Grenada, India, Iran, Jamaica, and Sri Lanka. Catherine Bain • Cynthia Ding • Gabriele Hardt • Rev. Dr. Sonia Hinds • Heather Meikle • Manivillie Kanagasabapathy • Maya Roy • Sharon M. Nembhard • Dhurata Sinani • Faye Stanbury • Angela Walcott
In Search of the Silk King
Maya Herman In Search of The Silk King A Novel Among many stories I heard in Southeast Asia, the most fascinating is the story of the legendary American “silk king” of Thailand – Jim Thompson. It is as mysterious as Asia itself. The name Jim Thompson seemed to follow me from the first moment I arrived in Bangkok. The more stories and rumors I heard, the more I became fascinated by them. They had all the ingredients of a good novel or a major movie – romance, mystery, glamour, exotic locations, and more. The legend of the “silk king” and his disappearance remains as mysterious today as it was in 1967. No clues were ever found. Only unanswered questions remained. Using poetic license, I decided to write a novel that might answer some of them. As such, the novel is very loosely and only in part based on the real life of Jim Thompson, as I learned of it primarily through living in Bangkok, traveling extensively throughout Southeast Asia and writing about it in my book of travel essays, The Jade Window (Bangkok, 1998). It is also in part based on the information I gathered in my research from the newspaper articles on Thompson, William Warren’s indispensable biography of him, on the interviews with Warren and Henry Thompson, through Alexander Macdonald’s notes and OSS archives, for all of which I am immensely grateful. Still, my “Jim Thompson”is not a historic but a fictional character. In Search of The Silk King is a work of fiction written in many voices that are tempered with the measure of truth. Any errors – biographical, historical, intended, or otherwise - are solely mine. This is the story of an adventure told in hero’s voice and in various voices of the people who knew him. It is also the story of his life that had the sweep of a historical romance and the power of a heroic quest. As Jim Thompson’s absorbing tale unfolds, the reader discovers what happened after his disappearance, how he succeeded and suffered and eventually found the truth. It is a novel of suspense, of fate and love lost and found. The “Jim Thompson” of my novel thinks of himself as an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances. There are, on the tapes he sent from his after-life in exile to a journalist friend, his memories of the past: his childhood desire to travel to exotic places ... of his first and greatest love, of his marriage. As a young man, Jim went to New York and worked as an architect. He met Vera, a Russian ballerina, and fell in love with her. He gave her a brooch designed as a pair of ballet slippers made of emeralds and diamonds as a token of his great love. When Vera decided to go back to her old lover she returned one of the two slippers. Jim kept the slipper as the memento of his love that would prove to be fatal. After the breakup, Jim tried to find a new direction in life. He married a woman he barely knew and enlisted in the Army. This was his way of escaping the loss of his first great love that would mark his whole emotional life. He went to Africa where he worked for the OSS with Maurice, a half-French, half-Laotian mystery man. Not eager to return home, Jim volunteered to go to Southeast Asia. This was the real beginning of his journey. He fell in love with Bangkok and wanted to stay there even after the war was over. His wife Pat did not share his enthusiasm and agreed to a divorce. Jim returned to Bangkok with a plan to renovate the Oriental hotel. He did not succeed in that, but found his true vocation in a forgotten art of silk making. Jim almost single-handedly revived the Thai silk industry and became the most successful American businessman in Thailand. There is a story about silk. Jim’s life seemed full. He built a beautiful house and opened a new store. He seemed to have finally found his fulfillment. He had a beautiful young mistress, Nicole, and seemed
Side by Side?
A new wave of community arts projects has opened up exciting areas of cross-cultural creativity in recent years. These collaborations of local people, arts facilitators, anthropologists and supporting organisations represent a flourishing new form of arts-based collaborative anthropology that aims to document the stories and cultures of local people using creative art forms. Often focusing on social and cultural agendas, from education and health promotion to advocacy and cultural heritage preservation, participants bring together methods historically linked to anthropology with those from the arts and community development. Side by Side? – The Challenge of Co-creativity investigates these creative projects as sites of significant cultural creation and potential social change. Through the exploration of a range of diverse collaborations, the common threads and historical contexts in this domain of cultural creativity are examined. The role that creative arts collaborations can have in disrupting existing hierarchies of social power and knowledge creation is analysed, as are the potential futures, historical and cultural implications of these co-creative practices. Drawing on the experiences and reflections of over 30 facilitators from more than 7 countries, and written by an experienced collaborative arts practitioner and researcher, this exciting forthcoming book from Routledge will play a defining role in the emerging critical discourse on collaborative art and collaborative anthropology. It will make essential reading for anthropologists, arts facilitators and others who aim to collaborate cross-culturally, as well as students of Art, Anthropology, and related subjects.
Letter to My Daughter
Aku melahirkan seorang anak, anak laki-laki, tapi aku memiliki ribuan anak perempuan. Kau yang berkulit hitam dan putih, kau yang orang Yahudi dan Muslim, Asia, berbahasa Spanyol, Amerika asli dan Aleut. Kau yang gemuk dan kurus, yang cantik dan sedang, yang homoseksual dan heteroseksual, yang terpelajar dan buta huruf, aku berbicara pada kalian semua. Ini yang bisa aku tawarkan untuk kalian – Letter to My Daughter Ini adalah kumpulan prosa dan puisi yang memuat penggalan kehidupan Maya Angelou. Tulisan-tulisan Maya memuat kebijaksanaan sang Nenek yang berperan besar dalam pembentukan dirinya, kisah kekerasan dalam hubungan yang pernah dikecapnya, cerita tentang bagaimana ia bisa membuka diri pada Ibu yang sebelumnya tak pernah dekat dengannya, serta pandangan Maya terhadap diskriminasi ras yang terjadi semasa hidupnya. Perjalanan Maya Angelou dalam mencari makna kehidupan dikisahkan dalam Letter to My Daughter. Setiap petikan pengalamannya yang sarat nilai disampaikan secara autentik dan menjadi inspirasi tidak hanya bagi para perempuan muda, tetapi bagi kita semua. Kecintaan pada dunia seni dan sastra telah melekat dalam diri Maya semenjak kecil. Ia dikenal sebagai penyair, penulis, pengajar, dan juga sutradara. Maya menghabiskan masa kecil di Stamps, kemudian berpindah ke San Francisco. Pada 2011, Maya menerima penghargaan Presidential Medal of Freedom dari Presiden Amerika Serikat, Barack Obama atas kiprahnya yang dinilai sudah menginspirasi dan memberikan kontribusi bagi negaranya.
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Taktik Taktis Lolos UN SMA/MA IPA 2014
Lolos Ujian Nasional syaratnya cuma tiga: belajar, berlatih, dan Taktik-Taktis. Apa itu maksudnya? Belajar dan berlatih saja, tidak cukup. Taktik-Taktis adalah smart learning atau strategi belajar yang efisen. "Belajar itu penting, tapi mempelajari hal-hal penting itu jauh lebih penting." Taktik-Taktis berbeda dengan bermain curang. Pernahkah kamu mempelajari sebuah materi pelajaran secara mendalam, tetapi kenyataannya tidak pernah keluar dalam ujian? Kamu pasti menyesal karena apa yang telah dipelajari sama sekali tidak muncul dalam soal ujian. Nah, jangan asal ‘menembak’ sebelum memahami ‘medan pertempuran’. Pelajari medannya, lalu tentukan prioritas bagian mana yang perlu diasah agar lebih siap sebelum menghadapi ujian. Selanjutnya, tentukan target yang ingin kamu capai. Sekadar lulus atau lulus dengan nilai maksimal? Buku ini memaparkan cara untuk Taktik-Taktis saat menghadapi ujian. Selain itu, buku ini berisi rangkuman 6 materi mata pelajaran SMA. Jadi, kamu tidak perlu membongkar-bongkar buku kelas X, XI, dan XII hanya untuk melihat rumus-rumus yang digunakan. Cukup dengan I buku. Dengan buku ini, kamu juga bisa ikut Tryout berhadiah secara gratis untuk menguji seberapa siap menghadapi Ujian Nasional, sekaligus berkompetisi dengan pelajar seluruh Indonesia. Akan ada 50 pemenang dengan total hadiah 10 juta rupiah*. Nah, tunggu apalagi? Ini buku yang tepat untuk menemanimu belajar. Semoga sukses!
Its (Not) Bad to be 17th
Saat yang kutunggu-tunggu, pemilihan pemimpin redaksi majalah sekolah. Aku sedikit gugup memikirkan pidato yang akan kusuguhkan begitu mendengar namaku nanti. Kejutan! Waktu berhenti saat kudengar bukan namaku yang disebut, melainkan orang lain. Cewek yang bahkan menurutku nggak pantas kusebut saingan. Pasti ada yang salah! Ini yang harus kudapat setelah membesarkan nama majalah sekolahku selama ini? Nggak hanya itu kemalanganku. Cowok yang selama ini kudukung malah berkhianat dan jadi menyebalkan. Belum lagi usahaku mengejar passion jadi jurnalis yang selalu bertemu pintu kegagalan . Kini aku terlihat sebagai pecundang. Ada yang lebih buruk dari usia 17? [Mizan, Bentang Pustaka, Novel, Romans, Remaja, Indonesia]
Habibie Ya Nour El Ain
Barra Sadewa, anak SMA yang mengaku tidak percaya Tuhan, dipaksa kepala sekolahnya untuk mondok dua minggu di Pesantren Nurul Ilmi. Ia datang dengan segudang kebencian. Mengira pesantren itu adalah penjara yang lain lagi dalam hidupnya. Tepat saat ia memasuki gerbang pesantren dan mengira telah melakukan kebodohan terbesar dalam hidupnya, ia bertemu Nilam, putri pemilik pesantren yang pendiam dan sangat menjaga etika pergaulan. Dalam beberapa detik segalanya berubah. Bukan hanya bagi Barra, tapi juga Nilam. Pertemuan mereka hanya sekejap, tapi jejaknya membekas sepanjang usia. Dalam pertemuan-pertemuan yang sebentar, Barra dan Nilam menyaksikan sulur-sulur nasib mereka saling bertemu dan membelit. Mereka bercakap tanpa suara. Rahasia-rahasia hati mereka hanya disampaikan melalui pandangan mata. Bertahun-tahun Barra dan Nilam hanya menuangkan cinta itu dalam surat-surat yang tersimpan. Sampai akhirnya, ketika Barra memutuskan untuk menyatakan segalanya, semua sudah terlambat. "Aku hanyalah meteor yang terbakar tanpa sisa di atmosfernya. Aku takkan pernah jatuh ke buminya, takkan mungkin menciptakan kawah di jantungnya." [Mizan Publishing, DAR Mizan, Novel, Remaja, Pesantren, Islam, Romance, Indonesia]
TREMORS: SHORT FICTION BY CALIFORNIA WRITERS
This diverse collection from four women and four men includes flash fiction, excerpts from a novel-in-progress, and short stories that explore a wide range of imaginative themes.