I Am Not an Island
Author | : Khwaja Ahmad Abbas |
Publisher | : New Delhi : Vikas |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Khwaja Ahmad Abbas |
Publisher | : New Delhi : Vikas |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad |
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Author | : Shelby Drinnon |
Publisher | : WestBow Press |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2020-06-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 197369526X |
God shows His glorious mercy and grace through the redemption of a lost woman and her drug addicted husband.
Author | : Tamsin Calidas |
Publisher | : Black Swan Books, Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781784164782 |
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Memoir of the year' - Vogue 'A wondrous, sensuous memoir of salt-stung survival . . . clear-eyed and poetic prose' Sunday Times 'A fascinating memoir' - Daily Mail When Tamsin Calidas first arrives on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides, it feels like coming home. Disenchanted by London, she and her husband left the city and high-flying careers to move the 500 miles north, despite having absolutely no experience of crofting, or of island life. It was idyllic, for a while. But as the months wear on, the children she'd longed for fail to materialise, and her marriage breaks down, Tamsin finds herself in ever-increasing isolation. Injured, ill, without money or friend she is pared right back, stripped to becoming simply a raw element of the often harsh landscape. But with that immersion in her surroundings comes the possibility of rebirth and renewal. Tamsin begins the slow journey back from the brink. Startling, raw and extremely moving, I Am An Island is a story about the incredible ability of the natural world to provide when everything else has fallen away - a stunning book about solitude, friendship, resilience and self-discovery.
Author | : John Donne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Suresh Kohli |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Authors, Indic |
ISBN | : 9788188861095 |
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914-1987) wrote both fiction and non-fiction in three languages simultaneously: English, Urdu and Hindi, and liked to describe himself as a communicator. Starting his journalistic career as sub-editor-cum-reporter in Bombay Chronicle in 1935 where he began contributing his 'Last Page' before moving it to the weekly Blitz in 1947 and continuing it till his last days. He has also been hailed as one of the pioneers of Indian parallel or neo-realist cinema. In I Am Not An Island he chronicled his adventurous life, reflecting on personalities and situations, events, travels, encounters, confrontations, moments of bliss and disappointments, ailments and accidents, and his association with cinema first as a critic and publicist, and then as a script-and-dialogue writer, producer and director. He was involved in the making of 60 Hindi films, including Dharti ke Lal, Awara, Anhonee, Dr Kotnis ki Amar Kahani, Shri 420, Jagtey Raho, Shehar aur Sapna, Aasman Mahal, Saat Hindustani, Mera Naam Joker, Bobby and Henna. Abbas also directed a number of documentaries, the most controversial being Char Shehar Ek Kahani for which he waged a legal battle on censorship, and eventually won it through a Supreme Court verdict. A prolific political commentator, short story writer, novelist Abbas is credited with 73 books in English, Urdu and Hindi (one each for every lived year), including the semi-autobiographical Inquilab and The World is My Village (and was engaged in writing the third in the series at the time of his death), many of which were translated in various other Indian and foreign languages - including Russian, German, Arabic, Italian, French. Recipient of several state and national honours, the President of India conferred on him the Padma Shri award in 1969. A gripping, honest story of an extraordinary man who never compromised on his principles.
Author | : John Donne |
Publisher | : Souvenir Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Death |
ISBN | : 9780285628748 |
This meditative prose conveys the essence of the human place in the world -- past and present.
Author | : José Andrés |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2018-09-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0062864505 |
FOREWORD BY LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA AND LUIS A. MIRANDA, JR. The true story of how José Andrés and World Central Kitchen’s chefs fed hundreds of thousands of hungry Americans after Hurricane Maria and touched the hearts of many more Chef José Andrés arrived in Puerto Rico four days after Hurricane Maria ripped through the island. The economy was destroyed and for most people there was no clean water, no food, no power, no gas, and no way to communicate with the outside world. Andrés addressed the humanitarian crisis the only way he knew how: by feeding people, one hot meal at a time. From serving sancocho with his friend José Enrique at Enrique’s ravaged restaurant in San Juan to eventually cooking 100,000 meals a day at more than a dozen kitchens across the island, Andrés and his team fed hundreds of thousands of people, including with massive paellas made to serve thousands of people alone. At the same time, they also confronted a crisis with deep roots, as well as the broken and wasteful system that helps keep some of the biggest charities and NGOs in business. Based on Andrés’s insider’s take as well as on meetings, messages, and conversations he had while in Puerto Rico, We Fed an Island movingly describes how a network of community kitchens activated real change and tells an extraordinary story of hope in the face of disasters both natural and man-made, offering suggestions for how to address a crisis like this in the future. Beyond that, a portion of the proceeds from the book will be donated to the Chef Relief Network of World Central Kitchen for efforts in Puerto Rico and beyond.
Author | : Khwaja Ahmad Abbas |
Publisher | : New Delhi : Vikas |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad |
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Author | : Russell Shorto |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2005-04-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400096332 |
In a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that shaped American history. "Astonishing . . . A book that will permanently alter the way we regard our collective past." --The New York Times When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish peg-legged governor. But the story of the Dutch colony of New Netherland was merely lost, not destroyed: 12,000 pages of its records–recently declared a national treasure–are now being translated. Russell Shorto draws on this remarkable archive in The Island at the Center of the World, which has been hailed by The New York Times as “a book that will permanently alter the way we regard our collective past.” The Dutch colony pre-dated the “original” thirteen colonies, yet it seems strikingly familiar. Its capital was cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic, and its citizens valued free trade, individual rights, and religious freedom. Their champion was a progressive, young lawyer named Adriaen van der Donck, who emerges in these pages as a forgotten American patriot and whose political vision brought him into conflict with Peter Stuyvesant, the autocratic director of the Dutch colony. The struggle between these two strong-willed men laid the foundation for New York City and helped shape American culture. The Island at the Center of the World uncovers a lost world and offers a surprising new perspective on our own.
Author | : Elif Shafak |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2021-11-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1635578604 |
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Winner of the 2022 BookTube Silver Medal in Fiction * Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction "A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. Balm for our bruised times." -David Mitchell, author of Utopia Avenue A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, and when the teenagers vanish. Decades later, Kostas returns. He is a botanist looking for native species, but really, he's searching for lost love. Years later a Ficus carica grows in the back garden of a house in London where Ada Kazantzakis lives. This tree is her only connection to an island she has never visited--- her only connection to her family's troubled history and her complex identity as she seeks to untangle years of secrets to find her place in the world. A moving, beautifully written, and delicately constructed story of love, division, transcendence, history, and eco-consciousness, The Island of Missing Trees is Elif Shafak's best work yet.