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Most customers and even most office workers have come and gone, but nine people remain. A punky teenager with an unexpected gift. An upper-class Caucasian couple whose relationship is disintegrating. A young Muslim-American man struggling with the fallout of 9/11.
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A graduate student haunted by a question about love. An African-American ex-soldier searching for redemption. A Chinese grandmother with a secret past.
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She is raising the value of motherhood in our society as she helps mothers build their confidence and strengthen their game as writers.”. Author by: Wendy DonigerLanguage: enPublisher by: Columbia University PressFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 37Total Download: 881File Size: 49,9 MbDescription: Wendy Doniger's foundational study is both modern in its engagement with a diverse range of religions and refreshingly classic in its transhistorical, cross-cultural approach. By responsibly analyzing patterns and themes across context, Doniger reinvigorates the comparative reading of religion, tapping into a wealth of narrative traditions, from the instructive tales of Judaism and Christianity to the moral lessons of the Bhagavad Gita. She extracts political meaning from a variety of texts while respecting the original ideas of each. A new preface confronts the difficulty of contextualizing the comparison of religions as well as controversies over choosing subjects and positioning arguments, and the text itself is expanded and updated throughout. Author by: Alan BrennertLanguage: enPublisher by: St. Martin's PressFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 94Total Download: 459File Size: 49,8 MbDescription: Bestseller Alan Brennert's spellbinding story about a family of dreamers and their lives within the legendary Palisades Amusement Park Growing up in the 1930s, there is no more magical place than Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey—especially for seven-year-old Antoinette, who horrifies her mother by insisting on the unladylike nickname Toni, and her brother, Jack.
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Toni helps her parents, Eddie and Adele Stopka, at the stand where they sell homemade French fries amid the roar of the Cyclone roller coaster. There is also the lure of the world's biggest salt-water pool, complete with divers whose astonishing stunts inspire Toni, despite her mother's insistence that girls can't be high divers. But a family of dreamers doesn't always share the same dreams, and then the world intrudes: There's the Great Depression, and Pearl Harbor, which hits home in ways that will split the family apart; and perils like fire and race riots in the park.
Both Eddie and Jack face the dangers of war, while Adele has ambitions of her own—and Toni is determined to take on a very different kind of danger in impossible feats as a high diver. Yet they are all drawn back to each other—and to Palisades Park—until the park closes forever in 1971. Evocative and moving, with the trademark brilliance at transforming historical events into irresistible fiction that made Alan Brennert's Moloka'i and Honolulu into reading group favorites, Palisades Park takes us back to a time when life seemed simpler—except, of course, it wasn't. Author by: Rahul SainiLanguage: enPublisher by: Jaico Publishing HouseFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 22Total Download: 511File Size: 54,9 MbDescription: Rishab had the coolest lifestyle—dinner with friends, best restaurants in town, first day first show of practically every film released, a decently paying job, all-night parties and a good girlfriend.
Now he is stuck in his small hometown with zero parties, movies, cool restaurants or friends. The ‘good’ girlfriend has turned ‘bad’. He has no cool job.
Everyone thinks he is a total nutter and there is only one girl who seems to understand his beliefs and values but speaks too little. And just to make things worse, he manages to tangle himself in a terrible case of extreme crime. Would he be able to follow his heart and stick to his values and ambitions?
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Author by: Shonali SabherwalLanguage: enPublisher by: Random House IndiaFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 79Total Download: 838File Size: 45,9 MbDescription: Can foods really affect your moods? Can they also boost your sex life? From the author of The Beauty Diet comes a unique book designed to cultivate love and improve health and vitality for a happy and blissful life. In The Love Diet, Shonali Sabherwal, India’s leading nutritionist, presents a refreshing approach to eating by sharing:.
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