Where Have All the Mangoes Gone?
Author: Sarah-Jane Vatelot
Publisher:
Published: 2019-10-02
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9781940300078
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Where Have All the Bees Gone?
Author: Rebecca E. Hirsch
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 1541534638
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Apples, blueberries, peppers, cucumbers, coffee, and vanilla. Do you like to eat and drink? Then you might want to thank a bee. Bees pollinate 75 percent of the fruits, vegetables, and nuts grown in the United States. Around the world, bees pollinate $24 billion worth of crops each year. Without bees, humans would face a drastically reduced diet. We need bees to grow the foods that keep us healthy. But numbers of bees are falling, and that has scientists alarmed. What's causing the decline? Diseases, pesticides, climate change, and loss of habitat are all threatening bee populations. Some bee species teeter on the brink of extinction. Learn about the many bee species on Earth -- their nests, their colonies, their life cycles, and their vital connection to flowering plants. Most importantly, find out how you can help these important pollinators. "If we had to try and do what bees do on a daily basis, if we had to come out here and hand pollinate all of our native plants and our agricultural plants, there is physically no way we could do it. . . . Our best bet is to conserve our native bees." --ecologist Rebecca Irwin, North Carolina State University
Motherwit
Author: Urmila Pawar
Publisher: Zubaan
Published: 2013-07-22
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9383074450
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Dalit, a Buddhist and a feminist: Urmila Pawar’s self-definition as all three identities informs her stories about women who are brave in the face of caste oppression, strong in the face of family pressures, defiant when at the receiving end of insult, and determined when guarding their interests and those of their sisters. Using the classic short story form with its surprise endings to great effect, Pawar brings to life strong and clever women who drive the reader to laughter, anger, tears or despair. Her harsh, sometimes vulgar and hard-hitting language subverts another stereotype — that of the soft-spoken woman writer. Pawar’s protagonists may not always be Dalit, and the mood not always one of anger, but caste is never far from the context and informs the subtext of each story. As critic Eleanor Zelliot notes, there is ‘tucked in every story, a note about a Buddhist vihara or Dr Ambedkar.... All her stories come from the Dalit world, revealing the great variety of Dalit life now.’ Published by Zubaan.
The Curse of the Deadly 7
Author: Garth Jennings
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2021-02-04
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1509899367
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Curse of the Deadly 7 is the last book in the funny, action-packed, exciting monster adventure series The Deadly 7 by the director of Sing Garth Jennings. 'A fantastic new voice in middle grade fiction. I loved it!' Robin Stevens, bestselling author of Murder Most Unladylike. Nelson Green has learned to live with the seven stinky monsters that were extracted from his soul. Sure, they sometimes get up to mischief and land him in trouble, but at least he hasn't had to fight any giant angry abominations in a while. But something still isn't right. Nelson's hair hasn't grown a single millimeter since the monsters were created. He hasn't got any taller, and his chewed off fingernails aren't growing back. Something strange is happening, and the Deadly 7 know more than they're letting on . . . But then someone else finds the soul extractor – someone with a grudge against Nelson. Soon Nelson has more to worry about than his fingernails: there's an army of angry monsters coming to get him, and his own monsters might not be there to help . . .
The House on Mango Street
Author: Sandra Cisneros
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2013-04-30
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0345807197
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. “Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting." Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.
Mangoes on the Maple Tree
Author: Uma Parameswaran
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2006-07
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 0595405274
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"What I found most enjoyable about this novel is that it steers clear of stereotypes about Indian immigrant families. The Bhaves and the Moghes are refreshingly different from some families that inhabit the world of diasporic fiction. There are no daughters being threatened with arranged marriages, no authoritarian parents, and no weepy sentimentality about the land left behind."-(Nalini Iyer, on SAWNET Book Pages) "This is the story of two families that not only dive deep into dangerous waters, but surface and live to tell the tale."-(Michelle Reale in Rain Taxi Online) "A hymn to the joys and sorrows of family, in the best, most inclusive sense of the word." Andreas Schroeder
51 BEST SHORT STORIES
Author: BPI
Publisher: BPI Publishing
Published:
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9351210979
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →51 Best Short Stories' is a unique collection of short stories that have been written by well-known authors from around the world. Short stories from India, Britain, America, Russia, Brazil, Spain and many other countries have been included in this book. This collection features the best stories of authors such as O. Henry, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Dickens, Rabindranath Tagore, Premchand, Virginia Woolf, Saki and several others. The stories explore a variety of ideas and themes such as love, hatred, humour, adventure, suspense, crime and punishment, sentiment and revenge. Each story in this book is compelling and brilliant, and tends to evoke emotional response from readers.
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To the End of Hell
Author: Denise Affonço
Publisher: Reportage Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 0955572959
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"In one of the most powerful memoirs of persecution ever written, Denise Affonco recounts how her comfortable life in Phnom Penh was torn apart when the Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia in April 1975. As a French citizen, Denise Affonco was offered a choice: she could either flee to France with her children or they could all stay together in Cambodia with her husband, Seng, who did not have a French passport. Seng was Chinese and a convinced communist; he believed that the Khmer Rouge would bring an end to five years of civil war. Denise decided the family should stay together. But the Khmer Rouge did not bring peace: Denise and her family, along with millions of their fellow citizens, were deported to a living hell in the countryside where, for almost four years, they endured hard labour, famine, sickness and death." "What gives this book its freshness is that much of it was written in the months after Denise Affonco's liberation in 1979. Shortly afterwards, Denise left for France to rebuild her life with her surviving son and the carbon copy manuscript was all but forgotten. It was only when, some 25 years later, she met a European academic who told her that the Khmer Rouge did "nothing but good" for Cambodia that she realised it was time to end her silence."--BOOK JACKET.
Pieces for a Glass Piano
Author: Gerard Lee
Publisher: St. Lucia, Q. : University of Queensland Press
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Under the Luscombe Bridge - Story set in the train from Brisbane. In describing the station layout, memories are evoked of an older Queensland when an old country station, which could be on any railway line anywhere, is described... A brief description of the town's Rainbow Café is given. -- Information from Writers' Footprints by JSD Mellick.
