A 400 pager ebook ! The poet has eternally believed that the most inexplicable of sorrow can be alleviated via the power of poetry. Wondrously implementing the same in this compendium of poems--Parekh brings to the fore various evils lingering in the society and tries to cure them offering the balm of poetry. The poems contained within are starkly explicit and poignantly debate on various global social causes like female foeticide, blindness, smoking, molestation, adopting the girl child, hiv-aids discrimination..etc...
Covering everyone from Leo Tolstoy and Mark Twain to Don De Lillo and Lorrie Moore, Good Fiction Guide offers an informative reference work on novelists and their works, with an emphasis of twentieth-century fiction and popular classics, but with ample coverage of major novelists of the past. The guide takes us on a stimulating tour of the literary landscape.
Battle Cry is a historical fiction novel written by award-winning Minnesota author, Jan Neubert Schultz. This book would be a good choice for those children considered "reluctant readers". Although this is fiction, Jan is historically accurate when writing about this very volatile time in Minnesota's state history (inaccuracies are clearly stated in her Author's Note).
From steampunk to space opera to humanist sci-fi, from Arthur Conan Doyle to The Six Million Dollar Man, and from implants to teleportation, George Mann navigates genre-benders, numerous media, neologisms and common terms, thrills, disappointments and traditions in The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Entries in this comprehensive reference guide include several descriptive and factual paragraphs, cross-references, suggested reading and bibliographic information.
Humiliated by his family`s indiscretions, Lucas, Lord Ashton-nicknamed "The Saint" - wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with the prim and proper bride of his choice. And if the innocent young lady in question gives him some decidedly devilish urges, he is determined to control himself-much to her dismay. Lady Irisa Langley is at her wit`s end. Much as she loves her exasperatingly perfect fiance, she`s starting to think it would be wrong of her to marry him.
