An anthology of sixteen award winning stories, short stories by Sangeeta Saikia Pathak is all about the varied human emotions ranging from love & romances, family drama & intrigues to the terror let loose by gunshots and slogans reigning in the air during the crucial hours of agitations (andolaan) from her homeland, Assam!!! With her award winning stories based mostly in Guwahati, Assam there are some vivid references to the natural beauty of her place like the majestic waters of the river Brahmaputra, the tea-gardens of Upper Assam, the Kamakhya Hills, the Kaziranga National Park, the premier college and Universities of Assam besides the overcrowded market places like Fancy Bazar, Maligaon and Uzanbazar….

This book holds my love for the one whom my family have chosen for me. It will be called an arranged marriage but before we get married, I have fallen for him and I am in deep love with him. Whatever I have been dreaming of or experienced, I have gathered everything in my poems. Each poem holds a story behind that reflects my feelings for him. I feel gratified to dedicate this book to my love Vishwendra Pratap Singh and also my parents who fixed him as my fate.

Evoking both the exotic and the mundane, using images that reverberate in the mind, the author breathes life into short pieces, poems that leave behind an imprint. Writing poems since teenage years, this now-mature writer uses both traditional and modern forms, including impressionism and surrealism. This is meant to be your new companion of contemporary literature that you would want to keep by your bedside to read at leisure whenever the mood arises.

David Howe tells the story of the Lake District, England’s most dramatic landscape. Home to vistas of stunning beauty and a rich heritage, it is an area of England that fascinates, inspires – and has bewitched David for a lifetime. With passion and an endless curiosity, he reveals how half a billion years of shifting ice, violent volcanoes and (of course) falling rain have shaped the lakes and fells that have fired the imaginations of the great sons and daughters of the area, the poets and the scientists. He shows that Lakeland is a seamless web where lives and landscape weave together, where the ancient countryside has created a unique local history: of farming and mining, of tightknit communities, of a resilient and proud people. The Lake District is a place of rocks and rain, reason and romance, wonder and curiosity. And this book celebrates it all: the very character of Cumbria.

One cannot fail to see this exquisite flower and its inspired wisdom and beauty. She blooms into self-reverence and victory of the spirit, embodying strength from the earths sun-kissed sky while emerging from a dirty pond of muddy waters full of lifes painful lessons and persecution. She is the womb of the world, a symbol of love, hope, peace, and purity. Never fully sprouting her petals, her center is protected by her half-opened wings, not exposing her to vulnerability for observationuntil the day the enchanting, bodacious butterfly interrupts her blossom and eloquently flutters his way into her core, settling comfortably on her petals for a while. Her delicacy is exposed as he tastes her fragile innocence, and she begins to learn the lessons behind the beauty, charm, and deception of the butterfly. She becomes infused in a spiritual awakeningthe enlightening, the rebirth, and the resurrectiondiscovering for herself her succulent core.

In the Kolkata of the early 1970s, the naxalite insurgency holds the city in thrall. Somsundar, an unemployed youth, and Manju, a young woman brought up in the protected environment of the upper middle class, wrestle with reality and change as the city, gripped by a symbolic drought, waits desperately for rain

Vejledning i planlægning, opbygning, beplantning og vedligeholdelse af bæredygtige haver ved hjælp af regnvand

After the death of her wealthy husband, a young widow must settle the estate with his son -- the same man who once broke her heart. Caroline Dawson survived the town gossips who whispered behind her back. She survived the slow death of her husband, Roscoe Lancaster, the richest man in the county and her senior by three decades. But she feared she might not survive Rink Lancaster, her husband's son. Years before she married, when she and Rink were teens, he introduced Caroline to her first tremulous taste of love -- and then broke her heart. Now he's back. Rink says he wants to settle his father's estate, but his storm of emotions is undeniable and more dangerous than ever -- and what he really wants is to settle the score with Caroline.

The non-fiction saga of Victor Villasenor's own family. It is the Hispanic Roots, an all-American story of poverty, immigration, struggle and success. Focuses on three generations of the Villasenor family, their spiritual and cultural roots back in Mexico, their immigration to California and their overcoming poverty, prejudice and economic exploitation.

The late-imperial legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the Butterfly Lovers--a story as central to Chinese culture as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is to Western culture--also relates a tale of two lovers help apart by social strictures. To audiences of the many Chinese ballads, plays, and films based on the story, the tragic ending offers proof that equality and happiness can only be achieved in a China freed from the traditional family system. This volume offers translations of the earliest versions of the popular ballad along with later literary reinventions of the tale; a variety of related documents reveal the historical and cultural origins of the legend. In his Introduction, Wilt L. Idema provides essential contextual information and discusses how the story of the Butterfly Lovers fits into modern Chinese concepts of gender roles and sexual freedom.