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Once upon a time, there lived a skilled businessman named Rajendra in a city called Vardhaman. The king was impressed with his knowledge and skills. He thought the businessman would be a perfect person to manage the administration of his kingdom.

Harvey is visited by a Caucasian man looking for spiritual healing, but Harvey isn't the type of Indian who would believe in spirits.

Karen and several of her native cousins attempt to rob a museum in order to take back the remains of two ancestors; while they're there they stumble on a ritual that brings a demon forth. Now Karen and her cousins have to survive someone else's religion.

The received idea of Native American history - as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did 150 Sioux die at the hands of the US Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching Native life past and present for his nonfiction and novels, David Treuer has uncovered a different narrative.

Ormbarn är Sakina Ntibanyiteshas egen berättelse från Burundi, Rwanda och Kongo. Om ett barns och ung kvinnas utsatthet i skuggan av etniska konflikter och krig. Om ett nästan ofattbart lidande i ett samhälle genomsyrat av våld och hat, där männen tar för sig av kvinnor som kommer i deras väg och där ett människoliv inte är mycket värt. Sakina Ntibanyitesha växte upp utan sina föräldrar. Hennes skolgång blev eftersatt, men hon fick sin mormors berättelser vid lägerelden.

Cora and Lewis, two youths with seemingly nothing in common, come together in spite of their peers. Unlikely friends fall in love, and four years later, their life together seems perfect: Lewis has a high-paying job, the two share a luxury apartment in the city, and Lewis is ready to ask Cora to marry him. But what happens when Cora disappears without a word? How does Lewis react when he sees her lurking in the doorway at one of his conferences?

Sommarlovet blev inte som Alvin hade tänkt sig när den planerade semestern till Italien byts mot ett semesterboende i ett gammalt barnhem på landet. Redan innan familjen kliver över tröskeln ser Alvin en skugga bakom fönstret på vindsvåningen. Kan Alvin ha sett i syne? Huset ska ju ha stått tomt i över tjugo år. Men när Alvins lillasyster börjar se en flicka gå omkring i huset börjar Alvin undra vad huset bär på för hemligheter. Varför är hyresvärden så mystisk? Varför får familjen inte gå upp på vinden? Och vad hände med alla barnhemsbarnen?

"Canadian Family Adventures" follows the tale of 10 Irish siblings who immigrate to Canada in the late 1880s. Their mother, Maggie Collins, wants her children, between the ages of 10 years old and 30 years old, to have a good life, and she arranges for them to sail to Canada. The ten siblings arrive in Canada by ship, and each one settles in a different area of Canada and pursues a different career.

Work, love, family, sex, and politics - all of these topics have been grist for the mills of some of this century's finest women writers. On this recording a remarkable company of women deliver individual perspectives on feminine passions.

Do you have an Instant Pot Pressure Cooker but don’t know how to use it? Would you like to explore more healthy and delicious recipes with Instant Pot cooking? What if, this book can help you with all the above and realize the full potential of your culinary skills with your secret sous-chef.

During a routine case, private investigator Elena Ronen meets and falls in love with Vittorio Santini, member of a secret coven, and a kiss awakens her dormant magical powers. Because Elena wields an extremely powerful form of magic, she struggles to convince her enemies she has no desire to take over the coven. When loyalties are questioned, and Elena can no longer tell friend from foe, she must prove she wants nothing more than to live her life quietly.

This book will explain the different types of dating. It will discuss online dating and why people have an interest in it. It will also cover dating etiquette, and provide tips for the man and tips for the woman.

The sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse have destroyed most of the planet…yet out of these waters, Dinétah, a former Navajo reservation, has been miraculously reborn. Listen along as Tanis Parenteau's impeccable narration, capturing the rhythms of Navajo speech, fully envelopes you into the Sixth World. Trail of Lightning follows our heroine as she walks the land alongside gods, heroes of legend, and monsters alike.

A student of Tudor history for 50 years, author Debra Shiveley Welch tells the story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn as she truly believes they were, and unravels the complexities of Henrician politics. When 21-year-old Bridget Littleton sails toward Bermuda, she discovers that the legends about the Bermuda Triangle are true. After seeing a face in the ocean waves, her next memory is of spinning water and blackness. She awakens in England in the year 1532. Rumors of her beauty reach the court, and soon Bridget finds herself in the court of Henry VIII and Lady in Waiting to none other than Anne Boleyn.

Amy Tan has touched millions of people with haunting and sympathetic novels of cultural complexity and profound empathy. With the same spirit and humor that characterize her acclaimed novels, she now shares her insight into her own life and how she escaped the curses of her past to make a future of her own. She takes us on a journey from her childhood of tragedy and comedy to the present day and her arrival as one of the world's best-loved novelists.

In Where the Past Begins, best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate in revealing the truths and inspirations that underlie her extraordinary fiction. By delving into vivid memories of her traumatic childhood, confessions of self-doubt in her journals, and heartbreaking letters to and from her mother, she gives evidence to all that made it both unlikely and inevitable that she would become a writer.

Doolittle is a sweet dog with a yawning problem. His family tried everything to stop the yawning because it's contagious. Everywhere Doolittle goes, he yawns and makes others yawn too, which is an interesting natural wonder. One day, it all changes and something miraculous occurs.

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Moving from her childhood in Oakland and growing up with her Chinese parents through her success as a novelist, Amy Tan delves into her creative interests in music, the paralysis of beginning a new project, journal writing, and travelling. Where the Past Begins chronicles the making of a writer. With characteristic humor and poignant observation, Tan weaves a nontraditional introspective narrative that is as complex and vibrant as this beloved American novelist's fiction.

Det är den torraste sommaren på hundra år när Annie och Håkan tillsammans flyttar till ett gammalt hus i utkanten av byn. De får hyra det av en man som nu flyttat till ett äldreboende. Men redan första dagen förvandlas drömmen om en idyllisk tillvaro till en mardröm. I sovrummet står ett meddelande på väggen: "Försvinn annars ska ni döden dö". Hotet följs upp av fler incidenter och stämningen trappas upp. Misstankarna faller på närmsta grannen Inga-Lena som desperat försöker skydda huset. Och nog verkar det som att saker döljs under ytan som hon absolut inte vill att någon ska få reda på.