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Ajaya Epic of the Kaurava Clan Book 2 Rise of Kali
by Anand NeelakantanTHE DARK AGE OF KALI IS RISING and every man and woman must choose between duty and conscience, honour and shame, life and death… As the Pandavas stake their claim to the Hastinapura throne, the Kaurava Crown Prince, Suyodhana, rises to challenge Krishna. As great minds debate dharma and adharma, power hungry men prepare for an apocalyptic war. The women, highborn and humble, helplessly watch the unfolding disaster with deep foreboding. And greedy merchants and unscrupulous priests lie in wait like vultures. Both sides know that beyond the agony and carnage the winner will take all. But even as gods conspire and men’s destinies unfold, a far greater truth awaits. From the pen of the author who gave voice to Ravana in the national bestseller, ASURA, comes this riveting narrative which compels us to question the truth behind the Mahabharata.
Ajeemah and His Son
by James BerryIn 1807, at the height of the slave trade, Ajeemah and his son, Atu, are snatched by slave traders from their home in Africa while en route to deliver a dowry to Atu's bride-to-be. Ajeemah and Atu are then taken to Jamaica and sold to neighboring plantations'never to see one another again. "Readers will come away with a new sense of respect for those who maintained their dignity and humanity under the cruelest of circumstances. "'SLJ. "Each moment here of the Jamaican-born poet's terse, melodious narrative is laden with emotion. . . . Brilliant, complex, powerfully written. "--K. Notable Children's Book of 1993 (ALA) 1993 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA) 1993 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book) 1992 Books for Youth Editors' Choices (BL) Notable 1992 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) Bulletin Blue Ribbons 1992 (C) 1993 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library) Children's Books of 1992 (Library of Congress) 1993 Boston Globe-Horn Book Fiction Award
Ajey - Duryodhanache Mahabharat: अजेय - दुर्योधनाचे महाभारत
by Anand Neelakanthan"अजेय - दुर्योधनाचे महाभारत" ही आनंद नीलकंठन यांची मराठीत अनुवादित कादंबरी आहे, जी "Ajaya: Roll of the Dice" या इंग्रजी कादंबरीचा अनुवाद आहे. ही कादंबरी महाभारतातील एक महत्त्वाची व्यक्तिरेखा असलेल्या दुर्योधनाच्या दृष्टीकोनातून लिहिलेली आहे. पारंपारिक कथांमध्ये जिथे दुर्योधनाला खलनायक म्हणून दाखवले जाते, तिथे नीलकंठन यांनी त्याला एका जटिल आणि विरोधाभासी व्यक्तिरेखेच्या रूपात सादर केले आहे. कादंबरीत दुर्योधनाचे बालपण, त्याची कौरव-पांडवांशी असलेली मैत्री आणि स्पर्धा, त्याचे शिक्षण, आणि त्याचे दृष्टिकोन यांचा सखोल अभ्यास केला आहे. लेखकाने कौरवांच्या बाजूने कथानक मांडले आहे, जिथे दुर्योधन एक न्यायप्रिय आणि धर्मनिष्ठ योद्धा म्हणून समोर येतो. त्याच्या भावनांचा, त्याच्या निर्णयांचा, आणि त्याच्या कार्यांचा मागोवा घेत, कादंबरी त्याच्या मनोवृत्तीला आणि महाभारताच्या घटनांवर त्याच्या दृष्टिकोनाला प्रकाशात आणते. कादंबरीत कर्ण, भीष्म, द्रोण, आणि कृष्ण या व्यक्तिरेखांचाही उल्लेख आहे, ज्यांच्याशी दुर्योधनाचे संबंध महाभारताच्या कथानकाचा भाग बनतात. ही कादंबरी पारंपारिक महाभारताच्या कथनात एक वेगळा दृष्टिकोन जोडते आणि वाचकांना दुर्योधनाच्या दृष्टिकोनातून एक वेगळा आणि नवीन दृष्टिकोन देते.
The Ajnir
by M. P. GundersonA truce between Simkada and Valyna on the planet of Urshan Dai remains fragile and tense. Travelers rarely venture beyond their homeland cities for fear of ostracization and safety. War breaks out shortly after an incursion of Valynan soldiers into SimkadaOCOs territory, shattering the delicate peace between the two cities. Against this tense political backdrop, Nadan, with his friends, Ranum and Naria, who are all part of an ancient mystical order called the ajnir, travel across the planet in a quest to unravel the riddles of a strange apparition known as an uriel. In a faraway mystical city across the vast desert that encompasses most of Urshan Dai, the three companions learn a strange truth about the history of their planet. "
Ajoelhado Aos Teus Pés
by Tanya Anne Crosby Tânia NezioUma filha da floresta, sem ser leal a nenhum clã, diziam que Seana era uma filha das fadas, mas nem mesmo um pouco da magia Celta podia ajudá-la a ter o que ela realmente desejava — uma casa e uma lareira... antes que fosse tarde demais para seu pai enfermo. Seana colocava todas suas esperanças em Broc Ceannfhionn, mas o coração de Broc pertencia à outra. Para ganhar o coração de Broc, ela fez um acordo com Colin Mac Brodie — o maior malandro em toda a Escócia. Embora Colin já tivesse quebrado uma vez o coração de Seana... desta vez, ele estava impotente para resistir a garota que ele já tinha evitado... e se descobre de uma maneira que ele nunca tinha pensado ficar... “Ajoelhado Aos Teus Pés”
A ajudante do mago
by Olga Kryuchkova Elena KryuchkovaDepois de terminar a Escola de Magia, Hilde vai para a Corte Real, onde prestará seus serviços. A jovem maga não suspeitava, no entanto, que o rei decidiria casar-se com ela. Nem que o transformaria em uma criança antipática! Sinopse A futura maga Hilde foi para a Corte Real ao término da Escola de Magia, para se tornar ajudante do mago da Corte. Aconteceu, porém, que o velho rei se apaixonou por sua figura e resolveu casar-se com ela. Na realidade, a bela jovem ainda não queria se casar e, para se livrar do monarca, prometeu que o rejuvenesceria. O rei concordou de imediato, porém algo de errado aconteceu com o feitiço e ao invés da figura real se tornar jovem, como o esperado, ela se transformou em uma criança atrevida e mal-humorada. O mago da corte e sua ajudante tentariam melhorar a situação e, por isso, deveriam iniciar uma longa jornada rumo a uma região em que as fadas da montanha supostamente viviam. Certamente elas poderiam corrigir esse erro infeliz!
Ajuste de cuentas
by John Grisham«El mejor autor vivo de thriller.»Ken Follett Hay crímenes que hacen historia. Pete Banning era el hijo predilecto de Clanton, Mississippi. Héroe condecorado de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, patriarca de una notoria familia, granjero, padre, vecino y miembro incondicional de la iglesia metodista. Una mañana de octubre de 1946 se levantó temprano, condujo hasta la ciudad y allí cometió un asombroso crimen. Las únicas palabras que Pete pronunció ante el sheriff, sus abogados, el jurado, el juez y su familia fueron: «No tengo nada que decir». No temía a la muerte y estaba dispuesto a llevarse sus razones a la tumba. En esta novela John Grisham nos conduce en un viaje increíble desde la época de la segregación racial en Estados Unidos hasta la jungla de las islas Filipinas durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y desde un hospital psiquiátrico lleno de secretos hasta la sala del tribunal en la que el abogado de Pete trata desesperadamente de salvarlo. Reseñas:«Grisham continúa la rica tradición literaria de los autores del sur que se han enfrentado a la cultura del supremacismo blanco y sus derivados: corrupción, violencia y contaminación cultural.»The Washington Post «Maravillosamente estructurado y escrito. Te hechiza con su magia.»Daily Mail «Un asesinato, un juicio, una familia, una historia de crecimiento y de guerra: Ajuste de cuentas confirma que Grisham no es solo un escritor de thrillers de éxito.»USA Today «Me recordó sin duda a Matar a un ruiseñor de Harper Lee. Grisham sabe cómo tejer una historia.»Chicago Sun-Times «Hacer justicia es solo el comienzo de la historia de esta familia del sur.»Associated Press
Ajuste de cuentas
by Benjamín Prado<P><P>Humor, ironía y misterio con la crisis financiera actual como telón de fondo. <P><P>Un retrato inquietante de la España del pelotazo. En un momento de crisis económica, literaria y personal, cuando se ve sin trabajo, al borde de la ruina e incapaz de escribir, el profesor Juan Urbano recibe una oferta envenenada: hacer un libro sobre el oscuro empresario y banquero Martín Duque, que acaba de salir de la cárcel con ganas de hacer justicia... o tal vez lleno de deseos de venganza. <P><P>La investigación que lleva a cabo mientras se debate entre sus principios y sus necesidades pone ante nuestros ojos un turbia imagen de la célebre España del pelotazo, un país en el que que había dos atajos hacia el éxito: el dinero fácil y la corrupción. Una nueva y trepidante aventura del profesor Juan Urbano, protagonista también de las novelas Mala gente que camina y Operación Gladio.
AK
by Peter DickinsonA war behind him, a child soldier tries to learn the ways of peace Paul remembers nothing from before the conflict. Twelve years old, he is not a child. He is a warrior--one of a handful of elite commandos who live only to fight the corrupt government of Nagala. He has no family but the boys who fight beside him, and he owns nothing but his AK-47 rifle. This is the only life he has ever known, and it is one he understands--right until the day the standoff ends and his life changes forever. Paul buries his AK and heads north to join a school and attempt to live life as just another child. But at night, the battlefield consumes his dreams. When a rogue faction stages a coup in the capital and Paul's adoptive father is put in prison, the boy turns into a warrior once more. It is too late for him to have a childhood, but Paul will do whatever it takes to guarantee himself a future. This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Peter Dickinson including rare images from the author's collection.
AK-Cowboy
by Joanna WayneTyler Ledger was as unsure of Julie Gillespie's motives for being at his family's Texas ranch as he was of the reception he'd receive when he came face-to-face with his estranged father. Still, he agreed to help the enticing reporter solve a murder if she agreed to stay out of trouble. Julie was on a mission, and she wasn't going to be sidetracked by romantic entanglements-even if Tyler was proving more irresistible by the minute. But with his leave of absence over soon, the soldier's time in Texas was coming to an end. . . ;and Julie's would, too, if they didn't find the killer before she became the next target. . . ;.
AKA (Sheridan House Ser.)
by Tristan JonesIn a last-ditch stab at fortune and glory, middle-aged adventurer Bill Conan enters a 30,000-mile single-handed round-the-world race. This ultimate test of skill, strength, and endurance leads him across the treacherous Atlantic Ocean's vast expanse, where a sudden change in wind throws him off balance and sends him overboard. Alone in the still, open sea, he struggles to keep from drowning, knowing it is a fight that he will eventually lose. But Conan has stumbled into the migratory path of a bottle-nosed dolphin named Aka and his tribe. In an exhilarating encounter, he senses Conan's plight, communicates with him, and works to keep him afloat and alive. A stirring adventure tale, Aka depicts the ancient history of dolphins, their extraordinary traits and abilities, and their eternal friendship with humans.
AKA: Marriage
by Jule McbrideA vow of vengeance... For years, undercover cowboy cop Shane Holiday had tracked Lillian Smith's every move, watched her every curve until he made her the offer she couldn't refuse- marriage. Shane's looks had nothing to do with it, Lillian said. She needed a husband to adopt the baby she craved. Now, with a baby in her arms and a cowboy in her heart, she hoped her secret past was behind her... It was only to be for a few weeks. ive together and pretend intimacy. But a "wife" and "son" tamed Shane, bringing the lone wolf from the Lone Star State to his knees. He'd married vowing vengeance- but would he become a husband and daddy for real?
aka Connie Bailey (Dreamspinner Press Bundles #5)
by Connie Bailey Toki Malthea Persephone Roth Stefan SeabourneAuthor Connie Bailey has written in a wide variety of genres under different pen names. Now check out this exclusive bundle of several of her different works all in one place! Enjoy these stories featuring an undercover policeman and a drug lord's boytoy, an unlikely vampire and his hipster/geek love, two men hiding a secret in an arranged marriage, a young prince and his bodyguard, and two imperial army recruits fighting for honor and love. Five stories in one volume!
Akaneiro
by Justin AclinFrom the brilliant imagination of video game auteur American McGee comes a dazzling reenvisioning of Red Riding Hood set in the wondrous world of Japanese folklore! Justin Aclin and Vasilis Lolos take Kani — a young woman torn between two cultures — on an epic adventure battling devious yokai for the fate of her world!
Akarnae
by Lynette NoniWith just one step, sixteen-year-old Alexandra Jennings' world changes--literally. Dreading her first day at a new school, Alex is stunned when she walks through a doorway and finds herself stranded in Medora, a fantasy world full of impossibilities. Desperate to return home, she learns that only a man named Professor Marselle can help her... but he's missing. While waiting for him to reappear, Alex attends Akarnae Academy, Medora's boarding school for teenagers with extraordinary gifts. She soon starts to enjoy her bizarre new world and the friends who embrace her as one of their own, but strange things are happening at Akarnae, and Alex can't ignore her fear that something unexpected... something sinister... is looming. An unwilling pawn in a deadly game, Alex's shoulders bear the crushing weight of an entire race's survival. Only she can save the Medorans, but what if doing so prevents her from ever returning home? Will Alex risk her entire world--and maybe even her life--to save Medora?
Akata Warrior (The Nsibidi Scripts #2)
by Nnedi OkoraforThe long-awaited sequel to the genre-breaking <i>Akata Witch</i> by multiple award-winner Nnedi Okorafor! <P><P>A year ago, Sunny Nwazue, an American-born girl Nigerian girl, was inducted into the secret Leopard Society. <P>As she began to develop her magical powers, Sunny learned that she had been chosen to lead a dangerous mission to avert an apocalypse, brought about by the terrifying masquerade, Ekwensu. <P>Now, stronger, feistier, and a bit older, Sunny is studying with her mentor Sugar Cream and struggling to unlock the secrets in her strange Nsibidi book. <P>Eventually, Sunny knows she must confront her destiny. With the support of her Leopard Society friends, Orlu, Chichi, and Sasha, and of her spirit face, Anyanwu, she will travel through worlds both visible and invisible to the mysteries town of Osisi, where she will fight a climactic battle to save humanity. <P>Much-honored Nnedi Okorafor, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards, merges today’s Nigeria with a unique world she creates. <P><i>Akata Warrior</i> blends mythology, fantasy, history and magic into a compelling tale that will keep readers spellbound.
Akata Witch (Akata Witch Series #1)
by Nnedi OkoraforRead Nnedi Okorafor's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. Twelve-year-old Sunny lives in Nigeria, but she was born American. Her features are African, but she's albino. She's a terrific athlete, but can't go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place where she fits. And then she discovers something amazing-she is a "free agent," with latent magical power. Soon she's part of a quartet of magic students, studying the visible and invisible, learning to change reality. But will it be enough to help them when they are asked to catch a career criminal who knows magic too?
Akata Woman (The Nsibidi Scripts #3)
by Nnedi OkoraforThe electrifying third book in the series that started with Akata Witch, named one of Time magazine's "100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time" and "100 Best YA Books of All Time," from award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor. <p><p> From the moment Sunny Nwazue discovered she had mystical energy flowing in her blood, she sought to understand and control her powers. Throughout her adventures in Akata Witch and Akata Warrior, she had to navigate the balance between nearly everything in her life—America and Nigeria, the "normal" world and the one infused with juju, human and spirit, good daughter and powerful Leopard Person. <p><p> Now, those hard lessons and abilities are put to the test in a quest so dangerous and fantastical, it would be madness to go...but may destroy the world if she does not. With the help of her friends, Sunny embarks on a mission to find a precious object hidden deep in an otherworldly realm. Defeating the guardians of the prize will take more from Sunny than she has to give, and triumph will mean she will be forever changed.
Akbar Birbal Ki Prasiddh Kahaniyan
by Shyam DuaThe Best of Akbar and Birbal by Mr shyam dua is a unique compilation of absorbing and entertaining stories of Akbar and Birbal. The stories are full of humour and depict ready-wittedness of Birbal. The author has related the stories very beautifully using plain and clear language. The book with all its specialities and necessary pictures is worth-read.
Akbar Meets Birbal and Other Stories from Indian Folklore
by Anitha VasanthStories from the legendary court of King Akbar and his court jester and constant companion Birbal
Ake: The Years of Childhood
by Wole SoyinkaA dazzling memoir of an African childhood from Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian novelist, playwright, and poet Wole Soyinka. Aké: The Years of Childhood gives us the story of Soyinka's boyhood before and during World War II in a Yoruba village in western Nigeria called Aké. A relentlessly curious child who loved books and getting into trouble, Soyinka grew up on a parsonage compound, raised by Christian parents and by a grandfather who introduced him to Yoruba spiritual traditions. His vivid evocation of the colorful sights, sounds, and aromas of the world that shaped him is both lyrically beautiful and laced with humor and the sheer delight of a child's-eye view. A classic of African autobiography, Aké is also a transcendantly timeless portrait of the mysteries of childhood.
Aké: Los años de la niñez
by Wole SoyinkaLa emocionante autobiografía de infancia de Wole Soyinka. «Una vez que has oído una voz como la suya, no vuelves a ver las cosas del mismo modo.» Toni Morrison «Soyinka es uno de los grandes de la actualidad.»Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Aké. Los años de la niñez es el relato en primera persona de la infancia de Soyinka en una aldea de Nigeria llamada Aké, en los años en torno a la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Allí el pequeño Wole, un muchacho de una curiosidad infinita, amante de los libros y propenso a meterse en líos y aventuras, crece con la doble influencia de los aires occidentales y de las antiguas tradiciones espirituales youruba. Esta evocación colorida de los paisajes, los sonidos y los aromas que dieron forma al mundo de Soyinka adquiere una forma hermosa, lírica, pero también cargada de humor y del candor y la perspicacia de una mirada infantil. La crítica ha dicho...«De manera incuestionable, el autor más versátil y probablemente el mejor de África [...]. Aké es un clásico de la autobiografía africana, de hecho un clásico de las memorias de infancia, sin importar dónde y cuándo fuese producido.»The New York Times Book Review «¿Qué pasaría si Naipaul fuera un hombre feliz? ¿Y si Pritchett hubiera querido a sus padres? ¿Y si Nabokov hubiera nacido en un pueblecito nigeriano y hubiera decidido que la política no era indigna de él? No estoy eligiendo ni usando estos nombres en vano: el sitio de Wole Soyinka […] está junto a ese grupo».John Leonard, The New York Times «Un libro adorable, mágico.»The Washington Post «Un creador de imágenes brillante que utiliza la poesía y el drama para sacar a la luz su curiosidad, sus frustraciones y su capacidad para maravillarse.»Newsweek «Una biografía deliciosa.»The Atlantic «Deslumbrante y trascendente [...]. Descubre al niño perdido que todos llevamos dentro, debajo del lenguaje, dentro del sonido y los olores, con los ojos bien abiertos, valiente y perplejo.»The New York Times «Soyinka es un coloso de la literatura moderna.»Robert McFarlane
Akeelah and the Bee
by James Whitfield EllisonMeet Akeelah. She's 11 years old and lives in South LA. She goes to Crenshaw Middle School. She has never missed a word on a spelling test. Can she beat the odds and go all the way to the National Spelling Bee, without a tutor? Based on the screenplay and movie of the same name.
Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth
by Naguib MahfouzIn this beguiling new novel, originally published in 1985 and now appearing for the first time in the United States, Mahfouz tells with extraordinary insight the story of the "heretic pharaoh" or "sun king" -- and the first known monotheistic ruler -- whose iconoclastic and controversial reign during the 18th Dynasty (1540-1307 B. C. ) has uncanny resonance with modern sensibilities. Narrating the novel is a young man with a passion for the truth, who questions the pharaoh's contemporaries after his death -- including Akhenaten's closest friends, his most bitter enemies, and finally his enigmatic wife, Nefertiti -- in an effort to discover what really happened in those strange, dark days at Akhenaten's court. As our narrator and each of the subjects he interviews contribute their version of Akhenaten, "the truth" becomes increasingly evanescent. Akhenaten encompasses all of the contradictions his subjects see in him: at once cruel and empathic, feminine and barbaric, mad and divinely inspired, his character, as Mahfouz imagines him, is eerily modern, and fascinatingly ethereal. An ambitious and exceptionally lucid and accessible book, Akhenaten is a work only Mahfouz could render so elegantly, so irresistibly.
The Akhenaten Adventure (Children of the Lamp #1)
by P. B. KerrThe first book of the Children of the Lamp series tells the story of John and Philippa Gaunt and their adventures of finding out they are djinn.