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Laburnum for My Head

2009-10-30 Fiction
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Release : 2009-10-30
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 61X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Laburnum for My Head by : Temsula Ao

Download or read book Laburnum for My Head written by Temsula Ao. This book was released on 2009-10-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every May something extraordinary happens in the new cemetery of the sleepy little town – a laburnum tree, with buttery yellow blossoms, flowers over the spot where Lentina is buried. A brave hunter, Imchanok, totters when the ghost of his prey haunts him, till he offers it is a tuft of his hair as a prayer for forgiveness. Pokenmong, the servant boy, by dint of his wit, sells an airfield to unsuspecting villagers. A letter found on a dead insurgent blurs the boundaries between him and an innocent villager, both struggling to make ends meet. A woman’s terrible secret comes full circle, changing her daughter’s and granddaughter’s lives as well as her own. An illiterate village woman’s simple question rattles an army officer and forces him to set her husband free. A young girl loses her lover in his fight for the motherland, leaving her a frightful legacy. And a caterpillar finds wings. From the mythical to the modern, Laburnum for My Head is a collection of short stories that embrace a gamut of emotions. Heart-rending, witty and riddled with irony, the stories depict a deep understanding of the human condition.

These Hills Called Home

2006 Fiction
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Release : 2006
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 714/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis These Hills Called Home by : Temsula Ao

Download or read book These Hills Called Home written by Temsula Ao. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Than Half A Century Of Bloodshed Has Marked The History Of The Naga People Who Live In The Troubled Northeastern Region Of India. Their Struggle For An Independent Nagaland And Their Continuing Search For Identity Provides The Backdrop For The Stories That Make Up This Unusual Collection. Describing How Ordinary People Cope With Violence, How They Negotiate Power And Force, How They Seek And Find Safe Spaces And Enjoyment In The Midst Of Terror, The Author Details A Way Of Life Under Threat From The Forces Of Modernization And War. No One The Young, The Old, The Ordinary Housewife, The Willing Partner, The Militant Who Takes To The Gun, And The Young Woman Who Sings Even As She Is Being Raped Is Untouched By The Violence. Theirs Are The Stories That Form The Subtext Of The Struggles That Lie At The Internal Faultlines Of The Indian Nation-State. These Are Stories That Speak Movingly Of Home, Country, Nation, Nationality, Identity, And Direct The Reader To The Urgency Of The Issues That Lie At Their Heart.

Once Upon a Life

2014-04-01 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2014-04-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 612/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Once Upon a Life by : Temsula Ao

Download or read book Once Upon a Life written by Temsula Ao. This book was released on 2014-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1945 in the Assamese town of Jorhat, Temsula Ao, her father's favourite of his six daughters, remembers her childhood as a time of happiness. The sudden loss of both parents mean that the orphaned children were left to fend for themselves as best they could. Desperately poor, emotionally scarred, lonely and often hungry, the young Temsula made up for her lack of resources with courage and determination. From these unpromising beginnings, Ao went on to become one of Northeast India's best known writers and to build a distinguished teaching career, serving as Director of the Northeast Zone Cultural Centre, and finally, Dean of the School of Humanities and Education, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong. Temsula Ao describes her memoir as 'an attempt to exorcise my own personal ghosts from a fractured childhood that was ripped apart by a series of tragedies... [it] is about love and what it is like to be deprived of it.' For her readers, Ao’s memoir gives not only an insight into her role as a leading figure in the Northeast, but is also a moving account of a writerly life. Published by Zubaan.

A Head Start on Science

2007-06 Science
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Release : 2007-06
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 673/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Head Start on Science by : William C. Ritz

Download or read book A Head Start on Science written by William C. Ritz. This book was released on 2007-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the littlest scientists, the whole wide world can be a laboratory for learning. Nurture their natural curiosity with A Head Start on Science, a treasury of 89 hands-on science activities specifically for children ages 3 to 6. The activities are grouped into seven stimulating topic areas: the five senses, weather, physical science, critters, water and water mixture, seeds, and nature walks.

Aosenla's Story

2017 Fiction
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Release : 2017
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 984/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Aosenla's Story by : Temsula Ao

Download or read book Aosenla's Story written by Temsula Ao. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Looking down at a wedding invitation in her hands, Aosenla begins to recall her own wedding many years ago, initiating a deep and moving reflection on the life that others made for her and the life that she eventually created for herself"--Page 4 of cover.

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