[PDF] A Life Long Ago eBook

Author : Sunanda Sikdar
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9383074191

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A stirring memoir that opens the floodgates of one woman’s memories of a land, and a life, previously forgotten. In the 1950s, ten-year-old Dayamoyee watches with bewilderment and curiosity as her whole world changes before her eyes. The people she knows and loves start to pack their belongings and move away. India has been partitioned, and her village of Dighpait has now become part of a new country, (East) Pakistan. Forced to leave her beloved home, her friends, and especially the family retainer, Majam, whom she loves like a father, Dayamoyee resolves, on her journey from Pakistan to Hindustan, never to mention the home she left behind. And so, from childhood all the way through middle age, Dayamoyee never speaks of Dighpait. And then, in the early 1990s, she hears of Majam’s death and all of her memories come rushing back, begging to once and for all be told. Sunanda Sikdar’s beautiful and moving memoir was awarded the Lila Puraskar by Calcutta University in 2008, and the Ananda Puraskar in 2010. Published by Zubaan.

Author : Peg Kehret
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 37,29 MB
Release : 1990-04-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101660848

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When Willow Paige nearly drowns, she envisions scenes from a past life which lead to an exploration of reincarnation and mental telepathy and set her on a quest to help give hope and strength to her sister who has leukemia.

Author : Guy Gavriel Kay
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 25,84 MB
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0698183282

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International bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay's latest work is set in a world evoking early Renaissance Italy and offers an extraordinary cast of characters whose lives come together through destiny, love, and ambition. In a chamber overlooking the nighttime waterways of a maritime city, a man looks back on his youth and the people who shaped his life. Danio Cerra's intelligence won him entry to a renowned school even though he was only the son of a tailor. He took service at the court of a ruling count—and soon learned why that man was known as the Beast. Danio's fate changed the moment he saw and recognized Adria Ripoli as she entered the count's chambers one autumn night—intending to kill. Born to power, Adria had chosen, instead of a life of comfort, one of danger—and freedom. Which is how she encounters Danio in a perilous time and place. Vivid figures share the unfolding story. Among them: a healer determined to defy her expected lot; a charming, frivolous son of immense wealth; a powerful religious leader more decadent than devout; and, affecting all these lives and many more, two larger-than-life mercenary commanders, lifelong adversaries, whose rivalry puts a world in the balance. A Brightness Long Ago offers both compelling drama and deeply moving reflections on the nature of memory, the choices we make in life, and the role played by the turning of Fortune's wheel.

Author : Sally Lee
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 31,69 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1491402962

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What was school like in the days of old? Can you imagine studying in a tiny one-room schoolhouse, writing out lessons on a chalkboard slate? Discover how school life has changed over time, and what it might be like in the future.

Author : M.F.K. Fisher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,94 MB
Release : 1992-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0671755145

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Recounts the author's three year stay in Dijon before the outbreak of World War II, and details the people encountered there.

Author : Helen Edom
Publisher : Educational Development Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,65 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 9780746011096

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Looks at the details of everyday life in the past.

Author : David Eugene Smith
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Mathematics
ISBN :

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Ten stories explaining how and why the ancients created numbers.

Author : Ling-Ai Li
Publisher : Hastings House Book Publishers
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 24,69 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Dr. Li Khai and Dr. Kong Heong, the author s parents, were just twenty-one years old when they set out from Canton to practice Western medicine among their people in a strange new land. Hawaii at the turn of the century had in store for them plague, fire, starvation, drug problems, mutual mistrust by different nationalities thrown together, jealousy, and slander. Against all this, Li s became a part of the new Hawaii, keeping their faith in the American promise of eventual fairness for all. They worked for the health of the people s hearts and minds as well as their bodies, encouraging others in difficult times while they introduced modern health measures. They established not only a hospital for all Hawaiians, but a school to teach Chinese children for philosophy of the sages, and a newspaper and political party to encourage Overseas Chinese to work for constitutional reforms in Manchu-ruled China.

Author : Guy Gavriel Kay
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 17,95 MB
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0698183274

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The bestselling author of The Fionavar Tapestry weaves a world inspired by the conflicts and dramas of Renaissance Europe. Against this tumultuous backdrop the lives of men and women unfold on the borderlands—where empires and faiths collide. From the small coastal town of Senjan, notorious for its pirates, a young woman sets out to find vengeance for her lost family. That same spring, from the wealthy city-state of Seressa, famous for its canals and lagoon, come two very different people: a young artist traveling to the dangerous east to paint the grand khalif at his request—and possibly to do more—and a fiercely intelligent, angry woman posing as a doctor’s wife but sent by Seressa as a spy. The trading ship that carries them is commanded by the accomplished younger son of a merchant family, ambivalent about the life he’s been born to live. And farther east a boy trains to become a soldier in the elite infantry of the khalif—to win glory in the war everyone knows is coming. As these lives entwine, their fates—and those of many others—will hang in the balance when the khalif sends out his massive army to take the great fortress that is the gateway to the western world....