The Cloudfarers

Author : Stephen Alter
Publisher : Puffin Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Friendship
ISBN : 014344218X

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The Cloudfarers by Stephen Alter Pdf

Those footprints tell us of our origins, recalling the first Cloudfarers who came to earth, exiled from the sky.' Paramount Academy is nothing short of a prison. As Kip comes to terms with this awful military-style school, he makes new friends who have a terrible secret: they are Cloudfarers-a lost tribe of beings from another planet, who have been exiled on earth. And they need his help to get back to their land, away from Principal Captain Lovelock, who is on to them. But time is running out . . . Join Kip and his friends as they embark on a stormy adventure on the clouds and through dangerous cliffs and mountains to reach a safe haven.

Author : Stephen Alter
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9789387625075

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The Cloudfarers by Stephen Alter Pdf

Those footprints tell us of our origins, recalling the first Cloudfarers who came to earth, exiled from the sky.' Paramount Academy is nothing short of a prison. As Kip comes to terms with this awful military-style school, he makes new friends who have a terrible secret: they are Cloudfarers-a lost tribe of beings from another planet, who have been exiled on earth. And they need his help to get back to their land, away from Principal Captain Lovelock, who is on to them. But time is running out . . . Join Kip and his friends as they embark on a stormy adventure on the clouds and through dangerous cliffs and mountains to reach a safe haven.

Author : Chitra Soundar
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9789354924194

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We All Celebrate by Chitra Soundar Pdf

Venture on a rich journey of festivities! From Diwali to Chinese New Year, discover fascinating traditions and customs that unite us all. Sprinkled with stunning illustrations, We All Celebrate! is bursting with facts about the many cultures and religions of the world. This joyful book offers a glimpse into the beautiful multicultural traditions, language, history, food and so much more-a true celebration of diversity!

Author : K.R. Meera
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788184755947

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Yellow Is the Colour of Longing by K.R. Meera Pdf

‘A literary heavyweight’—Indian Express In these bold, wry and ebullient stories, Meera’s astonishing range of narrative techniques is on full display as she expertly lays bare the faultlines behind the façade of everyday life, sometimes with dark humour and sometimes with astoundingly bitter sadness.

Author : David Cunningham
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-02
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0571223664

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Cloud World by David Cunningham Pdf

Heliopolis. A citadel divided into five layers, every citizen sure of their place and purpose. But there is one uncertainty that haunts all Heliopolitans. What lies beneath the thick ocean of cloud? A vast abyss? The fiery realm of the gods? Fourteen-year-old Marcus is about to find out. When his father fails to return from a diplomatic mission, Marcus joins an expedition across the cloudscape in search of him. But he discovers too late that danger lies closer to home - somebody wants him dead. And when his airship is attacked, Marcus is plunged into a terrifying new world beneath the clouds.

Author : Stephen Alter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781599908151

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Ghost Letters by Stephen Alter Pdf

When two modern-day kids discover a grotesque secret in an abandoned mailbox, they have no idea they are about to be drawn into a mystery that began on the other side of the world. Through the help of an English genie and a phantom postman, the two children begin to communicate with another boy, a young calligrapher's apprentice who lived 125 years ago in an Indian village. Writing back and forth, across continents and centuries, the three children eventually realize the possibility of changing history by delivering three letters that were never received. If they can make sure these lost letters reach those for whom they were intended, love may be restored, the life of a kidnapped child could be saved, and a secret agent might be able to prevent a pointless war.

Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681378053

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Afternoon Raag by Amit Chaudhuri Pdf

Winner of the UK’s Encore Award for best second novel, a lyrical story of a Bengali student at Oxford University who is caught in the complications of a love triangle. Afternoon Raag is a book of branching and overlapping stories, a book that like memory moves unpredictably in time. In it, a nameless first-person narrator looks back at his student days in Oxford, a period of loneliness and discovery when his affections were torn between two women, and to the summer vacations that took him from England to Bombay, where his parents lived, and later to Calcutta, where he was born. Descriptions of Oxford’s green lawns and drab dorms, of friends and classes and the relentless drizzle, sit beside Bombay street scenes and recollections of the teacher, now dead, from whom the narrator and his mother learned music. Afternoon Raag is a book about the uncertainty of youth and the strange inevitability of growing up. Its images are wonderfully vivid; its rhythms elastic and entrancing. Throughout it is haunted by the spirit of the music teacher, the master singer who gives shape to the elusive and annihilating passage of time.

Author : Alter,Stephen
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0140285520

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All the Way To Heaven by Alter,Stephen Pdf

A Loving Tribute To A Unique Upbringing When Stephen Alter Is Asked The Simple Question Where Are You From, Originally? He Hesitates. Although He Is In Almost Every Way An American-Granted With A Trace Of British Accent-He Has An Unexpected Reply: My Real Home Was In India, A Hill Station Called Mussoorie, Seven And A Half Thousand Feet Up The Himalayas. That Was Where I Was Born And Raised, In A Section Known As Landour... It Is A Landscape, And A Time, That Haunts Him Still: I Miss The Place Itself; The Mountains, The View Of The High Himalayas Beyond Mussoorie, Stretching All The Way To Heaven. The Son And Grandson Of Presbytarian Missionaries Living In India For More Than Half A Century, Every Day Alter Straddled The Profound Boundary Between Utterly Different Peoples, Cultures, Languages And Religions. He And His Brothers Spoke A Pidgin Dialect Of Hindustani And English As Young Boys, Fished In The Rivers Song, Ganga And The Jumna, And Later Hunted For Barking Deer And Ghoral In The Steep Foothills Of The Mountains Always Looming Behind Them. They Studied American History But Knew More About India'S Recent Independence From England. In All The Way To Heaven, Alter Writes Affectionately Of His Family, His Indian Friends And His Memories Exotic And Mundane.

Author : Stephen Alter
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788184757835

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Rataban by Stephen Alter Pdf

An American agent is shot in cold blood, in the sleepy town of Mussoorie. His killing is linked to the deaths of two guards at a remote Indo-Tibetan Border Police outpost. Both the CIA and RAW respond immediately, sending highly trained undercover agents to investigate. Colonel Afridi—who keeps an eagle eye on India’s high-altitude borders— notices signs of dangerous activity along frozen Himalayan frontiers, echoing the treacherous history of a mountain called Rataban. Then, even as the picturesque calm of the hill station erupts with brutal violence, Afridi and the two agents piece together a bloody conspiracy of revenge and murder that could shake the very foundations of peace in the world

Author : Stephen Alter
Publisher : Arcade
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1628728205

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The Rataban Betrayal by Stephen Alter Pdf

On India's frontier with Tibet, peace is just a façade and security a myth. The sleepy Himalayan hill station of Mussoorie, near India's border with Tibet, is home to an eclectic mix of residents including Tibetan refugees and former guerrilla fighters, foreign missionaries, Indian military, tourists, and spies. Here, in a top secret facility facing the snow-clad Himalayas, India's legendary spymaster, Colonel Imtiaz Afridi, keeps a watchful eye on sensitive high-altitude borders. Having been a mountaineer in his youth, Afridi once climbed many of these peaks, including Rataban, a mountain with a treacherous history. When an American agent is shot dead in Mussoorie, both the CIA and India's Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), dispatch undercover agents to investigate. The American's death is quickly linked to the slayings of two Indo-Tibetan Border Police guards, suggesting possible Chinese infiltration. Working with Afridi is the brilliant junior analyst, Annapurna "Anna" Tagore, who helps him unravel these clues and other disturbing signs that something dangerous is brewing. When more violent acts shatter Mussoorie's calm, the CIA and RAW have no choice but to team up. Soon Afridi and the young Indian and American agents are piecing together a bloody conspiracy of revenge and murder that could shake the very foundations of world peace.

Author : Stephen Alter
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0812217438

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Amritsar to Lahore by Stephen Alter Pdf

A sensitive and thoughtful look at the lasting effects on everyday people of the 1947 partition of India.

Author : Stephen Alter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781628725421

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Becoming a Mountain by Stephen Alter Pdf

Hailed as a "wondrous book" by Gretel Ehrlich, and winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Book Award for Himalayan Literature—a journey of healing that becomes a pilgrimage for the soul. Stephen Alter was raised by American missionary parents in the hill station of Mussoorie, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where he and his wife, Ameeta, now live. Their idyllic existence was brutally interrupted when four armed intruders invaded their house and viciously attacked them, leaving them for dead. The violent assault and the trauma of almost dying left him questioning assumptions he had lived by since childhood. For the first time, he encountered the face of evil and the terror of the unknown. He felt like a foreigner in the land of his birth. This book is his account of a series of treks he took in the high Himalayas following his convalescence—to Bandar Punch (the monkey’s tail), Nanda Devi, the second highest mountain in India, and Mt. Kailash in Tibet. He set himself this goal to prove that he had healed mentally as well as physically and to re-knit his connection to his homeland. Undertaken out of sorrow, the treks become a moving soul journey, a way to rediscover mountains in his inner landscape. Weaving together observations of the natural world, Himalayan history, folklore and mythology, as well as encounters with other pilgrims along the way, Stephen Alter has given us a moving meditation on the solace of high places, and on the hidden meanings and enduring mystery of mountains.

Author : Gavin J. Grant,Kelly Link
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780763670856

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Monstrous Affections by Gavin J. Grant,Kelly Link Pdf

Fifteen top voices in speculative fiction explore the intersection of fear and love in a haunting, at times hilarious, darkly imaginative volume. Predatory kraken that sing with — and for — their kin; band members and betrayed friends who happen to be demonic; harpies as likely to attract as repel. Welcome to a world where humans live side by side with monsters, from vampires both nostalgic and bumbling to an eight-legged alien who makes tea. Here you’ll find mercurial forms that burrow into warm fat, spectral boy toys, a Maori force of nature, a landform that claims lives, and an architect of hell on earth. Through these and a few monsters that defy categorization, some of today’s top young-adult authors explore ambition and sacrifice, loneliness and rage, love requited and avenged, and the boundless potential for connection, even across extreme borders. With monstrous stories by M. T. Anderson Paolo Bacigalupi Nathan Ballingrud Holly Black Sarah Rees Brennan Cassandra Clare Nalo Hopkinson Dylan Horrocks Nik Houser Alice Sola Kim Kathleen Jennings Joshua Lewis Kelly Link Patrick Ness G. Carl Purcell

Author : Moushumi Kandali
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0143451103

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Black Magic Women by Moushumi Kandali Pdf

Many writers in the recent past have acquainted the rest of India to the composite culture of this north-eastern state through their writings. Black Magic Women makes a similar attempt with a stark difference! Moushumi Kandal brings her characters out of Assam and places them in the mainstream, capturing their struggle to retain their inherent 'Assameseness' as they try to assimilate at the same time into a larger picture. The title story, Black Magic Women, is about how the mainstream India perceives the Assamese women, who powered with the art of seduction and black magic, are made to endure social discrimination that can range from racial slurs to physical abuse. Juxtaposing two different eras, it is a historic-fictional re-telling of gender bias chronicled in the early nineteenth century colonial reportage by a British officer. The stories make one pause, think and debate issues that range from racial discrimination to the politics in the entertainment industry to sexual harassment to the existential and ideological dilemma induced by the complex sociopolitical scenario of the late eighties. Using a generous sprinkle of fable, myth and various metaphors, they deliver a powerful punch to the reader.

Author : Stephen Alter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Himalaya Mountains
ISBN : 9388292774

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Wild Himalaya by Stephen Alter Pdf