Stealing The Ambassador

Author : Sameer Parekh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743238117
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stealing the Ambassador written by Sameer Parekh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-03-25 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caught between a father who thought success and freedom could be found only in America and a grandfather who risked his life to guarantee such ideals in their homeland of India, twenty-three-year-old Rajiv Kothari is lost in a nation he has always called home and beckoned by the one his father left long ago. Stealing the Ambassador is a literary page-turner that blends the experiences of a first-generation Indian American with those of his immigrant father and revolutionary grandfather, their intertwined stories probing the balance between fiction and history, between old country and new, between fathers and sons. Following his father's sudden death, Rajiv finds himself alone and bewildered. As he attempts to reconstruct his father's life, he begins to better understand his own, and when he chances to meet a new Indian immigrant, eerily reminiscent of his own father, their uncanny interaction grants Rajiv insight into the euphoria that his father felt when he first arrived in the country and its gradual deterioration into frustrated estrangement. Events lead Rajiv to a reverse migration, back to the subcontinent of his father's birth. There he reconnects with his aged grandfather -- once a saboteur responsible for bombings in pre-Independence British India and now mysteriously destitute. Discovering the source of this impoverishment, Rajiv is awakened to a second understanding of his childhood hero, a reconsideration that illuminates the relationships between grandfather, father, and grandson while pointing to new definitions of bravery and familial loyalty. Stealing the Ambassador is a stunning debut from the young Sameer Parekh. In depicting the ways that families are at the source of both our frustration with and our loyalty to identity, Parekh sheds new light on the immigrant experience and on the complexity and power of family relations.

Author : Jennifer Steil
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0804171467
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ambassador's Wife written by Jennifer Steil and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a real-life ambassador's wife and the acclaimed author of Exile Music comes a harrowing novel about the kidnapping of an American woman in the Middle East and the heartbreaking choices she and her husband each must make in the hope of being reunited. When bohemian artist Miranda meets British ambassador Finn in the ancient stone streets of an Islamic city, the course of her life alters in extraordinary ways. Their marriage gives her the luxury to paint whenever she wants, a staff to wait on her, and a young daughter she adores, but she loses the freedom to wander where she likes and to meet the Muslim women she is secretly teaching to paint. Her husband also makes Miranda a target: One sunny afternoon while hiking in the mountains, she is brutally kidnapped. As Finn struggles to save his family and his career, and Miranda grows close to a stranger’s child in captivity, the secrets he and Miranda have each sought to hide place them and those who trust them in peril. Not even freedom could restore the happiness that once was theirs.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 994 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mutual Security Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1423190416
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Streetball Crew Book Two: Stealing the Game written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Richards has always looked up to Jax, his older brother and his parents' "golden child." Lately, though, Jax has been full of surprises. First he dropped out of law school; then he started hanging out with some shifty-looking friends. One day Jax asks Chris to recruit his best middle school teammates for a pick-up basketball game in the park. Chris doesn't think much of it until the wrong team wins and Jax goes ballistic. It turns out that Jax bet on the game, hoping to earn enough money to repay a debt to someone who doesn't forgive easily. While Chris tries to walk a thin tightrope between helping his brother and staying out of trouble, his friend Theo does some behind-the-scenes detective work to learn what Jax has been up to. The day Chris is roped into a police investigation is the day he realizes he made the wrong play.

Author : Francisco Alvares
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Abyssinia During the Years 1520-1527 written by Francisco Alvares and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francisco Alvarez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Abyssinia During the Years 1520-1527 written by Francisco Alvarez and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Segal
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1467881902
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cookbook for a New Europe written by Richard Segal and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To serve society or humanity? It's been fourteen years since the basketball-mad detective Fran Obrien captured the urban bomber Lavi, who has since moved to Spain and rehabilitated himself beyond recognition. Fran is fresh off a two-year sabbatical, during which he tended to 11-year-old Ben, the family comedian, and 17-year-old Alice, with, yes, as much attitude as youd expect. His estranged boss Karl has retired and Fran must learn to deal with the new brass no small task itself. His first assignment is to investigate an act of alleged political corruption which seems more wild goose chase than duck in a barrel, leading him to question his decision to return to work. After an extended-family culinary expedition to Budapest, Fran's nine-to-five job takes him almost to Albany and to Central America, where he must untangle the mother of all webs. His wife, local family doctor Darby, goes along for the ride, and, oh, pia coladas "to die for." For a detective and amateur gourmet chef like no other, Cookbook for a New Europe is a ride Fran certainly didn't expect. Hes been fiercely focused for years, but a spate of unintended yet momentous events unfolds once he gives free rein to his emotions, and his recipes.

Author : Roberta Gately
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504094395
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ambassador's Wife written by Roberta Gately and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a whirlwind romance, she still has much to learn about her new ambassador husband—and about the fate of his predecessor’s wife . . . At thirty-five, Nora Buckbee fears she’s destined for a lonely, single life. Then she meets handsome State Department employee John Fielding. They marry quickly—and next thing she knows she’s moving to Thailand with him, where he’ll be serving as ambassador. It’s an exciting adventure—for a while. Then she learns that the last ambassador’s wife disappeared without a trace, and there seems to be little interest in learning what happened. John, who’s often away on secret missions—odd, she thinks, for an emissary—seems as unfazed by the mystery as everyone else. But when Nora starts volunteering for the same group with whom the last wife worked, she begins to realize that nothing here is as it appears to be . . . including her new husband. Determined to peel away the layers of lies and secrets that surround her, Nora finds herself in a race to discover the truth. But can she figure it out before she meets the same fate as the previous wife? Acclaim for Roberta Gately’s The Bracelet “Hard to put down until the very last page.” —Jennifer Haupt, author of I’ll Stand by You and In the Shadow of 10,000 Hills

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
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Download or read book Palmer's Index to "The Times" Newspaper written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: