The Songbird And The Rambutan Tree

Author : Lucille Abendanon
Publisher : Jolly Fish Press
ISBN 13 : 9781631638206
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Songbird and the Rambutan Tree written by Lucille Abendanon and published by Jolly Fish Press. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After sabotaging her only chance to evacuate before the Japanese army invades Batavia in 1942, eleven-year-old Emmy is confined in the Tjideng prisoner-of-war camp, where she must overcome a tragedy from her past to find her voice and truly be free.

Author : Lucille Abendanon
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1631638211
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Songbird and the Rambutan Tree written by Lucille Abendanon and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After sabotaging her only chance to evacuate before the Japanese army invades Batavia in 1942, eleven-year-old Emmy is confined in the Tjideng prisoner-of-war camp, where she must overcome a tragedy from her past to find her voice and truly be free.

Author : Carl Watson
Publisher : Red Chair Press
ISBN 13 : 1947159348
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silent Journey written by Carl Watson and published by Red Chair Press. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott Schroeder dreams of a day when he and his father can have a home of their own. Following an accident that took his mother's life eight years before, doctors discovered Scott was suddenly deaf. Blessed with being an accomplished gymnast and skilled at signing and reading lips, Scott's biggest challenge is convincing others he is able to do all the same things as those in the hearing world. Picking up on conversations he observes along the way, Scott figures out a big family secret concerning his father and uncle and makes his mind up to play a part in their reconciliation.

Author : Horst H. Geerken
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3839152488
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Gecko for Luck written by Horst H. Geerken and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The large house gecko, called tokek, is regarded as a lucky talisman by the Indonesians. When its 'Toke' resounds in the night, they count how many times it calls, both in town and in the country, and this number determines how lucky the call is. Only an odd number is lucky: seven is already quite good, but nine promises the peak of success and good fortune. The author has spent 18 years in Indonesia and helped the young independent country in its development and construction on the sectors of telecommunications, electrotechnical and solar power engineering. Amusing and interesting events from his private and professional life during those years make this book historically interesting and also humorous reading for anyone who is interested in getting to know Indonesia off the beaten tourist track. The author and his famliy had tokeks in both their house in Jakarta and their weekend home in Carita. He often has heard nine successive calls, and the prophecy was fulfilled: Indonesia has brought the author luck and happiness.

Author : T.L. Smith
Publisher : T.L Smith
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shackled Hearts written by T.L. Smith and published by T.L Smith. This book was released on with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betrayed, deceived, broken. They are the only words used to describe who I have become. Make no mistake, I let this happen. But do you want to know the thing about letting someone into your life? It can be undone. Lucas Rossi may think he has won this round. But I have news for him. I’m going to win every other one he sends my way. My heart may be in shackles, but my head has perfect clarity. SHACKLED HEARTS Is book 2 in Chanel and Lucas Duet. It is a part of the Chained Hearts world.

Author : Erin Stewart
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 1984848887
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Words We Keep written by Erin Stewart and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE SCHNEIDER FAMILY BOOK AWARD FOR TEENS! A beautifully realistic, relatable story about mental health—anxiety, perfectionism, depression—and the healing powers of art—perfect for fans of Girl in Pieces and How it Feels to Float. Whatever you struggle with, you are not alone and you are already enough—just the way you are. It's been three months since The Night on the Bathroom Floor--when Lily found her older sister Alice hurting herself. Ever since then, Lily has been desperately trying to keep things together, for herself and for her family. But now Alice is coming home from her treatment program and it is becoming harder for Lily to ignore all of the feelings she's been trying to outrun. Enter Micah, a new student at school with a past of his own. He was in treatment with Alice and seems determined to get Lily to process not only Alice's experience, but her own. Because Lily has secrets, too. Compulsions she can't seem to let go of and thoughts she can't drown out. When Lily and Micah embark on an art project for school involving finding poetry in unexpected places, she realizes that it's the words she's been swallowing that desperately want to break through. "A tender, heartfelt, and realistic look at mental illness, familial love, and finding your voice."—Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces

Author : Prashant Joshi
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1796006157
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asking Eyes and Telling Eyes written by Prashant Joshi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Risking the future of her five-year old son in the hands of a hashish addict husband, an educated Indonesian lady, SULAIHA agrees to work as a maid in Kuala Lumpur. At the first sight of a physical abuse, she steals her own passport from her employer’s wardrobe and runs away to stay with her Indonesian boyfriend HISHAM. This relationship reveals the final days of student uprising against Suharto regimen and death of her younger brother RITZWAN in the street protests. But approval of Hisham’s political ambition means betrayal of RITZWAN and his martyrdom. Ungrudgingly, she dumps Hisham and walks away from him into the streets of Kuala Lumpur. Sulaiha succeeds in settling in a foreign country against all odds and begins a new life for herself and her family.

Author : Christy Lefteri
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0593238060
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Songbirds written by Christy Lefteri and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A beautifully crafted novel that sits at the intersection of race and class, that flags the frank truth of the life of migrant workers for whom a flight to freedom can become the most finely woven trap.”—JODI PICOULT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways From the prize-winning author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo comes Songbirds, a stunning novel about the disappearance of a Sri Lankan domestic worker and how the most vulnerable people find their voices. Living on the island of Cyprus, Nisha is far from her native Sri Lanka. Though she longs to return home, she knows that working as a “maid” for a wealthy widow is the only way to earn enough to support her daughter, left behind to be raised by relatives. Yiannis is a poacher, trapping the tiny protected songbirds that stop in Cyprus as they migrate each year from Africa to Europe and selling them on the illegal market. He dreams of finding a new way of life, and of marrying Nisha. But one night, Nisha makes dinner, an aromatic dahl curry, for the family who pays her: Petra and her daughter Aliki. Then, after she cleans the kitchen and tucks Aliki into bed, Nisha goes out on a mysterious errand, and vanishes. When the police refuse to pursue the case, Petra takes on the investigation herself, a path that leads her to Nisha’s friends—other workers in the neighborhood—and to the darker side of a migrant’s life, where impossible choices leave them vulnerable, captive, and worse. Inspired by the real-life disappearance of domestic workers in Cyprus, Christy Lefteri has crafted a poignant, deeply empathetic narrative of the human stories behind the headlines. With infinite tenderness and skill, Songbirds offers a triumphant story of the fight for truth and justice, and of women reclaiming their lost voices.

Author : Tan Twan Eng
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 1602861811
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Garden of Evening Mists written by Tan Twan Eng and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “elegant and haunting novel of war, art and memory" (The Independent) award-winning novel from the acclaimed author of The Gift of Rain follows the only Malaysian survivor of a Japanese wartime camp as she begins working for an exiled former gardener of the Emporer. Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron Highlands. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic Aritomo, exiled former gardener of the emperor of Japan. Despite her hatred of the Japanese, Yun Ling seeks to engage Aritomo to create a garden in memory of her sister, who died in the camp. Aritomo refuses but agrees to accept Yun Ling as his apprentice "until the monsoon comes." Then she can design a garden for herself. As the months pass, Yun Ling finds herself intimately drawn to the gardener and his art, while all around them a communist guerilla war rages. But the Garden of Evening Mists remains a place of mystery. Who is Aritomo and how did he come to leave Japan? And is the real story of how Yun Ling managed to survive the war perhaps the darkest secret of all?

Author : Amanda Richardson
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Savage Hate written by Amanda Richardson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-01-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are three names that have haunted me for ten years. Silas, Damon, Jude. I never wanted to come back to Greythorn, MA. And I never thought I'd see Silas Huxley, Damon Brooks, or Jude Vanderbilt again-especially not after what happened. But here they are, in all of their grown, badass glory-brutal, tatted, muscular, and no longer the boys I knew at Ravenwood Academy-the boys I bullied relentlessly. I made their life a living hell back then, so they plan on making my life a living hell now. They're out for blood-my blood. Their ruthless thirst for revenge turns my skin to ice, and I soon discover just how savage and hateful they are. But despite popular opinion, my life was never full of butterflies and sunshine. I've endured a hell of a lot worse than what they plan to do to me. They may think I'm back in Greythorn with my tail between my legs, all battered and bruised-but what they've forgotten is that I am the original Queen of Ravenwood Academy. And I refuse to be dethroned. Savage Hate is full-length enemies-to-lovers/bully reverse harem romance. It is a spinoff of the Ruthless Royals duet, which does not have to be read first. It is book one of the Savage Hearts series, and while it doesn't end with a true cliffhanger, there will be unanswered questions. Book two will be releasing in March. It is advised to read them in order. *Please note Savage Hate contains explicit language, bullying, needles, and violence. There are flashbacks of abuse/grooming/trauma. The series will have a HEA.