Love Forever

Love Forever

Anuraag

Asian Literature / Indian Literature / Fiction

A love story that will bring tears in your eyes. like every love story this too has a boy and a girl falling in love with each other but there is something more to it here. Some magic that will take you on a love ride. A sweet tragic love story that will leave you with a smile and teary eyes.A love story is like a recipe that has the same ingredients but not necessarily tastes the same always. Every love story is different in some or the other way and so is this one. Based on events from true incident, this is however a work of fiction. A sweet love story about a boy who is dying of cancer but falls in love with a girl he had a crush on in the past. Can he tell her the truth? Can they fall in love? Read to find out.
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Nan Violence

Nan Violence

Arun Krishnan

Cultural / India / Asian Literature / Indian Literature

It's hard to attain Nirvana - especially when you are accused of being a cross-dressing Muslim terrorist. Mr. Jain is a strict vegetarian who develops an unexpected fondness for meat. He tries to keep his new tastes secret from his fellow Jains by resorting to wearing a burkha -- but in the process falls afoul of the FBI.It's hard to attain Nirvana - especially when you are accused of being a cross-dressing Muslim terrorist. Mr. Jain strictly adheres to the principles of non-violence and vegetarianism. However, due to an an unfortunate turn of circumstances, he develops a taste for meat. He wants to buy meat at a neighborhood restaurant, but fears public condemnation. To avoid detection by fellow Jains, he conceals himself in a burka. In the process, he gets mistaken for a cross-dressing Muslim terrorist who is out to corrupt the moral fabric of American society. Will Mr, Jain escape the clutches of the law and find salvation? It is a far more difficult prospect than he can ever imagine.
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Little Cutie Poems

Little Cutie Poems

Kevin Marx

Humanities / Language / Asian Literature / Japanese Literature

A collection of poems dealing with Life, Love, Society, Religion, Depression, Drugs, Loneliness, and Politics.Phasie was a good boy and loved to go on walks with his friends and eat oatmeal for breakfast. Everything would have been perfect, were it not for one problem: an awful, purple dragon often came to scare him in his dreams. His attempt to solve this problem led to amazing discoveries and adventures.--Since childhood, we've grown accustomed to thinking that dreaming is a trivial succession of meaningless illusions in which we are deprived of free will. Michael Raduga, author of the scandalous Phasieland Fairy Tales, begs to differ. As the founder of the School of Out-of-Body Travel, he has created the world's first tales for helping you and your children find out how to not be afraid of bad dreams, consciously travel in the dream world, and use this skill in quite a variety of ways in everyday life.
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Tears Of Angels

Tears Of Angels

Anuraag

Asian Literature / Indian Literature / Fiction

Sometimes people unknowingly fall into traps and get drowned in despair due to their inner conflict with their conscience. In the pursuit of happiness we often forget what is right and wrong? What then is true happiness- is it chasing after money or is it being close to your loved ones.A son rotting away right in front of his helpless mother. Why can't she stop him from taking drugs? A cop with a dark past on a mission to set things right. Can he stop them? A doctor leading a remorseful life and an irreversible mistake that will haunt him for the rest of his life. A soulless beast molded by unfortunate circumstances alive for just one purpose-destroy the society.A poison is a poison even when taken in smaller dosages and similarly a crime is a crime, there's no such thing as a smaller crime.Every crime has a story behind it. Read this short story filled with emotions and situations that will make you ponder if you are on the right path.
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Cairo

Cairo

Arun Krishnan

Cultural / India / Asian Literature / Indian Literature

Kabir -- a private eye -- is grappling with a conundrum. His wife has left him only three days after the wedding. A client asks him to track down a missing cat called Luna. When Kabir sets out in the cat's pursuit, he hits upon a startling revelation about life and love.There are some questions that even a private detective cannot answer. Why doesn't my wife talk to me? Why does she spend all her time following the Arab Spring on the Internet? And did she leave me only three days after the wedding? Kabir -- Lucknow's most successful sleuth -- is grappling with all of these questions, when a client asks him to track down a missing cat called Luna. When Kabir sets out in the cat's pursuit, he hits upon a startling revelation about life and love.
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Gus

Gus

Chanchal

Romance / Asian Literature / Indian Literature

A fifteen year old boy who raises his family own finds his way through some of the many struggles he experiences with his life.Gus is a fifteen year old boy who finds himself leading a life with more responsibility than any other adult. Between his cancer-ridden sister, his mentally-broken dad, and his lack of any reasonable level of education he does everything he can to find his way through life. However, lately he has been slipping of the straight path he's managed to follow so far. If this keeps up, he'll lose everything he worked so hard to keep.
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Million Dollar Stories

Million Dollar Stories

Chanchal

Romance / Asian Literature / Indian Literature

Not the once upon a time,but every time throughout the history,some interesting people or families have born. They all had/have beautiful life, and there were/are many unforgettable scenes in those lives. This book takes out one of that amazing family and their tales. A family includes, a man also known as alcoholic man by his son “Aryan” among his friends, living with his wife and elder son AmitNot the once upon a time, but every time throughout the history, some interesting people or families have born. They all had/have beautiful life, and there were/are many unforgettable scenes in those lives. This book takes out one of that amazing family and their tales. A family includes, a man also known as alcoholic man by his son “Aryan” among his friends, living with his wife and elder son Amit. This book has the collection of beautiful stories based on this interesting family. Read these amazing stories at your free time and share them with your friends and families.Enjoy your reading.
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Deck Boy

Deck Boy

Alan Temperley

Childrens / Fiction / Asian Literature

Deck Boy is a full-blooded and comical adventure story for readers of all ages. It is set in the mid 1970s, the last great days of the British merchant fleet when ships were beautiful, the dock basins were crowded, navigation was by the stars, and the thronging crews were very different from the crowd you met in the high street.When Ben Thomson, nearly fifteen, plays truant from his expensive boarding school, he has no idea that he will never return. All he intends is to visit his old home in Westport, but a chance encounter in a steamy workmen's café on the Dock Road turns his life on its head. Before he knows it, Ben finds himself escaping through a window, assaulted in an illegal drinking den, threatened by a murderer, changing his name and his appearance, forging documents, getting tattooed, making a host of new friends – and enemies – and outward bound on a voyage to the far side of the world. Surrounded by a crew of loyal, eccentric, gay and violent shipmates, Ben...
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250 Essential Japanese Kanji Characters Volume 1

250 Essential Japanese Kanji Characters Volume 1

Kanji Text Research Group Univ of Tokyo

Asian Literature / Japanese Literature / Cultural / Japan

"This is the best kanji book available today. Designed for beginners with a basic knowledge of Japanese to use in the classroom on for self–study."—Modern Language JournalEveryday tasks like finding a street address or buying a train ticket can be an ordeal in Japan if you don't read kanji–the system of Japanese writing based on Chinese characters. A group of teachers from the prestigious University of Tokyo have pooled their talents to create 250 Essential Japanese Kanji Characters in two volumes: a practical way to learn the kanji most frequently used in daily life in Japan. Each lesson helps you master a new group of kanji, using an extremely effective approach that focuses on you, the learner, taking an active part.Introductory Quizzes introduce everyday situations where you encounter kanji.Vocabulary sections help you understand the readings and meanings of the kanji.New Character Charts teach...
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Murdo's War

Murdo's War

Alan Temperley

Childrens / Fiction / Asian Literature

Fourteen year-old Sutherlander Murdo Mackay agrees to collect some machinery by boat in early 1943, but his suspicions about the mysterious cargo are confirmed when he discovers that the crates are full of German machine guns. Fleeing through freezing conditions and some of Scotland's harshest landscapes as the extent of the German plan becomes clear, Murdo must run not only for his life, but to save Britain from invasion.
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Scar Hill

Scar Hill

Alan Temperley

Childrens / Fiction / Asian Literature

Far away from everything in the Scottish Highlands, Peter Irwin is far from your normal teenager. Thriving in his remote surroundings Peter finds himself facing some tough problems as his father battles Gulf War Syndrome, he struggles with his irresponsible mother and fights with his pregnant teenage sister who is following in her mother's flamboyant footsteps. He never complains but is silently tormented by his mother's abandonment, the traumatic death of his father and his sister's disappearance. All alone he is left to manage the house, the farm and look after his new born niece. Soon, when circumstances threaten to uncover the secret that he never wants anyone to know, Peter reaches breaking point. Take a walk in Peter Irwin's shoes and experience the struggle of growing up and the hope he discovers at the bottom of the hill.
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