The year is 1857 in the sprightly seaside town of Calicut. Four have been chosen by supernaturals of the past. They battle the East India Company’s ambitious railways, for hidden beneath the plains of Northern India is a relic so sacred, it has been guarded fiercely over millennia. Polio cannot dampen Sarah’s spirit, skin colour makes no difference to Charlotte, Chandran is an unflinching patriot and Colin will be redeemed by a second chance. River, Laughter, Moon & C, where time surrenders to friendship and courage……
This book is a journal of the life of two sisters. It is a riveting tale of the sisters on a roller-coaster ride of love, betrayal, selfishness, crime, and finally, redemption. Rimana, a simple girl in her early teens, prays with all her might that the little life growing in her mother’s womb be a girl. And her prayers are heard, as she is blessed with a baby sister, Shahana. Shahana grows up to be nothing less than a princess in a dreamland, a diva, all young and graceful, and oh-so-beautiful. Shahana is the beauty and Rimana is the belle. But fate would not stop meddling, and life takes a turn when soon the daily squabbles, quarrels and tantrums take them where they could not have imagined reaching, even in their worst dreams. Then a day comes when it seems that their world has turned upside down and that everything has come toppling down at them, because now they have to bear the searing pain of separation. Through it all, will this deep bond of sisterhood fade over the years, or is it dissolved in their blood so much so that it will remain intact on till doomsday, and the two sisters will stand, hand-in-hand, till the end of eternity?
Winner, Distinguished Literary Achievement, Missouri Humanities Council, 2015 The story behind the writing of the best-selling Blue Highways is as fascinating as the epic trip itself. More than thirty years after his 14,000-mile, 38-state journey, William Least Heat-Moon reflects on the four years he spent capturing the lessons of the road trip on paper—the stops and starts in his composition process, the numerous drafts and painstaking revisions, the depressing string of rejections by publishers, the strains on his personal relationships, and many other aspects of the toil that went into writing his first book. Along the way, he traces the hard lessons learned and offers guidance to aspiring and experienced writers alike. Far from being a technical manual, Writing Blue Highways: The Story of How a Book Happenedis an adventure story of its own, a journey of “exploration into the myriad routes of heart and mind that led to the making of a book from the first sorry and now vanished paragraph to the last words that came not from a graphite pencil but from a letterpress in Tennessee.” Readers will not find a collection of abstract formulations and rules for writing; rather, this book gracefully incorporates examples from Heat-Moon’s own experience. As he explains, “This story might be termed an inadvertent autobiography written not by the traveler who took Ghost Dancing in 1978 over the byroads of America but by a man only listening to him. That blue-roadman hasn’t been seen in more than a third of a century, and over the last many weeks as I sketched in these pages, I’ve regretted his inevitable departure.” Filtered as the struggles of the “blue-roadman” are through the awareness of someone more than thirty years older with a half dozen subsequent books to his credit, the story of how his first book “happened” is all the more resonant for readers who may not themselves be writers but who are interested in the tricky balance of intuitive creation and self-discipline required for any artistic endeavor.
Steve's poems will capture your heart like no other. You are drawn into the imagery, finding yourself spell-bound. From Love to Vietnam, his topics touch everyone. Titles include Comrades in Vietnam, I Can't Take That Touch Away, The Moon is On the River, Words on Awakening, Ancient Window Blinds, Angels, and As I See It Greta. This is a must have for anyone who enjoys poetry
A little Indian boy, Laughing Moon, meets the animals in the forest, and from them, learns to be thankful for all that he has, especially his new baby sister.
