The Weaver's Dream
The Weaver's Dream

Author: Lilian Harry

Publisher: Orion

Published: 2016-04-14

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 1409162680

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The Weaver's Dream was first published in paperback under the name Donna Baker. London, 1824. Life has taken Rebecca far from her humble start in a weaver's cottage in Kidderminster. But although she has found love and comfort with her husband, Francis, it has meant they are both banished from the town that raised them. Instead they must raise their family - and a new business in the bustle of the capital. But when a death finally draws them home to Worcestershire, they find the landscape unchanged, but the poverty increased. Amid the smoke of the factories and the clatter of machinery there is also the growing murmur of unrest as the workers search for a way to express their discontent. For Rebecca, Francis and their young family it means being torn between family duty and sympathy for the weavers' plight. And while they have a dream for the future, will it be strong enough to survive the turmoil ahead?

The Weaver's Daughter
The Weaver's Daughter

Author: Lilian Harry

Publisher: Orion

Published: 2016-04-14

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 1409162672

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The Weaver's Daughter was first published in paperback under the name Donna Baker. In the 1800s in the Midlands, it's a hard life for the weavers of Kidderminster - beautiful carpets spring from the looms they work, but life is not always so neatly woven. So it is for the Himley family - already struggling to get by, they must find a way of coping when their daughter, Bessie, is raped and disappears with her brother Tom to London, suspected of murder. But hope comes in the form of Rebecca, their youngest daughter. A job in service for the Pagnel family, owners of the carpet factory, means a chance of different life for Rebecca. As she gradually rises to the position of housemaid, she gets a glimpse of a world far removed from that she was born to. When love beckons, she is unsure - following your heart can be dangerous, and for Becky will it be her saving or her downfall?

Weavers of Destiny
Weavers of Destiny

Author: Kathy Knowlton

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1412043824

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What if we lived with other intelligent species? And what if everything depended on our ability to cooperate with each other? This adventure breaks the barriers - between species and between planets. From the dense green of a pioneer world, from a desert wasteland, from beneath the waves and from the loneliest place on earth young people come to transform their worlds and lives. Not with magic, but by doing what they love. The story follows four teams of paired species as they go to the first games celebrating interspecies cooperation. They're so different the teams couldn't even survive on each other's worlds. Yet each pair has private reasons for competing, hidden agendas that make the stakes incredibly high. And where the stakes are high, there are forces that will stop at nothing to keep them from competing. Have you ever wanted to change destiny? The new destiny is woven thread by thread. Out of the jungle, the cavern, the sea and the plain come the weavers. The new destiny begins here.

Death Weavers
Death Weavers

Author: Brandon Mull

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-03-15

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 1442497092

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Cole and his friends finally reach the fourth of the five kingdoms, Necronum, land of the dead, where they confront unexpected dangers and meet new allies.

Banned Plays
Banned Plays

Author: Dawn B. Sova

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1438129939

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An alphabetical listing of plays that have been banned throughout history with a short synopsis and reason for banning as well as profiles of the playwrights and other resource material.

The Writing of the Nation by Its Elite
The Writing of the Nation by Its Elite

Author: MK Raghavendra

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2021-07-15

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1000410552

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This volume examines the idea of India as it emerges in the writing of its anglophone elite, post-2000. Drawing on a variety of genres, including fiction, histories, non-fiction assessments – economic, political, and business – travel accounts, and so on, this book maps the explosion of English-language writing in India after the economic liberalization and points to the nation’s sense of its growing importance as a producer of culture. From Ramachandra Guha to William Dalrymple, from Arundhati Roy to Pankaj Mishra, from Jhumpa Lahiri to Amitav Ghosh, from Amartya Sen to Gurcharan Das, from Barkha Dutt to Tarun Tejpal, this investigation takes us from aesthetic imaginings of the nation to its fractured political fault lines, the ideological predispositions of the writers often pointing to an asymmetrically constituted India. A major intervention on how postcolonial India is written about and imagined in the anglophone world, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of cultural studies, literature, history, and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to general readers with an inclination towards India and Indian writing.