While preparing to wed the beautiful Bidyunmala, Devaraya is threatened by a treacherous brother within and enemies preparing for war without; worse still, Bidyunmala seems to be in love with Arjunvarma, a man Devaraya has come to trust. And so begins Saradindu Bandyopadhyay's classic tale of intrigue, love and war, set on the banks of the river Tungabhadra in fourteenth-century India.

    Children's book

    610-580 b.c.e.) spent the majority of her life on the famed island of Lesbos. Passionate and breathtaking, Sappho's poems survive only in fragments following religious conspiracies to silence her. Sappho penned immortal verse on the intense power of the female libido; on the themes of romance, love, yearning, heartbreak, and personal relationships with women. This work retains the standard numerical order of the fragments and has been arranged in six sections. Distinguished poet and lecturer Paul Roche’s translation of The Love Songs of Sappho is enhanced with his brilliant essay, “Portrait of Sappho,” as well as a lucid historical introduction by celebrated feminist and classicist Page duBois.

    John Emmerson was a lonely man.  He had a wife, a son, friends, but he was isolated from all the people and events about him by the tragedy of his past.  Then he met Cissie, and for the first time his loneliness eased a little.Cissie was everything his wife Ann was not.  She was warm, and compassionate, and generous.  And she was quick to sense the needs of a desolate, unhappy man.But Cissie was also a young widow:  poor, and with a young son to support.  And John Emmerson was one of the town's leading solicitors--a man of importance whose every move was watched by the local dignitaries...

    Living in a supermarket deep freeze wasn't very nice for the tiny doll until one day a very special little girl came along, and thought of ways to make her happier.

    Though this historic book is written from the viewpoint of the decade in which it was published — the 1960′s — and may appear somewhat “out-of date” to the modern reader, the basic life-principles of which Lao Russell writes are unchanging.Lao Russell envisioned that youth’s greatest challenge is to create a new age of character. “Youth is a time for progressive thinking, acting and growing. Working constructively with Natural Law, you can give birth to a bright New Age. … Working together, with love, toward the single purpose of a better way of life, we cannot fail to give birth to the greatest age ever known in the history of mankind – an Age of Character.” Part I & II: Love’s Phantasy; How to Attract Romance; Victory Over Guilt and Frustration; The Magic Power of Sex; Why Many Teenage Marriages Fail; The Secret of Holding Romance; True Love; The Vital Role of Youth Today; On Building a Bright New Age of Character. Part III introduces Lao Russell’s inspired International Age of Character Clubs, which continue to flourish around the world today, particularly in Nigeria, thirty years after she first presented the idea to the world in her book Love.

    In it he creates a metaphysical theatre of the word that wryly undermines the very language from which it is constructed. Time and identity are turned inside out in a series of elaborately interwoven episodes set against a backdrop of riots and cataclysms, labyrinths of stone or throbbing meat, and bucolic scenes populated by toyland figures… and not forgetting the inevitable bars of Vienna."