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Most people think witches are old and ugly - but ANITA isn't. ANITA doesn't cackle and hiss as she works dark curses, either. Oh, she casts witch's spells and incantations, but not the usual kind. ANITA's main interest is boys, just like any other girl her age. And she doesn't really need things like love potions - not with her face and figure. But ANITA is a witch, and she's young and a little reckless. Which means she sometimes makes mistakes (usually with boys), and when she does... all Hell might break loose....
The year is 2014.A violent uprising has been instigated all across Tibet as Beijing moves to establish control while the Dalai Lama's health deteriorates further and questions on the future of the Tibetan leadership are raised. As Beijing pursues the rebels and their benefactors within India, both nations are plunged into a spiraling descent to war.Now each side must navigate their widely different paths to victory as vast armies on both sides wage all-out war in their bid to become the dominant power in Asia...
Overnight, the sweet and sensitive Anita was forced to live in the honourable Handen house. And, for her, the misfortune has begun.... The Handen, Anita's distant relatives, have a dry heart. Kneaded with pride, they subjected the young orphan girl to the worst humiliations, which they despise: if her father was a Handen, her mother was a poor Spanish woman who sang for a living. To add to her suffering, Anita falls in love with Ary, the eldest son of the Handens, a wonderful artist, elegant and haughty, who does not deign to realize that she exists. There is no prospect of happiness for Anita in this hostile environment. Will she agree to marry Ulrich, the sympathetic son of a pastor, who is sincerely in love with it? She dreams, she waits. Sometimes trials change hearts... What if Anita is right to hope?
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Nine-year-old Meena can’t wait to grow up and break free from her parents. But, as the daughter of the only Punjabi family in the mining village of Tollington, her struggle for independence is different from most.
It was Anita who taught Garibaldi the guerrilla ways of the gauchos, and they lived as man and wife through a series of adventure and wars. Returning to Italy in 1848 to fight for a united republican Italy, as revolution swept throughout Europe, Anita and Garibaldi were tragically separated by her untimely death the following year. Garibaldi went on to ultimate fame as the father of modern Italy - while Anita's story drifted into the mists of legend.
Sometimes you need to run, to find out where you really belong. Baby Saul has had it with just about everything. She's fed up with her job and her colleagues, her love life is permanently casual, and underpinning everything is the recent grief of losing her much-loved dad. Oh, and if her mother and the aunties don't stop asking her when she's going to settle down and start having babies, Baby might just lose it. When she finds some love letters between her grandfather and someone who is very clearly not her grandmother, Baby realises that she needs to know more. She heads to India to do some detective work on this mysterious other woman and to find out a bit more about herself along the way. What she doesn't bargain for is Sid, her guide (and unwilling driver) being annoyingly handsome with a knack for asking Baby the sort of questions that force her to look at what she really wants out of life.
Ugly is a powerful exploration of our relationship with looks, challenging centuries-old standards, and empowering us to redefine beauty beyond appearance.
This poignant coming-of-age tale follows Meena, a young girl growing up in the only Punjabi family in a 1970s Black Country mining village. Meena spends her days happily getting into scrapes with the other local children until one day the impossibly cool Anita enters her life. Suddenly Meena knows exactly who she wants to be but is Anita all that she seems? Soon Meena's world is turned upside down as she is caught between two very different cultures. Anita and Me paints a comic, poignant, compassionate and colourful portrait of village life in the era of flares, power cuts, glam rock, decimalisation and Ted Heath. It has been adapted for the stage by the multi-award-winning Tanika Gupta.
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.