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Everyone gave them thirteen reasons not to go into that haunted farmhouse. This was a place where make-believe and reality collided. This was a place where your deepest desires came true, but only at a terrible price.
All our dreams have their beginnings, and Princess Zara's is taking off. So join her on her tropical adventure! Travel down the River Niger, Wander through the thick rainforests, Plunge into the deep, dark dangers of old West Africa. Live the perils, share the thrills. Enjoy the views along the way... And never doubt your dreams can come true too.
Zara is a novel that depicts an intimate knowledge of coming of an age, love among teenagers and family life. After Zara, the protagonist who is from a very poor background has an encounter with Afrah, her life automatically takes a new turn. Her hopelessness, is turned into hope, her poverty is becoming a thing of the past and Zara is beginning to see a light at the end of tunnel until Mohammed, Afrah’’s boyfriend, returns from abroad. His presence triggers a lot of restlessness in Zara’s life, as she believes that the young man is shifting his affection from Afrah to her. Afrah will have known of it and believes that the only way to confront a world that has taken away her mother from her, given her father to another woman and delivered her boyfriend to a girl she picked from the slums is to commit suicide; an unexpected turn of event opens up a whole new life that hands Afrah and Zara all they think they’ve lost, making their fantasies their realities.
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'If you care about the length and quality of your life but can't stomach yet another diet or workout routine, this book is for you' - Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author 'Finally, a lifestyle book that transcends diet and exercise for solutions for living longer' - Dan Buettner, National Geographic Fellow and New York Times bestselling author A smart, research-driven case for why optimism, kindness and strong social networks will help us live to 100. What to do to live long? From fountain-searching Ponce de Leon to pill-popping Silicon Valley techies humanity has been trying to pinpoint the answer for centuries, often fixating on all the wrong things: miracle diets, miracle foods, ...
Previously published: London: Orchard U.K., 2010.
‘This Universe, Zara, is the creation of our several desires. It is the product of our energy in motion. And when our imagination flounders, we feel sapped of energy.’ Zara, enclosed in a plasma bubble, lands on the bank of the Ganges from the tongue of the glacier. She begins her life on the riverbank where the eternal question of ‘Who am I?’ drives her on a journey to the city where she reckons that she can find her purpose. But her voyage is not going to be an easy one as she confronts personal loss and materialistic pleasures. Zara’s Witness is a philosophical fantasy where Zara’s story is told through the four ashramas of life which guides a human towards fulfilment, happiness, and spiritual liberation. This book is aimed towards anyone who is trying to find their purpose in life. The extraordinary prose will transport you to Zara’s world, leave you spellbound, help you appreciate the finer nuances of life, and compel you to go on a journey of self-discovery and rumination.
Meredith Steinbach's moving first novel tells the story of a strong yet vulnerable woman's attempts to reconcile her varying roles as daughter, wife, and doctor. Zara centers on Zara Montgomery's troubled relationships with three powerful forces in her life: her taciturn physician father; her mother, dying of cancer; and her attractive but unstable husband. In prose both sharp and spare, Steinbach paints a deeply perceptive portrait of a remarkable young woman.