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Explore Vancouver Island: Westwood Lake Chronicles

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Westwood-Lake
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Twenty-five years ago Lawrence Winkler and his wife Robin bought a homestead, in the middle of Vancouver Island, on the water’s edge. There are still reflections of the small lake at the foot of Mount Benson – of gardens and vineyards and woodland encounters.

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Westwood Lake Chronicles is a “dreamscape” diary, a backyard inventory of life and death in paradise, and the desperate pressures that threaten its existence.  Lawrence Winkler has written an anthem to living deliberately with nature, and the virtues of simplicity, self-sufficiency, solitude, and silence. Find refuge…
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Follow Lawrence Winkler throughout the year, experience with him the beauty of nature and the lessons we are given.  A fantastic read not only for nature lovers, but also a must-read for everyone traveling and exploring the stunning beauty of Vancouver Island on Canada’s famous West Coast. 
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Paperback
$19.95 – Free for Prime members

Kindle Edition
$5.40 – Free for Prime members

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From Reviewers:
“A delicious, rich, fascinating melange of descriptive natural history, science, lore and romance by an intellectual who struggles with ‘whither Mother Earth?’.  Not a gulpable book – should be savored in sips.”
“He describes beautifully his passion for his environment with facts and humor! A thoroughly enjoyable read!”
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Author’s Bio
Westwood Lake Chronicles is one of eight books by Lawrence Winkler, an ancient physician and a traveler, a phenomenologist, a mushroom forager, and an amateur naturalist.  As a young man, he hitchhiked around the world, for five trans-formative years.

Lawrence Winkler’s middle age is morphing from medicine to manuscript. He has a passion for habitat protection, including the (hopefully) final repairs on a leaky roof. Westwood Lake Chronicles was his first book.
He lives on Vancouver Island with Robyn and Shiva, tending their garden and vineyard, and dreams.  See Lawrence Winkler’s author page and all his books on Amazon.
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AMINA: The Silent One by Fiza Pathan

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Multi-author Fiza Pathan recently launched her latest title  – an even tougher read than her award-winning book Nirmala: The Mud Blossom.

Her latest work, Amina: The Silent One, brings vividly to life the grim realities that are facing women in India today, the grinding, filthy poverty, and debasement with which most Indian women must contend in their daily lives.  This book will shock you and rip your eyes open. Through the magic of fiction, it tells an awful truth in human terms that cannot be told in any other way.
Congratulations Fiza Pathan just received for Amina: The Silent One a Honorable Mention in the New England Book Festival, section Regional Literature.

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The degradation of women in India is nearly universal, and ranges from their second-class status in society, often excluding them from educational and professional opportunities to their frequent physical and psychological brutalization, often involving assault, rape, and sexual slavery.
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The anglicized educated Indian and the western industrialized world is appalled at the horrific news reports—all too frequent—of women attacked in public places, beaten, degraded, raped, and murdered. The situation and treatment of women in India is simply incomprehensible to most modern educated people.
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The media carries the hair-raising news reports; we shake our heads in outrage, confused that such cruelty and debasement of women is commonplace in a country that has long had the benefit of western cultural influence, education, and governmental systems.
Yet the awful reality women endure in India completely escapes us because we are unacquainted with the actual, tangible details of their lives and the world they inhabit.
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In her latest work, Indian national and accomplished novelist and poet, Fiza Pathan has gone a long way in removing the obstacles to a true understanding of the hellish reality most Indian women experience. Her characters are fully imagined and alive to the reader, and she does not stint in telling the gruesome, shocking truth. She is candid and unsparing; she does not use euphemisms or false niceties in telling the tragic story of a Mumbai, India slum family that, against all odds, produces a female musical prodigy.
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This novel will get under your skin and stay with you for a long time. Pathan’s characters live and breathe; you are sure to remember them; the sordid details of their lives and their struggles and heartbreaks materialize before our very eyes.
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Amina: The Silent One goes a long way in opening our lives and hearts to the plight of women in India and may actually be an agent of positive change in Indian society.
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About the Author:
Fiza Pathan is a teacher and the author of several award-winning print and ebooks:

  • S.O.S. Animals and Other Stories
  • Treasury of Bizarre Christmas Stories
  • Classics: Why we should encourage children to read them
  • Nirmala: The Mud Blossom
  • So This Is Love – Collected Poems
  • Classics: How we can encourage children to read them
  • Flesh of Flesh (Short Story)

See the long list of Fiza Pathan’s book awards on her Amazon site.
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To meet Fiza, visit her websites and social media presence:
http://www.fizapathan.com/
http://insaneowl.com/
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6566200.Fiza_Pathan
https://twitter.com/fizapathan
https://www.facebook.com/public/Fiza-Pathan
http://www.independentauthornetwork.com/fiza-pathan.html
https://www.wattpad.com/user/fizapathan
http://about.me/fizapathan
https://savvybookwriters.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/interview-with-author-fiza-pathan/
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Amina: The Silent One by Fiza Pathan
Kindle $3.00
http://www.amazon.com/Amina-Silent-One-Fiza-Pathan-ebook/dp/B0131LVTA4
Paperback $7.99
http://www.amazon.com/Amina-Silent-One-Fiza-Pathan/dp/1515148378

 

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