A Wayfare

We are all on board a journey headed toward a destination, experiencing our respective shares of happiness and sorrows, peace and discontent, success and failure. But more often than not, it turns out like an old saying, Life is what happens when we are busy making other plans. This book holds seven off-kilter short stories based on. As the name suggests, train journeys in India. By the end of every story, the inherent sordidness might appall and enervate the readers, but this is how the cookie crumbles for beaucoup people in India. Perusing this book will stimulate the reader on a wayfare, consummating what might effectuate rumination and introspection, which is in a way the intention of writing this anthology.

This collection of poems is based on the theme ‘Human feelings and Nature’. Man, the supreme creation on earth has embellished her with his imagined beauty .That nature also accepts his stature in many contexts, signifying him almost next to the Almighty which is very obvious but with carrying himself and also supporting life in the existing contrast of suitable and unsuitable circumstances where mankind has made many giant leaps, it’s an irony of achievement that each foot has a prick and each heart has a wounded corner. Flow and ebb of life makes him sometimes ignorant of emotions and sentiments of others. Austerity hardens his heart. Possessiveness makes him malicious. Contrary to this, the nature’s calmness, equilibrium naturally maintained in feelings towards one another appears quite visible in the flora and fauna co-existence, though, there is no communicative inter-action. Silence cares for all sentiments. This concise selection of poems is an amalgamation of feelings pertaining to all creation. Many feel, life by no means a smooth sail but a troubled sea, a stormy sky and a thorny field. Every poem in this book mingles freshness in air, gives solace and shelter and inspires courage to move forward on The Wayfare.

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I've been orphaned by my time. The timeline has changed. My future is gone. Etta Spencer didn't know she was a traveler until the day she emerged both miles and years from her home. Now, robbed of the powerful object that was her only hope of saving her mother, Etta finds herself stranded once more, cut off from Nicholas—the eighteenth century privateer she loves—and her natural time. When Etta inadvertently stumbles into the heart of the Thorns, the renegade travelers who stole the astrolabe from her, she vows to finish what she started and destroy the astrolabe once and for all. Instead, she's blindsided by a bombshell revelation from their leader, Henry Hemlock: he is her father. Suddenly questioning everything she's been fighting for, Etta must choose a path, one that could transform her future. Still devastated by Etta's disappearance, Nicholas has enlisted the unlikely help of Sophia Ironwood and a cheeky mercenary-for-hire to track both her and the missing astrolabe down. But as the tremors of change to the timeline grow stronger and the stakes for recovering the astrolabe mount, they discover an ancient power far more frightening than the rival travelers currently locked in a battle for control. . . a power that threatens to eradicate the timeline altogether. From colonial Nassau to New York City, San Francisco to Roman Carthage, imperial Russia to the Vatican catacombs, New York Times #1 best-selling author Alexandra Bracken charts a gorgeously detailed, thrilling course through time in this stunning conclusion to the Passenger series.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.