Collection of letters between Amrita Pritam (1919-2005), a Panjabi author, and Imaroza, her close associate.

When I Wrapped Myself With Your Being Our Bodies Turned Inwards In Contemplation Our Limbs Intertwined Like Blossoms In A Garland Like An Offering At The Altar Of The Spirit Our Names, Slipping Out Of Our Lips, Became A Sacred Hymn . . . (From Adi Dharam By Amrita Pritam) Acclaimed As The Doyenne Of Punjabi Literature, Amrita Pritam Received Many Awards, Including India S Highest Literary Award, The Jnanpith, In 1981. Born In Gujranwala, Now In Pakistan, In 1919, She Came To India After The Partition Of The Subcontinent In 1947. Her Best-Known Work Is A Classic Poem, Addressed To The Great Eighteenth-Century Sufi Poet Waris Shah, In Which She Laments The Carnage Of Partition And Calls On Him To Give Voice From His Grave. Amrita Met Imroz, A Well-Known Artist, In The 1960S And They Became Lifelong Companions. They Stayed Together For More Than Forty Years, Till Her Death, After A Long Illness, In October 2005. Amrita Imroz: A Love Story Offers Living Glimpses Of The Sacred Hymn Of Amrita Pritam And Imroz S Life Together. Uma Trilok Had The Rare Opportunity To Witness Their Remarkable Love Story And The Passionate Bond That They Shared For So Many Years. In This Moving Tribute She Communicates Her Sense Of Deep Wonder At Their Unique And Unconventional Relationship, As Also Her Profound Admiration For The Creative Energy Of These Two Extraordinary Individuals.

Set in contemporary India, Love and Longing in Bombay confirms Vikram Chandra as one of today's most exciting young writers. In five haunting tales he paints a remarkable picture of Bombay - its ghosts, its passions, its feuds, its mysteries - while exploring timeless questions of the human spirit. 'When Midnight's Children first arrived on the scene, it became necessary to revaluate stories from and about India. With Vikram Chandra's collection - his second book - it is time to take stock again . . . Breathtaking.' Observer

Poet Gary Soto captures the voices of young people as they venture toward their first kiss, brood over bruised hearts, and feel the thrill of first love.

After studying at Oxford University and finding God, Carolyn Weber grappled with a new invitation: to think bigger about love. Through Weber's personal story of courtship, marriage, and parenthood, as well as spiritual, theological, and literary reflection, this memoir explores what life looks like when we choose to love God first.

An unexpected journey toward unconditional love Like so many men, Tim Muldoon assumed that life followed a script. More to the point, he assumed that love would follow a script—one determined by his own choices. When the script changed, as it inevitably does, Tim was forced to ask some critical questions: How could he bring his disparate desires into harmony with one another? Could he make the journey to where his true dreams seemed to be leading him? Should he—or could he—venture into the unknown territory of selfless love? In meditative, heartfelt prose, best-selling author Tim Muldoon shows how authentic love grows through unexpected twists and turns in a relationship, and how by following the deepest desires of his heart, he found the freedom to become his best and most passionate self. From sex to self-giving love, from the desire to be loved to the desire to serve God in the person of his wife, from resisting adoption to loving his two adopted daughters with unbridled joy, Muldoon shares with us his personal love story, whose altered script he came to embrace. Through Muldoon's journey, each of us is invited to consider how falling in love can become our greatest adventure with God.

Love letters are potent. They breathe. They speak. They can arouse, comfort, captivate. They can also cut deep. The powerful, deeply personal letters collected here reveal the painful underside of love. Witness Winston Churchill 'growl with anger to be treated with benevolent indifference' and Edith Piaf reel in the throes of a 'terrible' passion. Through the letters of literary icons Charlotte Brontë, Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf, Hollywood stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and statesmen Henry VIII and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Yours Always offers an unusually intimate insight into the lives of such illustrious figures. Love is revealed here in its many shades of disharmony and confusion: unrequited, uncertain, imbalanced, unconventional, thwarted, failed and forbidden. Love is not always rose-tinted, and Yours Always illuminates the sorrows that can accompany falling in, falling out, and staying in love. Includes letter to and from: Charlotte Brontë, Richard Burton, Lord Byron, Winston Churchill, Marie Curie, Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, Henry VIII, Ted Hughes, Graham Greene, Franz Kafka, Marilyn Monroe, Iris Murdoch, Edith Piaf, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Elizabeth Taylor, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats