Award-Winning Books by Fiza Pathan

The FOURTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL Beverly Hills International Book Awards® 

recognized CLASSICS: How we can encourage children to read them by Fiza Pathan in the category of Education as a winner. It also recognized Amina: The Silent One by Fiza Pathan as a winner in the category of Regional Fiction.

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The competition is judged by experts from all aspects of the book industry, including publishers, writers, editors, book cover designers and professional copywriters. They select award winners and finalists based on overall excellence.

CLASSICS: How we can encourage children to read them is a multi-award winning non-fiction do it yourself handbook for parents and teachers describing various techniques to propagate the habit of reading classics in children of all ages. It has won the following awards:
Mom’s Choice Awards® Kindle version- Silver Award.
2015 Next Generation Indie Book Awards-Finalist
2015 Eric Hoffer Award- Honorable Mention (eBook/non-fiction)
2015 IAN International Book Award- Finalist (How-to)
2015 Readers’ Favorite International Book Award- Bronze Medal
2016 EPIC EBook Awards – Finalist Non-Fiction.
4^th Annual Beverly Hills International Book Awards- Winner in Education category.

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Congratulations for the double win to author Fiza Pathan at the
4th Annual Beverly Hills International Book Awards!

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Raman and Sunny - Fiza Pathan's Latest Title

. Raman and Sunny - Fiza Pathan's Latest Title 

Middle School is the worst period in a child’s life. He or she has to undergo bullying, and an often painful transition from childhood to young adulthood. It is also a period most neglected at home and in school, for the child grows rebellious as he feels he is misunderstood and unjustly dealt with. Parents feel helpless to interfere. Imagine what then can be the plight of twins? Set in teeming, exotic Mumbai, India, this is the story about Raman and Sunny who are twins.
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 Raman and Sunny is available as ebook for $2.97 at Amazon, in paperback for $13.50

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The book deals with parenting, the agony of middle school, the individuality of each child, the jealousy, resentment and fear of change faced by both children and teachers, each at their level. It deals with violence, resentment, bullying, and defiance in children. It explores new methods to get the child on the right path by introducing him to those less fortunate than himself. It explores a synthesis in learning and new and fun methods of teaching. And it deals with the inherent goodness in children and in man. It’s a family story, which shows that love, forgiveness and understanding in family life will help bring stability to a child’s life. 
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Praise for Raman and Sunny:

Young Adult - Honourable Mention Raman and Sunny: Middle School Blues http://www.londonbookfestival.com/
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Young Adult - Honourable Mention Raman and Sunny: Middle School Blues http://www.newenglandbookfestival.com/winners2015.html 

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About the Award-Winning 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)
• Amina: The Silent One

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See the long list of Fiza Pathan’s book awards on her Amazon site. http://www.amazon.com/Fiza-Pathan/e/B0091BCNTU 
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To meet Fiza, visit and join her websites and social media presence:

http://www.fizapathan.com/

http://insaneowl.com/

https://savvybookwriters.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/interview-with-author-fiza-pathan/

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

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Amina: The Silent One - Fiza Pathan Latest Work

Multi-author Fiza Pathan launched her latest title a month ago – 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. 
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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.
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.  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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Fiza Pathan's book received a Honorable Mention In the in the section 

"Regional Literature" at the New England Book Festival.  Congratulations!

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Fiza Pathan is a teacher and the author of several award-winning print and e-books:

• 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.
http://www.amazon.com/Fiza-Pathan/e/B0091BCNTU.
To meet Fiza, visit her websites and social media presence:

http://www.fizapathan.com/

http://insaneowl.com/

https://savvybookwriters.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/interview-with-author-fiza-pathan/

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

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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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Author Fiza Pathan And Her Latest Book

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Fiza Pathan About Her Latest Book:

"With the aid of the various techniques mentioned in this book, I hope to propagate the reading of Classics to everyone . . . every student, parent, and educator. 
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Through the use of these techniques, parents and educators will be able to introduce students to the rich world of classic literature without the negative feelings that often result when students are exposed to new, more difficult material."
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"The book also focuses on the importance of reading good literature, methods for encouraging students to do so, and the lifelong benefits children will reap from exposure to classic literature. It is my hope that this book will encourage everyone to make reading the classics a habit rather than a chore. We must do so, for the welfare of the modern generation and those to follow."

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About the Author:
Fiza Pathan is a teacher and the author of six books:

• 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 

She is also the recipient of the following awards:
1. CLASSICS: Why we should encourage children to read them
Silver Award Recipient, Mom's Choice Awards®  (Kindle version).
2014 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Best Book in the category of Education. (Paperback)
2. NIRMALA: The Mud Blossom
2014 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Best Book in the category of Novella.
3. So This Is Love - Collected Poems
2014 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Best Book in the category of Poetry.
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Fiza hosts a blog at www.insaneowl.com, where she shares her poetry, book reviews, and other issues close to her heart. Fiza invites you to connect with her via her website at www.fizapathan.com, on Twitter@FizaPathan, and on Goodreads.

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Book of the Week: NIRMALA: The Mud Blossom

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Fiza Pathan's latest novel Nirmala just launched on Amazon.
This powerful story is about Nirmala the Mud Blossom, who had the misfortune to be born a female in Mumbai. Rejected and thrown into the dustbin when she was just two days old, the child was rescued and returned to her family by the NGOs.
Nirmala is ill-treated by her mother, always subject to violence at her hands. She is allowed to continue her studies only because she can then coach her younger brothers, as the parents are illiterate. Each beating is accepted with forbearance, as she loves to go to school to get books to read from her library. 

Nirmala is forced to stop her studies after the twelfth grade so her parents can save enough money to send the boys to college. She is then married off, but while her married life begins smoothly, it is only the beginning of her next phase of hell. After giving birth to her first child, Nirmala is subjected to harassment, beatings, and forced into doing things contrary to her beliefs and dreams. Her life is shattered. 

What will happen to this little mud blossom? Will she fight back or succumb? How can she rid herself of harassment and rise above the stigma she endures? 
Nirmala: The Mud Blossom graphically depicts the travails, discrimination, and abuse faced by female children in India from the cradle to the grave. 

Read this title for FREE as subscriber at KindleUnlimited or get the book at her Amazon page:

Visit the author's Amazon page for all of her books.


Biography
Fiza Pathan was born in Mumbai, India on 19th of March 1989 to Iqbal and Philomena Pathan. She finished her high school education from Bombay Scottish School, a reputed ICSE School in Mumbai. She then attended St Andrews College to pursue her BA degree in History and Sociology and graduated with a first class. She later graduated with a first class from the St Theresa's Institute of Education, Santa Cruz as a teacher her special subjects being History and English. She has taught History and English in Lilavatibai Podar Senior Secondary School (ICSE) to the Senior students.

Being literary minded from a young age Fiza participated in and won many competitions at College in essay writing and short stories. She was an active contributor to various Christian magazines like 'The Examiner' and 'Vision and Venture'. She has won many scholarships and awards in College in History and Literature as well as in Hindi, the national language of India.


Fiza has authored three fiction books

• S.O.S. Animals And Other Stories 
• Treasury Of Bizarre Christmas Stories 
• Flesh Of Flesh
• a non-fiction book CLASSICS: Why we should encourage children to read them 
• and a book of poetry So This Is Love. 

She has been 'adopted' by two stray cats who answer to the names of Lopez and Brownie. Fiza can be followed on her website http://www.fizapathan.com, on Twitter @FizaPathan, and on Goodreads.com. Fiza regularly blogs on www.insaneowl.com.  

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