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5000 hopefuls from 22 different countries have entered the ongoing Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest. On January 15/16, a list of the Top Thousand will be declared. Log on to www.amazon.com/abna on January 15  and help choose the winner!

‘To:God@Heaven.com’ by Veena Nagpal is an entry from India.

What it is about:

‘To:God@Heaven.com’, is about a fear that silently nibbles at every human heart… the fear of growing old. Alone. Unloved.

For Satya Sharma, a bitter, crusty old woman in India, it’s not just a fear but a reality she must contend with every moment of her remaining life.

 Anger, fear, confusion, shame - turbulent emotions of teenage years…For Paro, a young Indian girl growing up in the United Kingdom, these tangled emotions are confounded by a secret she cannot share with anyone – specially not with her upright, hard-working parents.

In desperation she reaches out to God through the one medium she trusts – the Internet. “Hi dere!” she writes. “R u Gd out dere? If its u n if u lv me at all pls pls ansr … Hr on urth no one lvs me – no one at all.” 

Does God answer? Does Paro get the help she so desperately needs? Does Satya Sharma the old woman in India, find the love she craves?

‘To:God@Heaven.com’ is a simple, touchingly told tale of intertwining destinies, a tale that cuts across geographical, cultural and emotional barriers to unearth precious nuggets of universal human truths.

Veena Nagpal’s simple, heartfelt writing style, will tug at your heart strings.

Visit Veena Nagpal’s profile at Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A1ZSD9QC2PY241

I have seen the heart ache and utter hopelessness of growing old alone. I have also seen the vulnerability and moral confusion of a child growing up in an alien land, amid an alien culture, of being caught in a tangled skein of conflicting identities… These twin experiences are what inspired me to write ‘To:God@Heaven.com’,  a tale that cuts across geographic, cultural and emotional barriers and unearths precious nuggets of universal human truths.

I have entered my novel 'To:God@Heaven.com' in the ongoing Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. My entry is one out of 5000 entries. Out of these, the Top One Thousand will be showcased on Amazon.com on Jan 15th. 2008. Top 100 will be chosen by online voting by Amazon.com customers. Voting starts on Jan 15th and ends on March 2nd 2008.

 A 'Green' Book for Children

‘Garbie Garbyhog - The Worm That Wanted to Fly,’ by Veena Nagpal, is a lively and inspiring tale of the adventures of a composter worm named Garbie Garbyhog.

Listening to his best friend Cathy Butterfly chatter about the wonderful world that lies beyond the garbage heap where Garbie lives, he is extremely unhappy about who he is and what he has to do – eat and excrete, eat and excrete the whole day. He is sick of his whole lowly, unimportant existence!

All Garbie longs for is to be able to fly. He sets out on a long and arduous journey to get himself a pair of wings like Cathy’s.

A series of adventures unfold and Garbie meets a young boy who is an unhappy as himself! The boy is sick of the way people in his neighborhood leave their garbage littered everywhere. He is sick of the stench and the dirt. He longs to do something to get rid of the mess but doesn’t know what to do about it.

Suddenly Garbie realizes that his was not a worthless existence! Together with his clan of Garbyhogs, he could clean up the young boy’s entire neighborhood! God had created him with a unique mission – to hog garbage and turn it into valuable vermi-compost. It was a gift God had given only to Garbyhogs.

They form a unique partnership. The young boy gets his friends together to build a home for the Garbyhogs and the Garbyhogs in turn help clean up the boy’s neighborhood.

The book includes a 12 page colored Instruction booklet on Vermi-composting.

What they say: 

“The Garbyhog Home Builders Project is part of a very wide perspective that makes us think of our own individual responsibility towards the earth’s resources. It deserves all support.” Dr RK Pachauri, Director General, TERI and Chairman of the Inter-Government Panel on Global Warming, Winner Nobel Peace Prize 2007. 

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