Sentences with phrase «of small bombs»

Another example she cites is of a forthcoming novel by Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs, which HarperCollins India will publish in the Indian subcontinent, but other publishers will publish in different territories.

-- Karan Mahajan, author of The Association of Small Bombs

The Association of Small Bombs — A finalist for the National Book Award, Mahajan's novel — smart, devastating and unpredictable — opens with a Kashmiri terrorist attack in a Delhi market, then follows the lives of those affected.

FICTION The Throwback Special by Chris Bachelder News of the World by Paulette Jiles The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

I began working on a new book two months after selling The Association of Small Bombs to publishers.

You said the idea for The Association of Small Bombs came as your last book, Family Planning, was coming out.

From The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan, published on March 22, 2016 by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

Not exact matches

If the MOAB were to detonate on contact with the ground, a lot of that pressure wave would be sent into the dirt, digging out a small crater around the bomb.

In one recent example, the Islamic State used a small drone to bomb an ammunition dump at a stadium in Syria, setting off a chain of explosions.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

-- IRD note: Maybe 1.4 % of a global stock bubble — but that's like saying a small nuclear bomb in the hands of a madman is just 1.4 % of the total stockpile of nuclear weapons.

Atheism however has not been linked to crusades, jihads, religion inspired bombings, and the murder of abortion doctors, «witches», and other heretics or dissenters, and therefore * may * be slightly healthier for children in the strict sense of having a smaller chance of being murdered for someone's beliefs.

Computer models being investigated both in the US and in the Soviet Union were demonstrating that a nuclear war involving the exchange of a small fraction of the total American and Russian bombs could change the climate of the entire Northern Hemisphere, shifting it abruptly from its present seasonal state to a long, sunless, frozen night.

These cookies were tiny bombs of scrumptious flavor — I definitely understand why these little guys must be kept small — the browned Kerrygold sent them over the top — was great seeing you and I agree - our FBLA group is terrific!

There is not a big difference in 100 grams of different kinds of desiccated coconut and the fat bombs are small anyway I've never used a product called natvia so I'm not quite sure.

Wrap each onion bomb with one piece of bacon (or 1/2 piece of bacon for the smaller bombs) and secure with a toothpick.

The first time it was played at a sporting event was the 1918 World Series to a particularly small and somber crowd weary from a costly and unpopular war and afraid of anarchist bombings.

The bombs that were let off outside the Stade De France, where France were playing a friendly match against Germany, were only a small part of the city wide terrorist attacks, but the French Football Federation have now cancelled their open training session today and there will be talks with the English FA about whether to cancel the scheduled game against England on Tuesday.

This weekend, we've had shopping, a kids party, family stuff and various other things to do, all on top of trying to catch up with a week's worth of washing, tidying a house that looks like several small bombs have gone off in it and keeping a dog and a 4 - year - old stimulated enough that we don't end up with a riot on our hands.

Cluster bombs distribute small bomblets over a large area and are criticised by humanitarian campaigners because many of the bomblets fail to explode.

Silver has triggered a small, but potentially very significant, bomb in the world of music.

During the last decade Britain's use of cluster bombs, which release and scatter small bomblets over a large area, has been surpassed by only two other countries around the world.

«The Shin Bet are technical experts at making small appliances with lots of power,» one of Israel's former spy chiefs says of a mobile phone bomb, his eyes glistening.

We have some conventional bombs that rival a small nuke in terms of destructive power, without the lasting fallout.

The increasing spate of bombings by the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), and other armed struggles have been attributed to the poor implementation of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) and proliferation of Small Arms and Lights Weapons (SALW) in the country.

Halpern says for radiation disasters, the primary concern is a small nuclear bomb, an event he says that carries a low probability of occurring, but such high impact if it did.

A relatively small 150 - foot asteroid that struck Tunguska, Siberia, in 1908 packed the punch of 15 million tons of TNT, equivalent to the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated by the United States.

REMOTE - CONTROL warfare is set to enter a new phase with the arrival of miniaturised bombs carried by smaller, cheaper drones.

Allison has posted the grim answer on his Web site (www.nuclearterror.org), which shows a three - color «blast map» depicting the effects of a 10 - kiloton bomb, about the smallest a workable nuclear device could be.

Bombs need a main «secondary» charge of high explosives, and the means to ignite this charge, using a smaller detonator.

The 2006 explosion was relatively small, releasing energy equivalent to about 1,000 tons of TNT — a fraction of the 15 - kiloton bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.

Earlier this week, in the middle of Easter night in Olmeneta, Italy, an unknown person attacked the Monsanto Research Center with several «bottle bombs» or Molotov cocktails, small improvised explosive devices.

But a document newly obtained by the Washington, D.C. — based Federation of American Scientists (FAS)-- founded by the creators of the original nuclear bomb in 1945 and monitoring the weapons ever since — reveals that in recent years the U.S. target list has expanded to include so - called «regional proliferators,» smaller states seeking to acquire such weapons of mass destruction.

Normally, radiocarbon dates have error ranges of several centuries, but the researchers could improve the estimates because the smallest sharks measured showed the «bomb pulse» — a huge increase in global radiocarbon released from the hundreds of nuclear weapons tested in the 1950s and»60s.

It has been described as an explosive so powerful that it could trigger fusion in a small volume of tritium and deuterium, thus making it possible to build a neutron bomb the size of a baseball.

Entombed within a highly restricted Superfund dump in Utah's Great Salt Lake Desert, alongside several tons of radioactive residue from atomic bomb factories and uranium mines, is a small chemistry experiment constructed in 1995 by an aspiring Eagle Scout from suburban Detroit.

(The size of the bath bombs also affects how long it takes them to dissolve, because larger bath bombs will typically take longer than smaller ones to dissolve.

US spy satellites had identified only one small nuclear reactor in China capable of making the material for a bomb, and the report concluded that it could not produce enough until 1965.

«We have a small number of people, particularly guys, who do everything short of throwing an atomic bomb at their bodies and still live to 100,» Perls says.

In October of 1990 a very small asteroid struck the Pacific Ocean with a blast about the size of the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima, killing roughly thousands of people in seconds.

Here is sample meal plan Breakfast: Fat bomb coffee, Turkey sausage, Carb wise yogurt with three strawberries diced up Snack: Meat and cheese Lunch: Low carb brocoli cheddar soup homemade, Grilled chicken Snack: Cottage cheese with two small Roma tomatoes diced Dinner: 2 fillets Fish, cauliflower mash with gRlic butter, Green beans Snack (sometimes): 2 fat bombs Drink gallon of water.

These fat bombs are full of healthy fats, a moderate amount of protein, and come in at 4.9 g net carbs per serving (and even less net carbs if you decide to make them smaller!).

I really like the idea of fat bombs and they are so small and easy to take everywhere.

Martina Slajerova, the force behind the popular KetoDiet app, blog, and the KetoDiet Cookbook, now brings you a resource devoted to fat bombs — small morsels that can be grabbed for a quick and convenient burst of energy when you're running out the door, or savored slowly as a leisurely dessert among friends.

It's set in Appalachia, after some apocalyptic event has left Small Town, USA, looking as if aliens have bombed the sets of a Gregory Crewdson photo shoot.

It is the story of politics on the small Pacific island of Tinian where the Enola Gay launched for its mission to bomb Hiroshima.

In its bomb disposal sequences, Land of Mine is up there with The Hurt Locker and The Small Back Room.

With Gale (Liam Hemsworth), a not - quite - unbrainwashed Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) and a small group of cohorts, Katniss works her way across the bombed - out city to Snow's mansion, intending to put an arrow through his heart.

At the beginning, I used my bow and arrow for everything, even when it was just slowly chipping away small bits of damage; by the end, I was smoothly and swiftly switching between shooting fire arrows at flammable fuel tanks, tossing shock traps on the ground to stun robots, and lobbing ice bombs that could freeze enemies in place and open them up to further damage.

That's not it however, as there are dozens of other smaller changes as well — like the fact that Pit Bombs do damage enemies now, and tweaks to auras.