A young girl explores the vibrant rainbow of items for sale in a southern Indian street market as she searches for a gift for her mother. Includes facts about the items mentioned and markets around the world, as well as photographs taken by the author in her hometown of Chennai, ...
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A mother shares family memories and stories with her daughter as she applies henna to the young girl's hands.
A young girl explores the vibrant rainbow of items for sale in a southern Indian street market as she searches for a gift for her mother. Includes facts about the items mentioned and markets around the world, as well as photographs taken by the author in her hometown of Chennai, ...
After her father's death, Parvana, now thirteen-years-old, continues to search for her mother in war-torn Afghanistan, joining with two younger children who are also struggling to survive.
Kuku has loved Naina since school and eventually marries her with his parents' blessing. After moving to Canada, Naina focuses on her career while Kuku struggles, leading to their decision to divorce. They agree to wait until his sister Ginny's wedding to tell their parents, but ...
Danny, a Taiwanese-American man, longs to have a baby with his American partner Tate, but their attempts at international surrogacy are complicated by Danny's meddling mother, who wants to control every aspect of the process; all the way from Taipei.
A mother shares family memories and stories with her daughter as she applies henna to the young girl's hands.
" Mother of the Unseen World is absolutely riveting, deeply searching, and thought-provoking."-Gretchen Rubin For readers interested in what lies beyond consciousness, an exploration of the Indian "avatar" Mother Meera, known as an embodiment of the Feminine Divine Throughout ...
Exiled to the United States after her father, a Middle Eastern dictator, is killed in a coup, fifteen-year-old Laila must cope with a completely new way of life, the truth of her father's regime, and her mother and brother's ways of adjusting.
Meera, always gracious Meera, is happily submerged in the role of corporate wife and cookbook writer. Then, one day, her husband fails to come home. Overnight, Meera, disoriented, emotionally fragile Meera, becomes responsible not just for her two children, but also her mother, g...
"From the award-winning author of Over the Plain Houses, comes a major novel about two young women contending with unplanned pregnancies in different eras. Edie Carrigan didn't plan to "get herself" pregnant, much less end up in a home for unwed mothers. In 1950s North Carolina, ...
"Filled with political intrigue and emotional tension, Carleson's riveting novel features a teenage refugee caught in a web of deceit and conspiracy." - PW, starred review When her father is killed in a coup, Laila and her mother and brother leave their war-torn homeland for...
'My life is dust and rocks and rude boys and skinny babies, and long days of searching for my mother when I don't have the faintest idea where she might be.' Parvana is alone. Her father is dead. A refugee in a land full of dangers, she must travel across Afghanistan to find her...