A stunning second-chance romance about a previously married couple finding love again. It’s an epic love story that shows how grief and loss can change a ...Show more
A stunning second-chance romance about a previously married couple finding love again. It’s an epic love story that shows how grief and loss can change a person, but also how time, patience, and love can heal them.
Yasmen and Josiah are a divorced couple but their lives are still intertwined because they are raising their children and running a business. They have a deep love for one another and still have a connection, but what transpired in their past broke them and their trust in one another.
The book is filled with angst and emotion as we grapple with what went wrong and how and if they move past it.
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A stunning second-chance romance about a previously married couple finding love again. It’s an epic love story that shows how grief and loss can change a ...Show more
A stunning second-chance romance about a previously married couple finding love again. It’s an epic love story that shows how grief and loss can change a person, but also how time, patience, and love can heal them.
Yasmen and Josiah are a divorced couple but their lives are still intertwined because they are raising their children and running a business. They have a deep love for one another and still have a connection, but what transpired in their past broke them and their trust in one another.
The book is filled with angst and emotion as we grapple with what went wrong and how and if they move past it.
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Kaikeyi is a retelling of the life of the eponymous queen from the Ramayana, an Indian epic poem.
In the kingdom of Kekaya, Kaikeyi is the only daughter ...Show more
Kaikeyi is a retelling of the life of the eponymous queen from the Ramayana, an Indian epic poem.
In the kingdom of Kekaya, Kaikeyi is the only daughter among seven brothers. Out of all her brothers, she is the closest to Yudhajit, her twin. Although not particularly close to either of her parents, it still comes as a shock when Kaikeyi’s father announces that her mother has left the kingdom with no explanation.
Seeking comfort in the library’s scrolls, Kaikeyi learns she carries a power that will aid her throughout her life, despite her god-forsaken status. Before she can truly test these powers her father informs her that she will be married off rather quickly to another kingdom. When she meets her soon-to-be husband she makes him promise to uphold her only condition which he does.
What follows is Kaikeyi’s journey in her new kingdom as she pushes the boundaries of the constraints of what a woman is and should be.
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Kaikeyi is a retelling of the life of the eponymous queen from the Ramayana, an Indian epic poem.
In the kingdom of Kekaya, Kaikeyi is the only daughter ...Show more
Kaikeyi is a retelling of the life of the eponymous queen from the Ramayana, an Indian epic poem.
In the kingdom of Kekaya, Kaikeyi is the only daughter among seven brothers. Out of all her brothers, she is the closest to Yudhajit, her twin. Although not particularly close to either of her parents, it still comes as a shock when Kaikeyi’s father announces that her mother has left the kingdom with no explanation.
Seeking comfort in the library’s scrolls, Kaikeyi learns she carries a power that will aid her throughout her life, despite her god-forsaken status. Before she can truly test these powers her father informs her that she will be married off rather quickly to another kingdom. When she meets her soon-to-be husband she makes him promise to uphold her only condition which he does.
What follows is Kaikeyi’s journey in her new kingdom as she pushes the boundaries of the constraints of what a woman is and should be.
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Honor is one of those books that pierces you directly to your core and stays there.
It’s 2018, and Indian-American journalist Smita returns to the count...Show more
Honor is one of those books that pierces you directly to your core and stays there.
It’s 2018, and Indian-American journalist Smita returns to the country of her birth to cover the story of Meena, a Hindu woman whose brothers set fire to her home… killing her Muslim husband and disfiguring her in the process.
Their interfaith marriage was viewed as an abomination to Meena’s family, so murdering the couple was an attempt to avenge such a dishonor. Meena is a strong-willed survivor though, and she’s taking her brothers to court in pursuit of justice for her husband and to inspire other victimized women to do the same against their own perpetrators. Smita is there to cover the trial and get to the core of the story, a story that changes her forever. This was a beautifully written, thought-provoking, and moving novel. It touches on love, family, attraction, honor, tradition, hatred, sacrifice, betrayal, ignorance, bribery, and hope.
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Honor is one of those books that pierces you directly to your core and stays there.
It’s 2018, and Indian-American journalist Smita returns to the count...Show more
Honor is one of those books that pierces you directly to your core and stays there.
It’s 2018, and Indian-American journalist Smita returns to the country of her birth to cover the story of Meena, a Hindu woman whose brothers set fire to her home… killing her Muslim husband and disfiguring her in the process.
Their interfaith marriage was viewed as an abomination to Meena’s family, so murdering the couple was an attempt to avenge such a dishonor. Meena is a strong-willed survivor though, and she’s taking her brothers to court in pursuit of justice for her husband and to inspire other victimized women to do the same against their own perpetrators. Smita is there to cover the trial and get to the core of the story, a story that changes her forever. This was a beautifully written, thought-provoking, and moving novel. It touches on love, family, attraction, honor, tradition, hatred, sacrifice, betrayal, ignorance, bribery, and hope.
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Dimple Pennington, an influencer who isn’t really an influencer, is also an only child that isn’t technically an only child. She’s one of five children bo...Show more
Dimple Pennington, an influencer who isn’t really an influencer, is also an only child that isn’t technically an only child. She’s one of five children born to four different mothers, with the same father, who met as half-siblings about ten years ago. After that day, they never had much contact until Dimple needs them one night, makes a call, and like true siblings, they all show up.
But whether or not they actually want to be there, the siblings stay, and through this one event that bonds them, they begin showing up for each other in different and beautiful ways. Funny enough the siblings all need each other since their father, Cyril is more concerned with his life than any of theirs.
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Dimple Pennington, an influencer who isn’t really an influencer, is also an only child that isn’t technically an only child. She’s one of five children bo...Show more
Dimple Pennington, an influencer who isn’t really an influencer, is also an only child that isn’t technically an only child. She’s one of five children born to four different mothers, with the same father, who met as half-siblings about ten years ago. After that day, they never had much contact until Dimple needs them one night, makes a call, and like true siblings, they all show up.
But whether or not they actually want to be there, the siblings stay, and through this one event that bonds them, they begin showing up for each other in different and beautiful ways. Funny enough the siblings all need each other since their father, Cyril is more concerned with his life than any of theirs.
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In When We Were Birds, Banwo weaves together the magical and the mundane to create something truly epic. What an alluring, epic tale of two young people w...Show more
In When We Were Birds, Banwo weaves together the magical and the mundane to create something truly epic. What an alluring, epic tale of two young people who have old souls, hard lives, tough responsibilities, and uncertain futures!
Yejide has recently lost her mother. She is from a line of women who communicate with the dead to help them find their peace. Darwin has been raised being told not to interact with death due to his religion, but this changes when necessity drives him to take a job at a cemetery. The two are connected to each other through their connection to the dead.
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In When We Were Birds, Banwo weaves together the magical and the mundane to create something truly epic. What an alluring, epic tale of two young people w...Show more
In When We Were Birds, Banwo weaves together the magical and the mundane to create something truly epic. What an alluring, epic tale of two young people who have old souls, hard lives, tough responsibilities, and uncertain futures!
Yejide has recently lost her mother. She is from a line of women who communicate with the dead to help them find their peace. Darwin has been raised being told not to interact with death due to his religion, but this changes when necessity drives him to take a job at a cemetery. The two are connected to each other through their connection to the dead.
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Loosely inspired by actual events, Take My Hand is the powerful story of two young Black sisters who were victims of reproductive injustice, without the i...Show more
Loosely inspired by actual events, Take My Hand is the powerful story of two young Black sisters who were victims of reproductive injustice, without the informed consent of their caregivers or the girls.
In 1970s Alabama, Civil Townsend is one of the few Black women nurses employed at a small clinic. In her first case, she meets India age 11, and Erica age 13 who were a part of a Government Program in 1973 in Montgomery, Alabama targeting poor black children so they don’t become pregnant. From her very first visit to the family Civil questions why the girls are being given these shots when they’re not even sexually active.
She is horrified when she discovers they have been forcibly sterilized. She decides that it is her duty to hold those accountable responsible.
Dolen Perkins-Valdez breathes life into history weaving together something that is truly strong while also giving meaning to the past.
This story is hard to read but also so great to read as well, as it breaks down the truly what took place in a manner that is digestible.
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Loosely inspired by actual events, Take My Hand is the powerful story of two young Black sisters who were victims of reproductive injustice, without the i...Show more
Loosely inspired by actual events, Take My Hand is the powerful story of two young Black sisters who were victims of reproductive injustice, without the informed consent of their caregivers or the girls.
In 1970s Alabama, Civil Townsend is one of the few Black women nurses employed at a small clinic. In her first case, she meets India age 11, and Erica age 13 who were a part of a Government Program in 1973 in Montgomery, Alabama targeting poor black children so they don’t become pregnant. From her very first visit to the family Civil questions why the girls are being given these shots when they’re not even sexually active.
She is horrified when she discovers they have been forcibly sterilized. She decides that it is her duty to hold those accountable responsible.
Dolen Perkins-Valdez breathes life into history weaving together something that is truly strong while also giving meaning to the past.
This story is hard to read but also so great to read as well, as it breaks down the truly what took place in a manner that is digestible.
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Circus Palmer is a forty-year-old trumpet player. He has a reputation as a lady’s man and he fully lives up to it. Although Circus refuses to be tied down...Show more
Circus Palmer is a forty-year-old trumpet player. He has a reputation as a lady’s man and he fully lives up to it. Although Circus refuses to be tied down to just one woman, he does have strong feelings for Maggie, until she tells him she is pregnant. As Circus already has Koko, a daughter from his previous marriage, he leaves Maggie to deal with the “problem”.
Told from the point of view of many voices and characters this book is a story of missed love opportunities, failed dreams, selfishness, and dysfunctional relationships.
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Circus Palmer is a forty-year-old trumpet player. He has a reputation as a lady’s man and he fully lives up to it. Although Circus refuses to be tied down...Show more
Circus Palmer is a forty-year-old trumpet player. He has a reputation as a lady’s man and he fully lives up to it. Although Circus refuses to be tied down to just one woman, he does have strong feelings for Maggie, until she tells him she is pregnant. As Circus already has Koko, a daughter from his previous marriage, he leaves Maggie to deal with the “problem”.
Told from the point of view of many voices and characters this book is a story of missed love opportunities, failed dreams, selfishness, and dysfunctional relationships.
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In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer o...Show more
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living in a rooftop shack. She is a nostalgic daughter of immigrants “returning” to a country she’s never been to before, teaching English and living in a light-filled flat with balconies on all sides. They fall in love and he moves in. But soon their desire—for one another, for the selves they want to become through the other—takes a violent turn that neither of them expected.
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In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer o...Show more
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living in a rooftop shack. She is a nostalgic daughter of immigrants “returning” to a country she’s never been to before, teaching English and living in a light-filled flat with balconies on all sides. They fall in love and he moves in. But soon their desire—for one another, for the selves they want to become through the other—takes a violent turn that neither of them expected.
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Living on their own terms means being there for one another. When sixty-five-year-old Bindu Desai inherits a million dollars, she's astounded--and horrifi...Show more
Living on their own terms means being there for one another. When sixty-five-year-old Bindu Desai inherits a million dollars, she's astounded--and horrified. The windfall threatens to expose a shameful mistake from her youth. Desperate to keep the secret, Bindu quickly spends it on something unexpected: a condo in a posh retirement community in Florida. The impulsive decision blindsides Bindu's daughter-in-law, Aly. At forty-seven, Aly still shares a home with Bindu even after her divorce from Bindu's son. But maybe this change is just the push Aly needs to fight for the segment she's been promised for years at the news station where she works. As Bindu and Aly navigate their new dynamic, Aly's daughter, Cullie, is faced with losing the business that made her a tech-world star. The only way to save it is to deliver a new idea to her investors--and of course they want the half-baked dating app she pitched them in a panic. Problem is, Cullie has never been on a real date. Naturally, enlisting her single mother and grandmother to help her with the research is the answer.
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Living on their own terms means being there for one another. When sixty-five-year-old Bindu Desai inherits a million dollars, she's astounded--and horrifi...Show more
Living on their own terms means being there for one another. When sixty-five-year-old Bindu Desai inherits a million dollars, she's astounded--and horrified. The windfall threatens to expose a shameful mistake from her youth. Desperate to keep the secret, Bindu quickly spends it on something unexpected: a condo in a posh retirement community in Florida. The impulsive decision blindsides Bindu's daughter-in-law, Aly. At forty-seven, Aly still shares a home with Bindu even after her divorce from Bindu's son. But maybe this change is just the push Aly needs to fight for the segment she's been promised for years at the news station where she works. As Bindu and Aly navigate their new dynamic, Aly's daughter, Cullie, is faced with losing the business that made her a tech-world star. The only way to save it is to deliver a new idea to her investors--and of course they want the half-baked dating app she pitched them in a panic. Problem is, Cullie has never been on a real date. Naturally, enlisting her single mother and grandmother to help her with the research is the answer.
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