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Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
Description
An independent New York foodie accompanies her husband to his home in Mumbai, where her ex-pat sense of adventure is tested by the unexpected arrival of her headstrong mother-in-law.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
358 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Teaching human sexuality from a perspective that information and pleasure are top priorities, divorced mom Ruth Ramsey butts heads with the local soccer coach, a divorced former addict who became an evangelical Christian after hitting rock bottom.
5) El naranjo
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
261 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm.
Description
Cinco relatos donde Martin II, hijo de Cortes con Malinche, intercambia juicios sobre su padre y su madre con su hermano Martin I; Polibio de Megalopolis reflexiona sobre Escipion Emiliano; un galan de Hollywood visita un prostibulo de enanas en Acapulco; y un marinero genoves cuenta mentiras sobre el Nuevo Mundo. Caen los templos, las insignias, los trofeos. Caen los mismisimos dioses. Y con sus restos humeantes se reinventa el orden mientras las...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
After her parents moved her and her brother to America, Preeti Desai never meant to tear her family apart. All she did was fall in love with a white Christian carnivore instead of a conventional Indian boy. Years later, with her parents not speaking to her and her controversial relationship in tatters, all Preeti has left is her career at a prestigious Los Angeles law firm. But when Preeti receives word of a terrible accident in the city where she...
Author
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"It's April 1948, and war hangs over Jaffa. One minute seven-year-old Salim is dreaming of taking his first harvest from the family's orange tree; the next he is swept away into a life of exile and rage. Seeking a new beginning in swinging-Sixties London, Salim finds an unexpected love with Jude, a troubled Jewish girl struggling with her own devastating family legacy. The bond between them flourishes in the freedom of the age, bringing the promise...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xiii, 367 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Description
"A sweeping, epic historical novel of exploration and invasion, of slaves and conquerors, and above all, an enduring love that must overcome the forging of an empire. Plucked from his small fishing village and captured by the conquistadors looking to plunder the gold of Peru, young Waman is the everyman thrown into extraordinary circumstances, caught up in history's throes. He finds himself at every major moment in the empire-building of the Spanish...
9) Salt houses
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
312 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Description
"From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home ... On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is up rooted...
Author
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Twenty-year-old Skyler saw the incident out her window: Some sort of metallic object hovering over the Golden Gate Bridge just before it collapsed and a mushroom cloud lifted above the city. Like everyone, she ran, but she couldn't outrun the radiation, with her last thoughts being of her beloved baby brother, Dorian, safe in her distant family home. Flash forward to a post-incident America, where the country has been broken up into territories and...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A mesmerizing debut set in Syria on the cusp of the unrest, A Word for Love is the spare and exquisitely told story of a young American woman transformed by language, risk, war, and a startling new understanding of love. It is said there are ninety-nine Arabic words for love. Bea, an American exchange student, has learned them all: in search of deep feeling, she travels to a Middle Eastern country known to hold the "The Astonishing Text," an ancient,...
Author
Series
Hainish series volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
189 pages ; 21 cm
Description
When the Athsheans, the inhabitants of a peaceful world, are conquered by the bloodthirsty Yumens, they retaliate against their captors, abandoning their rules against violence and endangering the very foundations of their society.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
n 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary, and they set off on the long trip to his trading post in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan, Canada. Along the way, she finds a fast friend in a Métis named Jeannie; makes a lifelong enemy in a wolfer named Stiller; and despite learning a dark secret of Farwell’s past, falls in love with her husband. The winter trading season...
Author
Series
Haque family trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
411 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"From the award-winning, nationally bestselling author of A Golden Age and The Good Muslim comes a lyrical, deeply moving modern love story about belonging, migration, tragedy, survival, and the mysteries of origins. On the eve of her departure to find the bones of the walking whale--the fossil that provides a missing link in our evolution--Zubaida Haque falls in love with Elijah Strong, a man she meets in a darkened concert hall in Boston. Their...
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