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If the Oceans Were Ink
- Author : Carla Power
- Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
- Release : 07 April 2015
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • Hailed by The Washington Post as “mandatory reading,” and praised by Fareed Zakaria as “intelligent, compassionate, and revealing,” a powerful journey to help bridge one of the greatest divides shaping our world today. If the Oceans Were Ink is Carla Power's eye-opening story of how she and her longtime friend Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi found a way to confront ugly stereotypes and persistent misperceptions that were cleaving their communities. Their friendship-between a secular
If the Oceans Were Ink
- Author : Carla Power
- Publisher : Macmillan
- Release : 07 April 2015
An award-winning foreign correspondent relates how her longtime friend, a madrasa-trained sheikh, and she confronted stereotypes and misperceptions in their communities by drawing on the Quran's messages of peace and respect. Original.
If All the Seas Were Ink
- Author : Ilana Kurshan
- Publisher : St. Martin's Press
- Release : 05 September 2017
**WINNER of the 2018 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the 2018 Sophie Brody Medal for achievement in Jewish literature** **2018 Natan Book Award Finalist** **Finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies ** The Wall Street Journal: "There is humor and heartbreak in these pages...Ms. Kurshan immerses herself in the demands of daily Talmud study and allows the words of ancient scholars to transform the patterns of her own life." The Jewish Standard: “Brilliant, beautifully written, sensitive, original." The
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
- Author : Jennifer Steil
- Publisher : Broadway Books
- Release : 17 January 2021
Traces the author's year spent in Yemen's capital city, Sana'a, where she worked as the editor of the "Yemen Observer," documenting her efforts to teach balanced journalism to her staff, and her appreciation for the strength of Arab women in a completely male-dominated society.
Lipstick Jihad
- Author : Azadeh Moaveni
- Publisher : PublicAffairs
- Release : 31 March 2007
As far back as she can remember, Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In suburban America, Azadeh lived in two worlds. At home, she was the daughter of the Iranian exile community, serving tea, clinging to tradition, and dreaming of Tehran. Outside, she was a California girl who practiced yoga and listened to Madonna. For years, she ignored the tense standoff between her two cultures. But college magnified the clash between Iran and
The Lonely Island
- Author : R.M Ballantyne
- Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
- Release : 29 July 2020
Reproduction of the original: The Lonely Island by R.M Ballantyne
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
- Author : Ocean Vuong
- Publisher : Penguin
- Release : 04 June 2019
Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction! An instant New York Times Bestseller! Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal! Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Oprah.com, Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, Nylon, The Week, The Rumpus, The Millions, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and more. “A lyrical work of self-discovery that’s shockingly intimate and insistently universal…Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning.” —Ron Charles,
American Dervish
- Author : Ayad Akhtar
- Publisher : Little, Brown
- Release : 09 January 2012
Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arrives, and everything changes. Mina is Hayat's mother's oldest friend from Pakistan. She is independent, beautiful and intelligent, and arrives on the Shah's doorstep when her disastrous marriage in Pakistan
The Soul of an Octopus
- Author : Sy Montgomery
- Publisher : Simon and Schuster
- Release : 12 July 2016
Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction * New York Times Bestseller * Starred Booklist and Library Journal Editors’ Spring Pick * A Huffington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year * One of the Best Books of the Month on Goodreads * Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book of the Year * An American Library Association Notable Book of the Year “Sy Montgomery’s The Soul of an Octopus does for the creature what Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk did for raptors.” —New
Birds of Paradise
- Author : Diana Abu-Jaber
- Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
- Release : 06 September 2011
After a five year absence, an 18-year-old runaway returns to her family in Miami to deal with the guilty secret that caused her to flee in this new novel from the author of Origin. 35,000 first printing.
Great Soul
- Author : Joseph Lelyveld
- Publisher : Vintage
- Release : 17 January 2021
An analysis of Gandhi's accomplishments as a politician and civil rights advocate reveals his conflicted ideologies and feelings about his place in history, offering insight into his philosophies, social campaigns, and private disappointments.
In Leah's Wake
- Author : Terri Giuliano Long
- Publisher : Unknown
- Release : 17 January 2021
The Tyler family had the perfect life - until sixteen-year-old Leah decided she didn't want to be perfect anymore.While Leah's parents fight to save their daughter from destroying her brilliant future, Leah's younger sister, Justine, must cope with the damage her out-of-control sibling leaves in her wake. Will this family survive? What happens when love just isn't enough?Jodi Picoult fans will love In Leah's Wake - a heartbreaking, ultimately redemptive story about family, connection and our responsibility to
Infinite Science Fiction One
- Author : Joanna Jackson,Dany G. Zuwen
- Publisher : Unknown
- Release : 01 September 2014
From a sentient space ship lost in deep space to a man whose hatred of robots risks tearing his family apart, the characters in this collection of short stories will stay with you long after you've turned the last page. Discover the future face of human trafficking through the eyes of a little girl, follow an ancient tribe's shaman as he embarks on a journey to save his people, or share in an astronaut's final moments as an alien growth
Turtle Island
- Author : Dave Henry
- Publisher : World Castle Publishing, LLC
- Release : 16 March 2017
Sixteen-year-old Max and 10-year-old Tessa were fully prepared for another horrible summer vacation. While they always hoped to go somewhere fun like Disney World or Universal Studios, they usually went somewhere weird and cheap that their father, former boy bander Don Masters, found in an ad in a truck stop coupon magazine. But this year was different. Where they went couldn't be found on any map or in any truck stop coupon book. They passed through a portal to a
The Disciple
- Author : Arch Emeka Okoye
- Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Release : 14 February 2016
I think most of us Christians need the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to understand fully what the Lord was saying here in the Spirit, to understand the calling we received, no one was called by the Lord to come and be a bench warmer, or to just be a worker in church, for we all know only in parts and only the Spirit of the man knows the mind of the man , so only the Holy Spirit knows what