In this humorous and perceptive exchange between two devils, C. S. Lewis delves into moral questions about good vs. evil, temptation, repentance, and grace.Through this wonderful tale, the reader emerges with a better understanding of what it means to live a faithful life.
An Afghan-American woman explores life in America as a Muslim, her Afghan heritage, and the future of Middle-East-US relations. Maryam Qudrat Aseel is an Afghan-American woman born in the U.S. to first generation Afghan immigrants. In "Torn Between Two Cultures" she weaves her family’s and her own personal stories into recent American and Afgh...more
An enchanting historical epic of grand passion and adventure, this debut novel tells the captivating story of one of India's most controversial empresses -- a woman whose brilliance and determination trumped myriad obstacles, and whose love shaped the course of the Mughal Empire. Skillfully blending the textures of historical reality with the rich ...more
The love story of Emperor Jahangir and Mehrunnisa, begun in the critically praised debut novel The Twentieth Wife, continues in Indu Sundaresan's lush second novel, The Feast of Roses. Here, Mehrunnisa comes into Jahangir's harem as his twentieth and last wife. This time Jahangir has married for love, and members of his court are worried that Mehru...more
A survivor of the catastrophic gas leak that devastates Bhopal, India, Anjali suffers through the loss of neighbors and family and the breakup of her marriage to an army officer, but she finds new happiness in her new marriage to a loving professor and a successful career as a schoolteacher, until the return of her former husband. A first novel. Re...more
From the acclaimed author of A Breath of Fresh Air, this beautiful novel takes us to modern India during the height of the summer’s mango season. Heat, passion, and controversy explode as a woman is forced to decide between romance and tradition.Every young Indian leaving the homeland for the United States is given the following orders by their p...more
Between the pressures to marry and become a traditional Indian wife and the humiliation of losing her job in Silicon Valley, Devi is on the edge–where the only way out seems to be to jump. . . .Yet Devi’s plans to “end it all” fall short when she is saved by the last person she wants to see: her mother. Forced to move in with her parents un...more
Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth while their Boston...more
A harrowing memoir by the victim of an "honor crime" describes how a young Jordanian woman, who became pregnant following a brief love affair, was nearly killed by her own family because of the shame, her struggle to survive critical burns suffered after being doused with gasoline and set on fire, her dramatic escape from Jordan, and her determinat...more
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