![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When her mysterious aunt and her teenage cousin arrive from India for a surprise visit, they draw Hana into a long-buried family secret. But soon she'll need all the support she can get: a new competing restaurant, a more upscale halal place, is about to open in the Golden Crescent, threatening her mother’s restaurant. In the meantime, Hana pours her thoughts and dreams into a podcast, where she forms a lively relationship with one of her listeners. If she can just outshine her fellow intern at the city radio station, she may have a chance at landing a job. Hana waitresses there part time, but what she really wants is to tell stories on the radio. Sales are slow at Three Sisters Biryani Poutine, the only halal restaurant in the close-knit Golden Crescent neighborhood of Toronto. One of Amazon's Best Romances of the Month!įor fans of "You’ve Got Mail," a young woman juggles pursuing her dream job in radio while helping her family compete with the new halal restaurant across the street, in this sparkling new rom-com by the author of Ayesha at Last. ![]()
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After all, they’ve been though a lot together, including the astronomical rise of Moonlight Overthrow, the world-famous queer pop band they formed in middle school, never expecting to headline anything bigger than the county fair.īut after a sudden falling out leads to the dissolution of the teens’ band, their friendship, and Eva and Celeste’s starry-eyed romance, nothing is the same. ![]() ![]() In Miel Moreland’s heartfelt young adult debut, It Goes Like This, four queer teens realize that sometimes you have to risk hitting repeat on heartbreak.Įva, Celeste, Gina, and Steph used to think their friendship was unbreakable. Genres: Contemporary, LGBTQ+, Young Adult ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It may seem like it is a start but honestly to me it doesn’t go anywhere at all. I have never understood arm-chair activism. 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The book is about how women throughout history have been confined only to the life of domesticity and nothing else – well at least most women. “The Trouble with Women” is a tongue-in-cheek graphic novel and you guessed it right, it is all about what is wrong with women – or so how the men see women – right from the good old times to the modern age – it is just the patriarchal system that calls the shots. “The Trouble with Women” by Jacky Fleming belongs to the second category of funny graphic novels. There are funny graphic novels that try too hard to be funny and then there are those that evoke a laugh or a guffaw from you at every turn of the page. Publisher: Square Peg, Penguin Random House ![]() ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. 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In more than twenty remarkable essays and speeches collected here, Katherine Paterson shares her passion for reading, her ideas about writing for children, her spiritual faith, and her conviction that the imagination must be nourished.įeaturing seven speeches never before published in book form, the complete acceptance speeches for her two National Book Awards and two Newbery Medals, and a new introduction, this extraordinary volume also includes essays originally published in Gates of Excellence and The Spying Heart that Ms. Buy a cheap copy of The Spying Heart: More Thoughts on. With the same generosity, wit, and insight that characterize her novels, Katherine Paterson, the two-time winner of both the National Book Award and the Newbery Medal, reveals who it is she writes about and for-the invisible child or the secret self that is opened up through fiction. ![]() ![]() Branden will show you how to: raise your self-esteem in daily life, break the cycle of self-defeating behavior generated by low self-esteem, overcome feelings of guilt that contribute to low self-esteem, transform your self-image to accept yourself as you really are, take responsibility for your own happiness, boost your self-esteem in love, friendships, business relationships, and much more. ![]() The first book by Wayne Dyer, author of the multimillion-copy bestseller. Complete with individualized exercises and dramatized case histories, Dr. Your Erroneous Zones: Step-by-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative. 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Not giving too much away, Esty meets a group of students from the music school, on her first day in Berlin. ![]() ![]() The outlandish structure of this book was no doubt inspired by Italo Calvino's involvement with the Oulipo group, a club of sorts that was founded in 1960s France to bring together writers and mathematicians who wanted to discuss new ways of structuring art. In order to tie this all together, the book is divided into twenty-two parts every odd-numbered section describes your worldwide quest to finish the many books you've started reading, and every even-numbered section is the first chapter of one of these fictional books. And then, to make up for this inconvenience, the book just goes ahead and does this to you ten more times, leading you through a plot that involves corrupt dictators, a torturous romance, and a worldwide book conspiracy. Due to a printer's error, the story gets majorly interrupted. Once you've figured out that you're going to be the main character, things get crazy. And you know what? It kind of blows our minds even today. Back when the book was published in 1979, this was a highly experimental style of narration. ![]() ![]() Written in the second person, the book addresses "you, the Reader" as its main character, just like in those old Choose Your Own Adventure novels. When you sit down to read Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler, you quickly discover that this book is about, well, you sitting down to read If on a winter's night a traveler. ![]() If on a winter's night a traveler Introduction ![]() |