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Author
Publisher
Amal Awad
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Guilt is an emotion for which I have no time. It's exhausting, stops you from having any fun, and is the equivalent of one of those T-shirts that says 'I went to [insert adventure] and all I got was this lousy T-shirt'."In recovery mode after a messy divorce from a non-Muslim man, Lara Abdel-Aziz is estranged from her family and out of touch with her best friend Samira. She works in a fast food shop in Sydney, but also sings at a local bar. The owner,...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (10 p.)
Language
English
Description
"Mr. Johnson is reading his traditional Christmas Eve story to Bootsie, Lawanda, Latifa, Mrs. Johnson and Baby. He will relate how Christmas is celebrated around the world (or, more particularly, Ghana, Nigeria, China and England). Let him read to you, as you read to yours, and we'll all be children again."--
Author
Publisher
Pepper Pace
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Jane used to have a different name, a different life-but that was before she was rescued from the refugee camp after the Rwandan genocide and brought to the convent to be raised. Now she is being dismissed, told to go out into the world. But how does she do that when all she knows is the convent? Sometimes she wants to scream, I am a child of Africa! And sometimes she wants to dream about a love that will save her from her loneliness. . .but mostly...
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Series
Publisher
Parthian Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (360 pages)
Language
English
Description
"A forgotten Welsh novel, first published in 1925, this love story is also a portrait of class conflict and the plight of rural women. The plot turns on young Rhys Lloyd's interest in the ideas of Social Darwinism and the League of Nations, which make him a dangerous figure in his village. To complicate his life further, Rhys is the son of a Welsh-speaking Nonconformist-but he is falling in love with the church-going Esther. The couple suffers from...
Author
Publisher
Skye Eagleday
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
After discovering her village destroyed, C'hiim's dark destiny leads her to the forest of the Steeyaha-one of the supernatural beings White people will later name "Stick Indians." The Steeyaha recognizes her as a Whakla-"neither man nor woman." For a price, C'hiim can claim the Power she needs to confront the War Leader who exterminated her people. Will the War Leader see her as an avenging avatar of his Goddess-or a fool who has returned to die?...
26) Devoted
Author
Publisher
Laura K Marshall
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Big Bull was never without his faithful dog, Chases the Wind. They had proven themselves as great providers of the tribe for many moons. Time moves quickly and Big Bull finds himself in the sunset of his life. But the great sky spirits have one more lesson for Big Bull to teach the young braves. Trouble finds Big Bull and the young braves out in the forest. Will Big Bull and Chases the Wind be able to triumph one last time or will one fall?. --Provided...
27) The Mission
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Publisher
Georgiann Baldino
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
When a homeless woman and child show up in the alleyway, Max is captivated by the child. The little one stares at him with the most amazing gray eyes Max ever saw. He's not supposed to help them. In fact, if he lets them in the warehouse, he risks losing his job as night watchman. Then he'll be out on the street, too, and yet, Max cannot turn his back on the homeless child. --Provided by publisher.
28) Belonging
Author
Publisher
Myriad Editions
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Umi Sinha's unforgettable debut is an intense, compelling and finely wrought epic of love and loss, of race and ethnicity, of homeland - and of belonging - See more at: http://myriadeditions.com/books/belonging/#sthash.CKAzTgEv.AUmi Sinha's unforgettable debut is an intense, compelling and finely wrought epic of love and loss, of race and ethnicity, of homeland - and of belonging - See more at: http://myriadeditions.com/books/belonging/#sthash.CKAzTgEv.dpufUmi...
Author
Publisher
Dyanne Davis
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"Continental Divide For almost a year Heaven had pleaded with her best friend Tanya Reed to visit her and Hamid in Pakistan. Not even the arrival of the couples new baby could force Tanya to go to the health department for needed shots and other meds she'll need for the journey. Tanya hates needles. It's only when Heaven mentions Hamid's available RICH brothers that the sound Tanya hears in her head overrides her fear of needles. Cha-ching!! She's...
30) Limestone Man
Author
Publisher
Seren
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (312 pages)
Language
English
Description
Richard Parry is a painter who cannot paint, a writer who doesn't write. His obsession is Lulu, that 'orphan off the street', his aboriginal 'green child'. But on returning from Australia to his hometown he finds it has become notorious for the suicides of young people. As Parry tries to connect past and present he is haunted by dreams of Australia and of his youth. Yet is Parry all he seems? Isn't he frankly, 'a bit creepy'? How trustworthy is memory?...
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Publisher
Andre Klein
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Ahmed is an Arab scrap dealer in the Holy Land, just like his grandfather who used to cart away the unwanted belongings of foreigners with his old horse wagon, yelling "Alte Sachen", that ancient Yiddish call for clutter. Living in a land that has been conquered, occupied, and battled over for thousands of years, Ahmed's livelihood depends on the immigrants and everything they throw away. He secretly marvels at their foreign ways, until one day he...
Author
Publisher
Giselle Renarde
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Traditional stories tell of Inuit who have crossed into the shadow world. No one has ever returned. . .Paranormal Investigator Anna Fairclough hasn't had much luck getting interesting assignments. When her boss, Gentle Geoff, picks her to investigate the existence of the elusive Inuit Shadow People, Anna jumps for joy. When he decides to come along for the trip, she's over the moon! But when their attempts to find the legendary Shadow People fail...
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Series
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Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Kashmir, the heaven on this earth, greatly admired and adorned by poets and writers in their works, source of inspiration for several Mughal Emperors, had suddenly seen a few decades of terror, bloodshed, killings, and encounters. Every place, every house, and each individual in this beautiful state in India was, as if, suddenly clouded in suspicion. There was unseen fear in the atmosphere and the eyes of the people reflected several different images...
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Publisher
Sharon E. Cathcart
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"Farukh and Catherine are colleagues at Paris' World Language Institute. He is Persian; she is American. Can their newly-discovered love survive the strain of Iran's Islamic Revolution? Author Sharon E. Cathcart ("In The Eye of The Beholder," "Through the Opera Glass") presents her first tale of inter-ethnic romance. Set against the backdrop of real-world events, Cathcart tells the story of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events."--
35) Alberta
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
What is legal personhood? Should humans feel threatened by nonhuman persons, which can range from cognitively complex chimpanzees to corporations that live in perpetuity? Are humans the only creatures with emotions, morality and culture? Are all humans entitled to equal rights and protection-even those suspected of crimes, whose freedom and lives are disproportionally forfeited? Meet Alberta, a seventeen-year-old chimp with a brain resembling Einstein's...
36) Home Country
Author
Publisher
Dev Love Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"When Priyanka travels to America for an arranged marriage, she finds out why her groom accepted her bad horoscope and poor family."--
Author
Series
Nurse Hal Among The Amish volume 4
Language
English
Description
If spring is a season of rebirth and love, Hallie Lapp's farm, at first glance, seems to be the place to be. What she didn't see coming after the birth of her daughter, Redbird, was an abandoned baby dropped off in her buggy as part of the Safe Haven law. She couldn't imagine a runaway girl, Annie Hosteller, showing up on her doorstep, either. Once Nurse Hal is forced to meet the scary men from the Hosteller compound life isn't the same for the Amish...
Author
Publisher
Eero Tarik
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
They were the loneliest of all peoples, isolated from humankind for thousands of years as their diaspora took them driving north, further and further. And yet just as they were excluded from mainstream society, so too did they exclude their own. He was the loneliest of them all, the loneliest Sami.A short story that asks questions, suggests how the past unfolded and takes us to a different future.A short story of imagination.---------------------------------------About...
39) Legacy
Author
Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (288 pages)
Language
English
Description
Simone Harlowe is young and clever, an Aboriginial lawyer straddling two lives and two cultures while studying at Harvard. Her family life back in Sydney is defined by her complex relationship with her father, Tony, a prominent Aboriginal rights activist. As Simone juggles the challenges of a modern woman's life - career, family, friends and relationships - her father is confronting his own uncomfortable truths, as his secret double-life implodes....
40) Ophelia's Muse
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Language
English
Description
I'll never want to draw anyone else but you. You are my muse. Without you there is no art in me." With her pale, luminous skin and cloud of copper-colored hair, nineteen-year-old Lizzie Siddal looks nothing like the rosy-cheeked ideal of Victorian beauty. Working in a London milliner's shop, Lizzie stitches elegant bonnets destined for wealthier young women, until a chance meeting brings her to the attention of painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti....
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