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(0)Kamila Shamsie
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Zahra and Maryam have been best friends since childhood in Karachi, even though--or maybe because--they are unlike in nearly every way. Yet they never speak of the differences in their backgrounds or their values, not even after the fateful night when a moment of adolescent impulse upends their plans for the future. Three decades later, Zahra and Maryam have grown into powerful women who have each cut a distinctive path through London. But when two...
2) Duckling
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A duck unlike other ducks, a raincloud-duck, with the heart of a lion, strikes out into the world on her own. On the farm, some eggs are hatching. A flock of sweet ducklings are popping out but one duckling looks different from all the others. Kamila Shamsie retells The Ugly Duckling with great empathy and a warm heart. Cast out and all alone, the odd duckling will need all her bravery and curiosity to survive. Her journey is a search for belonging,...
3) Home fire
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From an internationally acclaimed novelist, the suspenseful and heartbreaking story of a family ripped apart by secrets and driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences. Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's death, an invitation from a mentor in America has allowed her to resume a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong...
Author
Publisher
Malpaso
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
Isma por fin es libre. Después de años cuidando de sus hermanos gemelos tras la muerte de su madre, y ahora que ambos tienen diecinueve años, ha conseguido su sueño: estudiar en Estados Unidos. Pero Isma no puede evitar preocuparse por su hermana Aneeka, tan bella como tozuda, y por su hermano Parvaiz, que se convierte en su peor pesadilla cuando decide abandonar Londres para unirse al ISIS tal como hizo su padre, un yihadista que murió en...
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
371 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of short stories originally commissioned by "The New York Times Magazine" as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron."
