![]() ![]() While Meena's fate hangs in the balance, Smita tries in every way she can to right the scales. As she follows the case of Meena-a Hindu woman attacked by members of her own village and her own family for marrying a Muslim man-Smita comes face to face with a society where tradition carries more weight than one's own heart, and a story that threatens to unearth the painful secrets of Smita's own past. Indian American journalist Smita has returned to India to cover a story, but reluctantly: long ago she and her family left the country with no intention of ever coming back. In this riveting and immersive novel, bestselling author Thrity Umrigar tells the story of two couples and the sometimes dangerous and heartbreaking challenges of love across a cultural divide. ![]() "In the way A Thousand Splendid Suns told of Afghanistan's women, Thrity Umrigar tells a story of India with the intimacy of one who knows the many facets of a land both modern and ancient, awash in contradictions." -Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The Chronicles of Ixia Series by Maria V. ![]() But without her magic, Yelena must once again rely on wits and skill to survive… Her days as a poison taster are long gone. She must keep that a secret-or her enemies will discover just how vulnerable she really is-while searching for who or what is responsible for neutralizing her powers. As Yelena tries to uncover the scope of these plots, she faces a new challenge: her magic is blocked. Shadow Study was written before Night Study and I absolutely loved it It was filled with everything I desired from action to romance to humour. Through wits and magic, she’s able to keep the peace in both lands-and protect her relationship with Valek.īut as old rivalries begin to emerge, Yelena discovers sinister plots that threaten to unravel the carefully won peace. Night Study is the 5th book in Snyder’s Study series or other wise known as the 2nd book in her Soulfinders series which is a spin off from the Study books. Now, she’s become a vital part of the balance of power between rival countries Ixia and Sitia. When Yelena was a poison taster, her life was simpler. Once, only her own life hung in the balance. From New York Times Bestselling Author Maria V. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Goblin Market tells the story of golden-haired sisters Laura and Lizzie, whose country-maiden idyll is interrupted at the start and end of each day by the cries of goblins hawking their wares, a mouthwatering list of ever-ripe, ever-juicy fruits. And at this point it seems best to bring in the rest of the family: Christina’s other brother William was a critic, biographer and Pre-Raphaelite (and a civil servant) her father Gabriele was an Italian Dante scholar now living in London her mother was the sister of John Polidori, author of The Vampyre (1819), which was based on Lord Byron’s offering on that infamous night in 1816 when Mary Shelley presented the story of Frankenstein at the Villa Diodati. (He also provided the illustrations for its first appearance.) It was, appropriately enough for a poem about a redemptive bond between sisters, dedicated to Christina’s sister Maria Francesca Rossetti (a Dante scholar who would later become a nun). ![]() The poem’s initial title was “A Peep at the Goblins”, but her brother, the Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, convinced her to change it. Christina Rossetti by her brother Dante Gabriel RossettiĬhristina Rossetti’s fairy-tale poem Goblin Market was completed in April 1859 (when she would have been 28), and was first published in 1862, in Goblin Market and Other Poems, her first non-privately-printed collection. ![]() |