Hidden Fires
By: Sairish Hussain
4.31
Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition
How can you live in the present when you’re trying to bury the past?‘A multi-generational family st…
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4.21
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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"I'd tell her that recovery would be like the temple: built between an enormous boulder and a cliff's edge. The construction would be perilous, with the laying of every stone risking a drop into the a…"-Ela Lee, Jaded
2. The List of Suspicious Things
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4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more
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3. The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
By: Shubnum Khan
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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"There are things that never see light again. They scream and bang at their fate, hoping they will be discovered. A forgotten letter beneath a file, an ivory button in a couch, a handprint against a w…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
"She tries to lie still, but she's forgotten how. On the farm everything had been still. The silence was a complete thing. She could touch it with her fingers, taste it with her mouth, and sit in it l…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
4. Profile K
By: Helen Sarah Fields
4.22
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
He’s going to kill you. He just doesn’t know it yet. There’s something wrong with me. For years I’v… read more
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5. The Woman with No Name
By: Audrey Blake
3.83
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
She'll light the fire of resistance—but she may get burned… 1942. Though she survived the bomb t… read more
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6. Evil Eye
By: Etaf Rum
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking explor… read more
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"(...) she shrugged to articulate her feelings, even to herself. Words diluted things, made them smaller."-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye
"Her family had always been told to classify themselves as white because of their Middle Eastern origins. But Yara had never considered herself white or been viewed as white by anyone else, and markin…"-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye
7. A Song of Me and You
By: Mike Gayle
3.95
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
Helen and Ben parted as heartbroken 18-year-olds and went their very separate ways.Twenty years lat… read more
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8. Frank and Red
By: Matt Coyne
4.57
Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition
Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming. Frank and Red are a mess. F… read more
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9. Ghost Girl, Banana
By: Wiz Wharton
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Set between the last years of the "Chinese Windrush" in 1966 and Hong Kong's Handover to China in 1… read more
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10. A Perfect Day to Be Alone
By: Nanae Aoyama
3.12
Format: 160 pages, ebook
It was raining when I arrived at the house. The walls of my room were lined with cat photos, set in… read more
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"I feel like maybe I should use up all my sadness now while I'm young. So, I don't end up all miserable when I'm old."-Nanae Aoyama, A Perfect Day to Be Alone
"Is that how it feels to you? Oh, you bet. Pain, suffering - that stuff's always scary, no matter how long you've been around."-Nanae Aoyama, A Perfect Day to Be Alone
11. In My Mother's Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home
By: Mona Hajjar Halaby
4.31
Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Refugees are like seeds that scatter in the wind, and land in different soils that become their re… read more
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12. There Are Rivers in the Sky
By: Elif Shafak
4.58
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more
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"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky
13. Sweetness in the Skin
By: Ishi Robinson
4.29
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“A delightful coming-of-age story set in Jamaica, amid heartbreak, hopefulness, and mirth.”—Charmai… read more
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14. The Silence In Between
By: Josie Ferguson
4.48
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your n… read more
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"Evil demanded little of me – it merely asked me to stay silent, to do nothing. And I complied."-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between
"Mozart said that music is not in the notes but in the silence in between. I think that's where our souls are – hidden in that silence."-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between
"These are stories from the past, but they are still echoing now, in the present. As I write this, Russian forces are using rape as a weapon of war against Ukrainian women; deported mothers are being …"-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between
15. Under the Tamarind Tree
By: Nigar Alam
3.74
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
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16. Shy Creatures
By: Clare Chambers
4.43
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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17. Hidden Fires
By: Sairish Hussain
4.31
Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition
How can you live in the present when you’re trying to bury the past?‘A multi-generational family st… read more
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18. Playing Games
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3.94
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
Hana has a perfect job, a perfect home, a perfect marriage. It is her younger sister Mira who is a … read more
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19. This Is Fine
By: Poorna Bell
4.26
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
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20. The Coin
By: Yasmin Zaher
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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21. A Mouth Full of Salt
By: Reem Gaafar
4.37
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The Nile brought them life, but the Nile was not their friend.A small farming village in North Suda… read more
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"Fatima was dragging her feet. She hated houses of mourning. And the only thing worse than a house of mourning was a house that was waiting for a body to appear because without a body, the actual mour…"-Reem Gaafar, A Mouth Full of Salt
"When Nyamakeem looked into Sulafa’s anguished face that afternoon, she saw herself. She felt her own heart breaking at the loss of the child, the son of the man who had killed her son. She looked at …"-Reem Gaafar, A Mouth Full of Salt
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