Our first YA novel (!!!) tackles racial, economical, and social disparities between the connected members of one city. It follows Jade, a smart girl from a poor neighborhood, who attends high school with the children of Portland's upper-class families. She constantly struggles to find herself, her place, and her voice, in a world bent on ignoring her. She is on the brink of adulthood, trying to figure out who she is and who she can trust.
A beautiful woman from the south side of Chicago sits alone in her garden ready to evaluate the sum of her life. It is in each moment that we learn more about this woman, who she is, and what drives her.
A naïve and homely young woman in her early 20s escapes a future devoid of opportunity and excitement by marrying a wealthy widower named Maxim de Winter. She soon learns the memory of his dead wife haunts both him and his entire world.
Second-in-power only to the king, General Oufkir is both hated and adored by the people of Morocco. After a failed coup d' état, however, he is killed, and the lives of his wife and six children are changed forever. His older daughter, Malika Oufkir, survived a desert jail for two decades as one of the "disappeared," along with her family. This is her story.
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