First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood
8 best books like First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood (Thrity Umrigar): Family Matters, Sondok: Princess of the Moon and Stars, Korea, A.D. 595, The Woman in the White Kimono, Wunderland, Kaiulani: The People's Princess, Hawaii, 1889, The Way I See It: A Look Back at My Life on Little House, The Anne of Green Gables Treasury, To the Land of Long Lost Friends
Rohinton Mistry’s enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait of present-day Bombay in all its vitality and corruption. At the age of seventy-nine, Nariman Vakeel, already suffering from Parkinson’s disease, breaks an ankle and finds himself wholly dependent...
Sondok: Princess of the Moon and Stars, Korea, A.D. 595
| Author | Sheri Holman |
| ISBN | 0439165865 |
In the late seventh century, the land that we now call Korea was embroiled with political and religious conflicts. Three kingdoms (Silla, Koguryo, and Paekche) fought for supremacy, and three faiths (Shamanism, Buddhism, and Confucianism) battled for dominance. Princess Sondok, the eldest daughter...
The Woman in the White Kimono
| Author | Ana Johns |
| ISBN | 0778308146 |
Oceans and decades apart, two women are inextricably bound by the secrets between them.
Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura’s prearranged marriage to the son of her father’s business associate would secure her family’s status in their traditional Japanese community,...
| Author | Jennifer Cody Epstein |
| ISBN | 0525576908 |
East Village, 1989
Things had never been easy between Ava Fisher and her estranged mother Ilse. Too many questions hovered between them: Who was Ava's father? Where had Ilse been during the war? Why had she left her only child in a German orphanage during the war's final months? But now Ilse's ashes...
| Author | Ellen Emerson White |
| ISBN | 0439129095 |
In their hope to restore Hawaii¹s toppled monarchy and the Hawaiian way of life the people of Hawaii turn to Princess Kaiulani, who is only a young girl. Acclaimed author Ellen Emerson White makes her debut on the Royal Diaries list with this compelling narrative of the tumultuous years following Hawaii¹s...
The Way I See It: A Look Back at My Life on Little House
| Author | Melissa Anderson |
| ISBN | 0762759704 |
When other girls her age were experiencing their first crushes, Melissa Sue Anderson was receiving handwritten marriage proposals from fans as young, and younger, than she was. When other girls were dreaming of their first kiss, Melissa was struggling through hers in front of a camera. From age eleven...
The Anne of Green Gables Treasury
| Author | Carolyn Strom Collins |
| ISBN | 0140172319 |
Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic Anne of Green Gables has been entertaining children and adults alike since its publication in 1908. The charm and beauty of the original story, and of the series of eight books that followed, are lovingly reproduced in this sumptuously illustrated gift book that features...
To the Land of Long Lost Friends
| Author | Alexander McCall Smith |
| ISBN | 1408711109 |
Mr J. L. B. Matekoni usually steers clear of Mma Ramotswe's cases, but on this occasion he is approached by a client of the garage who tells a tale of woe. This man has entrusted his brother to oversee the building of a house, yet the project is complete and now the brother won't leave. How is he to get him to...
