The House of Djinn
10 best books like The House of Djinn (Suzanne Fisher Staples): Wanting Mor, Koyal Dark, Mango Sweet, Beneath My Mother's Feet, Haunted, A Victorian Christmas, Shadow in Hawthorn Bay, Anahita's Woven Riddle, Converting Kate, The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, The Humanistic Tradition: Prehistory to the Early Modern World (The Humanistic Tradition, #1)
| Author | Rukhsana Khan |
| ISBN | 0888998589 |
Jameela and her family live in a poor, war-torn village in Afghanistan. Even with her cleft lip and lack of educational opportunities, Jameela feels relatively secure, sustained by her Muslim faith and the love of her mother, Mor. But when Mor dies, Jameela’s father impulsively decides to start...
| Author | Kashmira Sheth |
| ISBN | 0786838574 |
Jeetas family is caught up in the whirlwind of arranging marriages for her two older sisters, but the drama and excitement leave Jeeta cold. She knows that tradition demands the parade of suitors, the marriage negotiations, the elaborate displays, the expensive wedding parties but where is the love...
| Author | Amjed Qamar |
| ISBN | 1416947280 |
"Our lives will always be in the hands of our mothers, whether we like it or not."
Nazia doesn't mind when her friends tease and call her a good beti, a dutiful daughter. Growing up in a working-class family in Karachi, Pakistan, Nazia knows that obedience is the least she can give to her mother,...
| Author | Barbara Haworth-Attard |
| ISBN | 0002008211 |
Dee is feeding the chickens the morning that bones are discovered on the mountain. Something doesn't feel right—and her feeling is confirmed when local police show her a ring that they found with the bones, a ring belonging to Mary Ann Simpson, who disappeared four years earlier. Other girls, Dee...
| Author | Patricia Gaffney |
| ISBN | 0451174429 |
The best Signet anthology I ever bought -- hands down!
And that's really only based on two stories, KIDNAPPED FOR CHRISTMAS by Betina Krahn and THE BLACK BEAST OF BELLETERRE by Mary Jo Putney. Either one of those stories would have been worth the purchase price of the whole book.
KIDNAPPED...
| Author | Janet Lunn |
| ISBN | 0140324364 |
Shadow in Hawthorn Bay introduces fifteen-year-old Mary Urquhart, a Scottish girl with a special gift – the gift of “second sight”. One morning, in the spring of 1815, Mary hears her beloved cousin Duncan calling desperately for her help. But Duncan is 3,000 miles away in Upper Canada, and to...
| Author | Meghan Nuttall Sayres |
| ISBN | 0810954818 |
This book made me taste the flavors, see the colors, smell the spices, hear the sounds, and feel the fabrics. It employed each of my 5 senses. I felt like I was really in 19th century Iran, and it made me kind of want to be a Nomad. I was totally on Anahita's side when it came to absolutely NOT marrying the Khan,...
| Author | Beckie Weinheimer |
| ISBN | 0670061522 |
Kate was raised in the Holy Divine Church. It influenced everything from her homeschooling to her handmade clothes. But ever since her unbelieving father's death last year, she has suspected that there's more to life than memorizing scripture.
Taking advantage of their move to a new town,...
| Author | Robert E. Buswell Jr. |
| ISBN | 0691157863 |
With more than 5,000 entries totaling over a million words, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in English. It is also the first to cover terms from all of the canonical Buddhist languages and traditions: Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese,...
| Author | Gloria K. Fiero |
| ISBN | 0072910127 |
""The Humanistic Tradition" is quite simply the finest book of its type. Fiero manages to integrate the political, cultural, and social history of the world into one coherent and fascinating whole. It is a masterpiece of scholarship . . . balanced, interesting, easy to read, and consummately beautiful....
| Author | Margarita Engle |
| ISBN | 0805092404 |
Quebrado has been traded from pirate ship to ship in the Caribbean Sea for as long as he can remember. The sailors he toils under call him el quebrado--half islander, half outsider, a broken one. Now the pirate captain Bernardino de Talavera uses Quebrado as a translator to help navigate the worlds and...
| Author | Robert Irwin |
| ISBN | 0674015681 |
A wonderfully irritable monograph, which is motivated primarily by Robert Irwin's annoyance over how other writers of poetry, fiction and guidebooks have treated the Alhambra: as a grand Romantic symbol, the pretext for a lot of ubi sunt wistfulness, and the setting of innumerable historical...
| Author | Fred Czarra |
| ISBN | 1861894260 |
The scent of oregano immediately conjures the comforts of Italian food, curry is synonymous with Indian flavor, and the fire of chili peppers ignites the cuisine of Latin America. Spices are often the overlooked essentials that define our greatest eating experiences. In this global history of spices,...
| Author | Helen Saberi |
| ISBN | 1861897766 |
From chai to oolong to sencha, tea is one of the world’s most popular beverages. Perhaps that is because it is a unique and adaptable drink, consumed in many different varieties by cultures across the globe and in many different settings, from the intricate traditions of Japanese teahouses to the...
| Author | Yumi Unita |
| ISBN | 0316210331 |
Ten years have flown by since that fateful day when Daikichi first met Rin at his grandfather's funeral. While Daikichi may be still much the same -- though perhaps a bit balder and a few pounds heavier -- the wise-beyond-her-years Rin has blossomed into a smart, capable, and well-adjusted teenager....
| Author | Gloria Whelan |
| ISBN | 1442409312 |
It is 1918, six months after the end of World War I, and Rosalind awaits the return of her father from the war. While it is common practice for British children in India to be packed off to boarding school at the age of 6, Rosalind is unusual because she lives and is schooled in India because her mother insists....
| Author | Wendy Higgins |
| ISBN | 0062371622 |
Embrace the forbidden with the Sweet Evil trilogy—Sweet Evil, Sweet Peril, and Sweet Reckoning—from bestselling author Wendy Higgins.
What if there were teens whose lives literally depended on being bad influences? This is the reality for sons and daughters of fallen angels. Tenderhearted...
Danielle Corsetto created her first comic strip when she was 8 years old, starting with a blatant rip-off of Garfield called Fat Cat.She started writing Hazelnuts in high school, the precursor to Girls With Slingshots (unbeknownst to her at the time), and ran a comic about super-slacker college kids...
| Author | Julien Neel |
| ISBN | 2723448150 |
Lou est une petite fille qui ne connaît pas son papa, qui vit seule avec sa maman et le petit chat qu'elles ont adopté. Toutes les deux ont une grande complicité, elles jouent à la console, se font des pizzerias Lou est amoureuse de son voisin d'en face mais bien sûr n'ose pas lui avouer C'est une petite...
| Author | Vineeta Vijayaraghavan |
| ISBN | 1569472831 |
In this quiet but engaging debut novel, an American teenager spends the summer with her relatives in southern India and gains new insight into her past, her family and her heritage. Born in Kerala, Maya spent the first four years of her life there, cared for mainly by her grandmother, Ammamma, until she...
| Author | Pentabu |
| ISBN | 0759531749 |
Now that Taiga’s relationship with his dream girl, Yuiko, is in full swing, he’s being gradually initiated into the ways of fujoshi (a very, shall we say, distinct kind of girl geek). Actually, it’s more like he’s being hazed, considering everything from his own name to his friendships with...
Reads R to L (Japanese Style) T audience.Asuka Masamune is a guy who loves girly things--sewing, knitting, making cute stuffed animals and reading shojo comics. But in a world where boys are expected to act manly, Asuka must hide his beloved hobbies and play the part of a masculine jock instead. Can Asuka...
| Author | Natsumi Andō |
| ISBN | 1632360462 |
DESTINED TO DANCE
Homely and shy, Himé is burdened by the name her mother gave her, “Princess.” Wanting nothing more than to be unnoticed and live a modest life, Himé gets a jolt of inspiration when she tries a dance class where she meets Tango. Her teacher/dance partner, Tango happens...
