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A Promise Is To Keep

by Shoilee Khan

In A Promise Is To Keep, young readers will find their personal struggles in managing friendships, maintaining responsibility, and becoming a better person reflected in the summertime adventures of thirteen-year-old Barbara Kay, a naïve... Read More

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Glorify Each Day

by Shoilee Khan

Tommy “Teach” Morrison knows there is a dark violence inside him, an inexplicable force he does not understand and struggles to control. This violence, always simmering beneath the surface of things, frightens but empowers him in... Read More

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My Sisters Made of Light

by Shoilee Khan

"My Sisters Made of Light" is the riveting story of Ujala, a Pakistani schoolteacher imprisoned in Adiala Prison, a women’s penitentiary that holds the lives of hundreds of Pakistani women in limbo. Abused and lost, these women all... Read More

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No One Said It'd Be Easy

by Shoilee Khan

No One Said It’d Be Easy is the story of fifteen-year-old Hadjame, a dreamy and sensitive Angolan girl who embarks on a milestone journey to the distant province of Kwanza-Sul where she will attend boarding school for three years.... Read More

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Bending the Boyne

by Shoilee Khan

It is 2200 BCE in ancient Ireland—the Eire—and Starwatchers, a quiet, self-sufficient people, look to the stars for guidance. While the stars help them cultivate an understanding of their history, they spend peaceful lives as... Read More

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My Other Women

by Shoilee Khan

In the 1960s, Toronto is a city on the edge of a theatre-driven revolution. With boundary-breaking plays testing the limits of audience expectation, young actress Andrea Dermot steps into this burning new landscape determined to find a... Read More

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Universal Dimensions of Islam

by Shoilee Khan

In "Universal Dimensions of Islam" Editor Patrick Laude compiles sixteen scholarly articles on the aspects of Islam that matter most to a Western audience in today’s particularly tense political climate. Ideas of universality,... Read More

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