Author: Stephanie Siciarz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989686303
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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LEFT AT THE MANGO TREE is the story of Almondine Orlean. Almondine is white. Everyone else on the island of Oh is black. Things like that happen there. The moon plays tricks. The leaves sing. And one day the island itself summons home the grown-up Almondine to piece together her black-and-white past. She will reconstruct the efforts of her grandfather-a book-loving, magic-hating, Customs and Excise Officer named Raoul-to explain his new white grandbaby, a case of island magic if ever there was. As Raoul struggles to prove otherwise (for surely otherwise it has to be ), Oh's pineapples begin to disappear. Acres without a trace, and Officer Raoul must find out how and why. With help and hindrance from his favorite novel and his three real-life chums, Raoul will risk his reputation, his sanity, and even his life, to solve not one island riddle but two-and to reveal, if he dare, the secrets hidden between the shady mango and the shiny moon.
Author: Valdene Mark
Publisher: Sugar Apple Books
ISBN: 1735124435
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Vee and Sanaa are the best of friends. Under a full mango tree, they play, dream, and plan for a future spent together, always. However, life can change quickly, and the girls must face the challenge of separation when Vee moves away. Join Vee and Sanaa as they learn how powerful friendship can be and how far it can reach.
Author: Pamela Binnings Ewen
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 407
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From Pamela Binnings Ewen, bestselling author of The Queen of Paris and Émilienne, The Moon in the Mango Tree is a lush historical novel set in the 1920s. It is a dazzling decade, and Barbara Bond is a beautiful young singer torn between her fierce desire for independence and her deep, abiding love for her husband, a brilliant doctor. She has trained for years to sing grand opera, but soon after her marriage to Harvey Perkins, she learns that he has accepted an assignment as a medical missionary in the country of Siam. Suddenly Barbara is forced into the duty of a “good wife"—to support her husband’s career, not her own. As resentment slowly grows, she travels with Harvey first to the jungles of Siam, then to the capital city of Bangkok, where he is now physician to the royal court. As she struggles with the secrets straining their marriage, Barbara wonders if she has made the right choice. At last, leaving her husband in Bangkok, she flees to Paris, then Rome, where she can finally sing on stage. If Harvey loves her, the risk is worth it for a chance to have it all—her husband and her career. Why should she be forced to choose? And, if she chooses, must the other be lost forever?
Author: Brooke Smith
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781986237734
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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In this sweet story, The Mango Tree grows while discovering inspiration and development from somewhere within itself, but also from the surrounding world. The Mango Tree tells a story of growth and perspective; of love and fear; of strength and protection - all hidden within the perfect little body of one small seed. While The Mango Tree matures to reach its full potential, it learns lessons of gratitude and acceptance along the way. What will you discover while reading about The Mango Tree and its many transformations?
Author: Jeevana Midturi
Publisher: Inspiring Voices
ISBN: 1462410715
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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One day, a little boy plants a seed and hopes the tree will grow big and provide fruit for many people. And with the proper care, it does prosper. The mango tree grows and grows in the familys garden, bringing much enjoyment to family and friends for many years. Humans eat its fruit and make tasty eats like pickles and chutney. Birds build nests in its branches and raise their families among its leaves. Other small animals seek shelter in its expanse. Based on a true story of a mango seed planted by a little boy in India, The Story of a Mango Tree offers a picture book for children that teaches about the life of a mango tree, its fruit, and the important role it plays in the lives of both humans and animals alike.
Author: Sandra Cisneros
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0345807197
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. “Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting." Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.
Author: Madhur Jaffrey
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307517691
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 319
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The enchanting autobiography of the seven-time James Beard Award-winning cookbook author and acclaimed actress who taught America how to cook Indian food. “Wistful, funny and tremendously satisfying.... Jaffrey's taste memories sparkle with enthusiasm, and her talent for conveying them makes the book relentlessly appetizing." —The New York Times Book Review Whether climbing the mango trees in her grandparents' orchard in Delhi or picnicking in the Himalayan foothills on meatballs stuffed with raisins and mint, tucked into freshly baked spiced pooris, Madhur Jaffrey’s life has been marked by food, and today these childhood pleasures evoke for her the tastes and textures of growing up. Following Jaffrey from India to Britain, this memoir is both an enormously appealing account of an unusual childhood and a testament to the power of food to prompt memory, vividly bringing to life a lost time and place. Also included here are recipes for more than thirty delicious dishes from Jaffrey’s childhood.
Author: Mark J. M. Lopez
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781525502804
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Inspired to share his story, the author made a concise version of the values he learned at a young age. Sharing his experiences opened the moral truth and obligation to impart lessons of sacrifices and love. Children will learn that words of affection are always appreciated. More importantly, love can be shown in action and can harbour great returns....
Author: Amy Bronwen Zemser
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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I am here, in the rain, tied to the mango tree. The water leve rises, above my naked feet, past my ankles. I wait ... It has been this way since Sarina's family moved to Liberia from Boston eight months ago. Her mother ties her to the mango tree in their front yard, terrified of losing her. It's never for long, and Sarina knows her mother doesn't mean to hurt her. But things just seem to get harder the longer her family stays in this country so far from home. On good days, when Sarina's mother is feeling better, she sets her daughter free. On bad days, Sarina dangles her feet in the puddles and mud until dusk, waiting for someone to rescue her, wishing for the one thing her mother fears most: a friend. Then one day Sarina meets Boima, a Liberian boy, and he becomes Sarina's cherished secret. He takes her to places outside her dirty yard, and shows her the ocean, the trees, and the people of Liberia. Together they discover what friendship really means ... and that there is a world of joy, hunger, and hope waiting just beyond the mango tree. 2000-2001 Georgia's Picture Storybook Award & Georgia's Children's Book Award Masterlist
Author: A. H. Benjamin
Publisher: Cas
ISBN: 9781953747013
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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A hilarious tale about what happens when a mango tree begins talking!
