#Sarah Mughal Rana

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Just because you give someone the dignity of being listened to, it doesn't mean you embrace them back into your life.

—Zaynab Siddiqui (Hope Ablaze by Sarah Mughal Rana)

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NEW YOUNG ADULT RELEASES! (FEBRUARY 27TH, 2024)

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HAVE I MISSED ANY NEW YOUNG ADULT RELEASES? HAVE YOU ADDED ANY OF THESE BOOKS TO YOUR TBR? LET ME KNOW!

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NEW STANDALONES/FIRST IN A SERIES:

Daughter of the Bone Forest by Jasmine Skye

Where the Dark Stands Still by A.B. Poranek

Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury

Hope Ablaze by Sarah Mughal Rana

Illusions of Fire by Nisha Sharma

Snowglobe by Soyoung Park , Joungmin Lee Comfort (Translator)

Kindling by Traci Chee

NEW SEQUELS:

Fate Breaker (Realm Breaker #3) by Victoria Aveyard

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We've got five different books on our radar this week! Which ones have caught your eye?

Kindling by Traci Chee HarperCollins

Once, the war was fought with kindlings—elite, magic-wielding warriors whose devastating power comes at the cost of their own young lives. Now, the war is over, and kindlings have been cast adrift—their magic outlawed, their skills outdated, their formidable balar weapons prized only as relics and souvenirs. Violence still plagues the countryside, and memories haunt those who remain. When a village comes under threat of siege, it offers an opportunity for seven kindlings to fight one last time. But war changed these warriors. And to reclaim who they once were, they will have to battle their pasts, their trauma, and their grim fates to come together again—or none of them will make it out alive.

Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School by Tiffany Jewell Versify

From preschool to higher education and everything in between, Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School focuses on the experiences Black and Brown students face as a direct result of the racism built into schools across the United States. The overarching nonfiction narrative follows author Tiffany Jewell from early elementary school through her time at college, unpacking the history of systemic racism in the American educational system along the way. Throughout the book, other writers of the global majority share a wide variety of personal narratives and stories based on their own school experiences. Contributors include New York Times bestseller Joanna Ho; award winners Minh Lê, Randy Ribay, and Torrey Maldonado; authors James Bird and Rebekah Borucki; author-educators Amelia A. Sherwood, Roberto Germán, Liz Kleinrock, Gary R. Gray Jr., Lorena Germán, Patrick Harris II, shea wesley martin, David Ryan Barcega Castro-Harris, Ozy Aloziem, Gayatri Sethi, and Dulce-Marie Flecha; and even a couple of teen writers! Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School provides young folks with the context to think critically about and chart their own course through their current schooling—and any future schooling they may pursue.

Snowglobe by Soyoung Park & translated by Joungmin Lee Comfort Delacorte Press

In a world of constant winter, only the citizens of the climate-controlled city of Snowglobe can escape the bitter cold—but this perfect society is hiding dark and dangerous secrets within its frozen heart. Enclosed under a vast dome, Snowglobe is the last place on Earth that’s warm. Outside Snowglobe is a frozen wasteland, and every day, citizens face the icy world to get to their jobs at the power plant, where they produce the energy Snowglobe needs. Their only solace comes in the form of twenty-four-hour television programming streamed directly from the domed city. The residents of Snowglobe have fame, fortune, and above all, safety from the desolation outside their walls. In exchange, their lives are broadcast to the less fortunate outside, who watch eagerly, hoping for the chance to one day become actors themselves. Chobahm lives for the time she spends watching the shows produced inside Snowglobe. Her favorite? Goh Around, starring Goh Haeri, Snowglobe’s biggest star—and, it turns out, the key to getting Chobahm her dream life. Because Haeri is dead, and Chobahm has been chosen to take her place. Only, life inside Snowglobe is nothing like what you see on television. Reality is a lie, and truth seems to be forever out of reach. Translated for the first time into English from the original Korean.

Hope Ablaze by Sarah Mughal Rana Wednesday Books

All My Rage meets The Poet X in this electric debut that explores a Muslim teen finding her voice in a post-9/11 America. Nida has always been known as Mamou Abdul-Hafeedh’s niece - the poet that will fill her uncle’s shoes after he was wrongfully incarcerated during the war on terror. But for Nida, her poetry letters are her heart and sharing so much of herself with a world that stereotypes her faith and her hijab is not an option. When Nida is illegally frisked at a Democratic Senatorial candidate’s political rally, she writes a scathing poem about the politician, never expecting the letter to go viral weeks before Election Day. Nida discovers her poem has won first place in a national contest, a contest she never entered, and her quiet life is toppled. But worst of all, Nida loses her ability to write poetry. In the aftermath of her win, Nida struggles to balance the expectations of her mother, her uncle, and her vibrant Muslim community with the person she truly wants to be. With a touch of magic and poetry sprinkled throughout, Sarah Mughal Rana's Hope Ablaze is heartbreaking, often funny, and ultimately uplifting, not only celebrating the Islamic faith and Pakistani culture, but simultaneously confronting racism and Islamophobia with unflinching bravery.

Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury Margaret K. McElderry Books

Sunny Behre has four siblings, but only one is a murderer. With the death of Sunny’s mother, matriarch of the wealthy Behre family, Sunny’s once picture-perfect life is thrown into turmoil. Her mother had groomed her to be the family’s next leader, so Sunny is confused when the only instructions her mother leaves is a mysterious “Take care of Dom.” The problem is, her youngest brother, Dom, has always been a near-stranger to Sunny…and seemingly a dangerous one, if found guilty of his second-degree murder charge. Still, Sunny is determined to fulfill her mother’s dying wish. But when a classmate is gruesomely murdered, and Sunny finds her brother with blood on his hands, her mother’s simple request becomes a lot more complicated. Dom swears he’s innocent, and although Sunny isn’t sure she believes him, she takes it upon herself to look into the murder—made all the more urgent by the discovery of another body. And another. As Sunny and Dom work together to track down the culprit, Sunny realizes her other siblings have their own dark secrets. Soon she may have to preserve the family she’s always loved or protect the brother she barely knows—and risk losing everything her mother worked so hard to build.

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February 2024 Diverse Read

February 2024 Diverse Reads:

•”My Beloved Life” by Amitava Kumar, February 27, Knopf Publishing Group, Historical/Literary/World Literature/India

•”Whiskey Tender: A Memoir” by Deborah Taffa, February 27, Harper, Personal Memoirs/Women/Cultural, Ethnic & Regional/Native American & Aboriginal

•”I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both” by Mariah Stovall, February 13, Soft Skull, Contemporary/Coming of Age/Friendship/African American/Women

•”Private Equity: A Memoir” by Carrie Sun, February 13, Penguin Press, Personal Memoirs/Women in Business/Business/Finance/Wealth Management/Investments & Securities

•”Village in the Dark” by Iris Yamashita, February 13, Berkley Books, Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural/Thriller/Suspense/Women

•”Redwood Court” by Délana R. a. Dameron, February 06, Dial Press, Literary/Coming of Age/Women/African American/Southern

•”Wandering Stars” by Tommy Orange, February 27, Knopf Publishing Group, Literary/Cultural Heritage/Native American & Aboriginal

•Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

Hwang Bo-Reum & Shanna Tan (Translator), February 20, Bloomsbury Publishing, Contemporary/City Life/World Literature/Korea

•”Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit: Essays

Aisha Sabatini Sloan, February 20, Graywolf, Essays/Cultural, Ethnic & Regional/African American & Black/LGBT/Anthropology/Cultural & Social

•”The Things We Didn't Know” by Elba Iris Pérez, February 06, Gallery Books, Literary/Coming of Age/World Literature/Puerto Rico/20th Century

•“The Fox Maidens” by Robin Ha, February 13, Harperalley, Comics & Graphic Novels/Historical/Fairy Tales/Folklore/Legends & Mythology Fantasy/Romance/LGBT/World Literature/Korea

•”Hope Ablaze” by Sarah Mughal Rana, February 27, Wednesday Books, Magical Realism, Poetry/Religious/Muslim/Social Themes - Activism & Social Justice

•“ASAP” by Axie Oh, February 06, Harperteen, YA/Romance/Contemporary/Coming of Age/Asian American

•”Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories” by Amitav Ghosh, February 13, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Nonfiction/Historical/Travelogue/Memoir/Family History/Essay in History/Globalism/Capitalism

•”Fathomfolk” by Eliza Chan, February 27, Orbit, Fantasy/Action & Adventure/Dragons & Mythical Creatures/East Asian Mythology 

•”Ours” by Phillip B. Williams, February 20, Viking, Literary/Historical/African American/Magical Realism

•”Neighbors and Other Stories” by Diane Oliver, February 13, Grove Press, Short Stories/Literary/Historical/African American & Black

•”Greta & Valdin” by Rebecca K. Reilly, February 06, Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, Literary/Romcom/Family Life/LGBT/Cultural Heritage/World Literature/New Zealand/Cultural, Ethnic & Regional/Russian-Maori-Catalonian/Indigenous/Polynesian 

•”The American Daughters” by Maurice Carlos Ruffin, February 27, One World, Historical/Civil War Era/Saga/African American/Women

•”My Side of the River: A Memoir” by Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez, January 13, St. Martin's Press, Personal Memoirs/Cultural, Ethnic & Regional/Hispanic & Latino/Public Policy - Immigration

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Guy Angling To Be US Envoy To India stocks Trump's Love Of The Limelight

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Guy Angling To Be US Envoy To India stocks Trump's Love Of The Limelight

Guy Angling To Be US Envoy To India stocks Trump’s Love Of The Limelight NEW DELHI: Chicago industrialist Shalabh “Shalli” Kumar stored the Delhi press corps watching for over an hour before he subsequently showed up with a Bollywood starlet in tow – a woman he euphemistically refers to as his “daughter.”

Kumar, sixty eight, become there to talk about his position as “chief architect” of the Trump marketing campaign’s outreach to the Indian-American community, but first matters first: “you could clap now,” he informed.

The Indian-born Kumar – one of Trump’s fundamental donors and a tireless surrogate – can be an unconventional choice for a U.S. ambassador, however countries around the sector are dealing with rumors of unconventional American ambassadors heading their way. The belief that Sarah Palin might go to Ottawa become inside the Canadian air till the Trump management knocked it down, and officers from the eu Union were aghast to listen that an anti-eu professor is probably named to the U.S. publish in Brussels.

Kumar, purpose on being more than a rumor, has been quietly waging a at the back of-the-scenes campaign to be the united states’s envoy to New Delhi, even though, publicly, he says he would “need to reflect onconsideration on it” if asked.

He has made journeys to India, given excessive-profile media interviews and scored a coup remaining week, while he hosted U.S. price d’Affaires MaryKay L. Carlson for tea at his vacation “palace” in southern India. He speedy posted pictures on Twitter, cc’ing Trump insiders Jared Kushner and Stephen Bannon.

“They assume that to get into Trump’s head they want to apprehend me,” Kumar said of the surprising, excessive hobby in him here.

Indian officers and diplomats – who decide upon their U.S. ambassadors to be statesmen – are dismayed that Kumar is on Trump’s brief list. but as one of the few Indian-people arguably near Trump, Kumar must be taken significantly, they are saying.

“He clicks nicely with Trump; that is what subjects,” stated Robinder Sachdev of the Reston, Virginia-based totally U.S. India Political motion Committee. “he’s pretty an outgoing character, and something he does, he tries to do it with numerous aptitude.”

Kumar boasts that, thru his efforts, Indian-individuals shifted dramatically to Trump in this election, despite the fact that an analysis with the aid of the Asian-American and Pacific Islanders statistics mission on the university of California-Riverside indicates that they went decisively for Hillary Clinton, in step with beyond developments, by way of a margin of seventy eight to 16 percent.

Kumar jumped at the Trump bandwagon early. He shaped the Republican Hindu Coalition and, alongside together with his wife and son, donated $1,162,four hundred to Trump’s campaign and victory fund, campaign filings display.

Trump spoke at a marketing campaign event Kumar prepared in New Jersey, enveloping his “proper pal” in a huge hug onstage. He later agreed to examine a few words in Hindi in an advertisement Kumar made aimed at the network of greater than three million.

on the grounds that then, Kumar and the previous leave out India he calls his daughter, Manasvi Mamgai, have enjoyed unique get admission to to the first own family.

They went with Eric Trump to an occasion at a Hindu temple, met with the president in the big apple and cozily chatted with him at a candlelight dinner for important donors the night time before the inauguration.

The Indian media have referred to as Kumar and Mamgai “the father and daughter with an immediate line to Donald Trump” and likened them to the “strength duo” of Trump and daughter Ivanka.

After the December assembly, Kumar and Mamgai, 27, stood within the foyer of Trump Tower and stated they discussed the approaching management with the president-select and Mamgai’s desires of a Hollywood profession.

“He said, ‘adequate, what can i do?’ ” Kumar said. (Kumar thinks she need to run for workplace and said she could make the “prettiest congresswoman,” although she isn’t always but an American citizen.)

Kumar uses the Hindi time period for “goddaughter” to explain their relationship, which he says is platonic.

“it is extra of a soul connection than a organic connection,” he stated. “when you have this soul connection, it’s due to the fact we agree with in reincarnation. people come collectively, and that they enter into this godfather and goddaughter relationship.” With Mamgai’s “foster or adoption,” as Kumar places it, he now boasts he has two omit Indias in his family – his daughter-in-law, Pooja Chitgopekar, become leave out India Earth in 2007.

Kumar is a local of Punjab who came to america in 1969 to have a look at for a master’s degree in electrical engineering, turning into a citizen in 1981. The married father of four lives within the Chicago suburbs and heads AVG institution, which manufactures and sells electronic issue systems.

Kumar made his first large splash in 2011, staging a lavish wedding in New Zealand for son Vikram and Chitgopekar that changed into at the tv display “The massive fat Indian wedding.” site visitors ground to a halt as guests danced thru the streets, groomsmen rode white horses and helicopters flying in a “V” formation – for Vikram – zoomed throughout the sky.

In 2013, Kumar organized a debatable ride to India for a delegation of Republican congressmen to satisfy Narendra Modi, India’s future prime minister. on the time, Modi become a state leader banned from coming into america on prices that he had now not stopped Hindu-Muslim riots in his state where hundreds have been killed. one of the congressmen changed into Aaron Schock, the Illinois lawmaker later indicted for fallacious spending, consisting of luxury tour.

through the years, Kumar has served as adviser to Republican entities and joined Rep. Pete classes, R-Texas, to recruit and educate Indian0-americans to run for workplace.

but he has gotten in hassle for pushing the boundaries of these relationships. In 2013, he become sent a “quit and desist” notice by means of the residence Republican convention for misusing its seal and insignia for political purposes on his stationery, a former staffer showed remaining week.

He nonetheless offers out business cards with an reputable-searching seal that discover him by this vintage identify – “chairman, Indian American Advisory Council, house Republican convention.” A leadership aide from the conference said Friday that there is no such council.

Kumar denied receiving a “quit and desist” observe and said the council nevertheless exists.

considering the fact that Trump’s election, Kumar has predicted that U.S.-India change will jump from $100 billion to $three hundred billion and that Pakistan might be unique a nation sponsor of terrorism.

His support for Trump’s travel ban triggered a public rebuke from U.S. Rep. Ami Bera, D-Calif., an Indian-American who stated Kumar’s Republican Hindu Coalition does now not mirror “the breadth and diversity of the Indian American network, or our diaspora.”

The coalition racked up $237,800 in expenses in 2016 and has now not filed an cease-of-year record, risking fines, an audit or legal motion, in step with Federal Election fee filings.

Many Republicans assist Kumar, consisting of former house speaker Newt Gingrich.

“he is glaringly recognised plenty greater inside the community now than he turned into,” Sachdev stated. “he’s appeared quite well amongst Republicans. They locate some of his immediately speak certainly properly – specifically his core thoughts about fighting radical Islam.”

The White residence did not reply to emails soliciting for remark about Kumar.

ultimate week, Kumar sat down for tea with Carlson, a naval attache and different embassy staffers at his sprawling excursion domestic in Bangalore that he calls Rana Reagan Palace, a tribute to President Ronald Reagan and an Indian maharaja who defied Mughal invaders. the home’s centerpiece is a vaulting “dome of freedom” hung with a crystal chandelier and emblazoned with photos of Reagan, Mohandas Gandhi and other leaders. The embassy stated in a statement that it’s far “standard” for embassy officials to fulfill with American commercial enterprise leaders.

After showing off the dome, Kumar had quite a few questions for Carlson, who is serving because the performing ambassador until the new one is called.

Kumar stated he desired “to look what they do on a every day foundation and what all of the activities the U.S. Embassy is engaged in. . . you may in no way forestall learning.”

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Young girls are fed one hundred different versions of heartbreak, but no one prepares you for the heartbreak of a friend's betrayal.

—from Hope Ablaze by Sarah Mughal Rana

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Stories are like a journey; the unprepared traveler will get lost in the translation.

—Aunty Farooqi (Hope Ablaze by Sarah Mughal Rana)

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My emotions felt like they were sawed into pieces, and I was giving them all away.

—from Hope Ablaze by Sarah Mughal Rana

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[J]ust because actions weren't loud, it didn't mean you weren't resisting.

—from Hope Ablaze by Sarah Mughal Rana

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If only I could dip my hand into the pool of his mind and sort through the images, plucking the one he was seeing.

—from Hope Ablaze by Sarah Mughal Rana

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If cold hard truth were water, it was poured all over me.

—from Hope Ablaze by Sarah Mughal Rana

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