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Love from Mecca to Medina

Love from Mecca to Medina

Title: Love From Mecca to Medina Author: S.K. Ali Publisher: Salaam Reads Publication Date: October 18th, 2022 Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance Book Info Adam and Zayneb. Perfectly matched. Painfully apart. Adam is in Doha, Qatar, making a map of the hijrah, a historic migration from Mecca to Medina and worried about where his next paycheck will come from. Zayneb is in Chicago,…

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Love from Mecca to Medina

Love from Mecca to Medina

Title: Love From Mecca to Medina Author: S.K. Ali Publisher: Salaam Reads Publication Date: October 18th, 2022 Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance Book Info Adam and Zayneb. Perfectly matched. Painfully apart. Adam is in Doha, Qatar, making a map of the hijrah, a historic migration from Mecca to Medina and worried about where his next paycheck will come from. Zayneb is in Chicago,…

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Well, that was Unexpected

Well, that was Unexpected

Well, That Was Unexpected by Jesse Q. Sutanto Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Romance Publishing Date: September 27, 2022 Book Info An outrageous, laugh-out-loud YA rom-com about a girl who’s whisked from LA to her mother’s native Indonesia to get back to her roots and finds herself fake-dating the son of one of the wealthiest families there, from the author of Dial A for Aunties. After…

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As long as the lemon trees grow

As long as the lemon trees grow

As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh Genre: Young Adult Historical Fiction Publishing Date: September 13, 2022 Book Info Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had her parents and her big brother; she still had her home. She had a normal teenager’s life. Now Salama volunteers at a hospital in Homs, helping the wounded who…

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Asian Book Recommendations 101 || a list of amazing and diverse reads you should check out!!!

I love seeing representation in books. Now I don’t really talk a lot about my heritage on here, *cough* mainly because I’m not that connected with it *cough* , but I absolutely adore it when I see diverse representation in media. I do indeed have those Asian roots embedded in me (specifically Indian) and growing […]Asian Book Recommendations 101 || a list of amazing and diverse reads you should…

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Alliana, Girl of Dragons

Alliana, Girl of Dragons

Alliana, Girl of Dragons by Julie AbeGenre: Middle Grade FantasyPublishing Date: August 2, 2022 Book Info Once upon a time, Alliana believed in dreams and fairy tales as sweet as spun-sugar clouds. Alliana wished on shooting stars, sure that someday she and her grandmother would be able to travel to the capital city to see the queen. Then her grandmother passed away—and those dreams disappeared…

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Nura and the Immortal Palace

Nura and the Immortal Palace

Nura and the Immortal Palace by M.T. KhanGenre: Middle Grade FantasyPublishing Date: July 5, 2022 Book Info Aru Shah and the End of Time meets Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away in this mesmerizing portal fantasy that takes readers into the little-known world of Jinn. Nura longs for the simple pleasure of many things—to wear a beautiful red dupatta or to bite into a sweet gulab. But with her mom…

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Beauty and the Besharam

Beauty and the Besharam

Title: Beauty and the BesharamAuthor: Lillie ValePublisher: Viking Books for Young ReadersPublication Date: May 24th, 2022Genres: Young Adult, contemporary, romance Synopsis Heated competition leads to even hotter romance in this YA summer rom-com for fans of Sandhya Menon, Emma Lord, and Wibbroka. Seventeen-year-old, high-achieving Kavya Joshi has always been told she’s a little too…

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