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  The Ways of Water - A Novel

  Teresa H. Janssen

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  Winner of the Southwest Book Award, Eric Hoffer Award, and the Wrangler Award for Outstanding Western Novel. 
  As Josie Belle Gore, daughter of a Louisiana train engineer and Texas seamstress, journeys with her itinerant family through the deserts of the boom-and-bust American West and revolutionary Mexico, she learns that in her life, two things are constant: the preciousness of water and her role as the savior of her family. After unforeseeable circumstances force her family to scatter, Josie begins an odyssey that takes her from New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto to Austin, Chihuahua, Tucson, and post-WWI San Francisco, suffering betrayal and survivor’s guilt along the way. She comes of age as the American West expands—and as the world reels from a world war, raging pandemic, and the changes they bring.  
  With the help of compassionate friends and relatives and no small amount of grit, Josie fashions an independent life for herself; and like a river meeting the sea, with nowhere else to run, she must make peace with the past and make good on her promise to the family she loves. A tale of loss, hope, and forgiveness, inspired by family lore, The Ways of Water is a heart-warming story of a resilient young woman charting her course in a dramatically new world. 
  “An inherently fascinating, deftly crafted and eloquently entertaining saga of a novel from start to finish…impressive.” —MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW 
  "The reader is shown the quiet beauty that exists in the desert and that can be found even in the most dysfunctional of families.” —BOOKLIST 
  “Janssen writes in Josie’s voice, which allows readers to get to know her as a brave, complicated woman, and witnessing her growth as a confident person is an engaging experience…Janssen creates a believable West.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS

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  Silk Silver Spices Slaves - Lost...

  Lio Mangubat

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  A country’s history is like a jigsaw puzzle. The bigger picture of how a country and its people came to be can be pieced together through multiple narratives, perspectives, and stories. In Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves, Lio Mangubat reaches back into the depths of colonial archives and brings to life long-lost stories that would otherwise have been footnotes in Philippine history. 
   
  Featuring 13 essays inspired by his podcast series The Colonial Dept., Mangubat spins tales of galleons, triads, fickle spirits, long-lost maps, and the secret history of otters. In these pages, learn about how the entire country became mad for baseball; how Mexican fighter pilots flew dangerous missions over the Philippines during World War II; or how American occupiers fell victim to a mysterious illness called “Philippinitis". 
   
  Beyond revisiting days gone by, Mangubat also connects the threads of each story to the wider tapestry of world history — and how these can unspool even up to our current time. A masterful storyteller and podcaster, he proves that the past can loom larger than the present.

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  Pomegranate Soup - A Novel

  Marsha Mehran

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  To the exotic Aminpour sisters, Ireland looks like a much-needed safe haven. It has been seven years since Marjan Aminpour fled Iran with her younger sisters, Bahar and Layla, and she hopes that in Ballinacroagh they might finally find a home. 
   
   
   
  The sisters set about creating a Persian oasis and soon sensuous wafts of cardamom, cinnamon, and saffron float through the streets—an exotic aroma that announces the opening of the Babylon Café. And it is an affront to the senses of Ballinacroagh's uncrowned king, Thomas McGuire. After trying to buy the old pastry shop for years and failing, Thomas is enraged to find it occupied—and by foreigners, no less. 
   
   
   
  But the mysterious, spicy fragrances work their magic on the townsfolk, and soon, business is booming. Marjan is thrilled with the demand for her red lentil soup, abgusht stew, and rosewater baklava—and with the transformation in her sisters. 
   
   
   
  The sisters find a merry band of supporters against the close-minded opposition of less welcoming villagers stuck in their ways. But the idyll is soon broken when the past rushes back to threaten the Amnipours once more, and the lives they left behind in revolution-era Iran bleed into the present.

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  Wartime Sisters The: Book...

  Margot Langley

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  This content is an independent and unofficial summary created for informational and educational purposes only. It is not affiliated with, authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the original author or publisher. All rights to the original work belong to its respective copyright holders. This summary is not intended to substitute the original book, but to offer a concise overview and interpretation of its main ideas.
   
  
  
   
  Step into a world of courage and kinship amidst the chaos of war. The Wartime Sisters follows three resilient siblings as they forge ingenious communication networks, cultivate life-sustaining gardens, and rebuild their shattered community from the ruins. This audiobook weaves gripping historical drama with practical insights on leadership, adaptability, and collective strength—empowering you to turn adversity into opportunity and unite those around you in pursuit of a brighter tomorrow.

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  The Women's Pages

  Victoria Purman

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  From the bestselling author of The Land Girls comes a beautifully realised novel that speaks to the true history and real experiences of post-war Australian women. 
    
  Sydney 1945 The war is over, the fight begins. 
  The war is over and so are the jobs (and freedoms) of tens of thousands of Australian women. The armaments factories are making washing machines instead of bullets and war correspondent Tilly Galloway has hung up her uniform and been forced to work on the women's pages of her newspaper - the only job available to her - where she struggles to write advice on fashion and make-up.  
  As Sydney swells with returning servicemen and the city bustles back to post-war life, Tilly finds her world is anything but normal. As she desperately waits for word of her prisoner-of-war husband, she begins to research stories about the lives of the underpaid and overworked women who live in her own city. Those whose war service has been overlooked; the freedom and independence of their war lives lost to them. 
  Meanwhile Tilly's waterside worker father is on strike, and her best friend Mary is struggling to cope with the stranger her own husband has become since being liberated from Changi a broken man. As strikes rip the country apart and the news from abroad causes despair, matters build to a heart-rending crescendo. Tilly realises that for her the war may have ended, but the fight is just beginning...PRAISE 
  'A richly crafted novel that graphically depicts life during those harrowing years. A touching tale and an enthralling read.' Reader's Digest 
  'A powerful and moving book.' Canberra Weekly

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  The Embroidered Book

  Kate Heartfield

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  *Winner of the Aurora Award for Best Novel*‘Spellbinding’ JJA Harwood‘An entertaining and dark read’ Stylist‘An absorbing novel’ Guardian‘Beautifully written’ Elizabeth Chadwick 
  ‘Power is not something you are given. Power is something you take. When you are a woman, it is a little more difficult, that’s all’ 
  1768. Charlotte, daughter of the Habsburg Empress, arrives in Naples to marry a man she has never met. Her sister Antoine is sent to France, and in the mirrored corridors of Versailles they rename her Marie Antoinette. 
  The sisters are alone, but they are not powerless. When they were only children, they discovered a book of spells – spells that work, with dark and unpredictable consequences. 
  In a time of vicious court politics, of discovery and dizzying change, they use the book to take control of their lives. 
  But every spell requires a sacrifice. And as love between the sisters turns to rivalry, they will send Europe spiralling into revolution. 
  Brimming with romance, betrayal, and enchantment, The Embroidered Book reimagines a dazzling period of history as you have never seen it before. 
  Kate Heartfield, the Sunday Times bestselling author, presents The Embroidered Book, a historical and alternative fiction that tells a romantic and fantastical coming of age story. This bestselling book is a top pick for readers who enjoy a blend of history and fantasy. 
  For fans of Christie Golden (Blood Ties), Maria Lewis (The Graveyard Shift), William Wood (Ruth and Ann's Guide to Time Travel, Volume II), Gwendolyn Kiste (The Haunting of Velkwood), and Lucy A. Snyder (You, Human). 
  HarperCollins 2022

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