Couscous Cookbook (affiliate link)
Indian Pilau (Pilaf)
Couscous Mornings
Orange Mango Mint Couscous Salad
Zucchini Seafood Salad
Vegetarian Couscous Platter
Mediterranean Wedding Cake
30-Minute Weeknight Couscous
5-Ingredient Zesty Couscous
Hot Broccoli Couscous
Full Couscous Lunch Box Salad
Glazed Greek Couscous
Dessert Couscous
How to Make Israeli Couscous
Leila’s Award Winning Couscous
Almond and Date Couscous
Casablanca Café Pudding
Nutty Minty Couscous Sampler
Tropical Couscous
Friendship Couscous
The Saints of San Diego Collection Books 1-5 (affiliate link)
She’s Having a Baby
Mike Saint finally noticed Aisling Murphy when they walked the moonlit beach. During a graduation party, Mike and Aisling were beachcombing for treasure. “So who is this Saint Dwynwen?” he asked, looking up from the medal they’d found in the sand. Her eyes glistened in the moonlight, taking Mike’s breath away. “She’s the saint of lovers,” Aisling whispered. The worst fire season in California history would ultimately test their love.
The Intruder You Know (The Hoodoo Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
In the shadow of her high school graduation, Paige Childers made the bold choice to leave her past and her hometown behind and start anew. Without a word to her mother, she set out on this life-altering adventure, ready to embrace a fresh beginning, new friendships, and the promise of college life. But the past has a curious way of clinging to us, refusing to loosen its grip when we yearn to break free. Paige’s past wasn’t about to release her so easily.
Now, a devoted mother, living in a beautiful home, and married to a renowned psychologist, Paige’s life appears idyllic on the surface. Yet, when she strikes up an unlikely friendship with a gypsy woman, her tranquility is shattered by a chilling intrusion at her front door. This nightmarish event thrusts her into an ordeal that will test the limits of her strength and resilience.
The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race (affiliate link)
Is race only about the color of your skin? In The Latinos of Asia, Anthony Christian Ocampo shows that what “color” you are depends largely on your social context. Filipino Americans, for example, helped establish the Asian American movement and are classified by the US Census as Asian. But the legacy of Spanish colonialism in the Philippines means that they share many cultural characteristics with Latinos, such as last names, religion, and language.
Thus, Filipinos’ “color” —their sense of connection with other racial groups—changes depending on their social context. The Filipino story demonstrates how immigration is changing the way people negotiate race, particularly in cities like Los Angeles where Latinos and Asians now constitute a collective majority.
Amplifying their voices, Ocampo illustrates how second-generation Filipino Americans’ racial identities change depending on the communities they grow up in, the schools they attend, and the people they befriend. Ultimately, The Latinos of Asia offers a window into both the racial consciousness of everyday people and the changing racial landscape of American society.
Vane Pursuit (The Peter Shandy Mysteries Book 7) (affiliate link)
One Writer’s Beginnings (affiliate link)
Born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi, Eudora Welty shares details of her upbringing that show us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing as well. Everyday sights, sounds, and objects resonate with the emotions of recollection: the striking clocks, the Victrola, her orphaned father’s coverless little book saved since boyhood, the tall mountains of the West Virginia back country that became a metaphor for her mother’s sturdy independence, Eudora’s earliest box camera that suspended a moment forever and taught her that every feeling awaits a gesture.
In her vivid descriptions of growing up in the South—of the interplay between black and white, between town and countryside, between dedicated schoolteachers and the children they taught—she recreates the vanished world of her youth with the same subtlety and insight that mark her fiction, capturing “the mysterious transfiguring gift by which dream, memory, and experience become art” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
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