In I Laugh So I Won't Cry Kenya's women tell their stories of love, struggle, happiness and tragedy. It features a huge range of women - subsistence farmers, herders, sex workers, business women and beggars. They talk candidly and vividly about the subjects closest to their hearts such as marriage, childrearing, work and unemployment, self-help groups, genital cutting, ethnic tensions and the new government that has promised huge reforms. A unique insight into the everyday lives of women in sub-Saharan Africa.

The story of six-year-old Safari, a young African boy brought to Australia for life-changing surgery to treat horrific scarring and deformities caused by serious burns.

BANG? BLOG! As bombs bombard his hometown of Beirut, thus begins the online diary of Mazen Kerbaj, a Lebanese painter, jazz musician, and cartoonist. Throughout the summer of 2006, during the Israeli attack on Lebanon, Kerbaj published drawings, comics, and writing giving a first-hand account of someone creating during a time of intense everyday brutality. Drawn and written in English, French, and Arabic, Beirut Won’t Cry shows us how an artist views the world and everything in it — his relationships, his family, and his creative pursuits — as it violently crumbles around him. Both historically vital and hilarious, Beirut Won’t Cry introduces Mazen Kerbaj’s unique voice and urgent pen to an American audience for the very first time, teaching readers how to carry on and resist in times of war and oppression.

The success of the civil rights movement demanded extraordinary courage of ordinary people. During her short life, Ruby Doris Smith Robinson became one of the most important leaders in the black struggle for equality. By age 24, Robinson's intelligence, brashness, and bravery had elevated her to a top leadership role in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Cynthia Griggs Fleming's beautifully written biography of this incredible woman demonstrates that Robinson's activism wasn't limited to racial equality--she was an equally eloquent and powerful voice for women's rights. Fleming provides new insights into the success, failures, peculiar contradictions, and unique stresses of Robinson's life. This book will appeal to all readers interested in African American and women's history.

Readers will be touched and inspired by this latest novel from bestselling author Lurlene McDaniel: Beth's world has been torn apart. She cannot figure out how to go on when a car accident claims the lives of her entire family, and she is the only survivor. Things seem to get even worse when she moves in with her aunt and her spoiled cousin, Terri. But with the love and support of her aunt and some unexpected friends, Beth struggles to overcome the despair that threatens to consume her. Will she be able to move past the painful memories without feeling guilty for being a survivor?

Kirkus Best Books of 2019 * Kids’ Indie Next Pick List * Bookpage Best Books of 2019: Middle Grade “Beautiful, mysterious and deeply satisfying.” —Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medal-winning author of When You Reach Me and Goodbye Stranger The world tilted for Elodee this year, and now it’s impossible for her to be the same as she was before. Not when her feelings have such a strong grip on her heart. Not when she and her twin sister, Naomi, seem to be drifting apart. So when Elodee’s mom gets a new job in Eventown, moving seems like it might just fix everything. Indeed, life in Eventown is comforting and exciting all at once. Their kitchen comes with a box of recipes for Elodee to try. Everyone takes the scenic way to school or work—past rows of rosebushes and unexpected waterfalls. On blueberry-picking field trips, every berry is perfectly ripe. Sure, there are a few odd rules, and the houses all look exactly alike, but it’s easy enough to explain—until Elodee realizes that there are only three ice cream flavors in Eventown. Ever. And they play only one song in music class. Everything may be “even” in Eventown, but is there a price to pay for perfection—and pretending? “Engrossing.” —New York Times Book Review “Enchanting, heart-rending, and bittersweet.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “An emotionally complex and wonderfully told story.” —School Library Journal (starred review) “Thought-provoking.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Neev Agnihotri , heartless CEO of Nav interprices. A handsome young man who lost his mother at the very young age , as his father followed the lead after couples of the year, leaving him all alone with a beautiful responsibility in this ugly world - his younger sister. He loved her more than his own life. He was living a beautiful life with his baby sister , but unfortunately fate played its game which broke him completely. He is left again in this world, but this time all alone. He kept taking breathe with a fire of revenge burning inside of him so bad, that he can go to any extent just to take his revenge.Aarohi Verma , An Innocent, sweet lovely girl who is loved by her family like a princess. Hatred was a thing which she never got in her life. Her beauty was something for which men were ready to do anything . Like every other girl, she also dreamt of her prince charming, with whom she can spend her life happily. But never in her whole existence, she ever thought that her fate is already locked In His Hell. It's a story of passion, revenge, spark and not to forget , an unknown love.