From Pamela Binnings Ewen, bestselling author of The Queen of Paris and Émilienne, The Moon in the Mango Tree is a lush historical novel set in the 1920s. It is a dazzling decade, and Barbara Bond is a beautiful young singer torn between her fierce desire for independence and her deep, abiding love for her husband, a brilliant doctor. She has trained for years to sing grand opera, but soon after her marriage to Harvey Perkins, she learns that he has accepted an assignment as a medical missionary in the country of Siam. Suddenly Barbara is forced into the duty of a “good wife"—to support her husband’s career, not her own. As resentment slowly grows, she travels with Harvey first to the jungles of Siam, then to the capital city of Bangkok, where he is now physician to the royal court. As she struggles with the secrets straining their marriage, Barbara wonders if she has made the right choice. At last, leaving her husband in Bangkok, she flees to Paris, then Rome, where she can finally sing on stage. If Harvey loves her, the risk is worth it for a chance to have it all—her husband and her career. Why should she be forced to choose? And, if she chooses, must the other be lost forever?

The moon is full and shining on a mango tree heavy with fruit. Beneath its leaves sits a little blue house, and beneath its eaves, sits little Anuenue and her mama. On magical Hawaiian nights such as this, thoughts take flight. Gazing at the mango tree, Anu asks her mama: "What if I ate up all those mangoes one by one, and I got so full of them that I turned into a mango tree?" Capturing the spirit of every child's imagination and combined yearning for and fear of independence, Moon Mangoes explores the "What if" back and forth exchange between a child and parent, and captures that magical before-bedtime hour when anything is possible and love is constant.

I didn't invite him. The idea was all my father's, my seventy-four-year-old father who had never been outside America and who suddenly thought that Sri Lanka, where I was a Peace Corps volunteer, would be a jolly place to visit. When John Toner, a retired Cleveland judge, decided on a whim in April 1990 to spend a month with his son in war-torn Sri Lanka, he was as much a stranger to his seventh--and last--child as he was to the hardships of life in a Third World country. Serendib chronicles the journey that follows as a father and son who had never been alone together live in close quarters, in the poorest of conditions--and replace awkwardness and distance with understanding and love. Along the way are the stories of John learning to eat with his fingers, bathing in a river alongside cows, and trading his wool trousers for a traditional sarong. We witness his coming face-to-face with a Hindu priest in a loincloth and his first encounter with the everyday violence of a country at war with itself. John watches with awe as students learn without computers, books, or even paper; he bonds with Sri Lankan children and learns, once again, how to give and how to play. Each new experience pushes Toner's father to face his fears--and brings him closer to his youngest son. Serendib offers a colorful, humorous, and touching account of multiple discoveries--of an old man exploring deep within himself, of a father and son finding each other, and of two cultures coming together on uncommon ground and awakening to the joy and hope of the life they share.

Western Samoan novel in English.

"His Journey is the story of how life drives an individual, through twists and turns, to his final and unexpected destiny. It is also a detailed and intimate account of growing up as a middle-class Catholic boy in the Kerala of the 1950s, with the rumblings of revolutionary social change in the background. The story takes the hero from the backwoods of Kerala to Chennai and onwards to Delhi, where he falls in love only to be drowned in a life-shattering tragedy. On recovery, he discovers his real destiny, which is a spiritual one – the care of the sick and the destitute. The novel also delves into the political and religious crisis of faith of the hero. It is a highly readable chronicle, not only of an individual’s quest for meaning, but also of an era of Kerala’s history that is now largely forgotten.” - Paul Zacharia, well-known Malayalam Novelist & Short Story writer""Reading His Journey is an experience of a journey through history in which we meet the dust-covered footprints of the travellers, who have vanished behind the curtain forever, but those footprints remind us the distance we have travelled. Apart from the attractive style of storytelling, the novelist has provided a glimpse into the socio-political scenario of Kerala, the God's own country, during 1950s."" - Rafeeq Ahmed, reputed Malayalam Lyricist and Novelist ""Throughout the novel, the author spices his descriptions with quite realistic and memorable scenes… Similarly, with very brief and subtle touches, personalities of several characters are etched in the readers' memory. Written in simple English and in a flowing style, the novel makes an enjoyable reading."" - Excerpts from the Foreword by Unnikrishnan Thiruvazhiyodu