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May.14.2013 - 7:56 am
I'm a Goodreads Featured Author on Wednesday, May 15, a big honor. I've been asked to do a Goodreads chat on their site that day. The chat will go on all day. I'll be checking...
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May.11.2013 - 1:23 pm
These are some photos of places where I read from Oleander Girl, my new novel, and Grandma and the Great Gourd, my children's book.
At Asia Society Texas, in Houston, the...
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May.06.2013 - 10:52 pm
Mother's Day, coming up soon, reminds me of how important my mother, who pretty much brought us up as a single parent, has been in my life. Perhaps the many mothers that I...
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May.24.2012 - 6:52 pm
When I lived in India, I disliked bitter gourd with a passion. I thought it an unnatural, dangerous, distasteful vegetable, with its ridged skin not unlike the hides of alligators...
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Published by School Library Journal
In this sequel to The Conch Bearer (Roaring Brook, 2003), Anand and Nisha have just begun their schooling in magic when their mentor, Abhaydatta, is sent on a dangerous mission....
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author and poet. Her work is widely known, as she has been published in over 50 magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker, and her writing has been included in over 50 anthologies. Her works...
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