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Have you eva read "The Color of Water"? Awesome book. Kinna in the line of the books you are branching out to.
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Originally posted by FLUFFY View PostYes...yes....
what did you think of it?
truthfully, it has been ovah 10yrs since mi read it....know wat it is about but hard to memba the details...much have found it touching wen i read it.....i had read it long before Oprah had it as one of her bookclub picks....dat is wat made it stick in mi mind fi sooo long...Comment
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I found what I think is this book, but the title is different.
Rodriguez, Deborah,A cup of friendship
The description looks the same, so I downloaded it.
Sunny is an expat in Kabul who blissfully runs a coffee shop for other Americans in the country. When Yazmina, a pregnant young woman from a nearby village, is kidnapped and later abandoned near the coffee shop, Sunny instinctively comes to her aid. Candace, a wealthy American, also pitches in, while Isabel, a journalist, chronicles Yazmina's woe. Meanwhile, Halajan, a local mother, is reeling from a forbidden love affair.
Originally posted by evanovitch View Postabsolutely FANTASTIC FIRST NOVEL...I thoroughly enjoyed this book...picked it up for a lark at Costco n am glad I did...The Little Coffee Shop Of Kabul
by Deborah Rodriguez
Deborah Rodriguez's bestselling novel about a little cafe in Kabul, and the five extraordinary women who meet there ...
Subject: Contemporary Fiction
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Deborah Rodriguez's bestselling novel about a little cafe in Kabul, and the five extraordinary women who meet there ...
In a little coffee shop in one of the most dangerous places on earth, five very different women come together.
Sunny, the proud proprietor, who needs an ingenious plan - and fast - to keep her café and customers safe...
Yazminda, a young pregnant woman stolen from her remote village and now abandoned on Kabul's violent streets ...
Candace, a wealthy American who has finally left her husband for her Afghan lover, the enigmatic Wakil ...
Isabel, a determined journalist with a secret that might keep her from the biggest story of her life...
And Halajan, the sixty-year-old den mother, whose long-hidden love affair breaks all the rules.
As these five discover there's more to one another than meets the eye, they form a unique bond that will for ever change their lives and the lives of many others.7/5th of all people do not understand fractions.Comment
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This has finally been released in paperback and anticipation is killing me!!!!
It's the follow-up the 'The Warded Man" and "The Desert Spear"
Heading over to Chapters today!!!!Comment
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Right now i have a Janet Evanovitch book from the library. I getting weary of the series, so i never waan buy it. I put it in the freezer in a ziplock bag as Richd tell me to do, and then defrosted it later
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is certain of three truths: People don’t just vanish into thin air. Never anger old people. And don’t do what Tiki tells you to do.
After a slow summer of chasing low-level skips for her cousin Vinnie’s bail bonds agency, Stephanie Plum finally lands an assignment that could put her checkbook back in the black. Geoffrey Cubbin, facing trial for embezzling millions from Trenton’s premier assisted-living facility, has mysteriously vanished from the hospital after an emergency appendectomy. Now it’s on Stephanie to track down the con man. Unfortunately, Cubbin has disappeared without a trace, a witness, or his money-hungry wife. Rumors are stirring that he must have had help with the daring escape . . . or that maybe he never made it out of his room alive. Since the hospital staff’s lips seem to be tighter than the security, and it’s hard for Stephanie to blend in to assisted living, Stephanie’s Grandma Mazur goes in undercover....
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I finished this last night. Good read for the most part. I found it too long in some places and too short in other, but overall enjoyable.
Thanks for the recommendation.
Originally posted by evanovitch View Postabsolutely FANTASTIC FIRST NOVEL...I thoroughly enjoyed this book...picked it up for a lark at Costco n am glad I did...The Little Coffee Shop Of Kabul
by Deborah Rodriguez
Deborah Rodriguez's bestselling novel about a little cafe in Kabul, and the five extraordinary women who meet there ...
Subject: Contemporary Fiction
High Res Cover Image
Deborah Rodriguez's bestselling novel about a little cafe in Kabul, and the five extraordinary women who meet there ...
In a little coffee shop in one of the most dangerous places on earth, five very different women come together.
Sunny, the proud proprietor, who needs an ingenious plan - and fast - to keep her café and customers safe...
Yazminda, a young pregnant woman stolen from her remote village and now abandoned on Kabul's violent streets ...
Candace, a wealthy American who has finally left her husband for her Afghan lover, the enigmatic Wakil ...
Isabel, a determined journalist with a secret that might keep her from the biggest story of her life...
And Halajan, the sixty-year-old den mother, whose long-hidden love affair breaks all the rules.
As these five discover there's more to one another than meets the eye, they form a unique bond that will for ever change their lives and the lives of many others.7/5th of all people do not understand fractions.Comment
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U r welcome.try the Tarquin Hall ones with the Indian detective...I love the inclusion of social "norms "... Mek u see how the Colonial stamp similar to dis day..love the food descriptions n am using the to order here at my fave Indian story...just a good read overall...Comment
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Can't put the book down....
Weeping Willows Dance by Gloria Mallette
In 1929, by the age of fifteen, Mozelle already knew that she did not want to grow up to be like her mama, a sharecropper's wife. She did not want to get married and, for certain, she did not want twelve children. Mozelle dreamed of getting a good job, of buying herself a car, and of traveling across country a carefree woman--nobody and nothing hanging onto her skirt tail. <P>That is until tall, dark, handsome Randell Tate, twenty-two years Mozelle's senior, showed up in church that fateful Sunday morning and winked at her, throwing Mozelle's world off-balance. Three months later they wed and Randell carried Mozelle across the threshold into The Great Depression. Her children were born and, against all odds, Mozelle set her sights on buying a piece of land and building a house to put a roof over their heads. To realize that dream, Mozelle was going to have to squirrel away her pennies and in the end, build her house with her own two hands---husband or not. <P>Abiding by her parents' teachings, Mozelle stays loyal and faithful in her marriage to Randell, although Randell holds no vow sacred. The hard bed that Mozelle's father had warned that she had made for herself by marrying Randell, became less and less comfortable to sleep in, but Mozelle found comfort in turning to the Lord to see her through the storm. <P>Mozelle is every woman who squares her shoulders and vows to rise above a bad marriage and the excruciating poverty that binds her. Blessed with true grit and a strong backbone, Mozelle stands her ground and sways with the breeze of disappointment and the winds of deprivation. Her determination and her unshakeable faith in God, like the supple branches of the weeping willow tree are strong and unbreakable, thereby proving that Weeping Willows Dance.Comment
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Naked Lunch by William S Burroughs -- just started reading this and enjoying it so far...
Next book up will be Best Little Coffee Shop of KabulComment
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