![]() ![]() But if YOU understand who you are, one day they will too. ![]() Most of all she remembers her mother’s words, “Some people won’t understand your hijab. She draws pictures in her class depicting her and her sister, the two princesses, proudly wearing their hijabs (she vows her first hijab will be blue also). ![]() She decides not to speak in a whisper when explaining what it is, but speak up loud and proud. ![]() When kids at school have negative things to say, Faizah combats their negativity by comparing her sister’s hijab to a bright blue sky on a sunny day or the deepest most beautiful blue of the ocean. Faizah is proud of her “princess” sister. Asiya’s favorite color is blue and so she chooses a hijab that’s the most beautiful and bright color blue to wear on her first day. Ali (Author) 3,131 ratings Book 1 of 2: The Proudest Blue Goodreads Choice Award nominee See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 82.06 5 Used from 78. It’s Asiya’s first day wearing the hijab. The Proudest Blue Hardcover Januby Ibtihaj Muhammad (Author), S. The story is told through the eyes of a young girl named Faizah, who is excited about her and her big sister, Asiya’s, first day of school. And don’t miss The Kindest Red, a story of hijab and friendship, available for preorder now With her. The Proudest Blue is a beautiful story of two sisters and their expression of pride in their Muslim faith. : THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A powerful, vibrantly illustrated story about the first day of school-and two sisters on one's first day of hijab-by Olympic medalist and social justice activist Ibtihaj Muhammad. ![]()
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![]() Now, in this raw and riveting true story, Susan and the patients she's treated share the complex, anguished, and empowering emotions that drove their own choices. and how hidden this common experience remains. It was not until she became a doctor that she realized how many women shared her ordeal of an unwanted pregnancy. Growing up in working-class rural Wisconsin, Susan made the painful decision to have an abortion at a young age. Susan Wicklund chronicles her twenty-year career in the vanguard of the abortion war. In America the reproductive justice debate is reaching a new pitch, with the Supreme Court weighted against women's choice and state legislatures passing bills to essentially outlaw the practice of abortion. A brave account of the social and political forces that threaten a woman's right to choose, this emotionally affecting memoir from a doctor on the front lines of the abortion debate reveals what's really at stake in the Supreme Court ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A baby becomes a hero, a hero a kind of child, the ancient wanderer a modern migrant. For Hadas, the contemporary skyline sits on a classical horizon, and the birth of a child reverberates both with the ancient world and the political shocks of the 21 stcentury. Sharply intelligent and sublimely learned Rachel Hadas, one of our most distinguished poets and translators, frames all but one of the Poems for Camilla with epigraphs from Virgil’s Aeneid. Tenderly, cleverly, fiercely, she writes these poems for a newborn granddaughter, juxtaposing an epic tale of a warrior with a girl’s life just begun. Against the jolts and jars of history, she asserts life’s quiet miracles, including, in her case, the generational continuity extending from her revered father to the beloved grandchild to whom this book is dedicated. The good news, as Hadas reminds us with her characteristic humanity and intelligence, is that individuals and societies often survive crises rather than succumbing to them. Just as Virgil wrote against the backdrop of the self-conflicted, imperial turbulence of Rome, Hadas examines our republic as it veers off into possibly irreversible disorder. ![]() Rachel Hadas’s remarkable new book treats the Aeneid as a commentary on our times. ![]() ![]() ![]() This other series is set in a different part of the same world but about 1,200 years prior to the events in KDT. On a side note, I actually started writing a different series prior to writing KDT. The side stories will give me the opportunity to share with you more about the supporting characters so that you can get to know them like I do without interrupting the flow of the KDT series. This is a bit of a reminder that the story is written in the third person, and the reader is occasionally privy to information not available to the main character (at my discretion, of course!). On occasion, however, the reader gets a little extra insight into the minds and activities of the other characters outside of Rezkin’s knowledge. ![]() The reader gets to know the other characters as Rezkin learns about them. If Rezkin does not know the characters well, neither does the reader. The majority of the tale is written from Rezkin’s perspective. While at times it seems that the supporting characters are not very well developed, the story was intentionally written this way. I also have plans for several side tales, which will be about some of the supporting characters. ![]() The main KDT series will be more than three books and will continue to follow Rezkin’s story. I have had many inquiries about the KDT series, so I thought I would update you all on my plans. ![]() |