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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Nishat doesn't want to lose her family, but she also doesn't want to hide who she is, and it only gets harder once a childhood friend walks back into her life. Flávia is beautiful and charismatic, and Nishat falls for her instantly. But when a school competition invites students to create their own businesses, both Flávia and Nishat decide to showcase their talent as henna artists. In a fight to prove who is the best, their lives become more tangled--but...
3) The storm
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Language
English
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From an immensely talented new voice in international fiction, a sweeping tour de force that seamlessly interweaves five love stories that, together, chronicle sixty years of Bangladeshi history.
Shahryar, a recent PhD graduate and father of nine-year-old Anna, must leave the US when his visa expires. In their last remaining weeks together, we learn Shahryar's history, in a village on the Bay of Bengal, where a poor fisherman and his wife are preparing...
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali is looking forward to going to Caltech and getting away from her conservative Muslim parents' expectation that she will marry, especially since she is in love with her girlfriend Ariana--but when her parents catch her kissing Ariana, they whisk Rukhsana off to Bangladesh and a world of tradition and arranged marriages, and she must find the courage to fight for the right to choose her own path.
5) Bangladesh
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
This book provides an overview of the geography, history, government, language, art, and food of Bangladesh, exploring its customs and current issues.
6) Bangladesh
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Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Provides a comprehensive overview of the people, geography, history, government, economy, and culture of Bangladesh.
9) The Ganges
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Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Traces the course of this famous river in India and describes its physical features, history, and importance.
10) The Ganges
Author
Series
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Describes the river's history, its geographical features and wildlife, and the towns and settlements along its banks. Also includes a survey of farming, trade, and industry along the river's course and a discussion of environmental issues faced by the river.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Fashion designer Shelby Lawrence is launching her mother-daughter dresses nationwide when she receives a photo of the girl who will change her life forever. Runa, the family's newly sponsored child, is a clever student growing up near Dhaka, Bangladesh. Shelby's daughter Paisley is instantly captivated by their faraway friend. As the girls exchange heartwarming messages, Shelby has no idea that a tragedy in Runa's life is about to upend her own....
13) Samira surfs
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After months of rebuilding a new life in Bangladesh with her family, Samira decides to become a Bengali surfer girl of Cox's Bazar, in this novel in verse about a young Rohingya girl's journey from isolation and persecution to sisterhood, and from fear to power.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A biography of Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, who from a young age was determined to make difference in the world and eventually revolutionized global antipoverty efforts by developing the innovative economic concept of micro-lending. Includes an afterword and author's sources.
