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From the Heavens to My Hands is a story of growth, acceptance and discovery. When Sarah was twelve she started to struggle with OCD, her world was filled with fear of uncertainty and she saw nothing beyond that. Her mother passed away when she was thirteen. Her world completely rocked, her foundation was gone. She no longer felt at home in her own house. She no longer felt at home... anywhere.That is when her Anxiety really began. Feeling inse...

Sarah Levine's Each Knuckle with Sugar is a soft yet powerful deep-dive into love and grief told through multiple fascinating perspectives. ¿¿"I love this book. [...] Look, some of its tanginess may leap off the page and startle your fingers. Some of its honey may stick to your knuckles. Let it."-Chen Chen, author of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

Arresting. This is the word that comes to mind after finishing Sarah Levine's, Take Me Home. From the first lines this collection grabbed my ear the way a good piece of music does, drawing me into its world of intimate utterance and melody. Throughout, Levine masterfully controls line, rhythm and language, building the music to crescendo before easing the tension in final, satisfying resolution. As I said, these poems are simply arresting." -...

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In some parts of northwestern Nigeria, mothers studiously avoid making eye contact with their babies. Some Chinese parents go out of their way to seek confrontation with their toddlers. Japanese parents almost universally co-sleep with their infants, sometimes continuing to share a bed with them until age ten. Yet all these parents are as likely as Americans to have loving relationships with happy children. If these practices seem bizarre, or ...

Women's schooling is strongly related to child survival and other outcomes beneficial to children throughout the developing world, but the reasons behind these statistical connections have been unclear.

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Newbery Honor winner Levine ("Ella Enchanted") presents a fabulous and funny fantasy about a shape-shifting ogre, a dragon detective, and a girl who dreams of becoming an actress.

Cracked Egg, a true story, begins at the earliest age remembered. It is based on memory as understood then and now. Marriage, at much too young an age, could have contributed-and probably did contribute-to the stumble resulting in problems that grew and grew. Feelings and beliefs are evident throughout each chapter that promotes considerate thought as to what is right, wrong, and good in life as seen in the cracked egg's family. The cracked eg...

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Twelve-year-old Elodie journeys to Two Castles in hopes of studying acting but instead becomes apprentice to a dragon, who teaches her to be observant and use reasoning, thus helping her to uncover who is poisoning the king.

With the deft evocations of a master storyteller and the exhaustive knowledge of a scholar, LeVine writes of the uneasy relations between Islam and spirit possession in a Nigerian town and between Christianity and witchcraft in a Kenyan village, of Mexican women taking the Virgin Mary as their role model, of a Nepalese teenager's flight from an arranged marriage to ordination as a Buddhist nun and a feminist career, of a Filipina maid in afflu...

Rebuilding Buddhism" describes in evocative detail the experiences and achievements of Nepalis who have adopted Theravada Buddhism. This form of Buddhism was introduced into Nepal from Burma and Sri Lanka in the 1930s, and its adherents have struggled for recognition and acceptance ever since. With its focus on the austere figure of the monk and the biography of the historical Buddha, and more recently with its emphasis on individualizing medi...