Bina is a family member of Garry - a sufferer of compulsive staring. For the purposes of maintaining the patient’s anonymity, I am using the alias Bina and the patient is referred to by the alias Garry. I attended much of Garry's treatment and supported him through to recovery. Please note that I do not have any professional qualifications in counseling, psychology or psychiatry. The knowledge of this issue has been gathered from my experience of observing Garry's recovery through therapy,...

Named a Best Book of 2019 by NPR“How might we mitigate losses caused by shortsightedness? Bina Venkataraman, a former climate adviser to the Obama administration, brings a storyteller’s eye to this question. . . . She is also deeply informed about the relevant science.” —The New York Times Book ReviewA trailblazing exploration of how we can plan better for the future: our own, our families’, and our society’s....

For fans of All the Light You Cannot See and The German Girl, Keeping Secrets is a remarkable debut, by a veteran American magazine journalist exploring her own family's flight from Poland.Hannah Stone, now a successful New York City journalist, was smuggled out of Poland as a child with her parents after surviving the Holocaust. They remade themselves in America, harboring the deep scars of stories never told. Now in her thirties, Hannah...

In modern, beautiful Green City, the capital of South West Asia, gender selection, war and disease have brought the ratio of men to women to alarmingly low levels. The government uses terror and technology to control its people, and women must take multiple husbands to have children as quickly as possible. Yet there are women who resist, women who live in an underground collective and refuse to be part of the system. Secretly protected by the highest echelons of power, they emerge only at ...

In an unnamed Middle Eastern country, government leaders maintain a stranglehold over women’s lives and freedoms. But in a neglected southern province, a secret female resistance movement has been forming for years. Now, the Hamiyat are preparing for battle, as they plan a daring attack on the perpetrators of the central regime. Bina Shah’s widely acclaimed feminist dystopia Before She Sleeps described a futuristic dystopian world where technology and tyranny rob women of their freedom and...

"A love letter to the changemakers who are working tirelessly toward building a more just future."Through coaching, truth-telling and guided reflections, Say The Quiet Part Out Loud brings its readers to the summit of an anti-racism and anti-oppression journey, allowing the readers to be seen, challenged and more liberated in how they show up. This book is a reminder that you don't need permission to change the world.

The U.S. literary debut of an up-and-coming Pakistani novelist and journalist. The last three months of Benazir Bhutto’s life — from her arrival back in Pakistan on October 18, 2007, to her untimely death in a shooting-cum-suicide bombing on December 27th– is told through the eyes of a young television journalist in Bina Shah’s intense confessional novel A Season for Martyrs. The estranged son of a wealthy landowner from the interior region of Sindh, Ali Sikandar, is assigned by his produc...

When Cassidy Diamond is admitted to a prestigious summer program at Stanford University, she looks forward to being surrounded by people just like herself: smart, studious, and antisocial. But when Cassidy is assigned to stay with the Harper family and meets their vivacious and uninhibited daughter Grace, the two girls clash at first sight. Cassidy is determined to not let Grace distract her from her studies, while Grace wants to show Cassidy that maybe her grades aren't all she has going ...

In the 1980s, Sasi finds herself playing the role of involuntary trailblazer, as the first Nepali woman to immigrate to her small community in Eastern Canada.There is no guidebook on how to navigate life, identity, and motherhood in this strange new place. Nor is she prepared for the triple whammy of racism, sexism, and ageism that confronts her as she seeks to gain a footing in the workplace and society.Weaving together personal recollections with those of family members, ...

Success in modern Western society has become an object of aspiration for many,who construct their self-worth—and in many respects their veryidentity—according to accepted criteria of success, primarily in the professionaland economic spheres. When the pursuit of success takes hold across all areasof life, many people find it difficult to live with failure or to acknowledge it.Where, then, did the race for success in the West begin? Is it a phenomenon

Discover The Natural Beauty Tips Of The AncientsThe classic beauties of antiquity didn't need fancy skin creams, Botox, or surgery, and neither do you.In the past the beauty of some women was so great that they literally echo through the ages. Cleopatra used her beauty and feminine wiles to seduce Julius Caesar and rule Egypt as its last pharaoh. Helen of Troy's beauty, according to legend, launched a thousand ships and started the Trojan War. Other classical beauties inclu...

In 1979, a family divided by apartheid-era immigration laws is finally reunited in South Africa. But the journey towards belonging, identity, and purpose is only beginning. Set between rural India, apartheid South Africa, and the halls of one of the country's leading universities, this memoir traces a life shaped by separation, resilience, and the quiet power of education. Growing up in Lenasia, the author comes of age within a community that preserves culture and dignity amid systemic exc...