Usha, an Indian girl is forced to marry a much older man whom she doesn't love. His subsequent death seems a liberation, but she faces a widow's burning, her life will end in the flames of her dead husband's funeral pyre. Refusing to submit to her condition, Usha flees India for Africa, with hopes of finding the father who has abandoned her. A tragic drama, Paul Haston's critically acclaimed novel is set against a backdrop of 19th century Indian Indenture: the shipment of Indians to work on the white-owned sugar plantations in Natal.
Usha, an Indian girl is forced to marry a much older man whom she doesn't love. His subsequent death seems a liberation, but she faces a widow's burni...
Echo is an ordinary elephant with a magical gift. She hears the voices of dead elephants. Long Horn's tusks must be saved from the poachers or a great flood will destroy the land. Echo and the Magical Whispers and its successor, Lost Echo are Books 1 and 2 in The Whispers Series, a series written about elephants. The books, which are for Middle Grade children (aged 9-12) and adults who are big kids at heart, are magical realism, written from the elephants' point of view. Critically acclaimed, Echo and the Magical Whispers won a silver medal at the 2015 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards.
Echo is an ordinary elephant with a magical gift. She hears the voices of dead elephants. Long Horn's tusks must be saved from the poachers or a great...
