title: Queen of Dreams: A Novel
author: Chitra Divakaruni
description: Spiked with elements of mystery, suspense and the supernatural, Divakaruni's sixth novel is a pleasantly atypical tale of self-discovery. Rakhi, a single mother and struggling artist living in Berkeley, Calif., has always been vaguely aware of her own mother's unusual giftthe ability to interpret dreams. Between juggling a laundry list of other prioritieskeeping her floundering tea shop afloat after a Starbucks-esque supercafe moves in across the street, battling her ex-husband for their daughter's affections, finding her artistic voiceRakhi longs to know more about her mother's past and her own hazy Indian heritage. After a mysterious car accident claims her mother's life, Rakhi, with her father's help, sets out to decipher Mrs. Gupta's dream journals in hopes of unlocking the secrets of her peculiar double life. A shadowy man in white who appears at pivotal moments, a sinister rival and entries from Mrs. Gupta's dream journals all punctuate this cleverly imagined tale of love, forgiveness and new beginnings. Meanwhile, September 11 disrupts Rakhi's search for identity, and a vicious attack on her friends and family calls their notions of citizenship into question. Divakaruni (<i>The Mistress of Spices; Sister of My Heart; </i>etc.) does a good job working current issues into the novel and avoids synthetic characterization, creating a free-flowing story that will captivate readers. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: Alien Prince’s Curvy Fated Queen
  Queens of Yalania Book 1
  by
  Sara Hazel & Juno Wells
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  Vekshi
  *
  The battlefield stretches all around me with the bodies of Karasian soldiers covering the ground.
  My own army has been depleted, but at last the long war is over. The dust of Karasa has taken over
  the air mid-day as it always does. I swat it out of my face and walk back