The Island of Missing Trees (VERIFIED AUTHENTIC) by Elif Shafak

The Island of Missing Trees (VERIFIED AUTHENTIC) by Elif ShafakIt is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic, chilli peppers and wild herbs. This is where one can find the best food in town, the best music, the best wine. But

Genre: Self-help

Gheranda Samhita is a classical text describing seven limbs of yoga as taught by Sage Gheranda to his disciple

to a father— Neither a practitioner nor a devotee

and a very real threat to his life

Already seen as oddballs in their small Japanese town in the 1960s

And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson

--history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty--is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians

an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories

It's Midwinter's Eve

a not-so-gallantry death

demolish fear

Their discoveries