Orem Library

Desi Kitchen is a unique culinary roadmap to the food of the Indian subcontinent in Britain today, with chapters covering regions from all over the UK and the desi communities that call each one home. Packed with recipes, stories and authentic voices, the book travels from the Pakistani community of Glasgow to the Nepali community of Kent and explores delicious dishes. Sarah Woods, herself a second-generation Punjabi, has brought together this collection...

This illustrated nonfiction picture book tells the true story of how a group of girls at a residential school sewed secret pockets into their clothes to hide food.

"A history of the British thinkers who developed the Enlightenment-era ideas and ideals that drove the American Revolution"-- The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. "The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness" was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with "the preservation of." In a statement as pithy--and contested--as...

At age nineteen, young Eton graduate Eric Blair set sail for India, dreading the assignment ahead. Along with several other young conscripts, he would be trained for three years as a servant of the British Empire, overseeing the local policemen in Burma. Navigating the social, racial, and class politics of his fellow British at the same time as he learned the local languages and struggled to control his men would prove difficult enough. But doing...