Description: For all lovers of horses and history, it's the next book in the popular Horse Diaries series. Born in the Arabian Desert in the ninth century, Yatimah is a black Arabian filly whose name means "orphan." She enjoys her life at the oasis, with sheep to tease, other foals to race, and the daughter of her Bedouin owner to take care of her. But when the colt who is her foster brother is stolen in a raid, Yatimah realizes her true birthright. Like Black Beauty, this moving novel is told in first person from the horse's own point of view and includes facts about Arabian horses and Bedouin culture.
Brief description: Based in Los Angeles, Sharmila Devar is a successful working actress with over twenty years of experience performing in TV, film, commercial, animation, and theater projects. She has a BA in economics from The University of Chicago where, thanks to a wide-ranging Common Core, she expanded her love of all things storytelling. She has performed at Chicago's prestigious Steppenwolf Theatre and is known for her recurring television roles on Scandal and in the Star Wars animated world. As a narrator, she has voiced a variety of single and multi-narrator audiobooks-ranging from POC/women's history to pre-school and middle-grade children's series, to self-help to young adult mystery to literary fiction, with a specialty in South Asian diaspora stories and romances. Her narration has been described as "vivid and full of emotion," and she has been praised for her characterizations by Library Journal and InD'tale Magazine. A voracious reader, she counts her curiosity about complicated humans and her passion to bring all their varied stories to life as some of her best qualities.