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The Latest from Sara!

Blue Like You, A Children’s Story

 Blue Like You is the story of a Siberian Husky named Neela and her human, Sara. Follow them through their hometown of Newport Beach, California and beyond, as they meet animals of all shapes and sizes that are the color blue.

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Newest Release By Sara

Living in Modern America

Why We’re Scared and What We Can Do About It

We live in a crazy time. Everyone, literally everyone, is confused, overwhelmed, stressed, and/or scared. The speed at which the world is changing is unlike any other time in the history of humankind, and we’re having a hard time keeping up. 

Living In Modern America explores why the world today, particularly the Homeland, feels scary and what we can do about it. Through examples from science, history, and psychology, we explore the unique qualities that make us human and how those qualities act as a filter for our experiences, and how that filter helps create our reality. 

We unpack why what we don’t know scares us, and how this fear manifests itself in different ways socially, politically, and economically. Finally, we consider questions that help us understand that what we’re going through, though alarming at times, makes sense given what we know about our biology and what we can do to navigate it.

Truth is Personal

Meet Author

Sara Salam

Author Sara Salam believes truth is personal. As a writer, Sara Salam calls on her own life experiences to tell stories about how she discovers the truth about truth, and shares these findings with you, her reader. Through her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books, Sara Salam invites all of her readers to make their own decisions about how personal the truth really is. Read about Sara Salam’s journey as an author and what inspires her words here.

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Sara’s Young Adult Series (So Far)

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If Water Were Fire, A Novel

High school freshman Samantha Selim needs to figure out what she wants, and what she will sacrifice to get it. What will make her happy, she wonders. What will it cost? What will make the people she cares about – her parents, her new love, her friends – happy? Will she choose them, or will she choose herself?

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If Love Were Salt, A Novel

In the sequel to If Water Were Fire, Samantha Selim narrates her sophomore year of high school, featuring her encounters with boys, boundaries, and books in Newport Beach, California. Is her relationship with her college boyfriend what she wants and needs?  What does the relationship she needs look like? What is the “right thing”?

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If there’s a book you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must
write it.

– Toni Morrison

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