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Published Oct 2021
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by Louise Callaghan
Published Jan 2021
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by Marjan Kamali
Published Feb 2020
Read ReviewsA powerful love story exploring loss, reconciliation, and the quirks of fate.
by Maggie Paxson
Published Aug 2019
Read ReviewsDuring World War II, French villagers offered safe harbor to countless strangers - mostly children - as they fled for their lives. The same place offers refuge to migrants today. Why?
by Souad Mekhennet
Published Jun 2018
Read Reviews"I was told to come alone. I was not to carry any identification, and would have to leave my cell phone, audio recorder, watch, and purse at my hotel..."
by Michelle Kuo
Published Apr 2018
Read ReviewsA memoir of race, inequality, and the power of literature told through the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student, jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta.
The Underground Girls of Kabul
by Jenny Nordberg
Published Jul 2015
Read ReviewsAn investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl.
Children of the Jacaranda Tree
by Sahar Delijani
Published Jun 2014
Read ReviewsA stunning debut novel set in post-Revolutionary Iran that gives voice to the men, women, and children who won a war only to find their livesand those of their descendants - imperiled by its aftermath
The End of Your Life Book Club
by Will Schwalbe
Published Jun 2013
Read ReviewsThe inspiring story of a son and his dying mother, who form a "book club" that brings them together as her life comes to a close.
by Alice Hoffman
Published Apr 2012
Read ReviewsOver five years in the writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of imagination and research, set in ancient Israel.
by Samuel Shimon
Published Jun 2010
Read ReviewsAn exciting collection of the best new writing from the Arab world, by thirty-nine writers under thirty-nine.
Censoring an Iranian Love Story
by Shahriar Mandanipour
Published Jun 2010
Read ReviewsFrom one of Irans most acclaimed and controversial contemporary writers, his first novel to appear in Englisha dazzlingly inventive work of fiction that opens a revelatory window onto what its like to live, to love, and to be an artist in todays Iran.
by Elizabeth D. Samet
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsWhat does literature - particularly the literature of war - mean to a student who is likely to encounter its reality? What is the best way to stir uninhibited classroom discussions in a setting that is designed to train students to follow orders, respect authority, and survive grueling physical and mental experiences? This is the terrain Samet ...
by Diane Ackerman
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsA true story, as powerful as Schindlers List, in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
by Deborah Rodriguez, Kristin Ohlson
Published Dec 2007
Read ReviewsSoon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Once her profession became known she was eagerly sought out by Westerners desperate for a good haircut and by Afghan women, who have a long and proud tradition of running their own beauty salons. ...
by Yasmin Crowther
Published Aug 2007
Read ReviewsA passionate and timely debut about mothers and daughters, roots and exile, from the streets of Iran to the suburbs of London
by Mark Bowden
Published Mar 2007
Read ReviewsThe story of the Iran hostage crisis, Americas first battle with militant Islam.
by Karen Joy Fowler
Published May 2005
Read ReviewsDedicated Austenites will delight in unearthing the echoes of Austen that run through the novel, but most readers will simply enjoy the vision and voice that, despite two centuries of separation, unite two great writers of brilliant social comedy.
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo
by Paula Huntley
Published Feb 2004
Read Reviews"Gripping, heartbreaking reading...The interweaving of Hemingway's story, the students' narratives of terror and Huntley's own tales of discovery make for a book that is stirring and nearly impossible to put down."
by Cheryl Benard
Published Apr 2002
Read ReviewsReveals the remarkable
bravery and spirit of the women of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of
Afghanistan (RAWA), whose daring clandestine activities defied the forces of the
Taliban and earned the world's fierce admiration.
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