Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival
By: Fadumo Korn
3.89
Format: 186 pages, Hardcover
This powerful memoir portrays the life-altering transformation of a feisty nomad girl who undergoes…
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1. Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge
By: Mark Batterson
4.46
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
The 40-day prayer plan that will change your life plan Do you pray as often and as boldly as you… read more
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"It's not my name that's at stake."-Mark Batterson, Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge
"Our biggest problem is our small view of God."-Mark Batterson, Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge
"The Aramaic word for prayer (slotha) means 'to set a trap.' Opportunities are like wild animals."-Mark Batterson, Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge
"Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes."-Mark Batterson, Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge
2. The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
By: Lola Shoneyin
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
African-born poet Lola Shoneyin makes her fiction debut with The Secret Lives of Babi Segi's Wives,… read more
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- africa
3. The Name of the Rose
By: Umberto Eco , Seán Barrett , William Weaver
4.14
Format: 552 pages, Paperback
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother Willi… read more
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"الكتب ليست مجعولة كي نؤمن بما تقوله ولكن لكي نتحرّى فيها."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
4. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
By: Mario Vargas Llosa , None
3.54
Format: None pages,
Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth,… read more
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5. The Yacoubian Building
By: Alaa Al Aswany , علاء الأسواني , Humphrey T. Davies
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
This controversial bestselling novel in the Arab world reveals the political corruption, sexual rep… read more
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- africa
6. The Forty Rules of Love
By: Elif Shafak , محمد درويش , None , ارسلان فصیحی
4.12
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a lit… read more
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"تعلمت أن أتقبل الشوكة والوردة معاً، مساوئ الحياة ومحاسنها."-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
"النفاق هو الذي يجعل الناس سعداء. أما الحقيقة فتجعلهم يشعرون بالحزن"-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
"لا يعنيني الحلال ولا الحرام فأنا أفضل أن أطفئ نار جهنم، وأن أحرق الجنة حتى يحب الناس الله من أجل الحب الخالص."-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
"من الغرابة أن تقول ذلك لامرأة تفكر بالماضي كثيراً, وتفكر بالمستقبل أكثر, لكن بطريقة ما, لم تمسّها اللحظة الراهنة."-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
7. Corelli's Mandolin
By: Louis de Bernières
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
Captain Corelli's Mandolin is set in the early days of the second world war, before Benito Mussolin… read more
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8. An Unnecessary Woman
By: Rabih Alameddine
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
One of Beirut's most celebrated voices, Rabih Alameddine follows his international bestseller, The … read more
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9. This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
By: None
3.43
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
In January 2006, after the Republic of Liberia had been racked by fourteen years of brutal civil co… read more
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10. Season of Migration to the North
By: Tayeb Salih , Denys Johnson-Davies
3.72
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to h… read more
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"شفق المغيب ليس دماً ، ولكنه حناء في قدم المرأة"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"لا يعنيني أن كان للحياة معنى أو لم يكن لها معنى."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"You are entitled to wonder and to doubt - you're free."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"أشباح الليل تتبخر مع الفجر ، وحمى النهار تبرد مع نسيم الليل"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
11. Night Watch (Watch #1)
By: Sergei Lukyanenko , Andrew Bromfield
4.33
Format: None pages,
Others. They walk among us. Observing. Set in contemporary Moscow, where shape shifters, vampires, … read more
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12. The Dead Lake
By: Andrew Bromfield , Hamid Ismailov
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A haunting Russian tale about the environmental legacy of the Cold War. Yerzhan grows up in a remot… read more
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13. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
14. The Absolute Book
By: Elizabeth Knox
3.22
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Taryn Cornick believes that the past--her sister's violent death, and her own ill-conceived revenge… read more
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"Suddenly Taryn was furious. 'Why the hell are you always so careful?' 'What else should I be? Most of the good in the world is remedial. It's fixing things and caring for people. Taking care."-Elizabeth Knox, The Absolute Book
"No matter how out of the ordinary demonic possession was, it was still somehow a smoker's lung cancer, a drunk's pancreatitis, a philanderer's STI - a thing she had brought upon herself by not behavi…"-Elizabeth Knox, The Absolute Book
"Something terrible had happened in his life to send him back to her looking for revenge. He believed she had been unlucky for him and was to be blamed for some calamity, some failure or loss. But he …"-Elizabeth Knox, The Absolute Book
"She felt the Muleskinner was less interested in enjoying her attention than figuring out what he could do for her. There were people who stole near to you, and you could sense their shadows touching …"-Elizabeth Knox, The Absolute Book
15. In the Time of the Butterflies
By: Julia Alvarez
4.15
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
Librarian's Note: an alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here. Set during the waning days… read more
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16. The Old Drift
By: Namwali Serpell
3.74
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A Zambian debut novel that follows three generations of three families, telling the story of a nati… read more
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"Every family is a war but some are more civil than others."-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
"Only a sister, an alternative self, could inspire such a sordid mix of disgust and envy."-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
"She stepped from the trashy bedlam of the road into the cool cave of the shop, relieved to escape the experience of walking outside while female."-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
"Old like her father was old, a shaggy shambling old, an old where you'd lost the order of things and felt so sad that you simply had to embrace the loss, reassuring yourself with the lie that you had…"-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
17. The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
By: Clemantine Wamariya
4.19
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
A riveting story of dislocation, survival, and the power of the imagination to save us Clemantine … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- history
- autobiography
- nonfiction
"Now it felt like I did nothing. I had everything and I did nothing."-Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
"When you don't belong to a country, the world decides that you don't deserve a thing."-Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
"But clean, in that dress, holding Marietta and Freddy’s hands, I felt like somebody’s somebody."-Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
"She wanted to tell a true story, a complete story. No ending ever felt right. History made it hard."-Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
18. The Eternal Audience of One
By: Rémy Ngamije
3.81
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This coming-of-age tale follows a young man who is forced to flee his homeland of Rwanda during the… read more
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"It's easy to live and work with someone when you don't owe them an apology. But when you apologize for the fucked up shit you did then you need to carry the guilt and the shame."-Rémy Ngamije, The Eternal Audience of One
"Isn't that what apologies are? Acknowledgment of guilt and shame. And the other person takes your wrongdoing and agrees to carry it and le t you be human again. That's why I don't believe weak people…"-Rémy Ngamije, The Eternal Audience of One
19. Barefoot Doctor
By: Can Xue
3.42
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A profound, poignant story of a village healer and her community, from one of the world’s great con… read more
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20. One Year of Ugly
By: Caroline Mackenzie
3.78
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A fun, fresh, timely debut novel about the uproarious adventures that befall the Palacio family dur… read more
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21. Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival
By: Fadumo Korn
3.89
Format: 186 pages, Hardcover
This powerful memoir portrays the life-altering transformation of a feisty nomad girl who undergoes… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- history
- feminism
- gender
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- somalia
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