My Country: A Syrian Memoir
By: Kassem Eid
4.19
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Kassem Eid survived arrest in al-Assad’s regime, a chemical weapons attack that shocked the world, …
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1. My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
By: Ari Shavit
4.22
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Die große Geschichte IsraelsDer renommierte Journalist Ari Shavit sieht Israel in einer halt- und a… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
"As the state became everything, the individual became marginalized. As it marched toward the future, Israel erased the past. There was no place for the previous landscape, no place for previous ident…"-Ari Shavit, My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
2. My House in Damascus: An Inside View of the Syrian Revolution
By: Diana Darke
4.00
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
The ongoing conflict in Syria has made clear just how limited the general knowledge of Syrian socie… read more
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- history
- memoir
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
3. Woman at Point Zero
By: Nawal El Saadawi , Sherif Hetata
4.19
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
From her prison cell, Firdaus, sentenced to die for having killed a pimp in a Cairo street, tells o… read more
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"Who said to kill does not require gentleness?"-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
"Ada baiknya bahwa saya tetap awam terhadap kenyataan itu."-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
"Sastra yang baik selalu merupakan cermin sebuah masyarakat."-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
"I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die."-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
4. And the Mountains Echoed
By: Khaled Hosseini
4.07
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one...Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Par… read more
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"Who rebels with mathematics?"-Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
"Even your graffiti artists spray Rumi on the walls"-Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
"It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know?"-Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
"these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them."-Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
5. We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
By: Wendy Pearlman
4.20
Format: None pages, ebook
LONG-LISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievic… read more
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6. How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
By: Barbara F. Walter
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and ho… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- history
- war
"For a society to fracture along identity lines, you need mouthpieces - people who are willing to make discriminatory appeals and pursue discriminatory policies in the name of a particular group. They…"-Barbara F. Walter, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
7. As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
By: Zoulfa Katouh
4.50
Format: 417 pages, Hardcover
Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had h… read more
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- war
"Bury me before I bury you" I did."-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
"There are enough people hurting you,"-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
"He bites his lip. “Please take of yourself."-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
"I’ll make it as soon as I’m done with this."-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
8. If I Survive You
By: Jonathan Escoffery
3.69
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. … read more
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"Why don't stars make any sounds in the winter? What sounds? Ethan said."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"What does Whiteness feel like?... I imagine it's like walking barefoot…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"Every boy deserves to believe him father is good, but if each father were good, we’d be living in a different kind of world."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"I imagined I could have begged an old girlfriend from college to send money; enough of them had expressed ambivalence about their trust funds that this seemed a plausible path down which I might drag…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
9. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
10. The Beekeeper of Aleppo
By: Christy Lefteri
4.17
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
The unforgettable love story of a mother blinded by loss and her husband who insists on their survi… read more
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- war
"Inside the person you know, there is a person you do not know."-Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo
"It takes bravery to cry out, to release what is in your heart."-Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo
"Sometimes we create such powerful illusions, so that we do not get lost in the darkness."-Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo
"You see?" he whispered. "You see? You have to relax and turn into nature. Then you will be fine"-Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo
11. Black Butterflies
By: Priscilla Morris
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more
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- war
12. Songbirds
By: Christy Lefteri
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the prize-winning author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo, a stunning novel about the disappearance … read more
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"Now that I could hear this woman’s song—a melody that told a story I couldn’t understand—I hoped with all of my heart that it wasn’t too late."-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds
"As if she couldn’t quite allow herself to enjoy the pleasures of one world without being pulled into the other. Her home was always waiting for her."-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds
"You see, when you clump people together and don’t understand their personal stories, you can make up any bullshit and convince yourself it’s the truth."-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds
"Yes, I love thinking about beginnings. I don’t like endings, though I suppose I’m like most people in that. An ending can be staring you right in the face without you knowing it."-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds
13. Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
By: Richard Shepherd
4.33
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
As the UK's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secre… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Although it is my job to be certain, I was unable that day, and am still unable, to escape a greater certainty: that there are always other possibilities."-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
"Truth is based upon knowledge. So, of course, it can be compromised by incomplete knowledge. As a doctor I sought truth through facts. As a pathologist I was now learning that truth could be directly…"-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
14. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
By: Barbara Demick
4.45
Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition
Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
"...the strength of the regime came from its ability to isolate its own citizens completely."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"In North Korea, you don’t own your own home; you are merely awarded the right to live there."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"Even in parts of the showcase capital of Pyongyang, you can stroll down the middle of a main street at night without being able to see the buildings on either side."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
15. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- history
- war
16. White Torture: Interviews with Iranian Women Prisoners
By: Narges Mohammadi
4.16
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Female prisoners of conscience and activists speak out against torture in Iranian prisons WINNER O… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
17. Against the Loveless World
By: Susan Abulhawa
4.50
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radical… read more
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- war
"From him I learned who those legislating morality and pretending to be more virtuous than the rest of us really are."-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"But I know now that going from place to place is just something exiles have to do. Whatever the reason, the earth is never steady beneath our feet."-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"The continuity of these traditions helped bridge the spaces between dislocation and the home I had forged in my birthright homeland, but I knew I could never again be complete in one place. This was …"-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"Music is like spoken language, inextricable from its culture. If you don't learn a language early in life, its words will forever come out wrinkled and accented by another world, no matter how well y…"-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
18. The Map of Salt and Stars
By: Zeyn Joukhadar
3.92
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Nour es una niña de once años cuyo padre acaba de morir. Su madre, cartógrafa que dibuja los mapas … read more
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- war
"Stories are powerful,"-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars
"I don’t understand why we were shelled."-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars
"The sea has a way of showing us ourselves,"-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars
"The most important places on a map are the places we haven't been yet"-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars
19. The Beekeeper:Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
By: Dunya Mikhail
4.09
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Since 2014, Daesh (ISIS) has been brutalizing the Yazidi people of northern Iraq: sowing destructio… read more
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- memoir
- politics
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- nonfiction
20. Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World
By: Joby Warrick
4.36
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Black Flags comes the thrilling unknown story of America’… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
21. My Country: A Syrian Memoir
By: Kassem Eid
4.19
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Kassem Eid survived arrest in al-Assad’s regime, a chemical weapons attack that shocked the world, … read more
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