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Author | : Nahlah Ayed |
Publisher | : Penguin Canada |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2012-04-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0143184032 |
A Thousand Farewells is the heartfelt and personal chronicle of a journalist who has devoted her career to covering one of the world’s most volatile regions. In 1976, Nahlah Ayed’s family gave up a comfortable life in Winnipeg for the squalor of a Palestinian refugee camp in Amman, Jordan. The transition was jarring but it was during this unsettling period that Ayed first closely observed the people whose heritage she shared. She had to become accustomed to rudimentary housing and crowded streets, unfamiliar social customs, and the prevailing mood of loss and mourning. But it was hearing the family’s stories of exile and displacement that profoundly affected her. The family returned to Canada when Ayed was thirteen, and the Middle East and its problems receded for many years. But the First Gulf War and the events of 9/11 reignited her interest. And as an Arabic-speaking journalist, she was soon reporting from the region full time, covering its dangerous conflicts and trying to make sense of the wars and upheavals that have affected its people and sent so many of them seeking a better life elsewhere. In A Thousand Farewells, Ayed vividly describes the myriad ways in which ordinary Arabs have coped with oppression and loss. From her own early days witnessing protests in Amman to watching the amazing Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt and Libya, Ayed offers nuanced and insightful analysis. Throughout, she focuses on the people whose lives have been so dramatically affected.
Author | : Jim Huber |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0785266887 |
In this beautifully written, reflective, and humorous book, Huber, host of CNN's "The Sporting Life", tells of his precious final months with his father. His recollections include moments that brought him to tears--both from crying and laughing--as he discovered what matters most in life.
Author | : Ernest Hemingway |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2014-07-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1476764522 |
An unforgettable World War I story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his love for an English nurse.
Author | : Pico Iyer |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2019-04-16 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 045149394X |
Returning to his longtime home in Japan after his father-in-law’s sudden death, Pico Iyer picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites: going to the post office and engaging in furious games of ping-pong every evening. But in a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honoring the dead, he comes to reflect on changelessness in ways that anyone can relate to: parents age, children scatter, and Iyer and his wife turn to whatever can sustain them as everything falls away. As the maple leaves begin to turn and the heat begins to soften, Iyer shows us a Japan we have seldom seen before, where the transparent and the mysterious are held in a delicate balance, and where autumn reminds us to take nothing for granted.
Author | : Kahlil Gibran |
Publisher | : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2020-08-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9390287820 |
A book of poetic essays written in English, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is full of religious inspirations. With the twelve illustrations drawn by the author himself, the book took more than eleven years to be formulated and perfected and is Gibran's best-known work. It represents the height of his literary career as he came to be noted as ‘the Bard of Washington Street.’ Captivating and vivified with feeling, The Prophet has been translated into forty languages throughout the world, and is considered the most widely read book of the twentieth century. Its first edition of 1300 copies sold out within a month.
Author | : Thomas Middleton |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780140432190 |
Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was one of the most prolific and fascinating playwrights of the Jacobean era, producing nearly fifty theatrical pieces in a quarter of a century. This collection comprises five of his most powerful plays, from the comedies satirizing city life, A Trick to Catch the Old One, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, to his later tragedies Women Beware Women and The Changeling, in which Middleton reveals a world dominated by the corrupting power of lust and subject to the futility of human pretensions. Also included is The Revenger's Tragedy, originally ascribed to Cyril Tourneur, a Revenge Play infused with sardonic wit and biting irony.
Author | : Helen Hooven Santmyer |
Publisher | : Ohio State University Press |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780814208687 |
It's a long, languorous, country summer in a small Ohio town. After many years spent away as a scholar and writer, Elizabeth Lane has returned to the setting of her most poignant childhood memories, a town steeped in her family's long history. She comes to Sunbury to work on a book but finds she is haunted by one memory in particular. It was 1905, she was eleven and in love with her cousin, Steve, painfully watching his ill-fated romance with the beautiful Damaris. Looking back, Elizabeth discovers a world of feelings that she knows belong more to adulthood than to childhood, and as she sees the tragic, doomed love of Steve and Damaris, she wishes she could be a child forever. Peopled with superbly realized characters, steeped in the golden glow of an era fondly recalled, and marked by the prodigious talent displayed in ". . . And Ladies of the Club", Farewell, Summer is the moving tale of star-crossed love -- innocent and elusive -- and of a young girl's coming of age.
Author | : Joanne Ryder |
Publisher | : Dutton Juvenile |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Summer |
ISBN | : 9780525674054 |
At the end of the summer, a child revisits the special places she has enjoyed on her vacation.
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Total Pages | : 720 |
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Author | : Khaled Hosseini |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2008-09-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 074758589X |
A riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love