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| Author | : Bruce J. Berger |
| Publisher | : Black Rose Writing |
| Total Pages | : 269 |
| Release | : 2020-10-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1684335590 |
"A well-crafted tale about trauma and miracles." -Kirkus Reviews Nicky Covo is a Holocaust survivor. In 1990, Nicky - a Brooklyn psychiatrist - receives a letter from Abbess Fevronia, the head of a women's monastery in Greece. Although Nicky believes the rest of his family died at Auschwitz, he learns that Theodora, a mysteriously silent nun who's lived at the monastery since 1944, may be his baby sister, Kal. With his old friend and new love, Helen, Nicky returns to Greece - to harrowing memories of his fighting with the partisans and to a reunion with his beloved sister. The Flight of the Veil explores the intersections of guilt and memory, faith and tragedy, fate and miracle.
| Author | : Laura Fitzgerald |
| Publisher | : Bantam |
| Total Pages | : 309 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0553383884 |
Raised amidst the confines of Iranian society, young Tamila Soroush escapes the oppression of Iran for the freedom of America, enjoying her everyday acts of rebellion against her background and capturing her new life through the lens of her camera, all the while searching for a husband who can prevent her return home. Original.
| Author | : Fatima Mernissi |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 1987-04-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780253204233 |
From the writing of her first book, Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society in 1975, Mernissi has sought to reclaim the ideological discourse on women and sexuality from the stranglehold of patriarchy. She critically examines the classical corpus of religious-juristic texts, including the Hadith, and reinterprets them from a feminist perspective. In her view, the Muslim ideal of the silent, passive, obedient woman has nothing to do with the authentic message of Islam. Rather, it is a construction of the 'ulama', the male jurists-theologians who manipulated and distorted the religious texts in order to preserve the patriarchal system. Mernissi's work explores the relationship between sexual ideology, gender identity, sociopolitical organization, and the status of women in Islam; her special focus, however, is Moroccan society and culture. As a feminist, her work represents an attempt to undermine the ideological and political systems that silence and oppress Muslim women.
| Author | : Libby Fischer Hellmann |
| Publisher | : The Red Herrings Press |
| Total Pages | : 362 |
| Release | : 2011-12-31 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 193873372X |
Anna & Nouri fall in love, move to Tehran, and marry. Four months later the shah is deposed. Anna, a young American studying in Chicago falls in love with fellow-student Nouri, the son of a wealthy Iranian business executive. Anna, whose parents are divorced and remote, eagerly moves to Tehran where she marries and is embraced by Nouri's family. A few months later, however, in February 1978, the Shah is deposed and the Islamic Republic of Iran is formed. . Readers will be drawn in through the well-researched inside look at Iran in the late 1970s and gain perspective on what the people in that time and place endured. A Bitter Veil is so thought-provoking that it especially would be a great title for book clubs to discuss. Amy Alessio, BookReporter.com Life turns upside down for the couple as men, and especially women, are restricted in their activities, clothing, and behavior. Arrests and torture are frequent, education for women is prohibited, and Anna cannot travel without her husband's permission. Although she tries to conform to please her husband and new family, Anna chafes under the oppression, while Nouri seems to embrace it. Anna grows increasingly unhappy, and as events become more explosive, so does Nouri. Anna is desperate to return to America, but Nouri refuses to allow it. Tension builds until a shattering event changes everything and plunges Anna into a tumultuous—and dangerous—vortex, raising the possibility she will never leave Iran alive. Hellmann crafts a tragically beautiful story around a message that is both subtle and vibrant. The author does an amazing job of delivering her point but never by sacrificing the quality of her storytelling. Instead, the message drives the psychological and emotional conflict painting a bleak and heart-wrenching tale that will stick with the reader long after they finish the book. Bryan Van Meter, CrimeSpree Magazine If you enjoy the historical novels of Ken Follett, Kristin Hannah, and Kate Quinn, you'll love the Compulsively Readable Thrillers by Libby Hellmann.
| Author | : Kate Hewitt |
| Publisher | : Harlequin |
| Total Pages | : 133 |
| Release | : 2013-01-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1460300556 |
Having a passionate affair on a desert island was not something Millie Lang ever thought she'd do…. Since tragedy struck her life, Millie has cocooned herself in her work, leaving no time to think or feel. Chase Bryant has his own reasons for escaping it all. As long as they both know this paradise is just for one week with no messy emotions, all should be fine. But neither of these two damaged souls is ready for the Pandora's box of emotions that their intense passion unleashes….
| Author | : Mark Vance |
| Publisher | : Mark A. Vance |
| Total Pages | : 151 |
| Release | : 2019-02-12 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1732867909 |
A cocky, wisecracking, commercial airline pilot has a surreptitious, lifelong relationship with the apparition of a dead relative, killed decades earlier in a military plane crash. When the apparition urges the pilot to solve the mystery of that crash, government censorship and stonewalling ensues, eventually surmounted by confidential information provided by entities disguised as the pilot's dead relative and murdered comrades.
| Author | : Ariel Lawhon |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2017-01-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1101873922 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia, here is a suspenseful, heart-wrenching novel that brings the fateful voyage of the Hindenburg to life. On the evening of May 3rd, 1937, ninety-seven people board the Hindenburg for its final, doomed flight. Among them are a frightened stewardess who is not what she seems; the steadfast navigator determined to win her heart; a naive cabin boy eager to earn a permanent position; an impetuous journalist who has been blacklisted in her native Germany; and an enigmatic American businessman with a score to settle. Over the course of three champagne-soaked days, their lies, fears, agendas, and hopes for the future will be revealed—and one in their party will set a plot in motion that will have devastating consequences for them all.
| Author | : Julie Orringer |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 577 |
| Release | : 2019-05-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307959414 |
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Invisible Bridge comes a gripping tale of forbidden love, high-stakes adventure, and unimaginable courage filled with "suspense and tragedy, unexpected twists and deliverance” (The Seattle Times). • THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES TRANSATLANTIC MARSEILLE, 1940. Varian Fry, a Harvard-educated journalist and editor, arrives in France. Recognizing the darkness descending over Europe, he and a group of like-minded New Yorkers formed the Emergency Rescue Committee, helping artists and writers escape from the Nazis and immigrate to the United States. Amid the chaos of World War II, and in defiance of restrictive U.S. immigration policies, Fry must procure false passports, secure visas, seek out escape routes through the Pyrenees and by sea, and make impossible decisions about who should be saved, all while under profound pressure—and in a state of irrevocable personal change. In this dazzling work of historical fiction—one that illuminates previously unexplored elements of Fry’s story, and has, since its publication, brought us new insight into his life.
| Author | : Felicity Vaughn |
| Publisher | : Limitless Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2019-08-30 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781640347663 |
Between living with her over-protective brother, and working long shifts at a diner, Lexie has no time for a social life, leaving her clueless when it comes to the opposite sex.But her sheltered life changes drastically when she meets Declan Cain.He seems to have it all-fast cars, flashy house, killer looks. And Lexie is instantly drawn to him, yet her inexperience with men makes her hesitate. Little does she know her slight hesitation puts in motion an insatiable obsession.Declan isn't who-or what-he pretends to be. He's not from this world, and there's a war raging inside him, a battle between good and evil. His predatory instincts make him impossible to resist-which is why Lexie's rejection ignites a craving too strong to control. But Declan can't succumb to the temptation. If he loses his fight against the darkness he carries around inside him, it's not just Lexie's life that's at risk...but an entire realm's fate hangs in the balance.
| Author | : William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 1925 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Kitty Fane's affair with Assistant Colonial Secretary Townsend is interrupted when she is taken from Hong Kong by her vengeful bacteriologist husband to work in a cholera epidemic.
