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Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Though she is desperately poor, her life is full of simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family.
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Perfectly Haunting....
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I, Who Did Not Die
- A Sweeping Story of Loss, Redemption, and Fate
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Khorramshahr, Iran, May 1982 - It was the bloodiest battle of one of the most brutal wars of the twentieth century, and Najah, a 29-year-old wounded Iraqi conscript, was face to face with a 13-year-old Iranian child soldier who was ordered to kill him. Instead, the boy committed an astonishing act of mercy. It was an act that decades later would save his own life.
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- De jennie en 04-10-24
De: Zahed Haftlang, y otros
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The Wife's Tale
- A Personal History
- De: Aida Edemariam
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In this indelible memoir of the life of her remarkable 95-year-old grandmother, Guardian journalist Aida Edemariam tells the story of modern Ethiopia - a nation that underwent a tumultuous transformation from feudalism to monarchy to Marxist revolution to democracy, over the course of one century. Filled with a vivid cast of characters - emperors and empresses, priests and scholars, monks and nuns, archbishops and slaves, Marxist revolutionaries and wartime double agents - The Wife's Tale introduces a woman both imperious and vulnerable.
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A Look At Ethiopia
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De: Aida Edemariam
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Island of a Thousand Mirrors
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Yasodhara tells the story of her own Sinhala family, rich in love, with everything they could ask for. As a child in idyllic Colombo, social hierarchies, their parents’ ambitions, teenage love shape Yasodhara and her siblings’ lives, and, subtly, the differences between Tamil and Sinhala people; but the peace is shattered by the tragedies of war. Yasodhara's family escapes to Los Angeles. But Yasodhara's life has already become intertwined with a young Tamil girl's.
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Pronunciation
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The Song Poet
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Bee lost his father as a young boy and keenly felt his orphanhood. He would wander from one neighbor to the next, collecting the things they said to each other, whispering the words to himself at night until one day a song was born. Bee sings the life of his people through the war-torn jungle and a Thai refugee camp. But the songs fall away in the cold, bitter world of a Minneapolis housing project and on the factory floor until, with the death of Bee's mother, the songs leave him for good.
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Beautiful, full of sadness, power, and heart.
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De: Kao Kalia Yang
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The Blue Between Sky and Water
- De: Susan Abulhawa
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It is 1947, and Beit Daras, a quiet village in Palestine surrounded by olive groves, is home to the Baraka family. Eldest daughter Nazmiyeh looks after her widowed mother, prone to wandering and strange outbursts, while her brother, Mamdouh, tends to the village bees. Their younger sister, Mariam, with her striking mismatched eyes, spends her days talking to imaginary friends and writing.
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Horrible pronunciation
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De: Susan Abulhawa
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They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky
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Benjamin, Alepho, and Benson were raised among the Dinka tribe of Sudan. Their world was an insulated, close-knit community of grass-roofed cottages, cattle herders, and tribal councils. The lions and pythons that prowled beyond the village fences were the greatest threat they knew. All that changed the night the government-armed Murahiliin began attacking their villages.
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Important History
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Slave
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Mende Nazer tells the story of her kidnap, at age 12, from an idyllic life with her family in a village in Sudan, and being sold into slavery. Trafficked to Europe and the London home of a diplomat, Nazer escaped - only to find she had to fight for asylum.
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Heartbreaking dose of reality
- De Sarah en 09-02-09
De: Mende Nazar, y otros
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White Dog Fell from the Sky
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Botswana, 1976: Isaac Muthethe thinks he is dead. Smuggled across the border from South Africa in a hearse, he awakens covered in dust, staring at blue sky and the face of White Dog. Far from dead, he is, for the first time, in a country without apartheid. A medical student in South Africa, he was forced to flee after witnessing a friend murdered by white members of the South African Defense Force.
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Unexpectedly Stunning Work!
- De Kathi en 03-15-13
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The Orphan Keeper
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Seven-year-old Chellamuthu's life - and his destiny - is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in Southern India and sold to the Lincoln Home for Homeless Children. His family is desperate to find him, and Chellamuthu anxiously tells the Indian orphanage that he is not an orphan, he has a mother who loves him. But he is told not to worry, he will soon be adopted by a loving family in America.
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5 Star Worthy
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She Would Be King
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Wayétu Moore’s powerful debut novel, She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia’s early years through three unforgettable characters who share an uncommon bond. Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. Norman Aragon, the child of a white British colonizer and a Maroon slave from Jamaica, can fade from sight when the earth calls him.
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Beautiful example of magical realism.
- De Danielle en 10-07-18
De: Wayétu Moore
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Rena's Promise
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- De: Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Heather Dune Macadam
- Narrado por: Heather Dune Macadam
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"I do not hate. To hate is to let Hitler win." - Rena Kornreich Gelissen. On March 26, 1942, the first mass transport of Jews - 999 young women - arrived in Auschwitz. Among them was Rena Kornreich, the 716th woman numbered in camp. A few days later, her sister Danka arrives and so begins a trial of love and courage that will last three years and 41 days, from the beginning Auschwitz death camp to the end of the war.
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Excellent Content / Horrible Production
- De Simone en 07-23-15
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Kabu Kabu
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Kabu kabu - unregistered, illegal Nigerian taxis - generally get you where you need to go. Nnedi Okorafor's Kabu Kabu, however, takes the listener to exciting, fantastic, magical, occasionally dangerous, and always imaginative locations you didn't know you needed. This debut short-story collection by an award-winning author includes notable previously published material, a new novella cowritten with New York Times best-selling author Alan Dean Foster, six additional original stories, and a brief foreword by Whoopi Goldberg.
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FANTASTIC!
- De Rita en 11-14-19
De: Nnedi Okorafor, y otros
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When Harlow Estrada is abruptly fired from her dream job and her boyfriend proves to be a jerk, her world turns upside down. She flees New York City to the one place she can always call home—the enchanted Hacienda Estrada. The Estrada family farm in Mexico houses an abundance of charmed flowers cultivated by Harlow’s mother, sisters, aunt, and cousins. By harnessing the magic in these flowers, they can heal hearts, erase memories, interpret dreams—but not Harlow.
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Football is the heartbeat of Brownwood, Texas. Now, the war has changed everything. Most of the Brownwood men over 18 and under 45 are off fighting, and in a small town, the possibilities are limited. Could this mean a season without football? But no one counted on Assistant Principal Tylene Wilson, who learned the game at her daddy’s knee. She knows more about it than most men, so she does the unthinkable, convincing the school to let her take on the job of coach.
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North Dakota, late summer, 1999. Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence - but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he's hit something else, a blur he saw as he squeezed the trigger. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor's five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich.
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Born in the Hispanic barrio of Los Angeles, Gregory Reeves grew up in poverty, survived the killing fields of Vietnam, and is now a lawyer in San Francisco. Though he has successfully survived this hard journey, Gregory’s life has suddenly gone off the rails thanks to an illusory and wrongheaded quest that has left him feeling lost and listless. To find what he is missing and what his heart truly wants, he must return to his roots. Only by excavating the past can he see the way to his future.
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The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses)
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A whimsical, moving novel about a retirement home for literary legends who spar, conjure up new stories, and almost magically change the lives of the people around them. Alfonse Carducci was a literary giant who lived his life to excess - lovers, alcohol, parties, and literary rivalries. But now he's come to the Bar Harbor Home for the Elderly to spend the remainder of his days among kindred spirits: the publishing industry's nearly gone but never forgotten greats. Only now, at the end of his life, does he comprehend the price of appeasing every desire.
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The title drew me in, the story kept me there
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- 04-09-19
Lost Innocence, Boko Haram and Terror in Nigeria
The dreams of a university education, the love of learning and being the first girl from her family to go to college all vanished . . . the day that Boko Haram ransacked their village. Powerfully told and heartbreakingly honest, this story will stay with me for a long, long time.
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- Grammy Pammy
- 01-01-20
Brings to life
This heartbreaking story brings to life the horrible deeds heaped uoon these innocent young girls. It also brings to light how easily brainwashing can take place withe a stick and carrot. The world should not ever turn a blind eye.
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- Rose Irvin
- 06-26-19
AWESOME
GREAT AND AWESOME, I LOVED IT. BEAUTIFUL EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINING ACTIVITIES. GLAD YOUR SAFE NOW
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- William
- 12-11-22
The Dead Mourning for the Dead
I have way more books than I can read so I am way behind in reading. Unless I buy a book that I just have to read right now, the books just go into my stack and by the time I get to them, I’ve often forgotten what they are about and why I bought them with the title as the only hint. With this book, the hint from the title told me it was probably set in Africa but that’s all and I’m glad that’s all I knew. It allowed me to read it without any expectations and for that reason, I’m going to divide this review into two parts so that you can have the same benefit as I if you want to read it with the same “innocence.” And it’s definitely a book worth reading and worth the surprise.
The book is narrated by a young girl called Ya Ta, though that is a nickname. She lives in a rural area of northeastern Nigeria in a very closely-knit town. The town is religiously mixed, both Muslim and Christian but both groups mix and get along together. Ya Ta is the only daughter with several brothers and her parents are proud that she is able to go to school even through high school, unlike girls of her parents’ generation and even of many girls in her village today. Ya Ta loves learning and has been studying hard for an entrance exam, hoping to be the first in her village to win a scholarship to go on to university.
At the same time, she wonders if it will happen, especially as her schoolmate and good friend drops out of school to get married and is soon pregnant. But Ya Ta dreams of going to university, both for the thrill of learning and for the possibility of a profession that will give back to her family and society. The book is divided into very short chapters, mostly of just a few pages or less. They describe a rural life in terms that a city person would never think of and describe a world that is foreign even to a rural westerner. And yet, even in these short chapters that seem to be just describing an insignificant detail of life, the author packs in a lot of important detail that help you understand life from a completely different perspective and prepare you for events to come. And, you soon realize that much of the story is not much different from an adolescent story anywhere else in the world. There are still school gangs, violence, peer pressure, issues of religious freedom, the struggle between a desire to forge one’s own path and yet respect one’s duty to family. And there is the gradual dropping of things that sound so normal to the narrator and so shocking to us, that she worries so much that something will happen to her school books that her family could not afford to replace, that she is about ready to graduate from high school and has never read but one book outside of a textbook because that’s the only one she had access to, and how special a piece of candy is or a pair of shoes, oh, and how amazed she is when she first is given a donated sanitary pad. Her father’s most prized possession is a radio that he keeps tuned to the local news and the BBC which he listens to all day (and which they all say will not leave him until it is buried with him), and it is there where she gets a view of and desire to experience the wider world as well as a greater appreciation for the world that she enjoys while also giving her some of the news of the greater area around her village. It also means that a priority purchase even on a meager income is batteries.
The Baobab tree pops up throughout the story. The tree is a symbol of life and protection and she enjoys its fruit. It also symbolizes many of their cultural, religious and community values. And there is the poem of Robert Browning, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin,” that she knows well and which comes up regularly. The book is such a refreshing story that seems simple but that can lead to a lot of deeper thinking. And, obviously there are unexpected twists as the story develops that draw you in even deeper, but suffice it to say that this will be on my list of one of my best books of the year. And, if that recommendation is enough and you want to read it with the same fresh ear as I had, then now is the time to stop reading.
But if you want to know the major theme of the book, then keep reading. I will share the theme but try to avoid giving too much of the book away. I will note that the title of the book is not only allegorical and that the local news that starts to come up on the radio station maybe a quarter of the way into the book is about a small band of rebels in the forest north of them called Boko Haram. Then maybe you should realize that in the poem that she is so familiar with, the piper had been hired to get rid of the rats in the town (probably around the time of the plague) and then the town’s leaders reneged on their promise to pay him. So, later the piper returned and led all the children away, never to be seen again. This is not a “Hallmark Channel” type of book. It is tragic and difficult but still written in a way that I would have allowed my teenagers to read. It portrays events as they happened but without gratuitous detail, without sensationalizing, and without over-simplification. It is a story of dreams that turn into nightmares, but just as in nightmares, some of the details are blurry. They heard the thunder and were rejoicing that maybe this year the dry season was ending early and the rains would not be late as they had been last year only to find that it was not thunder but heavy weapons. She describes Boko Haram’s coming as something like death which strikes unexpectedly, she says, “… when your sleep is sweetest.”
And it is a balanced portrayal. It doesn’t defend Boko Haram in any way, but does allow you to see the grievances and the corruption that made the growth of such a group possible. It doesn’t paint Muslims as evil. Ya Ta is a Christian but one of her good friends is a Muslim who suffers just as much and in fact more than Ya Ta at the hands of Boko Haram. It does show that evil can spring up in surprising places, sometimes even in the betrayal of a friend. And there is so much symbolism in what she calls “the voice on Papa’s radio” as it describes the news of the world, not only about Boko Haram, but other events around the world, especially in Europe and America where there are disasters and murders, but also security, progress, and prosperity coupled with ambivalence toward the rest of the world.
The short chapters helped. It helped make it feel like you’re getting through the book so fast and it’s actually not a very long book. The short chapters also make it easy to put it down, not because it is not interesting enough, but because sometimes you just need to stop and think, to process your feelings before going on.
The book is fictional, but is a composite based on interviews with young women who had been kidnapped by Boko Haram. At the end is an afterword by a journalist that focuses on the 2014 Boko Haram kidnapping of the 276 Chibok girls, the largest single kidnapping, but far from the only one. It’s been estimated that there have been as many as 2,000 people kidnapped by Boko Haram, mostly girls but also boys. This story is well worth reading. It may shake the foundations of your concept of the world. Most are never rescued, but even when finally rescued, there is no easy return to society and the memories are never freed. As the narrator says, “We are like dead people mourning other people who are dead.”
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- therealtthing
- 02-14-23
A very enthralling follow up
A serious but enthralling take on subject matter which is cogent to African society. Loved it.
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- Lucy
- 02-05-23
Powerful Novel!
Nwaubani did an incredible job of capturing the story of the Chibok women. As a male reader, I personally felt a deep same for the various ways women experience abuse from radicalized men.
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- AW
- 04-14-19
A quick and important read; you will learn something
A solid YA book that's more mature than most and makes you think. This is a great starting point for anyone interested in learning more about Nigeria and the rise of Boko Haram. It prompted me to spend several days doing additional research on Boko Haram, their victims, and what's being done to defeat them.
This fictionalized account is told in short, vignette-style chapters that make it a quick read despite the heavy subject matter. A possible downside to this format is that the reader might not feel intensely connected to the characters.
Overall though, this is a great book that made me more aware of Boko Haram, their supposed "purpose," and tactics they used to control the young girls and women they kidnapped, including starvation, abuse, jealousy and brainwashing. The afterward was also very informative. I was left contemplating the levels of human depravity, martyrdom, brainwashing, and survival. Finally, Robin Miles' narration is fantastic as always. Highly recommend!
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- Amanda Butler
- 01-09-21
Captivating
I learned quite a bit from this book. Would highly recommend, it kept me captivated from beginning to the end.
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