Farewell Shiraz: An Iranian Memoir of Revolution and Exile
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In October 1999 during a trip to Cairo, Cyrus Kadivar, an exiled Iranian living in London, visited...
William Howe and the American War of Independence
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The first major work on this enigmatic British general for more than 40 years, William Howe and the...
The Lord's Radio: Gospel Music Broadcasting and the Making of Evangelical Culture, 1920-1960
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Evangelicalism, a faith with which 1 in 4 American adults identifies, exerts an enormous impact on...
Goddess in the Stacks (553 KP) rated A Hundred Veils in Books
Sep 6, 2017
The writing is excellent. I’m sure I would get more out of the book if I could read Farsi, as each chapter is begun by a few lines of poetry in Farsi, written in both Arabic script and English letters. But the pacing is perfect, the descriptions apt – I really enjoyed this book.
Read my full review at https://goddessinthestacks.wordpress.com/2017/08/22/book-review-a-hundred-veils/
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie Wars
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It began with rumours from China about another pandemic. Then the cases started to multiply and what...
Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
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The remarkable untold story of Thomas Jefferson's three daughters--two white and free, one black and...
Broken Sword 5
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Episode 1 - Paris in the spring Shots ring out from a gallery… a robbery… a murder… and the...
Women and Cartography in the Progressive Era
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In the twenty-first century we speak of a geospatial revolution, but over one hundred years ago...
Alison Pink (7 KP) rated The Headmaster's Wager in Books
Jan 15, 2018
The characters are very well written. I had a hard time connecting with Percival the Manu character however. The setting alternated between China & Vietnam in the time period of the Cultural Revolution & the Vietnam War. The story didn't really flow until Percival's son was arrested by the silent police for staging a "protest" in an attempt to impress his father who was headmaster of an American school in Cholon.
The book was well written, don't get me wrong! I just couldn't get into the story itself.
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WINNER OF THE 2017 REPUBLIC OF CONSCIOUSNESS PRIZE Ranging from the seventeenth century to our...