Book type: non-fiction (1976)
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Beirut by Samir Kassir EN
LebanonDescription:
Beirut is a tour de force that takes the reader from the ancient to the modern world, offering a dazzling panorama of the city's Seleucid, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and French incarnations. Kassir vividly describes Beirut's spectacular growth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, concentrating on its emergence after the Second World War as a cosmopolitan capital until its near destruction during the devastating Lebanese civil war of 1975-1990. --from publisher description.
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Beneath the Darkening Sky by Majok Tulba EN
Country: Africa / 
South Sudan
South Sudan
Description:
On the day that Obinna’s village is savagely attacked by the rebel army and his father murdered, he witnesses violence beyond his imagination. Along with his older brother he finds himself thrown into a truck when the soldiers leave, to be shaped into an agent of horror – a child soldier. Marched through minefields and forced into battle, enduring a brutal daily existence, Obinna slowly works out which parts of himself to save and which to sacrifice in this world turned upside down.
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Bengal Nights : A Novel by Mircea Eliade EN
RomaniaDescription:
A semi-autobiographical romance between a French engineer and the daughter of a Hindu family with which he stayed in India. A case of East meets West with all the joys and woes that such encounters bring. For her version of the story see her novel, It Does Not Die.
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Between the Stops by Sandi Toksvig EN
DenmarkDescription:
Between the Stops is a sort of a memoir, my sort. It's about a bus trip really, because it's my view from the Number 12 bus (mostly top deck, the seat at the front on the right), a double-decker that plies its way from Dulwich, in South East London where I was living, to where I sometimes work at the BBC in the heart of the capital. It's not a sensible way to write a memoir at all, probably, but it's the way things pop into your head as you travel, so it's my way. From London facts including where to find the blue plaque for Una Marson, 'the first black woman programme maker at the BBC', to di... continue
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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone) NAMED ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY • NA... continue
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Between Two Rivers : Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History by Moudhy Al-Rashid EN
Country: Asia / 
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
Description:
Humanity's earliest efforts at recording and drawing meaning from history reveal how lives millennia ago were not so different from our own.
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Between Two Sounds : Arvo Pärt's Journey to His Musical Language by Joonas Sildre EN
EstoniaDescription:
A graphic novel follows the celebrated Estonian composer through the cultural, political, personal, and spiritual upheavals that led to the distinctive style that has made him the most performed living composer in the world.
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Beyond Storms and Stars - a Memoir by Noeleen Heyzer EN
SingaporeDescription:
Very inspiring story about personal developement and achievements regarding gender equality
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Bhutan to Blacktown : Losing Everything and Finding Australia by Om Dhungel EN
BhutanDescription:
I lost my possessions, my salary, my status, my career, my country. And in that fall, I gained everything.Bhutan is known as the land of Gross National Happiness, a Buddhist Shangri-La hidden in the Himalayas. But in the late 1980s, Bhutan waged a brutal ethnic-cleansing campaign against its citizens of Nepali ancestry. Forced to flee Bhutan, Om Dhungel spent six years as a refugee in Nepal before he arrived in Australia. Today Om is a respected community leader in western Sydney, consulted frequently by government and settlement organisations on refugee policyWritten with Walkley Award- winni... continue