Book type: non-fiction (1993)


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In the Country of Others : A Novel by Leila Slimani EN

Rating: 4 (4 votes)
Country: Africa / Morocco flag Morocco
Description:
The award-winning, #1 internationally bestselling new novel by the author of The Perfect Nanny, about a woman in an interracial marriage whose fierce desire for autonomy parallels her adopted country's fight for independence The world of men is just like the world of botany. In the end, one species dominates another. One day, the orange will win out over the lemon, or vice versa, and the tree will once again produce fruit that people can eat. In her first new novel since The Perfect Nanny launched her onto the world stage and won her acclaim for her "devastatingly perceptive character studies"... continue

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In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado EN

Rating: 5 (3 votes)
Description:
A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. And it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrat... continue

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In the Land of Invisible Women : A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom by Qanta Ahmed EN

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A female, British Muslim doctor describes her practice treating women in Saudi Arabia, where the harsh code of orthodoxy for women is contradicted by some of the private behavior of wealthy women, but imposes a harsh reality on poor women.

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In the Name of Honour - A Memoir by Mukhtar Mai EN

Rating: 4.3 (3 votes)
Country: Asia / Pakistan flag Pakistan
Description:
This rousing account is the exclusive, authorized memoir of international rights icon Mukhtar Mai, whose courageous struggle for justice earned her acclaim as "the Rosa Parks of Pakistan."


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In the Presence of Absence by Mahmoud Darwish EN

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Country: Asia / Palestine flag Palestine
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One of the most transcendent poets of his generation, Darwish composed this remarkable elegy at the apex of his creativity, but with the full knowledge that his death was imminent. Thinking it might be his final work, he summoned all his poetic genius to create a luminous work that defies categorization. In stunning language, Darwish’s self-elegy inhabits a rare space where opposites bleed and blend into each other. Prose and poetry, life and death, home and exile are all sung by the poet and his other. On the threshold of im/mortality, the poet looks back at his own existence, intertwined wit... continue

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In the Shadow of Freedom by Tchicaya Missamou EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Congo flag Congo
Description:
FROM POVERTY TO WEALTH, FROM AFRICA TO AMERICA, AND FROM CHILD SOLDIER TO U.S. MARINE Born into the Congolese wilderness, Tchicaya Missamou became a child soldier at age 11. As a horrific civil war loomed across his country, Tchicaya began using his militia connections to ferry jewels, cash, computers, and white diplomats out of the country. By 17, he was rich. By 18, he was a hunted man, his house destroyed, his family brutalized in front of him by his own militia. By 19, he’d left behind everything he’d ever known, escaping to Europe and, eventually, to America. Incredibly, that was only the... continue

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In the Shadow of Man

In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall EN

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Country: Europe / England flag England
Description:
Describes chimpanzee behavior based on observations of them in their natural habitat.

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In the Shadow of the Moons: My Life in the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Family by Nansook Hong EN

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Country: Asia / South Korea flag South Korea
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A Korean-American recounts her fourteen years of abuse at the hands of her husband, the drug-addicted eldest son of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, and reveals the corruption behind the religious fac+a2ade of Moon's organization. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

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In The Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: South America / Peru flag Peru
Description:
WINNER OF THE 2023 EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Silvia Vasquez-Lavado is a warrior. I'm in awe of her strength and courage' - Selena Gomez 'An incredibly powerful story' Sunday Independent 'In the Shadow of the Mountain has all the elements a great memoir requires - a strong voice, cinematic prose, a hero to root for - in essence, an extraordinary story about an extraordinary woman's life' - San Francisco Chronicle 'Silvia Vasquez-Lavado is a woman possessed of uncommon strength, rare compassion, and a ferocious stubbornness to not allow the trauma of her childhood to destroy her l... continue