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Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land
Sandy Tolan - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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It is an unlikely story. Ramzi Hussein Aburedwan, a child from a Palestinian refugee camp, confronts an occupying army, gets an education, masters an instrument, dreams of something much bigger than himself, and then, through his charisma and persistence, inspires scores of others to work... |
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A Long Way Home: A Memoir
Saroo Brierley - G.P. Putnam's Sons; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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The miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and homebut an identity long-since left behind.At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last... |
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Mao's Last Dancer
Li Cunxin
Format: Print book
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From a desperately poor village in northeast China, at age eleven, Li Cunxin was chosen by Madame Mao's cultural delegates to be taken from his rural home and brought to Beijing, where he would study ballet. In 1979, the young dancer arrived in Texas as part of a cultural exchange, only... |
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I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Malala Yousafzai - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE "I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday."When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced... |
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The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback
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The New York Times bestseller and international classic loved by millions of readers. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country... |
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Thousand Pieces of Gold
Ruthanne Lum McCunn - Beacon Press; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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This masterful biographical novel—which has sold more than 100,000 copies—tells the true life story of Lalu Nathoy, a young Chinese girl sold into slavery in 1871 by her poverty-stricken family and auctioned off in the American West. McCunn tells the gripping tale of how Lalu... |
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton - Scribner Book Company
Format: Paperback
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"The greatest novel to emerge out of the tragedy of South Africa, and one of the best novels of our time." - The New Republic "A beautiful novel ... its writing is so fresh, its projection of character so immediate and full, its events so compelling, and its understanding... |
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The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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In 1949 four Chinese women-drawn together by the shadow of their past-begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club.Nearly forty years later, one of the members has died, and her daughter... |
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Poet in Andalucia
Nathalie Handal
Format: Book
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Frederico García lived in Manhattan from 1929 to 1930, and the poetry he wrote about the city, Poet in New York, was posthumously published in 1940. Eighty years after Lorca’s sojourn to America, Nathalie Handal, a poet from New York, went to Spain to write Poet... |
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City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
Ben Rawlence - Picador Usa
Format: Book
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Named a 2016 Best of Book of the Year by The Economist
The Dadaab refugee camp is many things: to the charity workers, it's a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, a "nursery for terrorists"; to the Western media, a dangerous no-go area.... |
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The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
Thi Bui - Abrams ComicArts
Format: Hardcover
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National bestseller ABA Indies Introduce Winter / Spring 2017 Selection Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Spring 2017 Selection An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam, from debut author Thi Bui. This beautifully illustrated... |
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Bye Bye Babylon: Beirut 1975-1979
Lamia Ziade - Interlink Pub Group
Format: Paperback
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Tragedy and innocence coexist in this delicate reconstruction of the author s childhood during Lebanon s civil war In 1975 I was seven years old, and loved the Bazooka bubble-gums my mother would buy for Walid and me in Spinney s supermarket...Beirut in the 1970s is a paradise. Wealthy... |
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Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
Firoozeh Dumas - Random House Trade Paperbacks; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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This new Readers Circle edition includes a reading group guide and a conversation between Firoozeh Dumas and Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner.”
In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand... |
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Paperback
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followedNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times... |
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The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap
Gish Jen - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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A provocative and important study of the different ideas Easterners and Westerners have about the self and society and what this means for current debates in art, education, geopolitics, and business. Never have East and West come as close as they are today, yet we are still baffled by one another.... |
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