The Book Collectors A Band Of Syrian Rebels And The Stories That Carried Them Through A War

"An urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion." —Susan Orlean Award-winning journalist Delphine Minoui recounts the true story ...

Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR “An urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion.” —Susan ...

"Daraya is a town outside Damascus, the very spot where the Syrian Civil War began. Long a site of peaceful ...

A lucid, moving view into an often obscured part of our world, exploring notions of democracy, identity, and the resilience ...

‘This is an urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion. Delphine Minoui has crafted a book that champions ...

The remarkable story of a small, makeshift library in the town of Daraya, and the people who found hope and ...

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The definitive work of literary journalism on the Arab Spring and its troubled aftermath In 2011, a wave of revolution spread ...

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Divided into two volumes, The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Nature offers a landmark collection of ...

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The catastrophic story of how the Arab world has descended into chaos since the 2003 invasion of Iraq as told by ...

The true story of a Yemeni child bride describes her forced marriage to an abusive husband three times her age, ...

The Psychology of Socialism was first published in 1899 in a period of crisis for French democracy. The Third Republic had ...

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Newly married and established in her career as an award–winning newspaper journalist, Maggie Downs quits her job, sells her ...

This 1889 first full English translation of Polybius' Histories remains a fascinating source on the second and third centuries BCE....

A fascinating, accessible introduction to Islam from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Zealot and host of Believer FINALIST ...

From “America’s librarian” and NPR books commentator Nancy Pearl comes an emotional, “Anne-Tyler-esque” (Library Journal) debut novel about an ...

After standing for over 7,000 years, Aleppo's ruin came overnight. Separated from his family during the night the rebels attacked the ...

"The Alexiad" is a spectacular narrative that illustrates the mega events during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Alexius I. Here, ...

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A NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER An intimate, powerful, and galvanizing memoir by Pulitzer Prize ...

In the year 2063, on the edge of the Crater formerly known as Montréal, a middle-aged man and his ex’...

Reading Dostoevsky in Afghanistan becomes “crime without punishment” Rassoul remembers reading Crime and Punishment as a student of Russian literature ...

Young Edgar Blagrove participates in the Battle of the Pyramids and the revolt at Cairo. He witnesses the famous naval ...

An extraordinary true account of the enormous tragedy of the Syrian civil conflict....

This is a story of human decency in the midst of barbarism - how the zookeeper of Mosul Zoo saved ...

This first novel of an epic fantasy trilogy reintroduces readers to the beloved and bestselling world of Deverry, blending magic, ...

?The work of a moder-day Sozhenitsyn that exposes acts of violence and brutality committed by the Syrian regime. This compelling ...

The purpose of this study is to focus attention on the types of individuals and groups that are prone to ...

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in twelve books, in English heroic verse without rhyme, by John Milton (C. P. ...

Following the Arab Spring, Syria descended into civil and sectarian conflict. It has since become a fractured warzone which operates ...

A study of workers struggles against management regimes in Britain's car industry from the Second World War to the late 1980...

ERAGON When Eragon finds a polished stone in the forest, he thinks it is a lucky discovery - perhaps it ...

Nearly three thousand people died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In Lower Manhattan, on a field in Pennsylvania, and ...

Avi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to attend Harvard, he has nothing but a senior thesis on Bugs ...

Research carried out by the World Bank on the root causes of conflict and civil war finds that a developing ...

The true story of one woman's struggle to save her sons from radicalization by Chechen partisans, as told by a ...

Though the history of terrorism stretches back to the ancient world, today it is often understood as a recent development. ...