Lost Decency, the Untold Afghan Story
10 best books like Lost Decency, the Untold Afghan Story (Atta Arghandiwal): Mother and the Tiger: A Memoir of the Killing Fields, Fear of Beauty, Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa, Exposed: Confessions of a Wedding Photographer: A Memoir, The Memory Chalet, Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil, The Secret of Priest's Grotto: A Holocaust Survival Story, Smile for the Camera: A Memoir, Beyond the Bear: How I Learned to Live and Love Again after Being Blinded by a Bear, Memoir of a Race Traitor
Mother and the Tiger: A Memoir of the Killing Fields
| Author | Dana Hui Lim |
| ISBN | 1922200107 |
In 1969 the small Asian nation of Cambodia was under attack: first by US bombers as the Vietnam war spilled over the border, and then by the Khmer Rouge as they began their brutal reign of terror. Under the rule of Pol Pot, ordinary city folk were driven from their homes and banished to labour camps that eventually...
| Author | Susan Froetschel |
| ISBN | 1616147024 |
The battered body of an Afghan boy is found at the base of a cliff outside a remote village in Afghanistan. Did he fall as most of the villagers think? Or is this the work of American soldiers, as others want to believe? Sofi, illiterate, is desperate to learn the truth behind her son's death. Extremists...
| Author | Tanya Shaffer |
| ISBN | 1400032598 |
“It's my life, and if I want to run from it I can,” quips Tanya Shaffer. An incorrigible wanderer, Shaffer has a habit of fleeing domesticity for the joys and rigors of the open road. This time her destination is Ghana, and what results is a transformative year spent roaming the African continent....
Exposed: Confessions of a Wedding Photographer: A Memoir
| Author | Claire Lewis |
| ISBN | 0312381891 |
Once upon a time, Claire Lewis dreamed she would take her camera to war zones to document political upheavals and expose grave injustices. Fate led her elsewhere. And while she might not be on assignment for The New York Times, her current job carries its own dangers: Claire is a wedding photographer....
| Author | Tony Judt |
| ISBN | 1594202893 |
The Memory Chalet is a memoir unlike any you have ever read before. Each essay charts some experience or remembrance of the past through the sieve of Tony Judt s prodigious mind. His youthful love of a particular London bus route evolves into a reflection on public civility and interwar urban planning....
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil
| Author | Nancy Scheper-Hughes |
| ISBN | 0520075374 |
When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children...
| Author | Peter Lane Taylor |
| ISBN | 1580132618 |
This was one of the most fascinating Holocaust survival stories I’ve ever read. Can you imagine living in a series of caves deep underground for 344 days, without once seeing the sun? That is what a group of Jewish villagers, all related by blood or marriage, did to escape from the Nazis during World...
| Author | Kelle James |
| ISBN | 1442406232 |
Kelle James left an abusive home at the age of sixteen and went to the best place she could imagine: New York City. She had big plans of becoming a model, but within a week she was homeless and broke. What follows is her exceptional story of trying to make it on her own with nothing to her name and no one to trust....
Beyond the Bear: How I Learned to Live and Love Again after Being Blinded by a Bear
| Author | Dan Bigley |
| ISBN | 0762784555 |
The unbelievable true story of a man who narrowly survived one of the most brutal grizzly bear attacks, and the love that separated his blindness from the dark.
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A 25-year-old backcountry wanderer, a man happiest exploring wild places with his dog, Dan Bigley woke up one midsummer morning...
| Author | Mab Segrest |
| ISBN | 0896084744 |
I'm having a time in my life right now. I'll spare the details for this forum, but it has lead to my decision to read exclusively lesbian memoirs. I'm needing a bit of reflection in my life.
This book seemed like an obvious choice. I have a lot of surface commonalities with the author, Mab Segrest:...
The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning
| Author | Julene Bair |
| ISBN | 0670786047 |
A love affair unfolds as crisis hits a family farm on the high plains
Julene Bair has inherited part of a farming empire and fallen in love with a rancher from Kansas’s beautiful Smoky Valley. She means to create a family, provide her son with the father he longs for, and preserve the Bair farm...
Earthquake Storms: The Fascinating History and Volatile Future of the San Andreas Fault
| Author | John Dvorak |
| ISBN | 1605984957 |
It is a prominent geological feature that is almost impossible to see unless you know where to look. Hundreds of thousands of people drive across it every day. The San Andreas Fault is everywhere, and primed for a colossal quake. For decades, scientists have warned that such a sudden shifting of the Earth’s...
Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America
| Author | Allen M. Hornblum |
| ISBN | 0230341713 |
During the Cold War, an alliance between American scientists, pharmaceutical companies, and the US military pushed the medical establishment into ethically fraught territory. Doctors and scientists at prestigious institutions were pressured to produce medical advances to compete with the...
| Author | Angie Chau |
| ISBN | 1935439189 |
"Heartbreaking tales of ordinary people lost between the extraordinary circumstances of history. Bitter and beautiful all at once."—Sandra Cisneros
"We call it naturalization, but these bright, authentic, well-made stories both personalize and illuminate just how unnatural the...
The Poet of Baghdad: A True Story of Love and Defiance
| Author | Jo Tatchell |
| ISBN | 0767926978 |
In the winter of 1979 Nabeel Yasin, Iraq's most famous young poet, gathered together a handful of belongings and fled Iraq with his wife and son. Life in Baghdad had become intolerable. Silenced by a series of brutal beatings at the hands of the Ba'ath Party's Secret Police and declared an “enemy of...
| Author | Tom Keneally |
| ISBN | 1741668557 |
Interesting look at the commonalities between 3 different famines, completely separate by place and time: the potato famine in Ireland in the mid-19th century, the Bengal famine in the 1940's, and the Ethiopian famines of the 1970's-80's.
The upshot of this book is that famines are never...
Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall
| Author | Will Ellsworth-Jones |
| ISBN | 1250025737 |
While hiding from the limelight, Banksy has made himself into one of the world's best-known living artists. His pieces have fetched millions of dollars at prestigious auction houses. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his film Exit Through the Gift Shop. Once viewed as vandalism, his work is...
Dear Zari: The Secret Lives of the Women of Afghanistan
| Author | Zarghuna Kargar |
| ISBN | 1402268378 |
Moving, enlightening, and heartbreaking, Dear Zari gives voice to the secret lives of Afghan women. For the first time, Dear Zari allows these women to tell their stories in their own words: from the child bride given as payment to end of a family feud, to a life spent in a dark, dusty room weaving carpets,...
Wild Company: The Untold Story of Banana Republic
| Author | Mel Ziegler |
| ISBN | 1451683480 |
In the tradition of Pour Your Heart Into It and How Starbucks Saved My Life, a surprising and inspiring memoir from the founders of Banana Republic.
With $1,500 and no business experience, Mel and Patricia Ziegler turned a wild idea into a company that would become the international retail...
| Author | Jennifer Hudson Taylor |
| ISBN | 1426752636 |
When Quakers Flora Saferight and Bruce Millikan embark on the Underground Railroad, they agree to put their differences aside to save the lives of a pregnant slave couple. With only her mother s quilt as a secret guide, the foursome follows the stitches through unknown treachery.As they embark on their...
| Author | Tammicko Claggett |
| ISBN | 1619969831 |
Some secrets aren't meant to be kept... Asleep, Tori Clarke knows this. In a dream, she sees it. His pace quickening as he rushes her through the storm force winds. Heading straight for the barrier that has her entire life held her from the other side. It seems they will have a collision. But the wind that...
| Author | Jana Leo |
| ISBN | 1558616810 |
In the gripping first pages of this true story, Jana Leo relives the moment-by-moment experience of a home invasion and rape in her own apartment in Harlem. After she reports the crime, she waits. Between police disinterest and squabbles from the health insurance company over who’s going to pay for...
As someone who grew up in Aspen during the time Conover wrote this, I can't help but love some of the things he said about my hometown. He tells a lot of truths about many things that have not changed but the book felt more like an article from a magazine than worthy of a book format. I read this book after reading...
The Bill from My Father: A Memoir
| Author | Bernard Cooper |
| ISBN | 0743249631 |
Edward Cooper is a hard man to know.Dour and exuberant by turns, his moods dictate the always uncertain climate of the Cooper household. Balding, octogenarian, and partial to a polyester jumpsuit, Edward Cooper makes an unlikely literary muse. But to his son he looms larger than life, an overwhelming...
