Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq

5 best books like Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq (Christina Asquith): The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan, The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams, My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams, Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed, The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust Memoir

The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan

Author	Jenny Nordberg
ISBN	0307952495

An investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl.

In Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is cause for celebration and the arrival of a daughter is often mourned as misfortune....

The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams

Author	Lester J. Cappon
ISBN	0807842303

An intellectual dialogue of the highest plane achieved in America, the correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson spanned half a century and embraced government, philosophy, religion, quotidiana, and family griefs and joys.

First meeting as delegates to the Continental...

My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams

Author	Abigail Adams
ISBN	0674026063

In 1762, John Adams penned a flirtatious note to "Miss Adorable," the 17-year-old Abigail Smith. In 1801, Abigail wrote to wish her husband John a safe journey as he headed home to Quincy after serving as president of the nation he helped create. The letters that span these nearly forty years form the...

Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed

Author	Hawa Abdi
ISBN	1455503762

The moving memoir of one brave woman who, along with her daughters, has kept 90,000 of her fellow citizens safe, healthy, and educated for over 20 years in Somalia.

Dr. Hawa Abdi, "the Mother Teresa of Somalia" and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, is the founder of a massive camp for internally displaced...

The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust Memoir

Author	George Lucius Salton
ISBN	0299179745

In September, 1939, George Lucius Salton's boyhood in Tyczyn, Poland, was shattered by escalating violence and terror under German occupation. His father, a lawyer, was forbidden to work, but eleven-year-old George dug potatoes, split wood, and resourcefully helped his family. They suffered...