Small Kingdoms
10 best books like Small Kingdoms (Anastasia Hobbet): Coppola: A Pediatric Surgeon in Iraq, The Women's Decameron, Understanding Arabs: A Guide for Modern Times, A Sister to Honor, Sweetwater Burning, Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East, The Last Refuge, رسائل جيرتروود بيل ١٨٩٩-١٩١٤: فلسطين - الأردن - سورية - وحائل, Factory of Tears, The Katyn Order
Coppola: A Pediatric Surgeon in Iraq
| Author | Chris Coppola |
| ISBN | 0984053115 |
Eric Hoffer Award Finalist and Montaigne Medal Finalist
The fierce, true-life account of United States Air Force pediatric surgeon Lt. Col. Dr. Chris Coppola, this book describes his experiences through two deployments in Operation Iraqi Freedom inside a military trauma hospital at...
| Author | Julia Voznesenskaya |
| ISBN | 0704325551 |
Like Boccacio's famous Florentines, Julia Voznesenskaya's Russian women are cunning and savvy—about all facets of the Soviet system. They know how to beat it and how to endure. Quarantined in a Leningrad maternity ward after giving birth, ten women from all walks of Soviet life amuse themselves...
Understanding Arabs: A Guide for Modern Times
| Author | Margaret K. Nydell |
| ISBN | 1931930252 |
(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.)
This is one of those books about foreign culture that I like the best, where someone will both detail...
| Author | Lucy Ferriss |
| ISBN | 0425276406 |
New from the author of The Lost Daughter
Afia Satar is studious, modest, and devout. The daughter of a landholding family in northern Pakistan, Afia has enrolled in an American college with the dream of returning to her country as a doctor. But when a photo surfaces online of Afia holding hands...
| Author | Heather Sharfeddin |
| ISBN | 0385341288 |
In the small Idaho town of Sweetwater, Chas McPherson tends his blackbelly sheep and keeps his thoughts to himself. Unable to care for his terminally ill father, he must hire a home-care nurse for a job no one in his or her right mind would take. But one woman accepts. Mattie Holden comes to this cramped,...
Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East
| Author | Robin Wright |
| ISBN | 1594201110 |
Can a book about the Middle East with a major topic of democracy really be taken seriously and called "authorative" as some reviewers have when it excludes both Saudi Arabia and Israel?
Saudi Arabia is the bankroller of a great deal of terrorism in the world, most of which emanates from the Middle...
| Author | Chris Knopf |
| ISBN | 1579621376 |
Sam Acquillo's at the end of the line. A middle-aged corporate dropout living in his dead parent's ramshackle cottage in Southampton's North Sea, Sam has abandoned friends, family and a big-time career to sit on his porch, drink vodka and stare at the little Peconic Bay. But then the old lady next door...
رسائل جيرتروود بيل ١٨٩٩-١٩١٤: فلسطين - الأردن - سورية - وحائل
نبذة الناشر:
تعد مس بيل من أهم الشخصيات البريطانية التي ساهمت في صنع الخريطة السياسية والجغرافية لمنطقة الجزيرة العربية والعراق في القرن العشرين، من...
| Author | Valzhyna Mort |
| ISBN | 1556592744 |
"Mort...strives to be an envoy for her native country, writing with almost alarming vociferousness about the struggle to establish a clear identity for Belarus and its language." —The New Yorker
“Valzyhna Mort . . . can justly be described as a risen star of the international poetry world....
| Author | Douglas W. Jacobson |
| ISBN | 1590135725 |
The German war machine is in retreat as the Russians advance. In Warsaw, Resistance fighters rise up against their Nazi occupiers, but the Germans retaliate, ruthlessly leveling the once-beautiful city. American Adam Nowak has been dropped into Poland by British intelligence as an assassin and...
Mourning Doves and other stories.
Tom Upton's stories in this collection are very diverse. Some are more enjoyable than others, but on the whole there is something in every one of the stories that will make a reader stop and think. The version I read could definitely do with some editing, as there are many typos and errors which distract...
| Author | Avner Mandelman |
| ISBN | 1590513703 |
Winner of the 2011 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel
In Middle East lore the Debba is a mythical Arab hyena that can turn into a man who lures Jewish children away from their families to teach them the language of the beasts. To the Arabs he is a heroic national symbol; to the Jews he is...
| Author | Maureen A. Miller |
| ISBN | 1448617936 |
Serena Murphy was losing her mind. Every night Serena stood on the deck of O'Flanagans Tavern, searching Maine's rugged coast for a sign of her husband's body. Though he was pronounced lost at sea, Alan Murphy still haunted her as only his malevolent spirit could. In the loft above her tavern, Serena...
The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
| Author | Ali A. Allawi |
| ISBN | 0300110154 |
Involved for over thirty years in the politics of Iraq, Ali A. Allawi was a long-time opposition leader against the Baathist regime. In the post-Saddam years he has held important government positions and participated in crucial national decisions and events. In this book, the former Minister of...
| Author | Tom Lewis |
| ISBN | 0970579314 |
Born to a white prostitute and a black prizefighting drifter. Raised on an island by tough, courageous men. Controlled by no one but herself.... SUNDAY'S CHILD. Sunday Everette has a childhood unlike any other in the 'Jim Crow' era of the South, growing up at the Pea Island Life-Saving Station among...
| Author | Eric Kraft |
| ISBN | 0312135092 |
On the surface Herb and Lorna Piper are typically sunny 1950s American adults. Herbs sells Sudebakers to the citizens of Bebbington, a Long Island seaside town, and Lorna is his cheerfully coy and clever wife. Their story seems like an American myth: small-town origins, Jazz Age romance, Depression...
| Author | Tamara Chalabi |
| ISBN | 0007249314 |
A lyrical, haunting, multi-generational memoir of one family’s tempestuous century in Iraq from 1900 to the present.
The Chalabis are one of the oldest and most prominent families in Iraq. For centuries they have occupied positions of honour and responsibility, loyally serving first...
The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace
| Author | Dennis Ross |
| ISBN | 0374529809 |
"The definitive and gripping account of the sometimes exhilarating, often tortured twists and turns in the Middle East peace process, viewed from the front row by one of its major players."--Bill Clinton
The Missing Peace, published to great acclaim last year, is the most candid inside account...
| Author | Lucy Caldwell |
| ISBN | 0571272819 |
When Euan and Ruth set off with their young daughter to live in Bahrain, it is meant to be an experience and adventure they will cherish. But on the night they arrive, Ruth discovers the truth behind the missionary work Euan has planned and feels her world start to crumble. Far from home, and with events...
| Author | Christina Asquith |
| ISBN | 1400067049 |
Caught up in a terrifying war, facing choices of life and death, two Iraqi sisters take us into the hidden world of women’s lives under U.S. occupation. Through their powerful story of love and betrayal, interwoven with the stories of a Palestinian American women’s rights activist and a U.S. soldier,...
| Author | Saadi Youssef |
| ISBN | 1555976298 |
New poetry by Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef, one of the major voices from the Arab world
The country we love was finished
before it was even born.
The country we did not love has claimed
the blood left in our veins.
...
| Author | Tiffini Johnson |
| ISBN | 1450593682 |
"There is something really important you need to know about me. It's a secret, but I'll tell you. I only have one good memory of my dad." So begins ten-year-old Anna's story. It is a story of intense abuse but it is within the midst of the pain that Anna befriends a mysterious storyteller named Ash, through...
