The Man from Saigon
10 best books like The Man from Saigon (Marti Leimbach): We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families, The Sword in the Stone, Swords and Deviltry, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, The Book of Merlyn, The Assistant, Salam Pax: The Clandestine Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi, Robin Hood & Friar Tuck: Zombie Killers, One Teacher in 10: LGBT Educators Share Their Stories, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Islam
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
| Author | Philip Gourevitch |
| ISBN | 0312243359 |
In April of 1994, the government of Rwanda called on everyone in the Hutu majority to kill everyone in the Tutsi minority. Over the next three months, 800,000 Tutsis were murdered in the most unambiguous case of genocide since Hitler's war against the Jews. Philip Gourevitch's haunting work is an anatomy...
"Learn. That is the only thing that never fails."--Merlyn the Wizard
Before there was a famous king named Arthur, there was a curious boy named Wart and a kind old wizard named Merlyn. Transformed by Merlyn into the forms of his fantasy, Wart learns the value of history from a snake, of education...
| Author | Fritz Leiber |
| ISBN | 1595820795 |
For the first time-the story of how the greatest heroes in fantastic literature first met.
'The two thieves had themselves been robbed by two youths, who eyed each other suspiciously over the sprawled, senseless bodies.
Fafhrd said: 'Our motives for being here seem identical.'...
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
| Author | Benedict Anderson |
| ISBN | 0860915468 |
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality--the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to a nation--has not received proportionate attention. In this widely...
This magical account of King Arthur's last night on earth spent weeks on the New York Times best-seller list following its publication in 1977.
Even in addressing the profound issues of war and peace, The Book of Merlyn retains the life and sparkle for which White is known. The tale brings Arthur...
| Author | Bernard Malamud |
| ISBN | 0374504849 |
Bernard Malamud’s second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who “wants better” for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when broken-nosed Frank Alpine becomes his...
| Author | Salam Pax |
| ISBN | 0802140440 |
Salam Pax has attracted a huge worldwide readership for the Internet diary he kept dyring the buildup, prosecution, and aftermath of the war in Iraq. Bringing his incisive and sharply funny Web postings together in print for the first time, Salam Pax provides one of the most gripping accounts of the...
| Author | Paul A. Freeman |
| ISBN | 1926712234 |
Medieval civilization was under threat from the undead. When lion-hearted Richard ruled the roost Of England, he decided that to boost His regal reputation he should mount A war to wrest from Turkish men the fount Of Christendom; yet in that desert land A zombie plague emerged from midst the sand. A necromancer's...
| Author | Kevin Jennings |
| ISBN | 1555838693 |
A friend purchased this book for me a couple years ago when I was thinking of becoming a teacher. I put that career path hold and never picked up the book. Now that I am preparing to enter the teaching profession, I felt it was a good time to finally read it. This edited collection of essays (and a few poems)...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Islam
| Author | Yahiya Emerick |
| ISBN | 0028642333 |
I understand more about Islam than before. But I had trouble with the author. He seemed to be always defending Islam. For example he says the Taliban had a religious right for demolishing the ancient Buddha statues in Afghanistan because there are no Buddhists in Afghanistan anymore, and the Quran teaches...
Food for Our Grandmothers: Writings by Arab-American and Arab-Canadian Feminists
| Author | Joanna Kadi |
| ISBN | 0896084892 |
This is my favorite book. Period.
Every time I've tried to sit down and write a review for this volume, I've given up because there's so much to say. I loved every page of it from the introduction to the index. The recipes made me smile at the beginning of each chapter, and made it more real: someone...
Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity
| Author | Marc Augé |
| ISBN | 1859840515 |
An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computer and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what Marc Auge calls ‘non-space’ results in a profound alteration of awareness: something we perceive, but only...
| Author | Diana Abu-Jaber |
| ISBN | 0393324222 |
In Diana Abu-Jaber's "impressive, entertaining" (Chicago Tribune) first novel, a small, poor-white community in upstate New York becomes home to the transplanted Jordanian family of Matussem Ramoud: his grown daughters, Jemorah and Melvina; his sister Fatima; and her husband, Zaeed. The widower...
