Travels in a Veil: A Journey Into The Lives of Islamic Women

10 best books like Travels in a Veil: A Journey Into The Lives of Islamic Women (April Fonti): Who’s That Girl?, All the Lovely Pieces, The Next Always, The Woman in Our House, Paramedic to the Prince, Dear Zari: The Secret Lives of the Women of Afghanistan, The Beantown Girls, Why don't you just leave him?, The Secrets of Lost Stones, You Then, Me Now

Who’s That Girl?

Author

Mhairi McFarlane

An achingly funny story from the author of the bestselling You Had Me At Hello

What’s the one thing you DON’T do at a wedding?

When Edie is caught in a compromising position at her colleagues’ wedding, all the blame falls on her – turns out that personal popularity in the office...

All the Lovely Pieces

Author	J.M. Winchester
ISBN	1542041597

Motherly love can drive her to the absolute edge…

For nine years, Drew Baker has been running from her brutal husband and the dark deeds of the night she left him. Focused on protecting her ten-year-old son, Drew reluctantly settles into a small town, eager to find proof of her husband’s...

The Next Always

Author	Nora Roberts
ISBN	1455806854

The historic hotel in Boonsboro has endured war and peace, changing hands, even rumored hauntings. Now it’s getting a major facelift from the Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother. Beckett is the architect of the family, and his social life consists mostly of talking shop over pizza and...

The Woman in Our House

Author

Andrew Hart

What happens when you open your home to the perfect stranger?

Anna Klein is ready to return to work as a literary agent for the first time since having children. She and her husband, Josh, decide to hire a live-in nanny with some trepidation, but all their misgivings disappear as soon as they meet...

Paramedic to the Prince

Author	Patrick (Tom) Notestine
ISBN	1424158966

Drive-by shootings, drug overdoses, and multi-car accidentsaas a paramedic, he thought he had seen it all, until he answered a small job advertisement that changed his life forever. Welcome to the mysterious world of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, one of the most fundamentalist Islamic countries on...

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,...

The Beantown Girls

Author

Jane Healey

An Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller. A novel of love, courage, and danger unfolds as World War II’s brightest heroines—the best of friends—take on the front lines. 1944: Fiona Denning has her entire future planned out. She’ll work in city hall, marry her fiancé when he returns...

Why don't you just leave him?

Author

Stacey Jameson

This honest and open autobiography is the true story of a young woman trapped in a relationship that was violent and abusive. Coercive control drove her to the depths of despair.
Stacey Jameson had a lack of self-esteem derived from her early child hood. Growing up and dealing with her parent’s...

The Secrets of Lost Stones

Author	Melissa Payne
ISBN	1542006287

A soul-stirring novel about the bonds between mother and child and the redemption that comes with facing the past and letting it go.

Thirty-two-year-old Jess Abbot has lost everything: her job, her apartment, and—most heart-wrenching—her eight-year-old son, Chance, to a tragic accident....

You Then, Me Now

Author	Nick Alexander
ISBN	1503958620

She’s given her daughter everything. Now it’s time to give her the truth.

Becky’s father is not just absent: he’s a mystery, a gaping hole in her past. He died before she was born and for her mother, Laura, the subject is strictly off-limits. But when Laura books an unexpected trip to...

Living With Arabs: Nine Years with the Petra Bedouin

Author

Joan Ward

Horrendous news from the Middle East fills our newspapers and screens every day. How can we begin to understand what drives people to treat each other as they do? “Medieval” is a word often used. Well-informed commentators analyse political and military issues but give little insight into the...

The Littlest Hostage

Author

Lujain Al-Iman

When a young mother marries a former diplomat, and travels as a bride to Saudi Arabia, her world and the world of her child is turned upside down. The life she had imagined for herself and family comes to an abrupt end, with the revelation that her new husband is in fact the head of a banned political organisation,...

WEDLOCKED: A Story of Forced Marriage

Author

Hannah Rubenstein

When the plainclothes police officers appeared with a warrant for her arrest, Mayah assumed that her father — a powerful figure in Nairobi’s Indian business community — was attempting to frighten her.

What she didn’t realize was that her ordeal had only just begun.

That...

Falling Off the Edge of the World

Author	Shelly Anderson
ISBN	1304471926

What would tempt a young woman to run off to a country she knew almost nothing about? I was that young woman. Fleeing a bitter divorce and my safe, but mundane, life I accepted a job in Saudi Arabia, a country that by all reports was the most austere on earth. I ran headlong into an unexpected adventure that...

Her Name Was Rose

Author

Claire Allan

Her name was Rose. You watched her die. And her death has created a vacancy.

When Emily lets a stranger step out in front of her, she never imagines that split second will change her life. But after Emily watches a car plough into the young mother – killing her instantly – she finds herself unable...

Bengali Girls Don't

Author

L.A. Sherman

Based on a True Story:

Born in a remote village during her country's liberation war, a Bangladeshi girl moves to England with her parents and struggles for freedom and identity while growing up in a mixed neighborhood. Caught between the world of her white friends and that of her parents, she...

The Memory Tree

Author

Linda Gillard

Can the power of love overcome life’s darkest memories and deepest losses? When her favourite beech tree is felled in a storm, Ann feels as if someone has died. But when long-hidden seed packets are found inside the trunk, Ann realises there are more memories than her own lurking within the ancient...

ISIS Sex Slavery: Interviews with The Sex Slaves and War Brides of Isis Militants

Author

Nicolas Lucont

In ISIS Sex Slavery you will read the shocking eye witness reports of the cruel and savage war crimes against women by ISIS militants. Whether conning devout women to become war brides or capturing Yazidi women to use as sex slaves, ISIS used sex as a form of torture and subjugation of captives, as a reward...