| 1. |  | Things Fall Apart
from Topeka Bindery
Customer Review:
this book was awesome. it was a required reading for my world history 2 class my freshman year of college. although i am an avid reader, i probably would have never read the book on my own had dr barnes not required it for the course. if you are a lover of historically accurate books, this book is... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | Spark Notes Cry, The Beloved Country
from SparkNotes
Price: $5.95
Customer Review:
Had to read it for AP English high school, very glad I did. Extraordinarily well-written book set in apartheid South Africa. | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | Gilgamesh: A New English Version
from Free Press
Price: $10.20
Customer Review:
I agree with a previous reviewer from two years ago that I'm really not interested in a prose translation of Gilgamesh. While I found the Introduction interesting, the translation itself is disappointing considering there's really no need to have your own interpretation of what the missing tablets... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | The Fire Next Time
from BBC Audiobooks America
Price: $11.21
Customer Review:
The Fire Next Time (1963) by James Baldwin begins with "My Dungeon Shook", a letter to his nephew; a `let's keep it real' moment between elder and youth. Baldwin informs to his nephew that because of the color of his skin, white America has cast him in a role in which he has no control:
"You... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy)
from Anchor
Price: $10.85
Customer Review:
Buddenbrooks in a fez, Little Women in purdah, Palace Walk describes exotic settings and even more exotic customs entirely in the borrowed structures of a European novel of 'generations,' in which the eternal dilemma of marrying off the young unsettles the comfortable mindsets of the old. Anthony... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | Season of Migration to the North: A Novel
from Lynne Rienner Publishers
Price: $11.16
Customer Review:
I never received my book and i even payed more for the book to come faster! | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 7. | ![]() | Midaq Alley
from Three Continents Press
Customer Review:
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MIDAQ ALLEY is a masterpiece of existentialist satire. It has enough greed, lust, envy and delusion to match Jean Paul Sartre's NO EXIT (famous for the line "Hell is other people"). And this is what makes it such fun.
MIDAQ ALLEY works on so many levels that... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 8. | ![]() | Men in the Sun, and Other Palestinian Stories (Arab Authors; 11)
from Heinemann
Customer Review:
This book contains a novella as well as several short stories by the prominent Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani. Kanafani is known in the Arab world as a literary master, and "Men in the Sun" is deemed by many to be his masterpiece. The book was a tremendous pleasure to read and at the same time... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | Nauvoo Polygamy: "... but we called it celestial marriage"
from Signature Books
Price: $26.37
Customer Review:
Peter's review showed Mormon bias and no substance. It is purely HIS opinion with no evidence the author is wrong on anything. Mormon dodging issues. He says if you want to know what Mormons believe, ask one. Actually, Signature Books is an independent, non-conservative Mormon publisher. They are... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran
from Castle Books
Price: $10.39
Customer Review:
Everyone seems to have known about this book but me! Where have I been? The poems and stories in this book absolutely give me those wonderful goose-bumps that come when I experience something very special. | 5.0 / 5.0
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