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  • War and Pieces

    War and Pieces tell the unique, adventurous, and heart-breaking story of Sandra Ekelund and her life - from her humble upbringing to living in the violence of Saddam Hussein's Iraq. With wonderful attention to detail, this memoir includes timely descriptions of places long gone, prices long forgotten, and notes about what now takes their places. From council housing to an Iraqi orange farm in 1971 ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • I Am Malala

    The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

    The bestselling, "remarkable" (Marie Claire) memoir by the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, I Am Malala will make you believe in the power of one person's voice to inspire change in the world."I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday."When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • I Am Malala

    How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)

    **In this New York Times bestselling memoir, Malala Yousafzai—the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize—inspires young readers with her stunning story of resilience and power.I Am Malala. This is my story.**Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Walking Free

    The extraordinary true story of a young man who fled war-torn Iraq, came to Australia as a refugee by boat, spent months in a detention centre and went on to become a pioneering surgeon.

    One man's phenomenal tale of escaping a death sentence in Iraq, surviving the Australian Refugee system and becoming a pioneering surgeon at the forefront of Orthopaedic medicine.In 1999, Munjed Al Muderis was a young surgical resident working in Baghdad when a squad of Military Police marched into the operating theatre and ordered the surgical team to mutilate the ears of three busloads of army ... Read more

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  • Reunited in the Desert

    How I Risked Everything to See My Children Again

    by Helle Amin ...
    Helle Amin seemed to have the perfect life on the tropical island of Bali with her husband and four children. But one day in 2002 this idyllic existence was shattered when she returned home from a shopping trip to find her children gone. It didn't take long to discover that her Saudi Arabian husband had taken them to live in his home country.With her children thousands of miles away in the totally ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Married To A Bedouin

    'A fascinating account of life as Bedouin in the late twentieth century' Mary S. Lovell'This sparkling memoir is a refreshing antidote and a rare window into the legendary hospitality and mysterious customs of the Bedouin Arabs' Publishing News'"Where you staying?" the Bedouin asked. "Why you not stay with me tonight - in my cave?"'Thus begins Marguerite van Geldermalsen's story of how a New ... Read more

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  • City of Lies - Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran

    A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week

    by Ramita Navai ...
    A SPECTATOR AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Timely and beautifully written' Sunday Times'Phenomenal. An extraordinary insight into a country barely known - and often feared - by the West' VogueWelcome to Tehran, a city where survival depends on a network of subterfuge. Here is a place where mullahs visit prostitutes, drug kin... ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Secrets of the Henna Girl

    by Sufiya Ahmed ...
    Life as Zeba knows it could be over for good . . .Zeba Khan is like any other sixteen-year-old girl: enjoying herself, waiting for exam results . . . and dreaming of the day she'll meet her one true love.Except her parents have other plans.In Pakistan for the summer, Zeba's world is shattered. Her future is threatened by an unthinkable - and forced - duty to protect her father's honour.But does ... Read more

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  • Blood and Sand

    The BBC security correspondent’s own extraordinary and inspiring story

    by Frank Gardner ...
    On the June 6, 2004, while on assignment in Riyadh, BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers were ambushed by Islamist gunmen. Simon was killed outright. Frank was hit in the shoulder and leg. As he lay in the dust, a figure stood over him and pumped four more bullets into his body at point-blank range...Against all the odds, Frank Gardner survived.Today, although ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • On the Bone (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 18)

    Inspiration for THE TURKISH DETECTIVE, BBC Two's sensational new crime drama

    by Barbara Nadel ...
    Barbara Nadel's gripping Ikmen mysteries are the inspiration behind The Turkish Detective, BBC Two's sensational eight-part TV crime drama series, out now.In Istanbul - the golden city on the Bosphorus - ancient myths and modern evils are at work...On the Bone is the eighteenth novel in the brilliant Istanbul crime thriller series starring Inspector Cetin Ikmen, 'the Morse of Istanbul' (Daily... ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Behind the Veil

    An Australian Nurse in Saudi Arabia

    by Lydia Laube ...
    "Cardiac resuscitation was often applied to a patient who was fast asleep. The hapless victim woke from a peaceful slumber to find somebody, often an infidel, jumping up and down on his chest." Lydia Laube worked as a nurse in Saudi Arabia in a society that does not allow women to drive, vote, or speak to a man alone. Wearing head-to-toe coverings in stifling heat, and battling administrative ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Bright Shiny Things

    From the author of the Inspector Ikmen series, inspiration for the BBC's THE TURKISH DETECTIVE

    by Barbara Nadel ...
    Series Book 5 - Hakim & Arnold
    'This series has brilliantly established itself and this latest is another masterpiece from Barbara Nadel' CRIMESQUADA friend from the past asks for private investigator Lee Arnold's help in tracing his son: Fayyad al'Barri was last thought to be in Syria having embraced radical Islam. But a cryptic message has prompted his family to believe Fayyad has had a change of heart and is searching for a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD