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  • Escape from the Taliban

    One Woman's Experiences in Afghanistan

    by Bashir Sakhawarz ...
    A rare first hand account of the US withdrawal from Kabul through the eyes of a civilian. Deeba first left Afghanistan in 2002, fleeing a war torn country and an abusive husband shortly after she was captured by the Taliban and nearly sold to an Arab Shaikh narrowly escaping due to a small twist of fate. In June 2021, Deeba returned to visit family in Kabul to organize the engagement of her son. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fighting the Taliban

    The Memoirs of an Afghan Army Commander

    by Bashir Sakhawarz ...
    Amir, an Afghan officer, faces trials and survival in the battlefield, rising through the ranks amid challenges. Following the defeat of the Taliban in 2001 Amir joined the Afghan Army becoming an officer. For the next five or so years he is involved in fighting the resurgent Taliban alongside American, British and other coalition soldiers. During an operation to capture a district in Faryab ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Memoir

    by Fawzia Koofi ...
    In the vein of Infidel comes this spellbinding memoir of survival and courage from Afghanistan’s most popular female politician.On the day Fawzia Koofi was born, her mother set her under the blazing Afghan sun to die. She was the nineteenth child of twenty-three in a family with seven wives, and her mother did not want another daughter. Despite severe burns that lasted into her teenage years, ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The House of the Mosque

    by Kader Abdolah ...
    Translated by Susan Massotty ...
    This "beautifully written," international bestselling novel charts the triumphs and tragedies of an Iranian family on the brink of national revolution ( Daily Mail, UK).Senejan, Iran, 1969. The family of Aqa Jaan has lived for eight centuries in the house of the mosque. Now it is occupied by the families of three cousins: Aqa Jaan, a merchant and head of the city's bazaar; Alsaberi, the imam of ... Read more

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  • Cactus Pear For My Beloved

    A Family Story from Gaza

    by Samah Sabawi ...
    Samah Sabawi shares the story of her parents and many like them who were born as their parents were being forced to leave their homelands.Filled with love for land, history, peoples it is more than anything else a family story and a love story told with enormous humanity and feeling. How the son (one of six), born at the height of the displacements to a disabled father and illiterate mother, a ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

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  • 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

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  • My Forbidden Face

    by Latifa ...
    Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She dreamed of one day of becoming a journalist, she was interested in fashion, movies and friends. Her father was in the import/export business and her mother was a doctor.Then in September 1996, Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul. From that moment, Latifa, just 16 years old became a prisoner in her own home. Her ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Afghans

    Three Lives Through War, Love, and Revolt

    by Åsne Seierstad ...
    A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR"An astonishing feat of writing and reporting and one of the finest books written on Afghanistan in a generation." **-**Eliza Griswold, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Amity and Prosperity“A valuable addition to the canon of literature on the country . . . [Seierstad] manages to achieve a rare intimacy." -New York... ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

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  • The Girl from Aleppo

    Nujeen's Escape from War to Freedom

    by Nujeen Mustafa, Christina Lamb ...
    Prize-winning journalist and the co-author of smash New York Times bestseller I Am Malala, Christina Lamb, now tells the inspiring true story of another remarkable young hero: Nujeen Mustafa, a teenager born with cerebral palsy, whose harrowing journey from war-ravaged Syria to Germany in a wheelchair is a breathtaking tale of fortitude, grit, and hope that lends a face to the greatest ... Read more

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  • Soldiers of God

    With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan

    by Robert D. Kaplan ...
    Series series Vintage Departures
    First time in paperback, with a new Introduction and final chapterWorld affairs expert and intrepid travel journalist Robert D. Kaplan braved the dangers of war-ravaged Afghanistan in the 1980s, living among the mujahidin—the “soldiers of god”—whose unwavering devotion to Islam fueled their mission to oust the formidable Soviet invaders. In Soldiers of God we follow Kaplan’s extraordinary journey ... Read more

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  • On the Enemy's Side

    Forbidden Love in an Iranian Prison

    by Hamour Baika ...
    A breath-taking story about love and courage... [and] finding an inner compass that leads through chaos, destruction, and violence. With each sentence, one learns to be more historically aware, tolerant, courageous and loving.Botakoz Kassymbekova, historian and author of Despite CulturesHamour Baika tells a necessary story... It’s necessary because it’s told with such urgency, beauty, and ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dear Zari

    Hidden Stories from Women of Afghanistan

    by Zarghuna Kargar ...
    Dear Zari gives voice to the secret lives of women across Afghanistan and allows them to tell their stories in their own words: from the child bride given as payment to end a family feud; to a life spent in a dark, dusty room weaving carpets; to a young girl brought up as a boy; to life as a widow shunned by society. Compelling and enlightening, Dear Zari uncovers the reality of life in ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD