Book Review: In My Father’s Country by Saima Wahab
Saima Wahab was born in Afghanistan but only lived there until she was six years old. By then, her father had been taken away by the KGB, so she and her family had to leave. They ended up in Pakistan, living with family, until she, her brother Khalid and her sister Najiba, in their teens, [...]
During the Civil War, Iris Dunleavy is declared a lunatic and sent to the Sanibel Asylum to be cured by the renowned Dr. Cowell. The doctor has a reputation for restoring women like Iris back to good, obedient wives. Iris insists she is not insane. She just went against her husband and has been sent [...]
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Journalist Josh Foer went to the U.S. Memory Championships to cover the event and write an article about it. But after meeting the competitors and learning more about what they do, Foer decided to train for the next year’s championship. He won. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything is Foer’s memoir [...]
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Iris Lockhart receives a phone call from a psychiatric hospital informing her that she’s been given power of attorney over her great-aunt, Esme, who has been a “resident” of the hospital for 61 years. But Iris has never heard of Esme Lennox, who is supposedly her grandmother, Kitty’s sister. Her grandmother now has Alzheimer’s and [...]
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The Friends of the Wake Forest Library will hold their Annual Used Book Sale Saturday, May 5 from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. at the Ledford Center at 120 S. Wingate Street on the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS) campus in Wake Forest. Members of the Friends of the Wake Forest Library are invited to [...]
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Five years ago, politician Merete Lynggaard disappeared and was presumed dead. But she is very much alive, being held captive by an unknown person who obviously wants her to suffer. Carl Mørck is a detective who is trying to recover from an incident that left one colleague dead and another paralyzed. To get him out [...]
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As Henry Lee walks past the Panama Hotel, a landmark that has been boarded up for decades, he is pulled into the excitement of the crowd that has gathered to see what has been found locked away in the basement all these years. It turns out that the belongings of many Japanese families who were [...]
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When Alice Love wakes up, she is fully convinced she is 29 years old, pregnant with her first child and happily married to the love of her life. But in reality, it’s 10 years later. She has three children, whom she doesn’t remember, and is in the process of getting a divorce. She can’t believe [...]
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The story begins with a little girl who is hiding on a ship. It is clear that she has boarded the ship with a woman she calls The Authoress, but after waiting for a very long time, the little girl joins some other children in a game. Soon she is on the dock in Australia, [...]
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Death is pretty busy in Germany during World War II. But one child he encounters, as he takes her little brother’s soul away, has a bigger effect on him than all the others. In The Book Thief, Markus Zusak tells the story of this girl, Liesel Meminger, from the perspective of Death himself. From her [...]
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