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I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Malala Yousafzai · 2013
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman "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 refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she became a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize. I AM MALALA is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons. I AM MALALA will make you believe in the power of one person's voice to inspire change in the world.
Son of Hamas
Mosab Hassan Yousef, Ron Brackin · 2010
Describes the author's experiences as the son of one of the founders of Hamas, how he assisted his father in an important role in the organization, and how he came to renounce violence and Hamas and become a Christian.
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Junot Díaz · 2008
Winner of:<br/>The Pulitzer Prize<br/>The National Book Critics Circle Award<br/>The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award<br/>The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize<br/>A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year<br/><br/>One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore City Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and many more...<br/><br/>Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read and named one of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years<br/><br/>Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love.
No Teu Deserto (Portuguese Edition)
Miguel Sousa Tavares · 2022
Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close: A Novel
Jonathan Safran Foer · 2006
A new novel by the author of Everything Is Illuminated introduces Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center bombing who searches the city for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind. Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination. Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist, correspondent with Stephen Hawking and Ringo Starr. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. An inspired innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to Harlem on his search. Along the way he is always dreaming up inventions to keep those he loves safe from harm. What about a birdseed shirt to let you fly away? What if you could actually hear everyone's heartbeat? His goal is hopeful, but the past speaks a loud warning in stories of those who've lost loved ones before. As Oskar roams New York, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity who are all survivors in their own way. He befriends a 103-year-old war reporter, a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building, and lovers enraptured or scorned. Ultimately, Oskar ends his journey where it began, at his father's grave. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother's apartment. They are there to dig up his father's empty coffin.
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini · 2013
O meu pé de laranja lima
José Mauro de Vasconcelos · 2017
✴ Mais de 2 MILHÕES de exemplares vendidos ✴ ✴ Mais de 150 EDIÇÕES no Brasil ✴ ✴ Traduzido em 15 IDIOMAS ✴ ✴ Publicado em 23 PAÍSES ✴ Nova edição com suplemento de leitura e notas explicativas de Luiz Antonio Aguiar. Um clássico da literatura brasileira, com adaptações para a televisão, o cinema e o teatro, O meu pé de laranja lima é desses livros que marcam época. Lançado em 1968, trata-se de uma história fortemente autobiográfica, que demonstra a mão de um escritor experiente, ciente do efeito que pode provocar nos leitores com suas cenas e a composição de seus personagens. O protagonista Zezé tem 6 anos e mora num bairro modesto, na zona norte do Rio de Janeiro. O pai está desempregado, e a família passa por dificuldades. O menino vive aprontando, sem jamais se conformar com as limitações que o mundo lhe impõe – viaja com sua imaginação, brinca, explora, descobre, responde aos adultos, mete-se em confusões, causa pequenos desastres. As surras que lhe aplicam seu pai e sua irmã mais velha são seu suplício, a ponto de fazê-lo querer desistir da vida. No entanto, o apego ao mundo que criou felizmente sempre fala mais alto. Só não há remédio para a dor, para a perda. E Zezé muito cedo descobrirá isso. A alegria e a tristeza não poderiam estar mais bem combinadas do que nestas páginas. E isso, se não explica, justifica a imensa popularidade alcançada pelo livro.
Formas de Voltar Para Casa
Alejandro Zambra · 2014
Levels of Life
Julian Barnes · 2013
An NPR Best Book of the Year<br/>A Daily Candy Best Book of the Year<br/><br/>Julian Barnes, author of the Man Booker Prize–winning novel The Sense of an Ending, gives us his most powerfully moving book yet, beginning in the nineteenth century and leading seamlessly into an entirely personal account of loss—making Levels of Life an immediate classic on the subject of grief.<br/><br/>Levels of Life is a book about ballooning, photography, love and loss; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded Barnes the 2011 Booker Prize described him as “an unparalleled magus of the heart.” This book confirms that opinion.<br/><br/>“Spare and beautiful...a book of rare intimacy and honesty about love and grief. To read it is a privilege. To have written it is astonishing.” —Ruth Scurr, The Times of London<br/><br/>“A remarkable narrative that is as raw in its emotion as it is characteristically elegant in its execution.” —Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times
A Contadora de Filmes
Hernán Rivera Letelier · 2012
Guantanamo Diary
Mohamedou Ould Slahi,Mohamedou Ould Slahi · 2015
The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
Nadia Murad · 2017
Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer · 2009
Good Women Of China
Xinran · 2002
A House in the Sky: A Memoir
Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett · 2013
