Book type: non-fiction (1192)
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Musicophilia : Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Revised and Expanded With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls “musical misalignments.” Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with “amusia,” to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans; and a man whose memo... continue
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My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid EN
Country: North America / 
Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda
Description:
Kincaid's poetic and often shockingly frank account of Devon's life is also the story of their family on the island of Antigua.
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My Country, My Life : Fighting for Israel, Searching for Peace by Ehud Barak EN
IsraelDescription:
In the summer of 2000, the most decorated soldier in Israel's history - Ehud Barak - set himself a challenge as daunting as any he had faced on the battlefield: to secure a final peace with the Palestinians. He would propose two states for two peoples, with a shared capital in Jerusalem. He knew the risks of failure. But he also knew the risks of not trying: letting slip perhaps the last chance for a generation to secure genuine peace. It was a moment of truth. It was one of many in a life intertwined, from the start, with that of Israel. Born on a kibbutz, Barak became commander of Israel's e... continue
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My Feudal Lord by Tehmina Durrani, William Hoffer, Marilyn Mona Hoffer EN
PakistanDescription:
Born into one of Pakistan's most influential families, Tehmina Durrani was raised in the privileged milieu of Lahore high society. She was expected to marry a wealthy Muslim, bear him children and lead a sheltered life of leisure. This is the story of Tehmina's rebellion from an unhappy marriage.
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My Forbidden Face : Growing Up Under the Taliban : a Young Woman's Story by Latifa, Chékéba Hachemi EN
Country: Asia / 
Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Description:
Born into a middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980, Latifa had a conventional childhood. Then, Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul. And from that moment, Latifa, just sixteen, became a prisoner in her own home. The simplest and most basic freedoms were forbidden. She was forced to put on a chadri, the state-mandated uniform that covered her entire body. Disbelief at having to hide herself was soon replaced by fear, the fear of being whipped or stoned like women she'd seen. My Forbidden Face provides a moving and highly personal account of life under the Taliban regime. With painful hon... continue
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My Grandmother : A Memoir by Fethiye Çetin EN
ArmeniaDescription:
An urgent, passionate memoir of the author's discovery of her Muslim grandmother's true Armenian Christian identity. When Fethiye Çetin was growing up in the small Turkish town of Maden, she knew her grandmother as a happy and universally respected Muslim housewife. It would be decades before her grandmother told her the truth: that she was by birth a Christian and an Armenian, that her name was not Seher but Heranush, that most of the men in her village had been slaughtered in 1915, that she, along with most of the women and children, had been sent on a death march. She had been saved (and to... continue
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Czech Republic630.
My Heart Will Cross this Ocean : My Story, My Son, Amadou by Kadiatou Diallo, Craig Thomas Wolff EN
GuineaDescription:
Descended from West African kings and healers, raised in the turbulence of Guinea in the 1960s, Kadiatou Diallo was married off at the age of thirteen and bore her first child when she was sixteen. Twenty-three years later, that child--a gentle, innocent young man named Amadou Diallo--was gunned down without cause on the streets of New York City. Now Kadi Diallo tells the astonishing, inspiring story of her life, her loss, and the defiant strength she has always found within. It was Kadi Diallo's voice that captivated the public when she came to America to defend her slain son, and it is that ... continue