Book type: non-fiction (1193)
Palestine822.
Stadt der Verlorenen : Leben im größten Flüchtlingslager der Welt by Ben Rawlence DE
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Mitten in Afrika zwischen Kenia und Somalia befindet sich das größte Flüchtlingslager der Welt – seit Jahrzehnten. Dadaab ist eine Großstadt. Viele der Bewohner sind hier geboren. Sie dürfen weder arbeiten noch das Lager verlassen. Insgesamt soll hier eine halbe Million Menschen leben, vor den Toren des Lagers kampieren weitere Zehntausende. Sie waren auf der Flucht vor grausamen Shabaab-Milizen, vor dem Hunger und dem Bürgerkrieg. Kenia möchte dieses Lager längst auflösen, aber wohin mit den Menschen? Ben Rawlence hat sechs von ihnen beglei... continue
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Stars Between the Sun and Moon : One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom by Lucia Jang, Susan McClelland EN
Country: Asia / 
North Korea
North Korea
Description:
An extraordinary memoir by a North Korean woman who defied the government to keep her family alive.
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Stay True : A Memoir by Hua Hsu EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. “This book is exquisite and excruciating and I will be thinking about it for years and years to come.” —Rachel Kushner, two-time National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Flamethrowers and The Mars Room In the eyes of eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken—with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity—is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family... continue
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Stravinsky's Lunch by Drusilla Modjeska EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Biography of Grace Cossington Smith and Stella Bowen, two women artists born in Australia in the 1890s. Compares their very different lives and how their lifestyles affected their work. Discusses the people who influenced them and the ways in which their art developed. Copiously illustrated, including colour plates. Includes references and index. Author's other publications include 'Poppy', 'The Orchard' and 'Exiles at Home: Australian women writers 1924-1945'.
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Street Without A Name : Childhood And Other Misadventures In Bulgaria by Kapka Kassabova EN
BulgariaDescription:
Born in Sofia, Kapka Kassabova grew up under the last years of Cold War Communism in the 1980s, emigrated after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and has loved and hated her homeland in equal measure ever since. Thirty years later, as Bulgaria was joining the EU club, Kapka revisited the country of her childhood and her own relationship to it to discover just how much it - and she - had changed. With the irreverence of an expat, the curiosity of a visitor, and the soul of a poet, Kassabova brings to life the past and present of Bulgaria, as well as probing the complicated connection between place a... continue
Serbia828.
Study Guide to Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis by Intelligent Education EN
GreeceDescription:
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Nikos Kazantzakis' Zorba the Greek, the internationally acclaimed novel of opposing forces. As a tale of Greek's Great Famine during WWII, Zorba the Greek gives a fresh perspective on the duality between body and mind, beauty and pain, feeling and thinking. Moreover, Kazantzakis empowers readers to pursue life like Zorba. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Kazantzakis' classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons it has stood the literary test of time. Each Bri... continue
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Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho : Poems and Fragments of Sappho by Sappho EN
Description:
More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts consist of a lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric poetry - among them poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, resignation and remembrance - that nevertheless enables us to hear the living voice of the poet Plato called the tenth Muse. This is a new translation of her surviving po... continue