*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography* *Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award* *Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography* A “captivating” (The Washington Post) work of history that explores ...
... city to its former glory , as he killed and imprisoned droves of people in the process of trying to reconcile the mythical city with the real one . For decades and centuries Baghdad , like a patient mother , abused by her own sons and ...
. This is a smart, respectful and compelling book." —Jason DeParle, The New York Times Book Review When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned to Strangers in Their Own Land to understand what Trump ...
It's as much a novel of feelings as ideas, and this is what makes it a compelling read' Jake Arnott, Guardian The wonderful Linda Grant weaves a tale around ideas of home; how London can be a place of exile or expulsion, how home can be a ...
... a stranger in her own city. In Paris the title of duke ranks all others, even that of prince; though, in heraldic theory, free of all sophism, titles signify nothing; there is absolute equality among gentlemen. This fine equality was ...
In the next riveting thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong, the paranoia increases – along with the stakes – as the town of Rockton tries to solve the latest mystery at their door.
... a stranger in her own city . " Being black , Fields didn't have much choice but to locate himself in that part of L.A. where he was supposed to be he and thousands of others with the same skin color . It was the kind of migration that ...
... her . Thekla repelled his advances , appealing to the right of a stranger and guest , noble in her own city , and engaged in the service of " the God " ; and on his continued im- portunity , she tore his outer garment ( chlamys ) , and ...
... a stranger , she cannot love your children of the first wife like unto her own ... of your husband as your own flesh , train them up wisely as a true mother , and ... city or strangers , whether they live near or dwell afar off . 3 But ...
... a stranger in her own city. In Paris the title of duke ranks all others, even that of prince; though, in heraldic theory, free of all sophism, titles signify nothing; there is absolute equality among gentlemen. This fine equality was ...