Pascale's bookshelf: all en-US Sat, 18 Apr 2020 07:57:14 -0700 60 Pascale's bookshelf: all 144 41 https://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Aleph 13247847
Each end gives us the opportunity for a rebirth.


Aleph marks a return to Paulo Coelho's beginnings. Facing a grave crisis of faith, seeking a path of spiritual renewal and growth, Paulo decides to start over: to travel, to experiment and to reconnect with people and the world. On his journey through Europe, Africa and Asia, he will again meet Hilal - the woman he loved 500 years before - and this encounter will initiate a mystical voyage through time and space, through past and present, in search of an opportunity to rewrite his own destiny.]]> 292 Coellho Paula 073229410X Pascale 5 2.86 2010 Aleph
author: Coellho Paula
name: Pascale
average rating: 2.86
book published: 2010
rating: 5
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]]> Le Petit Prince 3704500 110 Joann Sfar 2070603393 Pascale 5 4.29 2008 Le Petit Prince
author: Joann Sfar
name: Pascale
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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]]> The Boy on the Beach 37653371
Alan Kurdi’s body washed up on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea on September 2, 2015, and overnight, the political became personal, as the world awoke to the reality of the Syrian refugee crisis. Tima Kurdi first saw the shocking photo of her nephew in her home in Vancouver, Canada. But Tima did not need a photo to understand the truth—she and her family had already been living it.

In The Boy on the Beach, Tima recounts her idyllic childhood in Syria, where she grew up with her brother Abdullah and other siblings in a tight‑knit family. A strong‑willed, independent woman, Tima studied to be a hairdresser and had dreams of seeing the world. At twenty‑two, she emigrated to Canada, but much of her family remained in Damascus. Life as a single mother and immigrant in a new country wasn’t always easy, and Tima recounts with heart‑wrenching honesty the anguish of being torn between a new home and the world she’d left behind.

As Tima struggled to adapt to life in a new land, war overtook her homeland. Caught in the crosshairs of civil war, her family risked everything and fled their homes. Tima worked tirelessly to help them find safety, but their journey was far from easy. Although thwarted by politics, hounded by violence, and separated by vast distances, the Kurdis encountered setbacks at every turn, they never gave up hope. And when tragedy struck, Tima suddenly found herself thrust onto the world stage as an advocate for refugees everywhere, a role for which she had never prepared but that allowed her to give voice to those who didn’t have an opportunity to speak for themselves.

From the jasmine‑scented neighbourhoods of Damascus before the war to the streets of Aleppo during it, to the refugee camps of Europe and the leafy suburbs of Vancouver, The Boy on the Beach is one family’s story of love, loss, and the persistent search for safe harbour in a devastating time of war.]]> 272 Tima Kurdi 1501175238 Pascale 0 to-read 4.36 2018 The Boy on the Beach
author: Tima Kurdi
name: Pascale
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2018
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]]> Turquoise Silence 21395882 78 Sanober Khan 8182534763 Pascale 0 to-read 4.09 2015 Turquoise Silence
author: Sanober Khan
name: Pascale
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[INFJ: 33 Secrets From the Life of an INFJ]]> 27427535 136 Diana Jackson 1508444005 Pascale 0 to-read 4.00 INFJ: 33 Secrets From the Life of an INFJ
author: Diana Jackson
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]]> <![CDATA[A Look Inside a Rare Mind: An INFJ's Journal Through Personal Discovery]]> 22398966
My conclusion was always the same. Something is wrong with me. I felt like I was failing at my life and I could never seem to fix it. I continued to fail. I continued to remain alone, misunderstood by myself and everyone around me.

Until one day, I took a Myers-Briggs Personality test and read the results: INFJ. What does that mean? I researched and researched, read and read, pondered and pondered, until it hit me…

I am not insane.

I am not failing.

I am not broken.

I am an INFJ.

Once I learned my personality type, I was able to begin my personal growth and development. In these pages, I wish to share with you my thoughts through the early stages of my discovery: the positive, the negative, the joyful and the depressing.

Welcome to the rare mind of an INFJ.

Jennifer Soldner is the founder of INFJ Anonymous (http://infjanonymous.com), a website devoted to helping other INFJs along their path of personal discovery as well as Joyfully Freefalling (http://jennifersoldner.com). An INFJ, Empath and Highly Sensitive Person, she is also the author of the wildly popular article Top 10 Things Every INFJ Wants You to Know.]]> 103 Jennifer Soldner Pascale 0 to-read 3.58 2014 A Look Inside a Rare Mind: An INFJ's Journal Through Personal Discovery
author: Jennifer Soldner
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.58
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]]> The Wanderess 18816085 334 Roman Payne 098522813X Pascale 0 to-read 4.05 2013 The Wanderess
author: Roman Payne
name: Pascale
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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]]> Inkspell (Inkworld, #2) 28195
Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of INKHEART, the book whose characters became real. But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater brought into being from words, the need to return to the tale has become desperate. When he finds a crooked storyteller with the ability to read him back, Dustfinger leaves behind his young apprentice Farid and plunges into the medieval world of his past. Distraught, Farid goes in search of Meggie, and before long, both are caught inside the book, too. But the story is threatening to evolve in ways neither of them could ever have imagined.]]> 635 Cornelia Funke 0439554004 Pascale 0 to-read 3.94 2005 Inkspell (Inkworld, #2)
author: Cornelia Funke
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2005
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]]> Face to Face 7999421 "When I stayed at the farm over the weekends, Zelha´s grandfather used to gather his grandchilderen and myself around him regaling us the stories but the embellişshed them with appropriate folk songs. We girls preferred the stories involving love and the boys liked the war epics. These incredible unknown details would explain why the Kurds and the Turks both stayed together and confronted esch other."]]> 326 Ayşe Kulin 975289531X Pascale 3 3.39 2005 Face to Face
author: Ayşe Kulin
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.39
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at: 2013/08/19
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]]> Shantaram 33600
So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear.

Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter Bombay's hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere.

As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city's poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The search leads him to war, prison torture, murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals. The keys to unlock the mysteries and intrigues that bind Lin are held by two people. The first is Khader Khan: mafia godfather, criminal-philosopher-saint, and mentor to Lin in the underworld of the Golden City. The second is Karla: elusive, dangerous, and beautiful, whose passions are driven by secrets that torment her and yet give her a terrible power.

Burning slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison agonies, criminal wars and Bollywood films, spiritual gurus and mujaheddin guerrillas—this huge novel has the world of human experience in its reach, and a passionate love for India at its heart. Based on the life of the author, it is by any measure the debut of an extraordinary voice in literature.]]> 936 Gregory David Roberts 192076920X Pascale 0 4.27 2003 Shantaram
author: Gregory David Roberts
name: Pascale
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2003
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[A Diamond in the Desert: Behind the Scenes in Abu Dhabi, the World's Richest City]]> 7942179 304 Jo Tatchell 080217079X Pascale 0 3.50 2009 A Diamond in the Desert: Behind the Scenes in Abu Dhabi, the World's Richest City
author: Jo Tatchell
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2009
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[House with Wisteria: Memoirs of Halide Edib]]> 230308 This memoir falls naturally into two parts. The first part is a fascinating view from the inside of the life of a girl and young woman growing up in the last years of traditional Ottoman Turkey. Her story is rich with character, detail, and color and she tells it with the skill of a novelist.

The second part of the memoir describes her life as a wife and mother and as a participant and observer in the difficult modernization Turkey's political and educational systems.

A helpful introduction is provided by Sibel Erol, Lecturer in Turkish Studies at New York University.

]]> 407 Halide Edib Adıvar 0967996031 Pascale 0 to-read 3.67 1963 House with Wisteria: Memoirs of Halide Edib
author: Halide Edib Adıvar
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.67
book published: 1963
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]]> <![CDATA[The Man Within My Head: Graham Greene, My Father and Me]]> 19532900 The Man Within My Head, Pico Iyer sets out to unravel the mysterious closeness he has always felt with the writer Graham Greene: he examines Greene's obsessions, his life on the road, his penchant for mystery. Iyer follows Greene's trail from his first novel, The Man Within, to such later classics as The Quiet American and begins to unpack all they have in common: a typical old-school education, a lifelong restlessness and refusal to make a home anywhere, a fascination with the complications of faith. The deeper Iyer plunges into their haunted kinship, however, the more he begins to wonder whether the man within his head is not Greene but his own father, or perhaps some more shadowy aspect of himself. Drawing upon experiences across the globe, from Cuba to Bhutan, and moving, as Greene would, from Sri Lanka at war to intimate moments of introspection; trying to make sense of his own past, commuting between the cloisters of a fifteenth-century boarding school and California in the 1960s, one of our most resourceful cultural explorers gives us his most personal and revelatory book yet, and one of the best new portraits of Greene himself.]]> 258 Pico Iyer 1408829029 Pascale 4 just-bought-it 3.86 2012 The Man Within My Head: Graham Greene, My Father and Me
author: Pico Iyer
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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]]> The Thread 11468237 The Thread is a magnificent story of a friendship and a love that endures through the catastrophes and upheavals of the twentieth century--both natural and man-made--in the turbulent city of Thessaloniki, Greece. Victoria Hislop, internationally bestselling author of The Island and The Return, has written a wonderfully evocative and enthralling saga enriched by deep emotion and sweeping historical events, from fire to civil war to Nazi brutality and economic collapse. The Thread is historical fiction at its finest, colorful and captivating with truly unforgettable characters--a novel that brilliant captures the energy and life of this singular Greek city.]]> 390 Victoria Hislop 0755377737 Pascale 4 just-bought-it 4.04 2011 The Thread
author: Victoria Hislop
name: Pascale
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2014/07/30
date added: 2014/08/01
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]]> <![CDATA[On Canaan's Side (Dunne Family #4)]]> 10266875
A first-person narrative of Lilly Bere’s life, On Canaan’s Side opens as the eighty-five-year-old Irish émigré mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. Lilly, the daughter of a Dublin policeman, revisits her eventful past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee Ireland at the end of the First World War. She continues her tale in America, where—far from her family—she first tastes the sweetness of love and the bitterness of betrayal.

Spanning nearly seven decades, Sebastian Barry’s extraordinary fifth novel explores memory, war, family ties, love, and loss, distilling the complexity and beauty of life into his haunting prose.]]> 256 Sebastian Barry 0571226531 Pascale 4 3.83 2011 On Canaan's Side (Dunne Family #4)
author: Sebastian Barry
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> Deep Waters (Cetin Ikmen, #4) 32124 448 Barbara Nadel 0747267197 Pascale 4 3.87 2002 Deep Waters (Cetin Ikmen, #4)
author: Barbara Nadel
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2002
rating: 4
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]]> The Translation of the Bones 11076136 The Translation of the Bones is a searingly powerful novel about passion and isolation, about the nature of belief, about love and motherhood and a search for truth.]]> 213 Francesca Kay 0297865080 Pascale 2 3.27 2011 The Translation of the Bones
author: Francesca Kay
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.27
book published: 2011
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story]]> 13166621
In this heartwarming and poignant memoir, Daphne shares her amazing relationships with a host of orphans, including her first love, Bushy, a liquid-eyed antelope; Rickey-Tickey-Tavey, the little dwarf mongoose; Gregory Peck, the busy buffalo weaver bird; Huppety, the mischievous zebra; and the majestic elephant Eleanor, with whom Daphne has shared more than forty years of great friendship.
 
But this is also a magical and heartbreaking human love story between Daphne and David Sheldrick, the famous Tsavo Park warden. It was their deep and passionate love, David’s extraordinary insight into all aspects of nature, and the tragedy of his early death that inspired Daphne’s vast array of achievements, most notably the founding of the world-renowned David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and the Orphans’ Nursery in Nairobi National Park, where Daphne continues to live and work to this day.
 
Encompassing not only David and Daphne’s tireless campaign for an end to poaching and for conserving Kenya’s wildlife, but also their ability to engage with the human side of animals and their rearing of the orphans expressly so they can return to the wild, Love, Life, and Elephants is alive with compassion and humor, providing a rare insight into the life of one of the world’s most remarkable women.]]> 352 Daphne Sheldrick 0374104573 Pascale 0 just-bought-it, to-read 4.06 1973 Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story
author: Daphne Sheldrick
name: Pascale
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1973
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]]> <![CDATA[The Devil Gets the Better of Love]]> 15741628 182 Hande Altaylı 9751414067 Pascale 3 3.45 2006 The Devil Gets the Better of Love
author: Hande Altaylı
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.45
book published: 2006
rating: 3
read at: 2013/05/12
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]]> Caleb's Crossing 9684523 A richly imagined new novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller, People of the Book.

Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure.

The narrator of Caleb's Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island's glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia's minister father tries to convert the Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe's shaman, against whose magic he must test his own beliefs. One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. There, Bethia finds herself reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb's crossing of cultures.

Like Brooks's beloved narrator Anna in Year of Wonders, Bethia proves an emotionally irresistible guide to the wilds of Martha's Vineyard and the intimate spaces of the human heart. Evocative and utterly absorbing, Caleb's Crossing further establishes Brooks's place as one of our most acclaimed novelists.

Watch a Video]]> 306 Geraldine Brooks 0670021040 Pascale 0 to-read 3.83 2011 Caleb's Crossing
author: Geraldine Brooks
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average rating: 3.83
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]]> <![CDATA[Songs My Mother Never Taught Me]]> 4410371
Their two lives become intrinsically bound in this remarkable thriller that takes us through the streets of Istanbul. We learn that Bedirhan in fact killed Arda's father, and that they share more in common than he or we could imagine.

Meanwhile, Selçuk Altun, a former family friend, is playing a deadly game, providing Arda with clues to track down his father's killer.

Selçuk Altun was born in Artvin, Turkey in 1950. He lives in Istanbul and is a retired banking executive and bibliophile.]]> 218 Selçuk Altun 1846590531 Pascale 3 3.16 2005 Songs My Mother Never Taught Me
author: Selçuk Altun
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.16
book published: 2005
rating: 3
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]]> Too Much Happiness: Stories 6464937
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.

In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman, in the aftermath of an unusual and humiliating seduction, reacts in a clever if less-than-admirable fashion. Other stories uncover the “deep-holes” in a marriage, the unsuspected cruelty of children, and how a boy’s disfigured face provides both the good things in his life and the bad. And in the long title story, we accompany Sophia Kovalevsky—a late-nineteenth-century Russian émigré and mathematician—on a winter journey that takes her from the Riviera, where she visits her lover, to Paris, Germany, and, Denmark, where she has a fateful meeting with a local doctor, and finally to Sweden, where she teaches at the only university in Europe willing to employ a female mathematician.

With clarity and ease, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories that shed light on the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives.

Dimensions --
Fiction --
Wenlock edge --
Deep-holes --
Free radicals --
Face --
Some women --
Child's play --
Wood --
Too much happiness]]> 304 Alice Munro 0307269760 Pascale 2 3.87 2009 Too Much Happiness: Stories
author: Alice Munro
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2009
rating: 2
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]]> A Thousand Splendid Suns 128029
“Just as good, if not better, than Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling first book, The Kite Runner.”—Newsweek

New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today.

Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival.

A stunning accomplishment, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love.]]> 372 Khaled Hosseini 1594489505 Pascale 5 4.45 2007 A Thousand Splendid Suns
author: Khaled Hosseini
name: Pascale
average rating: 4.45
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan]]> 6452760 Three Cups of Tea, the continuing story of this determined humanitarian's efforts to promote peace through education.

In this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; his extensive work in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan after a massive earthquake hit the region in 2005; and the unique ways he has built relationships with Islamic clerics, militia commanders, and tribal leaders. He shares for the first time his broader vision to promote peace through education and literacy, as well as touching on military matters, Islam, and women-all woven together with the many rich personal stories of the people who have been involved in this remarkable two-decade humanitarian effort.

Since the 2006 publication of Three Cups of Tea, Mortenson has traveled across the U.S. and the world to share his vision with hundreds of thousands of people. He has met with heads of state, top military officials, and leading politicians who all seek his advice and insight. The continued phenomenal success of Three Cups of Tea proves that there is an eager and committed audience for Mortenson's work and message.]]> 420 Greg Mortenson 0670021156 Pascale 0 just-bought-it, to-read 3.85 2009 Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
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average rating: 3.85
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]]> The Secret Garden 2998
Mary Lennox, a spoiled, ill-tempered, and unhealthy child, comes to live with her reclusive uncle in Misselthwaite Manor on England’s Yorkshire moors after the death of her parents. There she meets a hearty housekeeper and her spirited brother, a dour gardener, a cheerful robin, and her wilful, hysterical, and sickly cousin, Master Colin, whose wails she hears echoing through the house at night.

With the help of the robin, Mary finds the door to a secret garden, neglected and hidden for years. When she decides to restore the garden in secret, the story becomes a charming journey into the places of the heart, where faith restores health, flowers refresh the spirit, and the magic of the garden, coming to life anew, brings health to Colin and happiness to Mary.]]> 331 Frances Hodgson Burnett 0517189607 Pascale 0 4.17 1911 The Secret Garden
author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
name: Pascale
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1911
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]]> <![CDATA[Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)]]> 8127 Anne of Green Gables is also a wonderful portrait of a time, a place, a family… and, most of all, love.

WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JENNIFER LEE CARELL]]> 320 L.M. Montgomery 0451528824 Pascale 0 4.32 1908 Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
author: L.M. Montgomery
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average rating: 4.32
book published: 1908
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]]> Life of Pi 4214 460 Yann Martel 0770430074 Pascale 4 3.94 2001 Life of Pi
author: Yann Martel
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2001
rating: 4
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]]> The Kite Runner 77203 371 Khaled Hosseini 159463193X Pascale 5 4.34 2003 The Kite Runner
author: Khaled Hosseini
name: Pascale
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2003
rating: 5
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]]> The Winner Stands Alone 5356711 — New Yorker From the bestselling author of The Alchemist , Paulo Coelho, comes an absorbing new novel that holds a mirror up to our culture’s obsession with fame, glamour, and celebrity.]]> 368 Paulo Coelho 0061750441 Pascale 2 3.41 2008 The Winner Stands Alone
author: Paulo Coelho
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.41
book published: 2008
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way]]> 4837266 233 John C. Parkin 1848500130 Pascale 3 3.47 2007 F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way
author: John C. Parkin
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.47
book published: 2007
rating: 3
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]]> Manuscript Found in Accra 17470686 194 Paulo Coelho 0007513925 Pascale 3 3.59 2012 Manuscript Found in Accra
author: Paulo Coelho
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.59
book published: 2012
rating: 3
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]]> Aylin 18308912 This book reveals the tumultuous life Aylin Devrimel.]]> 333 Ayşe Kulin 9751412285 Pascale 3 3.67 1997 Aylin
author: Ayşe Kulin
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.67
book published: 1997
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey]]> 114769 Tales from the Expat Harem reveals its most personal nuances. This illuminating anthology provides a window into the country from the perspective of thirty-two expatriates from seven different nations - artists, entrepreneurs, Peace Corps volunteers, archaeologists, missionaries, and others - who established lives in Turkey for work, love, or adventure. Through narrative essays covering the last four decades, these diverse women unveil the mystique of the "Orient," describe religious conflict, embrace cultural discovery, and maneuver familial traditions, customs, and responsibilities. Poignant, humorous, and transcendent, the essays take readers to weddings and workplaces, down cobbled Byzantine streets, into boisterous bazaars along the Silk Road, and deep into the feminine stronghold of steamy Ottoman bathhouses. The outcome is a stunning collection of voices from women suspended between two homes as they redefine their identities and reshape their worldviews.Coining the "expat harem" as a distinct community, the editors also boldly reclaim the concept of an Eastern harem-long the subject of erroneous Western stereotype. "Much like the imported brides of fifteenth-century sultans, our expat harem is conjured by the shared circumstance of being foreign-born and female in a land laced with a harem tradition," Ashman and Gokmen declare."Our writers are inextricably wedded to Turkish culture, embedded in it, yet alien nonetheless."]]> 296 Anastasia M. Ashman 1580051553 Pascale 0 to-read 3.75 2006 Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey
author: Anastasia M. Ashman
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.75
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]]> Last Train to Istanbul 5582821
At the same time Turkey is desperately trying to avoid being drawn in to the war, walking the tightrope between the Axis and the Allies very carefully.

In this new novel Ayse Kulin successfully follows through both the developments in her country during the war and the lives of Selva and Rafael in Europe. The story moves back and forth between Istanbul and Marseilles, Ankara and Cairo and Paris, to Berlin and back to Istanbul. In so doing it also highlights the courageous work of the Turkish diplomats who risked their lives to save hundreds of Jews stranded in Europe from being massacred by the Nazis.

All of Ayse Kulin's novels are page turners and this one is no exception. It is a novel about love and escape, interwoven with the history of one of Europe's most tumultuous times.]]> 414 Ayşe Kulin 9752893279 Pascale 0 to-read 3.83 2002 Last Train to Istanbul
author: Ayşe Kulin
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2002
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]]> <![CDATA[Black Seconds (Konrad Sejer, #6)]]> 484670
Hundreds of volunteers comb the neighbourhood, but there are no traces of Ida or her bike. As the relatives reach breaking point and the media frenzy begins, Inspector Sejer is calm and reassuring. But he finds the case puzzling. Usually missing children are found within forty-eight hours. Ida Joner seems to have vanished without a trace.]]> 272 Karin Fossum 1846550181 Pascale 3 3.84 2002 Black Seconds (Konrad Sejer, #6)
author: Karin Fossum
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2002
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Intimate Strangers: Men and Women Together]]> 231904 222 Lillian B. Rubin 0060911344 Pascale 4 re-reads 3.89 1983 Intimate Strangers: Men and Women Together
author: Lillian B. Rubin
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1983
rating: 4
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]]> Weerloos (Cel 5 #1) 3321070 Speciaal commissaris Fernand De Decker wordt opgeroepen. Hij haast zich naar de onheilsplek, waar hij beseft dat Cel 5, in het leven geroepen om de 'vergeten kinderdossiers' van onder het stof te halen, voorbij wordt gesneld door het heden.
Het blijkt het startschot van een waanzinnige race tegen de tijd.]]> 332 Luc Deflo 9022318664 Pascale 3 3.55 2005 Weerloos (Cel 5 #1)
author: Luc Deflo
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2005
rating: 3
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]]> Spoorloos (Cel 5 #3) 3321338 De laatste die Irina levend heeft gezien, is Linda Verstrepen, die in de cafetaria werkt. Ze zag dat Irina werd opgehaald, vermoedelijk door haar ongeruste vader, want de man was overstuur. Na een korte maar heftige woordenwisseling - ze herinnert zich de woorden 'ongerust' en 'mama' - zijn de twee naar buiten gelopen, naar het parkeerterrein.
Daar houdt voor Deleu en Feremans het spoor op. Er wordt met man en macht gezocht, maar Irina lijkt van de aardbodem verdwenen. De speurders vrezen het ergste, aangezien de eerste uren na een ontvoering cruciaal zijn. Dan komt er een teken van leven. Helene Slachtmuylders, een welgestelde dame, doet aangifte. Ze heeft een verontrustend telefoontje ontvangen van een man die in gebroken Nederlands losgeld eist, in ruil voor het leven van haar ontvoerde dochter. Maar haar dochter ís niet ontvoerd.
Met Spoorloos heeft LUC DEFLO zijn elfde thriller geschreven. Het handelsmerk van Deflo is de messcherpe analyse van de menselijke ziel. Hij is niet alleen sterk in het opbouwen van actiescènes, maar ook de huiveringwekkende en beklemmende sfeerschepping, waarin zijn dikwijls radeloze personages tot criminele daden overgaan, is beklijvend.
De pers over
'Deflo zorgt voor een goede dosis spanning en beperkt de gruwel. De leden van Cel 5 krijgen allen hun persoonlijke problemen te verwerken, maar wat vooral opvalt, is de rol van twee zowel teamlid Safia als verpleegster Magda zijn sterke figuren.' - De Morgen
De pers over
'Met Ademloos zet hij opnieuw een indrukwekkende thriller neer.'-WEEKEND KNACK]]> 300 Luc Deflo 9022321479 Pascale 3 to-read 3.76 2007 Spoorloos (Cel 5 #3)
author: Luc Deflo
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2007
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]]> Tears of Love Shams-i Tabrizi 13502380
"Come,
Come hither!
Leave you and your self;
Leave us and our selves!
Come swiftly
Come as quickly as possible!
Come, come nearer!
Put you and us aside;
Come!
Come until you and we would become extinct!
Come so that
Neither you nor we would exist!"

You will find the peace, love and especially yourself within the pages of this book that attracted many people in various countries.]]> 256 Sinan Yağmur Pascale 0 to-read 3.92 2010 Tears of Love Shams-i Tabrizi
author: Sinan Yağmur
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2010
rating: 0
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]]> Een Sluier van Stilte 4156963 176 Djura 9032503987 Pascale 4 3.44 1990 Een Sluier van Stilte
author: Djura
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.44
book published: 1990
rating: 4
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]]> Lust 6675241 Wat begon als een onschuldige affaire, verandert in een gruwelijk machtsspel, doordrenkt van lust en bedrog. Een spel met regels noch remmen, waarbij slachtoffers onvermijdelijk lijken te worden.]]> 326 Luc Deflo 9022323226 Pascale 4 3.53 2009 Lust
author: Luc Deflo
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2009
rating: 4
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]]> One Amazing Thing 6585252
Late afternoon sun sneaks through the windows of a passport and visa office in an unnamed American city. Most customers and even most office workers have come and gone, but nine people remain. A punky teenager with an unexpected gift. An upper-class Caucasian couple whose relationship is disintegrating. A young Muslim-American man struggling with the fallout of 9/11. A graduate student haunted by a question about love. An African-American ex-soldier searching for redemption. A Chinese grandmother with a secret past. And two visa office workers on the verge of an adulterous affair.

When an earthquake rips through the afternoon lull, trapping these nine characters together, their focus first jolts to their collective struggle to survive. There's little food. The office begins to flood. Then, at a moment when the psychological and emotional stress seems nearly too much for them to bear, the young graduate student suggests that each tell a personal tale, "one amazing thing" from their lives, which they have never told anyone before. And as their surprising stories of romance, marriage, family, political upheaval, and self-discovery unfold against the urgency of their life-or-death circumstances, the novel proves the transcendent power of stories and the meaningfulness of human expression itself. From Chitra Divakaruni, author of such finely wrought, bestselling novels as Sister of My Heart, The Palace of Illusions , and The Mistress of Spices , comes her most compelling and transporting story to date. One Amazing Thing is a passionate creation about survival -- and about the reasons to survive.]]> 220 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 1401340997 Pascale 0 to-read 3.45 2009 One Amazing Thing
author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.45
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]]> The Palace of Illusions 1774836
Relevant to today’s war-torn world, The Palace of Illusions takes us back to a time that is half history, half myth, and wholly magical. Narrated by Panchaali, the wife of the legendary Pandavas brothers in the Mahabharat, the novel gives us a new interpretation of this ancient tale.

The Palace of Illusions traces the princess Panchaali's life, beginning with her birth in fire and following her spirited balancing act as a woman with five husbands who have been cheated out of their father’s kingdom. Panchaali is swept into their quest to reclaim their birthright, remaining at their side through years of exile and a terrible civil war involving all the important kings of India. Meanwhile, we never lose sight of her strategic duels with her mother-in-law, her complicated friendship with the enigmatic Krishna, or her secret attraction to the mysterious man who is her husbands' most dangerous enemy. Panchaali is a fiery female redefining for us a world of warriors, gods, and the ever-manipulating hands of fate.]]> 360 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 0385515995 Pascale 0 to-read 4.19 2008 The Palace of Illusions
author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
name: Pascale
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2008
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]]> The Mistress of Spices 94669
Now immortal, and living in the gnarled and arthritic body of an old woman, Tilo has set up shop in Oakland, California, where she administers curatives to her customers. But when she's surprised by an unexpected romance with a handsome stranger, she must choose between everlasting life and the vicissitudes of modern society. Spellbinding and hypnotizing, The Mistress of Spices is a tale of joy, sorrow, and one special woman's magical powers.]]> 338 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 0385482388 Pascale 4 3.51 1997 The Mistress of Spices
author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.51
book published: 1997
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept]]> 816724
Confused by this sudden opportunity for a new chance at life, Pilar gradually comes to realize that the man she loves is being called upon to choose between her and his spiritual calling. As the suffering lovers travel through sacred sites in the French Pyrenees, the difficult choice they face offers a startling revelation about the divine and the redemptive power of love. Full of warmth and wisdom, joy and unexpected sorrow, their story is a magical celebration of the endless possibilities that life has to offer, and a fable about opening your heart to miracles.]]> 210 Paulo Coelho 0722535201 Pascale 3 3.40 1994 By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
author: Paulo Coelho
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.40
book published: 1994
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny]]> 43877 Wisdom to Create a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Peace.

This inspiring tale provides a step-by-step approach to living with greater courage, balance, abundance, and joy. A wonderfully crafted fable, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari tells the extraordinary story of Julian Mantle, a lawyer forced to confront the spiritual crisis of his out-of-balance life. On a life-changing odyssey to an ancient culture, he discovers powerful, wise, and practical lessons that teach us to:

Develop Joyful Thoughts, Follow Our Life's Mission and Calling, Cultivate Self-Discipline and Act Courageously, Value Time as Our Most Important Commodity, Nourish Our Relationships, and Live Fully, One Day at a Time.]]> 208 Robin Sharma 0062515675 Pascale 4 3.88 1996 The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny
author: Robin Sharma
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1996
rating: 4
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]]> Veronika Decides to Die 1431 The Alchemist addresses the fundamental questions asked by millions: What am I doing here today? and Why do I go on living?

Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything she could wish for: youth and beauty, plenty of attractive boyfriends, a fulfilling job, and a loving family. Yet something is lacking in her life. Inside her is a void so deep that nothing could possibly ever fill it. So, on the morning of November 11, 1997, Veronika decides to die. She takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up.

Naturally Veronika is stunned when she does wake up at Villete, a local mental hospital, where the staff informs her that she has, in fact, partially succeeded in achieving her goal. While the overdose didn't kill Veronika immediately, the medication has damaged her heart so severely that she has only days to live.

The story follows Veronika through the intense week of self-discovery that ensues. To her surprise, Veronika finds herself drawn to the confinement of Villete and its patients, who, each in his or her individual way, reflect the heart of human experience. In the heightened state of life's final moments, Veronika discovers things she has never really allowed herself to feel before: hatred, fear, curiosity, love, and sexual awakening. She finds that every second of her existence is a choice between living and dying, and at the eleventh hour emerges more open to life than ever before.

In Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho takes the reader on a distinctly modern quest to find meaning in a culture overshadowed by angst, soulless routine, and pervasive conformity. Based on events in Coelho's own life, Veronika Decides to Die questions the meaning of madness and celebrates individuals who do not fit into patterns society considers to be normal. Poignant and illuminating, it is a dazzling portrait of a young woman at the crossroads of despair and liberation, and a poetic, exuberant appreciation of each day as a renewed opportunity.

]]> 285 Paulo Coelho Pascale 0 to-read 3.75 1998 Veronika Decides to Die
author: Paulo Coelho
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1998
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]]> One Day 6280118
So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that?

And every year that follows?
--back cover]]> 435 David Nicholls 0340896965 Pascale 3 3.88 2009 One Day
author: David Nicholls
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2009
rating: 3
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]]> Honour 13328213 300 Elif Shafak 0670921157 Pascale 3 4.14 2011 Honour
author: Elif Shafak
name: Pascale
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2011
rating: 3
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]]> The Zahir 816723 349 Paulo Coelho 0007220855 Pascale 4 3.31 2005 The Zahir
author: Paulo Coelho
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.31
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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]]> The Witch of Portobello 6989094 312 Paulo Coelho 0061459178 Pascale 3 3.48 2006 The Witch of Portobello
author: Paulo Coelho
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.48
book published: 2006
rating: 3
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]]> The Pilgrimage 4004 The Pilgrimage recounts the spectacular trials of Paulo Coelho and his mysterious mentor, Petrus, as they journey across Spain in search of a miraculous sword.

The Pilgrimage paved the way to Paulo Coelho's international bestselling novel The Alchemist. In many ways, these two volumes are companions—to truly comprehend one, you must read the other.

Step inside this captivating account of Paulo Coelho's pilgrimage along the road to Santiago. This fascinating parable explores the need to find one's own path. In the end, we discover that the extraordinary is always found in the ordinary and simple ways of everyday people. Part adventure story, part guide to self-discovery, this compelling tale delivers the perfect combination of enchantment and insight.]]> 226 Paulo Coelho 0722534876 Pascale 0 to-read 3.70 1987 The Pilgrimage
author: Paulo Coelho
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.70
book published: 1987
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]]> <![CDATA[How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance – A Literary and Cultural History Across the Centuries]]> 13623847 How the French Invented Love is an entertaining and masterful history of love à la française by acclaimed scholar Marilyn Yalom. Spanning the Middle Ages to the present, Yalom explores a love-obsessed culture through its great works of literature—from Moliere’s comic love to the tragic love of Racine, from the existential love of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre to the romanticism of George Sand and Alfred de Musset. A thoroughly engaging homage to French culture and literature interlaced with the author’s delicious personal anecdotes, How the French Invented Love is ideal for fans of Alain de Botton, Adam Gopnik, and Simon Schama.
]]> 416 Marilyn Yalom 0062048317 Pascale 0 to-read 3.67 2012 How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance – A Literary and Cultural History Across the Centuries
author: Marilyn Yalom
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2012
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]]> My Name is Red 7964402
With the Sultan demanding an answer within three days, perhaps the clue lies somewhere in the half-finished pictures . . .

From Turkey's winner of the Nobel Prize and author of Istanbul and The Museum of Innocence, this novel is a thrilling murder mystery set amid the splendour of Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire. Part fantasy and part philosophical puzzle, My Name is Red is also a stunning meditation on love, artistic devotion and the tensions between East and West.]]> 671 Orhan Pamuk Pascale 4 3.70 1998 My Name is Red
author: Orhan Pamuk
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.70
book published: 1998
rating: 4
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I took me long to finish this book... well written, but at times to much detail for my liking.... happy I read it though, interesting...
]]> When Life Lights Up 12449224
Proslavljen Izgubljenom ružom, koja ga je učinila trećim najprevođenijim turskim piscem svih vremena, zadržavajući zanosni ton Alhemičara, Galeba Džonatana Livingstona i Malog princa, Serdar Oskan piše novi roman o nadi, bezuslovnoj ljubavi i čudu života.]]> 207 Serdar Özkan 9752113036 Pascale 0 to-read 3.62 2009 When Life Lights Up
author: Serdar Özkan
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2009
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]]> The Missing Rose 6899032 Helsinki Sanomat – FINLAND

“A major global success. Compulsory reading for all who are thrilled by The Alchemist, The Little Prince and Jonathan Livingston Seagull.”
Air Beletrina - SLOVENIA

"Magnificent. What this novel does is so magnificent. One could say that this book has the power to unite us."
TVA Television - CANADA]]> Serdar Özkan Pascale 5 2.72 2006 The Missing Rose
author: Serdar Özkan
name: Pascale
average rating: 2.72
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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LOVED this book... couldn't lay it down..
]]> The Flea Palace 8322746 The Flea Palace tells the story of Bonbon Palace, built by Russian noble émigré Pavel Antipov for his wife Agripina at the end of the Tsarist reign. It is now sadly dilapidated, flea-infested, and home to ten very different individuals and their families. Elif Shafak gives us a bird's-eye insight into each apartment, and we see their comic and tragic lives unfold.]]> 448 Elif Shafak 0141048956 Pascale 3 3.09 2002 The Flea Palace
author: Elif Shafak
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.09
book published: 2002
rating: 3
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]]> Papillon 11376539 0 Henri Charrière 1452651779 Pascale 4 4.24 1969 Papillon
author: Henri Charrière
name: Pascale
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1969
rating: 4
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]]> The Alchemist 492286 The Alchemist is such a book With over a million and a half copies sold in Latin America and Europe, The Alchemist has already achieved the status of a modern classic. Now this charming fable has been translated into English to enchant and inspire an even wider audience for years to come.

Here is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers into the Egyptian desert where a fateful encounter with the alchemist awaits him.

This is a story that teaches us, as only few stories can, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path and, above, all follow our dreams.

"Paulo Coelho... has attained the technical levels of a Saint-Exupery or a Richard Bach." - Folha da Sao Paulo]]> 177 Paulo Coelho Pascale 5 3.69 1988 The Alchemist
author: Paulo Coelho
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.69
book published: 1988
rating: 5
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]]> Brida 6544975 266 Paulo Coelho 0007274459 Pascale 4 3.21 1990 Brida
author: Paulo Coelho
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.21
book published: 1990
rating: 4
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]]> The Gaze 248734 The Flea Palace, shortlisted for the Independent Prize for Foreign Fiction and chosen for Waterstone’s 2005 Summer Reading promotion.

In her prize-wining novel, The Gaze, Shafak explores the subject of body image and desirability. An overweight woman and her lover, a dwarf, are sick of being stared at wherever they go, and decide to reverse roles. The man goes out wearing make up, and the woman draws a moustache on her face.

The couple deal with the gaze of passers by in different ways. The woman wants to hide away from the world, while the man meets them head on, even compiling his own ‘Dictionary of the Gaze’ to show the powerful effects a simple look can have.

The narrative of The Gaze is intertwined with the dwarf’s dictionary entries and the story of a bizarre freak-show organized in Istanbul in the 1880s as Shafak explores the damage which can be done by our simple desire to look at other people.]]> 264 Elif Shafak 0714531219 Pascale 3 3.37 1999 The Gaze
author: Elif Shafak
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.37
book published: 1999
rating: 3
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]]> Ankara 11935876 252 Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu 9754701342 Pascale 0 3.69 1934 Ankara
author: Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.69
book published: 1934
rating: 0
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]]> Portrait of a Turkish Family 10871355 312 Irfan Orga 1446547140 Pascale 0 to-read 4.50 1950 Portrait of a Turkish Family
author: Irfan Orga
name: Pascale
average rating: 4.50
book published: 1950
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]]> Eleven Minutes 1430 Alternative cover edition of ISBN 9780060589288

Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that “love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . .” A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune.

Maria’s despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness—sexual pleasure for its own sake—or risking everything to find her own “inner light” and the possibility of sacred sex, sex in the context of love.]]> 273 Paulo Coelho Pascale 5 3.75 2003 Eleven Minutes
author: Paulo Coelho
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2003
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Yes, I Would...: An American Woman's Letters to Turkey]]> 7487337 320 Katharine Branning 1935295063 Pascale 0 to-read 4.02 2010 Yes, I Would...: An American Woman's Letters to Turkey
author: Katharine Branning
name: Pascale
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2010
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]]> The Forty Rules of Love 6642715 Sweet Blasphemy, a novel written by a man named Aziz Zahara. Ella is mesmerized by his tale of Shams's search for Rumi and the dervish's role in transforming the successful but unhappy cleric into a committed mystic, passionate poet, and advocate of love. She is also taken with Shams's lessons, or rules, that offer insight into an ancient philosophy based on the unity of all people and religions, and the presence of love in each and every one of us. As she reads on, she realizes that Rumi's story mir­rors her own and that Zahara—like Shams—has come to set her free.

In this lyrical, exuberant follow-up to her 2007 novel, The Bastard of Istanbul, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives—one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz—that together incarnate the poet's timeless message of love.]]> 354 Elif Shafak Pascale 4 4.14 2009 The Forty Rules of Love
author: Elif Shafak
name: Pascale
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2009
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Beautiful Lies (Ridley Jones, #1)]]> 171109
If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway instead of waiting for a cab, she would still be living the beautiful lie she used to call her life. She would still be the privileged daughter of a doting father and a loving mother. Her life would still be perfect — with only the tiny cracks of an angry junkie for a brother and a charming drunk with shady underworld connections for an uncle to mar the otherwise flawless whole.

But that’s not what happened. Instead, those inconsequential decisions lead her to perform a good deed that puts her in the right place at the right time to unleash a chain of events that brings a mysterious package to her door — a package which informs her that her entire world is a lie.

Suddenly forced to question everything she knows about herself and her family, Ridley wanders into dark territory she never knew existed, where everyone in her life seems like a stranger. She has no idea who’s on her side and who has something to hide—even, and maybe especially, her new lover, Jake, who appears to have secrets of his own.

Sexy and fast-paced, Beautiful Lies is a true literary thriller with one of the freshest voices and heroines to arrive in years. Lisa Unger takes us on a breathtaking ride in which every choice Ridley makes creates a whirlwind of consequences that are impossible to imagine . . . .]]> 400 Lisa Unger 0307336824 Pascale 0 to-read 3.69 2006 Beautiful Lies (Ridley Jones, #1)
author: Lisa Unger
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2006
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]]> <![CDATA[Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom]]> 74445 Discover the Celtic Circle of Belonging.

John O'Donohue, poet, philosopher, and scholar, guides you through the spiritual landscape of the Irish imagination. In Anam Cara, Gaelic for "soul friend," the ancient teachings, stories, and blessings of Celtic wisdom provide such profound insights on the universal themes of friendship, solitude, love, and death as:

• Light is generous
• The human heart is never completely born
• Love as ancient recognition
• The body is the angel of the soul
• Solitude is luminous
• Beauty likes neglected places
• The passionate heart never ages
• To be natural is to be holy
• Silence is the sister of the divine
• Death as an invitation to freedom]]> 234 John O'Donohue 006092943X Pascale 0 to-read 4.32 1996 Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
author: John O'Donohue
name: Pascale
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1996
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Prisoner of Tehran is the astonishing account of one woman's remarkable courage in the face of terror and her quest for freedom.]]> 306 Marina Nemat 1416537422 Pascale 0 to-read 4.22 2007 Prisoner of Tehran
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]]> <![CDATA[The Beach House (Beach House, #1)]]> 7512 Caretta Rutledge thought she’d left her Southern roots and troubled family far behind. But an unusual request from her mother coming just as her own life is spinning out of control has Cara heading back to the scenic Lowcountry of her childhood summers. Before long, the rhythms of the island open her heart in wonderful ways as she repairs the family beach house, becomes a bona fide “turtle lady” and renews old acquaintances long thought lost. But it is in reconnecting with her mother that she will learn life’s most precious lessons true love involves sacrifice, family is forever and the mistakes of the past can be forgiven.

]]> 496 Mary Alice Monroe 0778322947 Pascale 0 to-read 4.12 2002 The Beach House (Beach House, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia]]> 16172  
In this masterful biography, Janet Wallach shows us the woman behind these achievements–a woman whose passion and defiant independence were at odds wit the confined and custom-bound England she left behind. Too long eclipsed by Lawrence, Gertrude Bell emerges at last in her own right as a vital player on the stage of modern history, and as a woman whose life was both a heartbreaking story and a grand adventure.]]> 425 Janet Wallach 1400096197 Pascale 4 3.79 1996 Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
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name: Pascale
average rating: 3.79
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]]> <![CDATA[Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations]]> 164972  
She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behind the creation of modern-day Iraq. Born in 1868 into a world of privilege, Bell turned her back on Victorian society, choosing to read history at Oxford and going on to become an archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author (of Persian Pictures, The Desert and the Sown, and many other collections), poet, photographer, and legendary mountaineer (she took off her skirt and climbed the Alps in her underclothes).

She traveled the globe several times, but her passion was the desert, where she traveled with only her guns and her servants. Her vast knowledge of the region made her indispensable to the Cairo Intelligence Office of the British government during World War I. She advised the Viceroy of India; then, as an army major, she traveled to the front lines in Mesopotamia. There, she supported the creation of an autonomous Arab nation for Iraq, promoting and manipulating the election of King Faisal to the throne and helping to draw the borders of the fledgling state. Gertrude Bell, vividly told and impeccably researched by Georgina Howell, is a richly compelling portrait of a woman who transcended the restrictions of her class and times, and in so doing, created a remarkable and enduring legacy.]]> 481 Georgina Howell 0374161623 Pascale 4 3.94 2006 Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
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]]> <![CDATA[Sister of My Heart (Anju and Sudha #1)]]> 16235
The cousins' bond is shattered, however, when Sudha learns a dark family secret. Urged into arranged marriages, their lives take sudden, opposite turns: Sudha becomes the dutiful daughter-in-law of a rigid small-town household, while Anju goes to America with her new husband and learns to live her own life of secrets. Then tragedy strikes them both, and the women discover that, despite the distance that has grown between them, they have only each other to turn to. Set in the two worlds of India and America, this is an exceptionally moving novel of love, friendship, and compelling courage.]]> 322 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 038548951X Pascale 4 4.01 2000 Sister of My Heart (Anju and Sudha #1)
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name: Pascale
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2000
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]]> Le Petit Prince 70720 S'ouvre alors un monde étrange et poétique, peuplé de métaphores, décrit à travers les paroles d'un "petit prince" qui porte aussi sur notre monde à nous un regard tout neuf, empli de naïveté, de fraîcheur et de gravité. Très vite, vous découvrez d'étranges planètes, peuplées d'hommes d'affaires, de buveurs, de vaniteux, d'allumeurs de réverbères.

Cette évocation onirique, à laquelle participent les aquarelles de l'auteur, a tout d'un parcours initiatique, où l'enfant apprendra les richesses essentielles des rapports humains et le secret qui les régit : "On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."

Oeuvre essentielle de la littérature, ce livre de Saint-Exupéry est un ouvrage que l'on aura à coeur de raconter à son enfant, page après page, histoire aussi de redécouvrir l'enfant que l'on était autrefois, avant de devenir une grande personne !]]> 123 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 3125971403 Pascale 5 4.38 1943 Le Petit Prince
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]]> My Feudal Lord 608368
Her marriage to Mustafa Khar, one of Pakistan's most eminent political figures, soon turned into a nightmare. Violently possessive and pathologically jealous, Mustafa Khar succeeded in cutting her off from the outside world. For fourteen years, Tehmina suffered alone, in silence.

When she decided to rebel, the price she paid was extremely high: as a Muslim woman seeking a divorce, she signed away all financial support, lost the custody of her four children, and found herself alienated from her friends and disowned by her parents.

When this book was first published it shook Pakistani society to its foundations. Here at last was someone who had succeded in reconciling her faith in Islam with her ardent belief in women's rights. Tehmina Durrani's story provided extraordinary insights into the vulnerable position of women caught in the complex web of Muslim society.]]> 382 Tehmina Durrani 0552142395 Pascale 4 3.71 1991 My Feudal Lord
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]]> Anything Considered 783161  
In no time at all Bennett is being paid handsomely to impersonate the mysterious and very wealthy Julian Poe. This entails occupying Poe’s palatial flat in Monte Carlo, whizzing around in his Mercedes, and charging meals at the Côte d'Azur’s better restaurants. Unfortunately, there are certain complications … involving Sicilian and Corsican Mafiosi, the loveliest woman ever to drive a tank, and a formula for domesticating the notoriously unpredictable black truffle. As orchestrated by Mayle, these elements make Anything Considered a novel of nail-biting suspense and champagne-dry wit, whose evocations of the good life are so convincing that you’ll come away with a suntan.]]> 316 Peter Mayle 067976268X Pascale 4 3.66 1991 Anything Considered
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name: Pascale
average rating: 3.66
book published: 1991
rating: 4
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]]> Chasing Cezanne 40191
It is Camilla who has sent our hero, Andre Kelly, to Cap Ferrat to take glamorous photo-graphs of the houses and treasures of the rich, famous, and fatuous. He happens to have his camera at the ready when he spots a Cézanne being loaded onto a plumber's truck near the home of an absent collector. Odd, thinks Andre. And in no time he's on the trail of a state-of-the-art art scam, chasing Cézanne.

It's a joy to follow him and the crowds intent on speeding or foiling his quest--including a beautiful agent; a super-savvy art dealer attracted to the finer things in life, especially if they promise the payoff of a lifetime; an awesome Dutch forger; some outstandingly greedy New York sophisticates; and, invisible in the background, the parade of remarkable chefs whose mouthwatering culinary masterpieces periodically soothe the hero and tantalize the reader of Chasing Cézanne.]]> 304 Peter Mayle 067978120X Pascale 4 3.52 1991 Chasing Cezanne
author: Peter Mayle
name: Pascale
average rating: 3.52
book published: 1991
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]]> <![CDATA[Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France (Provence, #3)]]> 40184
After trying--what folly!--to live in other places, Peter Mayle is back in his beloved Provence. He celebrates his homecoming by sharing with us a whole new feast of adventures, discoveries, hilarities, and culinary treats, liberally seasoned with a joyous mix of Gallic characters. The pauses for refreshment include an unforgettable meal in a converted gas station, a rendezvous with the very best bouillabaisse, and visits to eventful weekly markets.

But there is life after lunch, and we also discover a school for noses in Haute Provence, a gardener who grows black tomatoes, the secret of the oversexed butcher, a celebration of Alowine (Halloween) Provence-style, and the genetic effects of two thousand years of fois gras. There is a memorable tour of Marseille, a comprehensive lesson on olive oil, a search for the perfect cork-screw, and invaluable recommendations for splendid local cheeses, wines, honey, bread, country restaurants, and off-the-beaten-track places to stay.

Never has Peter Mayle written with more unabashed pleasure about his heaven on earth.]]> 226 Peter Mayle 0679762698 Pascale 4 4.02 1992 Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France (Provence, #3)
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]]> Toujours Provence 44255 241 Peter Mayle 0679736042 Pascale 4 4.03 1991 Toujours Provence
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]]> <![CDATA[A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)]]> 40189 A Year in Provence transports us into all the earthy pleasures of Provençal life and lets us live vicariously at a tempo governed by seasons, not by days.]]> 224 Peter Mayle 0679731148 Pascale 4 4.00 1989 A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)
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]]> Damascus Gate 196337
Ambitious, passionate, darkly comic, Damascus Gate is not only Robert Stone’s biggest and best novel to date, but a timely and brilliant story of belief, power, salvation, and apocalypse.]]> 528 Robert Stone 0684859114 Pascale 4 3.35 1998 Damascus Gate
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average rating: 3.35
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]]> The Bastard of Istanbul 98920
In her second novel written in English, Elif Shafak confronts her country’s violent past in a vivid and colorful tale set in both Turkey and the United States. At its center is the “bastard” of the title, Asya, a nineteen-year-old woman who loves Johnny Cash and the French Existentialists, and the four sisters of the Kazanci family who all live together in an extended household in Istanbul: Zehila, the zestful, headstrong youngest sister who runs a tattoo parlor and is Asya’s mother; Banu, who has newly discovered herself as a clairvoyant; Cevriye, a widowed high school teacher; and Feride, a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disaster. Their one estranged brother lives in Arizona with his wife and her Armenian daughter, Armanoush. When Armanoush secretly flies to Istanbul in search of her identity, she finds the Kazanci sisters and becomes fast friends with Asya. A secret is uncovered that links the two families and ties them to the 1915 Armenian deportations and massacres. Full of vigorous, unforgettable female characters, The Bastard of Istanbul is a bold, powerful tale that will confirm Shafak as a rising star of international fiction.]]> 368 Elif Shafak 0670038342 Pascale 4 3.88 2006 The Bastard of Istanbul
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]]> <![CDATA[In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story]]> 288501
In Search of Fatima is a powerful biographical story, but it is also a book which transcends its author’s own experience. It speaks for the millions of people all over the world who have lived suspended between their old and new countries, fitting into neither. An account not of the physical hardship and abuse suffered by many refugees, but rather an exploration of the subtler privations of psychological displacement and loss of identity.]]> 451 Ghada Karmi 1859845614 Pascale 4 4.17 2002 In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story
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name: Pascale
average rating: 4.17
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]]> <![CDATA[Living under the Shadow of Two Cultures: From the Steeple to the Minaret]]> 528118 305 Hughette Eyuboglu 9756663510 Pascale 4 3.53 2004 Living under the Shadow of Two Cultures: From the Steeple to the Minaret
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]]> Een spoor van tranen 12048859
In Dochter van Agadir schreef Ouarda Saillo openhartig over de vaak schokkende sociale realiteit in Marokko waaraan zij persoonlijk werd onderworpen. Na de dood van haar moeder, die door haar vader werd vermoord, woonde ze met haar broertjes en zusjes bij familieleden die hen jarenlang mishandelden.

Een spoor van tranen is Ouarda’s relaas over de moeite die zij doet om te integreren in een nieuw thuisland - Duitsland -, over de bedreigingen aan haar adres, en over haar inzet voor het lot van vele kinderen en jonge vrouwen in Marokko. Ondanks alle tegenslagen, heeft ze geleerd om in opstand te komen: tegen de ouderwetse structuren in Marokko, het sociale systeem waarin vrouwen tweederangsburgers zijn, en tegen de weerstand in haar nieuwe thuisland. Het is het oprechte en ontroerende verhaal van een vrouw die de kracht heeft gevonden om te vechten voor zichzelf en voor andere vrouwen. Met zwart-witfoto's.]]> 239 Ouarda Saillo 9058314936 Pascale 4 3.22 2004 Een spoor van tranen
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