Travel related books
From times past, African stories have thrilled and excited people on the continent and around the world. This is not surprising due to the richness of the African tales originating from the continent. Many tales or stories from authors on the continent, contain a rich blend of proverbs and good o
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Buddha is Hiding by Aihwa Ong shows the perils of multicultural policy compounded by multiculturalist thought. Ong's book follows the lives of 50,000 Cambodian refugees we accepted in the 1970s. During the reign of Pol Pot in Cambodia approximately one third of the population was killed. Many of
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A Long Way Down is the story of four people - Martin a former breakfast TV presenter who has fallen from grace; Maureen, a single mother struggling to cope with the drudgery of caring for a her disabled son; Jess, the 18 year-old daughter of a politician who is in despair at the break-up of a rela
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When you first look at the cover of East of the Mountains by David Guterson, you see a dark gray sky with barren mountains and a field full of dying grass. Throughout the picture runs a gravel road which passes an apple orchard on the way to the mountains in the background. The cover provides a go
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The Bible is the Word of God. It contains 27 books in the New Testament and 39 in the Old Testament. It is one of the most selling books in the 21st Century and the more you read it, the more you will love it. It was written by several authors from different backgrounds, varied professions and fr
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James Joyce was born as James Augustine Aloysius Joyce on February 2, 1832. He was known for his style of writing as he used the stream of consciousness method, which is a method used by writers who keep writing based on the way their thoughts move. Joyce was anything but conventional and this wou
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It seemed very far fetched to me that a country or a person would try to subvert an entire religion. It seemed even less possible to me that anyone could hate the thought that a God exists, so much that he would devote his entire life to subverting the Catholic Church. Surely this book must be a
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Today's African nations were greatly shaped by the the post-colonial experience of the African continent. Even fifty years after independence, complex issues and overriding themes of afro-marxism, independence, nationalism, and big man rule remain prevalent and pervasive. The Fate of Africa: A Hi
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The book 19,000 Years of World History by Prithviraj R is an exceptional book filled with knowledge. I cannot believe all of the research the author had to do to put this truly amazing book together. The author used past history and scriptures from many religions to help bring together the histor
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Jackie Collins, who has penned many fictional stories dealing in crime, deceit, adultery, etc; is back with Married Lovers - a book on the same lines. Set in the chic locales of Hollywood, Married Lovers talks of the inside lives of 3 celebrity couples, entangled in their own problems, until an in
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