books about: exiles     books:       Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family12 reviews Yoshiko Uchida University of Washington Press, 1982 Insightful! Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family"by Yoshiko Uchida deals with a Japanese-American family who were sent to concentration camp during World War II as Japanese-Americans at that time were considered to be potential "spies" for the Japanese government. Uchida started off with introduction to her family, of how her parents met, and how California became their home. Even though ...             Exiles on Main Street17 reviews Lisa Kleinholz Harpercollins (Mm), 1999 Maybe the Perfect Town isn't so Perfect, After All Greymont, Massachusetts is the perfect place to raise a couple small children, the perfect place to have a normal life. At least that's what rock journalist Zoe Szabo thought when she'd moved her family to the small New England College town. No more chasing after her musician husband as he toured with his band, plus away from that life would make it easier for him to stay clean. Once settled, ...             Ratha's Creature (The Named)45 reviews Clare Bell Puffin, 2007 Magnificent I have read many feline fantasies,but none of them touch this one.It is better than the Warriors books,and I think that older Warriors fans will love this book.The harsh landscape and the complicated,realistic characters are wonderful!A word of warning,though:this is not a cutsey kitty book.Ratha's Creature is a very deep,allegorical,and thought provoking book.Some of the raw,savage ...             Freedom in Exile33 reviews Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho HarperCollins; A Cornelia&Michael Bessie Book, 1990 Hearbreaking Knowing nothing at all about His Holiness The Dalai Lama or Tibet/China relations I was eager to learn more. As a convert from Catholicisim to Buddhism, I was pleased to read that the Dalai Lama considers himself to be just a regular human, who was chosen to fulfill a specific role. After reading this book, you get the sense that he would be a very pleasant person to talk with. On the ...             Cuban, That's All! - An Exile In Three Acts - Candid Voices of a Spanglish Existence11 reviews Juan Hernandez Lulu.com, 2006 American by birth, Cuban by Choice My father was born in Indiana and his parents relocated to Cuba when he was 4 years old. He was raised in Cuba as his father was an executive for Sears. My father left Cuba at the age of 19 and I was born in the states about five years later. I was raised in a 'cuban' american household so I can relate to so many of these stories. I laughed with Mayflower Mary and I cried (sobbed is more like ...             A Time of Exile10 reviews Katharine Kerr Doubleday, 1991 Not All Smoke and Mirrors Although I've read all of the Deverry series books that were published, this was the first in the series I ever read. I was raised on C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia and later discovered for myself Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. I still remember the evening seven years ago when I opened A Time of Exile and read the prologue about the dwarven smith. I knew from the style ...             Pomegranate Roads: A Soviet Botanist's Exile from Eden8 reviews Gregory M. Levin Floreant Press, 2006 Exploring the life of an explorer Some chapters of this book make you feel like you've just watched an Indiana Jones movie, while other chapters would make a great NOVA science episode. On his scientific treasure hunt for exotic pomegranates, Dr.Gregory Levin has--unassumingly-- run into vipers dancing on their tails, and seen cave paintings of kangaroos on the border of Iran and Turkmenistan! Levin knows which godesses were ...             When God Looked the Other Way: An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption14 reviews Wesley Adamczyk University Of Chicago Press, 2004 Outstanding Recollection of a Little-Known Tragedy The teaching of history is often distorted by selective presentation of past events. Virtually everyone has heard of the 5-6 million Jews killed by the Germans. Few outside Polish circles have a clue about the fact that 2-3 million gentile Poles were also murdered by the Germans, and a few hundred thousand by the Soviets--first as Poland's sworn enemy and then as an "ally". While Churchill and ...             Exile To Hell (Outlanders , No 1)8 reviews James Axler Gold Eagle, 1997 Outlanders # 1 - Exile To Hell Review OUTLANDERS # 1 - EXILE TO HELL By James Axler (Mark Ellis) Genre: Sci-Fi/Action I've read two other Outlanders book both of which were good but this one the first in the series is absolutely fantastic and had me gripped in the story from the first page. The Outlanders book are set in the same "Universe" as the Deathlands books but about 50 or so years on from the adventures of Ryan Cawdor and his ...             Storms of Destiny: The Exiles of Boq'urain13 reviews A. C. Crispin Eos, 2005 Excellent First in Series! This is the first book of A.C. Crispin's that I have read. I inhaled this book, and was unable to put it down. I am eagerly awaiting the next book in the series. It's a great fantasy read!             Exile to Murder7 reviews Jack Donovan Xlibris Corporation, 2005 Scholarly, Highly Readable Novel In "Exile to Murder", Jack Donovan the scholar focuses his considerable talents on the art of the novel, and the result is a comedic tapestry of wide ranging characters from the local town rube to the arrogant professor. Their different motives and agendas all come together in literary style in this entertaining story which is a murder mystery on its surface, but also gives us some glimpses, ...             An Army in Exile: The Story of the Second Polish Corps (Allied Forces Series) (Allied Forces Series)7 reviews Wladyslaw Anders Battery Press, 2004 Poles FAR from Passive Spectators During the War General Wladyslaw Anders has written a book which rebuffs the incorrect portrayal of Poles as "passive spectators" during World War II. Poles fought at every front from Day One of the war. Even after being betrayed by the Allies, Anders commanded the Polish forces to continue fighting. He touches on aspects of history which encompassed my parents. Both sides of our family were deported to ...             Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America7 reviews Kerby A. Miller Oxford University Press, USA, 1985 Why did our ancestors emigrate? Why did some wait so long? Many of us tracing our Irish ancestry will never really know our forebears - we may learn their names and the dates and places of their births and deaths - but we will never know who they really were. It is to sources such as this book that we must turn to flesh out the picture of the Irish emigrant and the forces that drove them from their homes - economic, social, cultural, and ...             Shlepping the Exile8 reviews Michael Wex Mosaic Press (NY), 2006 Amazing! Michael Wex is a gift to a world that takes itself far too seriously. I first read this book many years ago when it was privately offered by the author under the original title, "Shlepping the golus". I was afraid I might injure myself I laughed so hard. As I wrote in another review ( Born to kvetch, CD version) the man is one of the creative geniuses of our time. I really don't care what he ...             The Spirit of Tibet: Portrait of a Culture in Exile6 reviews Alison Wright Snow Lion Publications, 1998 Stunning Work Ever since I read Heinrich Harrer's "Seven Years in Tibet" six years, then the later "Return to Tibet" by the same author, I was hooked to Tibet, the Tibetan people, the Tibetan land, the Tibetan mountains, the Tibetan monasteries, everything Tibetan. I have cultivated an unspeakable tie to this unique land and its people. I began screening movies such as Kundun and Seven Years in Tibet. I ...             Ticket to Exile7 reviews Adam David Miller Heyday, 2007 Ticket to Exile Ticket to Exile The book, Ticket to Exile is a rare intimate portrait of an intelligent mind trapped in an ignorant world. As I read this book I found it to be thought provoking and inspiring. As a person of color, I kept comparing my life to Mr. Miller's childhood. I was amazed by how resilient and resourceful my elders were in stark contrast to how easy my life is today. Ticket to Exile opened ...             Beloved Exile6 reviews Parke Godwin I Books, 2005 One of the very best portraits of Guinevere This is a worthy sequel to the exciting "Firelord." It tells the story of the rest of Guinevere's life after Arthur's death, and she is even more of a vivid and strong personality than she was in that enthralling novel. Godwin's account of her captivity as a Saxon slave, and her adaptation to that way of life, is purely imaginative, but who could mind? It relates a sensitive and ...             Clandestines: The Pirate Journals of an Irish Exile7 reviews Ramor Ryan AK Press, 2006 Truly Excellent This book is truly excellent. It is one of those rare volumes that blends together with skill and wit tales of roving, resistance, and insightful political analysis. Ramor traces a living history of struggles, from Nicaragua's Sandinista Revolution to the Zapatista autonomous zones, describing through narratives the transformation of the antiimperialist politics of the 1980s into the ...             Song of the Silent Harp/Heart of the Lonely Exile/Land of a Thousand Dreams/Sons of an Ancient Glory/Dawn of ...7 reviews B. J. Hoff Bethany House Publishers, 1994 My only complaint is that there are only 5 books! I bought this book entirely on a whim and it absolutely captivated me-- I passionately love all things Irish, which usually makes me very critical, but this entire series does not disappoint! There aren't enough stars to tell everyone just how much i have enjoyed this series. In fact, I have been rationing myself to make the series last as long as I can... I can't bring myself to read book ...             Island of Exiles (Sugawara Akitada)6 reviews I. J. Parker Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007 A Mystery involving Princes, Danger and Treason This is another in a series set in 11th C. Japan (Heian era), featuring Sugawara Akitada. Sugawara, descendant of a once illustrious family that suffered after the exile of an ancestor, is currently acting governor of a distant province, Echigo (for an official, tantamount to being exiled himself), struggling to do his duty with little funds and support and hoping to some day return to the ...              search for books akitada, allied, america, american, ancient, beloved, botanist, clandestines, creature, culture, destiny, emerald, emigrants, existence, freedom, ireland, japanese, journals, odyssey, outlanders, polish, pomegranate, portrait, promise, redemption, shlepping, spanglish, sugawara, thousand, uprooting books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen pc & video games: Sims 2 Pets (GameCube) we recommend Magnificent leave a comment home  impressum - about us