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Storms of Destiny: The Exiles of Boq'urain

13 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!

Clandestines: The Pirate Journals of an Irish Exile

8 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 ...

Exiles on Main Street

17 reviews
Lisa Kleinholz

Harpercollins (Mm), 1999

She Wanted a New Life, But Found a Murder
EXILES ON MAIN STREET opens with Zoe Szabo walking up to a snow covered car in the mall parking lot in Greymont, Massachusetts. The Cambodian immigrant woman in it had a little blood frozen on the corner of her mouth. She had been repeatedly stabbed. She was very dead. Zoe, who had been working for Rolling Stone Magazine and had moved from the Rock scene in LA to get away from the fast and wild ...

Freedom in Exile

34 reviews
Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho

Abacus, 1998

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 ...

A Time of Exile

10 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 ...

When God Looked the Other Way: An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption

14 reviews
Wesley Adamczyk

University Of Chicago Press, 2006

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 ...

Cuban, That's All! - An Exile In Three Acts - Candid Voices of a Spanglish Existence

11 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 ...

Ratha's Creature (The Named)

44 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 ...

Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family

13 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 ...

Exile to Murder

7 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, ...

Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America

7 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 ...

Beloved Exile

6 reviews
Parke Godwin

IBooks, Inc., 2006

Thank goodness for a non-weepy, finally grown-up Guinevere!
Traditional versions of the Arthur myth focus mainly on the men. Other versions like Mists of Avalon, which I enjoy immensely, focus women characters and not much, really, on the weepy, very Christian Guinevere. Beloved Exile is a smashing alternate view of the possibilities, given the times. Guinevere in this version is not construed as a saint, a hystrionic weeper, nor is she totally ...

An Army in Exile: The Story of the Second Polish Corps (Allied Forces Series)

7 reviews
Wladyslaw Anders

Not Avail, 1981

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 ...

The Spirit of Tibet: Portrait of a Culture in Exile

6 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 ...

Pomegranate Roads: A Soviet Botanist's Exile from Eden

7 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 ...

Shlepping the Exile

8 reviews
Michael Wex

Mosaic Press, 2006

A Wonderful Read
This is the type of book that once you pick it you can't put it down. And on top of that, you keep finding yourself reading it over and over again.

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

Parker, Mystery and Feudal Japan. Outstanding!
In Island of Exiles, our hero, "Akitada, must undergo a dangerous mission for the Emperor. He does so without the aid of Genbo and Seimei, whose wonderful wise sayings I missed. There is plenty of suspense and danger -- I don't want to reveal the plot, but the ending has some surprises that I had not expected. Parker's insight into feudal Japan is on a par with Van Gulik's Chinese "Judge ...

Ticket to Exile

7 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 ...

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