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Armchair Travel August 2017
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Daring to drive : a Saudi woman's awakening
by Manal Sharif
An intimate memoir by a devout Saudi Arabian woman who became the unexpected leader of a movement to support women's rights to drive describes how fundamentalism influenced her radical religious beliefs until her education, a job and legal contradictions changed her perspectives and made her an accidental activist.
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The Outer Beach : a thousand-mile walk on Cape Cod's Atlantic shore
by Robert Finch
In a collection of essays, a beloved nature lover chronicles his 50-year relationship with Cape Cod, an iconic American landscape, paying tribute to the Outer Beach’s impressive literary legacy, meditating on its often tragic history and exploring the strange, mutable nature of time near the ocean.
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The temporary bride : a memoir of love and food in Iran
by Jennifer Klinec
Describes how a modern London woman travelling abroad began a romance with a man in Iran while learning the secrets of Persian cuisine in his mother’s kitchen and how the country’s harsh laws and customs threatened to tear them apart. Original. 12,000 first printing.
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Living in Another Language
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| Home is a Roof Over a Pig: An American Family's Journey in China by Aminta ArringtonAminta Arrington married an Army linguist and lived all over the world. Eventually, she, her retired husband, and their three children under the age of five (including an adopted Chinese daughter) moved to China...and experienced culture shock when they arrived. Recounting their experiences in a small university town, Arrington explains how they dealt with day-to-day activities, how the children adapted to school, and how she fell in love with their new language. Readers who want another travelogue focused on the Mandarin language should try Deborah Fallow's Dreaming in Chinese. |
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| When in French: Love in a Second Language by Lauren CollinsAn American in London fell in love with a Frenchman and moved to Geneva, Switzerland. Once there, she decided to learn French; not only did she want to be able to buy things on her own, but she wanted to become closer to her new husband and, when the time came, not be "a Borat of a mother." Chronicling her amusing adventures overseas and her attempts to communicate in a new tongue, talented New Yorker writer Lauren Collins serves up a funny, romantic, intelligent memoir, which provides "a thoughtful, beautifully written meditation on the art of language and intimacy" (The New York Times). |
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In other words
by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Unaccustomed Earth" traces her enduring love affair with the Italian language that prompted her family's move to Rome, where her efforts to master the language as a writer shaped her feelings of belonging and exile.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Keene Public Library
60 Winter St.
Keene, New Hampshire 03431
603-352-0157
http://www.keenepubliclibrary.org/
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