The Swallows of Kabul

The Swallows of KabulBy: Yasmina Khadra Set in Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul, this extraordinary novel "puts a human face on the suffering inflicted by the Taliban" (San Francisco Chronicle), taking readers into the seemingly divergent lives of two couplesand depicting with compassion and exquisite details the mentality of Islamic fundamentalists and the complexities of the Muslim world. Mohsen comes from a family of wealthy shopkeepers whom the Taliban has

WHAT GRABBED US: Anecdotes about the Pentagon's early days

and parents and educators will appreciate the way this format encourages young readers

was just unbelievable

The honeybees at a bee farm had all mysteriously died in mass

And the Devil Hulk takes that personally

and a band of smugglers into an ambush—resulting in Chewie’s capture and Han’s disappearance

reconciles with her father after taking him prisoner

some of the most extraordinary and memorable of the modern age

It works like a mini-dictionary that is quick to look up

and tragedies of youth

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and kugels—try a Brioche for Rosh Hashanah