Reviewed in The Oregonian: April 8
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House of Stone A Memoir of Home Family & a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid
Publisher Comments The inspiring story of a young Armenianandrsquo;s harrowing escape from genocide and of his granddaughterandrsquo;s quest to retrace his steps Growing up, Dawn MacKeen heard fragments of her grandfather Stepanandrsquo;s story, of how he was swept up in the deadly mass deportation of Armenians during World War I and of how he miraculously managed to escape. Longing for a fuller picture of Stepanandrsquo;s life andmdash; and the lost home her family fled andmdash; Dawn travels to Turkey and Syria, across a landscape still rife with tension. Using his newly discovered journals as a guide, she reconstructs her grandfatherandrsquo;s odyssey to the far reaches of the Ottoman Empire. There, he found himself alone and on a grueling death march along the banks of the Euphrates River. Part reportage, part memoir, The Hundred Year Walk alternates between Stepanandrsquo;s tale of resilience and Dawnandrsquo;s remarkable journey, giving us a rare eyewitness account of the twentieth centuryandrsquo;s first large-scale genocide. Itandrsquo;s filled with edge of your seat escapes and accounts of lifesaving kindnesses in the harsh desert. And itandrsquo;s in the desert that Dawn finds the unexpected: the secret to Stepanandrsquo;s survival. and#160; Your price $12.95 Used Hardcover
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Religion for Atheists A Non Believers Guide to the Uses of Religion by Alain De Botton
Publisher Comments What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved forward by Alain de Botton’s inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are entirely false—but that it still has some very important things to teach the secular world. Religion for Atheists suggests that rather than mocking religion, agnostics and atheists should instead steal from it—because the world’s religions are packed with good ideas on how we might live and arrange our societies. Blending deep respect with total impiety, de Botton (a non-believer himself) proposes that we look to religion for insights into how to, among other concerns, build a sense of community, make our relationships last, overcome feelings of envy and inadequacy, inspire travel and reconnect with the natural world. For too long non-believers have faced a stark choice between either swallowing some peculiar doctrines or doing away with a range of consoling and beautiful rituals and ideas. At last, in Religion for Atheists, Alain de Botton has fashioned a far more interesting and truly helpful alternative. Your price $14.95 Used Hardcover
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