Egypt4u

Going along with the theme of Hepzibah's last thread these are some of my most favourite authors and the books they have written that I have found to be quite enjoyable, informative reading. Love to share everybody's favourite authors. I have to admit I 'do' have a tendency to like biographies and autobiographies the most and particularly those writers who hail from the middle east/northern Africa.

I also have all of these on my Kindle. Not sure if I can "lend" them but if I can (I'm not techno-smart enough to know this) but to anybody who has a Kindle I'd love to share with you any of the titles I have purchased and have on my Kindle. I think there is now a feature re: lend books and if anybody can tell me how to use it I have no problem sharing.

If you get a sense of the genre I like reading and if your taste flow the same please ask me if I have 'such and such' a book cause I DO read lots and have quite a few books in my Kindle Library.

I also have the complete triology of Steig Larsen and the "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo/Kicked the Hornet's Nest and Played with Fire). Once I started this triology I couldn't put the book(s) down. Got to lend.......just PM me with instructions as to what I need to do for you to lend me a book. Am thinking Horus might know how to do this.

Jean Sasson - have totally loved each and every one of her books and believe I have read most everything she has written.

Leslie Hazelton - who wrote "After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam" Loved this book

Anthony Flacco - "Tiny Dancer"

Fareed Zakaria - anything he writes is interesting!!

Izzeldin Abuelaish (autobiography of a Palestinian doctor) "I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity" Terrific read

Jacqueline St. Joan - "My Sisters Made of Light"

Patricia Clark - "Dancing on the Heads of Snakes"

John Follain, Rita Cristofari - "Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom"


Gayle Tzemach Lemmon- "The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe" Terrific read!

Batya Swift Yasgur - "Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan and How We Escaped to Freedom"

Romeo Dallaire - "Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda" Excellent autobiography. Dallaire has also recently written but I haven't read it yet a book re: African children and guns.......darn - can't remember the title off hand but am hoping to lay hands on it soon.

Nujood Ali, Delphine Minoui, Linda Coverdale - "I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced" - Terrific account of a young Afghan girls life from child to wife!

LLL, I think that your own taste in authors may be a bit more restricted than most with that particular subject matter, it is obviously easier to get books by more popular main stream authors. There are lots of free sites on the web for out of copy write books in e-book reader format, Project Gutenberg is one such website:

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Unfortunately not all books can be shared between Kindle users and not all countries allow it so, if you can then here are the general instructions on how to do it

Check that the book is able to be lent out. Publishers decide whether books can be loaned, so not all books will be available. Look under the product details of the book on your Kindle device. If the book can be loaned out, it will say "Lending: Enabled."
Go to the "Actions" menu and look for the link marked "Loan this title." As long as the book can be loaned, this link will be there.

Click "Loan this title."

Fill in the following form with the name of the other Kindle owner and their email address.

Click "Send now." The book will be sent to the other user. The loaned book will be available for 14 days.

Click on the button "Get your loaned book now" on the Kindle receiving the book.

Choose the device you want the book to go to and click "Accept."

Also although I have never used them, there are sites that will put you in contact with other lenders and do the transfer procedure, here is such a site although I cannot verify if it is any good.

http://kbookcycle.com/