Shima's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 14 Mar 2025 10:15:27 -0700 60 Shima's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Prayers for the Stolen 18007563
Ladydi Garcia Martínez is fierce, funny and smart. She was born into a world where being a girl is a dangerous thing. In the mountains of Guerrero, Mexico, women must fend for themselves, as their men have left to seek opportunities elsewhere. Here in the shadow of the drug war, bodies turn up on the outskirts of the village to be taken back to the earth by scorpions and snakes. School is held sporadically, when a volunteer can be coerced away from the big city for a semester. In Guerrero the drug lords are kings, and mothers disguise their daughters as sons, or when that fails they “make them ugly� � cropping their hair, blackening their teeth- anything to protect them from the rapacious grasp of the cartels. And when the black SUVs roll through town, Ladydi and her friends burrow into holes in their backyards like animals, tucked safely out of sight.

While her mother waits in vain for her husband’s return, Ladydi and her friends dream of a future that holds more promise than mere survival, finding humor, solidarity and fun in the face of so much tragedy. When Ladydi is offered work as a nanny for a wealthy family in Acapulco, she seizes the chance, and finds her first taste of love with a young caretaker there. But when a local murder tied to the cartel implicates a friend, Ladydi’s future takes a dark turn. Despite the odds against her, this spirited heroine’s resilience and resolve bring hope to otherwise heartbreaking conditions.

An illuminating and affecting portrait of women in rural Mexico, and a stunning exploration of the hidden consequences of an unjust war, PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN is an unforgettable story of friendship, family, and determination.]]> 212 Jennifer Clement 0804138788 Shima 0 to-read 3.96 2014 Prayers for the Stolen
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average rating: 3.96
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]]> If I Had Your Face 52696537 If I Had Your Face plunges us into the mesmerising world of contemporary Seoul - a place where extreme plastic surgery is as routine as getting a haircut, where women compete for spots in secret 'room salons' to entertain wealthy businessmen after hours, where K-Pop stars are the object of all-consuming obsession and ruthless social hierarchies dictate your every move.

Navigating this cutthroat city are four young women balancing on the razor edge of survival: Kyuri, an exquisitely beautiful woman whose hard-won status at an exclusive 'room salon' is threatened by an impulsive mistake with a client; her flatmate, Miho, an orphan who wins a scholarship to a prestigious art school in New York, where her life becomes tragically enmeshed with the super-wealthy offspring of the Korean elite; Wonna, their neighbour, pregnant with a child that she and her husband have no idea how they will afford to raise in a fiercely competitive economy; and Ara, a hair stylist living down the hall, whose infatuation with a fresh-faced K-Pop star drives her to violent extremes.]]> 288 Frances Cha 0593129466 Shima 0 to-read 3.74 2020 If I Had Your Face
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]]> The Gilded Ones 40024121
But on the day of the ceremony, her blood runs gold, the color of impurity–and Deka knows she will face a consequence worse than death.

Then a mysterious woman comes to her with a stay in the village and submit to her fate, or leave to fight for the emperor in an army of girls just like her. They are called alaki–near-immortals with rare gifts. And they are the only ones who can stop the empire’s greatest threat.

Knowing the dangers that lie ahead yet yearning for acceptance, Deka decides to leave the only life she’s ever known. But as she journeys to the capital to train for the biggest battle of her life, she will discover that the great walled city holds many surprises. Nothing and no one are quite what they seem to be–not even Deka herself.]]> 432 Namina Forna 1984848704 Shima 0 to-read 3.99 2020 The Gilded Ones
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]]> Diary of a Void 59629744 A prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel about a woman in Japan who avoids harassment at work by perpetuating, for nine months and beyond, the lie that she's pregnant

When thirty-four-year-old Ms. Shibata gets a new job in Tokyo to escape sexual harassment at her old one, she finds that, as the only woman at her new workplace--a company that manufactures cardboard tubes--she is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day she announces that she can't clear away her colleagues' dirty cups--because she's pregnant and the smell nauseates her. The only thing is . . . Ms. Shibata is not pregnant.

Pregnant Ms. Shibata doesn't have to serve coffee to anyone. Pregnant Ms. Shibata isn't forced to work overtime. Pregnant Ms. Shibata rests, watches TV, takes long baths, and even joins an aerobics class for expectant mothers. But pregnant Ms. Shibata also has a nine-month ruse to keep up. Helped along by towel-stuffed shirts and a diary app on which she can log every stage of her "pregnancy," she feels prepared to play the game for the long haul. Before long, though, the hoax becomes all-absorbing, and the boundary between her lie and her life begins to dissolve.

A surreal and wryly humorous cultural critique, Diary of a Void is bound to become a landmark in feminist world literature.]]> 213 Emi Yagi 0143136879 Shima 0 to-read 3.51 2020 Diary of a Void
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]]> Daughters of Smoke and Fire 50279982 The unforgettable, haunting story of a young woman’s perilous fight for freedom and justice for her brother, the first novel published in English by a female Kurdish writer

Set in Iran, this extraordinary debut novel takes readers into the everyday lives of the Kurds. Leila dreams of making films to bring the suppressed stories of her people onto the global stage, but obstacles keep piling up. Leila’s younger brother Chia, influenced by their father’s past torture, imprisonment, and his deep-seated desire for justice, begins to engage with social and political affairs. But his activism grows increasingly risky and one day he disappears in Tehran. Seeking answers about her brother’s whereabouts, Leila fears the worst and begins a campaign to save him. But when she publishes Chia’s writings online, she finds herself in grave danger as well.
Daughters of Smoke and Fire is an evocative portrait of the lives and stakes faced by 40 million stateless Kurds and a powerful story that brilliantly illuminates the meaning of identity and the complex bonds of family, perfect for fans of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun.
]]> 320 Ava Homa 1683358945 Shima 0 to-read 4.25 2020 Daughters of Smoke and Fire
author: Ava Homa
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]]> Sabrina & Corina 40236964 A haunting debut story collection on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands, centered on Latinas of indigenous ancestry that shines a new light on the American West.

Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s magnetic story collection breathes life into her Latina characters of indigenous ancestry and the land they inhabit. Set against the remarkable backdrop of Denver, Colorado–a place that is as fierce as it is exquisite–these women navigate the land the way they navigate their lives: with caution, grace, and quiet force.

In “Sugar Babies,� ancestry and heritage are hidden inside the earth but tend to rise during land disputes. “Any Further West� follows a sex worker and her daughter as they leave their ancestral home in southern Colorado only to find a foreign and hostile land in California. In “Tomi,� a woman leaves prison and finds herself in a gentrified city that is a shadow of the one she remembers from her childhood. And in the title story, “Sabrina & Corina,� a Denver family falls into a cycle of violence against women, coming together only through ritual.

Sabrina & Corina is a moving narrative of unrelenting feminine power and an exploration of the universal experiences of abandonment, heritage, and an eternal sense of home.]]> 224 Kali Fajardo-Anstine Shima 0 to-read 4.18 2019 Sabrina & Corina
author: Kali Fajardo-Anstine
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average rating: 4.18
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]]> دوبیتی‌ها� بابا طاهر 663145 ISBN 9789649549170]]> 147 Baba Tahir 964954917X Shima 4 3.82 1055 دوبیتی‌های بابا طاهر
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]]> رویای تبت 566053
هنوز به دروغ بودن چیزی که پیش آمده بود امید داشتم. هر لحظه ممکن بود مهرداد پیدایش بشود و بگوید همه‌چی� یک شوخی بود. یک شوخی بامزه.]]> 175 Fariba Vafi 9643058247 Shima 4 3.27 2006 رویای تبت
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average rating: 3.27
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]]> <![CDATA[Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN]]> 45358321 One of the most beloved and trusted mindfulness teachers in America offers a lifeline for difficult times: the RAIN meditation, which awakens our courage and heart.

Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxieties--stresses that leave us rushing around on auto-pilot and cut off from the presence and creativity that give our lives meaning.

In this heartfelt and deeply practical book, she offers an antidote: an easy-to-learn four-step meditation that quickly loosens the grip of difficult emotions and limiting beliefs. Each step in the meditation practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) is brought to life by memorable stories shared by Tara and her students as they deal with feelings of overwhelm, loss, and self-aversion, with painful relationships, and past trauma--and as they discover step-by-step the sources of love, forgiveness, compassion, and deep wisdom alive within all of us.]]> 288 Tara Brach 0525522816 Shima 0 to-read 4.20 2019 Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
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]]> <![CDATA[It Didn't Start With You: How inherited family trauma shapes who we are and how to end the cycle]]> 61120570 'Groundbreaking' Tara Brach

Depression. Anxiety. Chronic pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is the root of these difficulties may reside in the traumas of our parents, grandparents and even great-grandparents. The latest research affirms that traumatic experience is passed on to future generations and that this emotional inheritance, hidden in everything from our gene expression to everyday language, plays a greater role in our health than ever previously understood.

Building on the work of leading experts in neuroscience and posttraumatic stress, Mark Wolynn has developed a pioneering approach to identifying and breaking these inherited family patterns. Having worked with individuals and groups on a therapeutic level for more than twenty years, It Didn't Start With You is his accessible, pragmatic and transformative guide to a method that has helped thousands of people reclaim their lives.]]> 241 Mark Wolynn 1529900522 Shima 0 to-read 3.83 2016 It Didn't Start With You: How inherited family trauma shapes who we are and how to end the cycle
author: Mark Wolynn
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]]> جستجو در تصوف ایران 2728295 جستجو در تصوف ایران 446 عبدالحسین زرین‌کو� 9640002399 Shima 2 3.70 1978 جستجو در تصوف ایران
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name: Shima
average rating: 3.70
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]]> I Who Have Never Known Men 11996 "As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker."

A young woman is kept in a cage underground with thirty-nine other females, guarded by armed men who never speak; her crimes unremembered... if indeed there were crimes.

The youngest of forty—a child with no name and no past—she survives for some purpose long forgotten in a world ravaged and wasted. In this reality where intimacy is forbidden—in the unrelenting sameness of the artificial days and nights—she knows nothing of books and time, of needs and feelings.

Then everything changes... and nothing changes.

A young woman who has never known men—a child who knows of no history before the bars and restraints—must now reinvent herself, piece by piece, in a place she has never been... and in the face of the most challenging and terrifying of unknowns: freedom.]]> 208 Jacqueline Harpman 0380731819 Shima 0 to-read 4.22 1995 I Who Have Never Known Men
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average rating: 4.22
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]]> <![CDATA[Momentos estelares de la humanidad: Catorce miniaturas históricas]]> 65105 312 Stefan Zweig 8495359928 Shima 4 4.31 1927 Momentos estelares de la humanidad: Catorce miniaturas históricas
author: Stefan Zweig
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average rating: 4.31
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]]> <![CDATA[Les Très Riches Heures de l'humanité (Littérature) (French Edition)]]> 29776263 318 Stefan Zweig 2253175234 Shima 4 4.33 1927 Les Très Riches Heures de l'humanité (Littérature) (French Edition)
author: Stefan Zweig
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average rating: 4.33
book published: 1927
rating: 4
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]]> Character as Moral Fiction 17770790 238 Mark Alfano 128398668X Shima 0 to-read 3.00 2013 Character as Moral Fiction
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average rating: 3.00
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]]> چهره مرد هنرمند در جوانی 1974612 استیون ددالوس پس از آن در بیست و دو سالگی در رمان «اولیس» ظاهر می‌شو� و در آن‌ج� همراه با لئوپولد بلوم که بسیاری از اندیشه‏‌ه� و پندارهای خود جویس را از بیست و دو سالگی تا حدود چهل سالگی در ذهن دارد - به سیری می‌‏پرداز� که هرچند ظاهراً بیش از بیست ساعت طول نمی‌کش� اما سیری است در تاریخ و زندگی مردم استعمارزده‌� ایرلند، در اساطیر یونان و آیین مسیحیت و، از همه بالاتر، سیری است در آفاق و انفس انسانی که «اولیس» را بزرگ‌تری� رمان قرن بیستم ساخته است.]]> 466 James Joyce Shima 3 3.73 1916 چهره مرد هنرمند در جوانی
author: James Joyce
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average rating: 3.73
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]]> دایی جان ناپلئون 2898787 464 Iraj Pezeshkzad Shima 3 4.34 1970 دایی جان ناپلئون
author: Iraj Pezeshkzad
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average rating: 4.34
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]]> My Uncle Napoleon 25866 528 Iraj Pezeshkzad 0812974433 Shima 3 4.03 1970 My Uncle Napoleon
author: Iraj Pezeshkzad
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average rating: 4.03
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]]> <![CDATA[Gone with the Wind: Part 1 of 2]]> 237234 64 John Escott 0582418054 Shima 4 4.59 1936 Gone with the Wind: Part 1 of 2
author: John Escott
name: Shima
average rating: 4.59
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rating: 4
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]]> بر باد رفته - جلد اول 1088950 بر باد رفته مارگارت میچل با ترجمه پرتو اشراق را نشر ناهید در دو جلد در سال 1383 منتشر کرده، این کتاب با ترجمه حسن شهبازی توسط انتشارات امیرکبیر و همچنین انتشارات نگاه به بازار کتاب عرضه شده، همین رمان را انتشارات دبیر نیز با ترجمه کیومرث پارسای ارائه کرده است]]> 680 Margaret Mitchell 9646205356 Shima 4 4.15 1936 بر باد رفته - جلد اول
author: Margaret Mitchell
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average rating: 4.15
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]]> خاطرات سیلویا پلات 2674570 488 Sylvia Plath 9643126595 Shima 4 3.94 2000 خاطرات سیلویا پلات
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average rating: 3.94
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]]> Hello Beautiful 61771675
But then darkness from William’s past surfaces, jeopardizing not only Julia’s carefully orchestrated plans for their future, but the sisters� unshakeable devotion to one another. The result is a catastrophic family rift that changes their lives for generations. Will the loyalty that once rooted them be strong enough to draw them back together when it matters most?]]> 416 Ann Napolitano Shima 0 to-read 4.14 2023 Hello Beautiful
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]]> دخترعموی من راشل 918407
I threw the piece of paper on the fire. She saw it burn ...Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, a man who will love his grand home as much as he does himself. But the cosy world the two construct is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip to Florence. There he falls in love and marries - and there he dies suddenly. In almost no time at all, the new widow - Philip's cousin Rachel - turns up in England. Despite himself, Philip is drawn to this beautiful, sophisticated, mysterious woman like a moth to the flame. And yet ...might she have had a hand in Ambrose's death?]]> 480 Daphne du Maurier 6004680397 Shima 4 3.25 1951 دخترعموی من راشل
author: Daphne du Maurier
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average rating: 3.25
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]]> دور دنیا در هشتاد روز 367872 112 Jules Verne Shima 2 3.49 1872 دور دنیا در هشتاد روز
author: Jules Verne
name: Shima
average rating: 3.49
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rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[اسیر (در جستجوی زمان از دست رفته #5)]]> 3942129 توضیحات در مورد تفاوت ویراست دوم

طرف خانۀ سوان در جستجوی زمان از دست رفته ١
در سایه دوشیزگان شکوفا در جستجوی زمان از دست رفته ٢
طرف گرمانت: کامل در جستجوی زمان از دست رفته ٣
سدوم و عموره در جستجوی زمان از دست رفته ٤
اسیر در جستجوی زمان از دست رفته ٥
گریخته در جستجوی زمان از دست رفته ٦
زمان بازیافته در جستجوی زمان از دست رفته ٧]]> 524 Marcel Proust 9643058999 Shima 5 4.42 1923 اسیر (در جستجوی زمان از دست رفته #5)
author: Marcel Proust
name: Shima
average rating: 4.42
book published: 1923
rating: 5
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]]> به كودكی كه هرگز زاده نشد 502674 116 Oriana Fallaci Shima 3 3.74 1975 به كودكی كه هرگز زاده نشد
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average rating: 3.74
book published: 1975
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[نامه به کودکی که هرگز زاده نشد]]> 3217132 120 Oriana Fallaci Shima 4 3.59 1975 نامه به کودکی که هرگز زاده نشد
author: Oriana Fallaci
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average rating: 3.59
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rating: 4
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]]> یادداشت‌ها� یک دیوانه 147954 304 Nikolai Gogol Shima 5 3.88 1835 یادداشت‌های یک دیوانه
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average rating: 3.88
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]]> (دن آرام (دوره چهار جلدی 2228272 ابتدا توسط آنتون وی تز به فرانسوی و از آنجا به فارسی ترجمه شده است.]]> 1960 Mikhail Sholokhov 9645676266 Shima 3 4.12 1928 (دن آرام (دوره چهار جلدی
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name: Shima
average rating: 4.12
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]]> <![CDATA[زنان سیبیلو و مردان بی ریش: نگرانی‌ها� جنسیتی در مدرنیته ایران]]> 38208963 150 Afsaneh Najmabadi 6007683656 Shima 4 3.94 2005 زنان سیبیلو و مردان بی ریش: نگرانی‌های جنسیتی در مدرنیته ایران
author: Afsaneh Najmabadi
name: Shima
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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]]> روی ماه خداوند را ببوس 172348 132 Mostafa Mastoor Shima 5 2.99 2000 روی ماه خداوند را ببوس
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]]> <![CDATA[حکایت عشقی بی‌قا� بی‌شی� بی‌نقطه]]> 3106552 مجموعه داستان كوتاه 68 Mostafa Mastoor 9643622371 Shima 3 3.03 2005 حکایت عشقی بی‌قاف بی‌شین بی‌نقطه
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average rating: 3.03
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]]> خاطره‌ها� پراکنده 8293417 231 Goli Taraghi 9644481623 Shima 2 3.78 خاطره‌های پراکنده
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]]> چشم دل بگشا 1502904 215 Catherine Ponder 9643280799 Shima 2 3.41 1983 چشم دل بگشا
author: Catherine Ponder
name: Shima
average rating: 3.41
book published: 1983
rating: 2
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]]> سووشون 151222813 این رمان اولین بار در سال ۱۳۴۸ چاپ شد.]]> 303 Simin Daneshvar Shima 3 3.98 1969 سووشون
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average rating: 3.98
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rating: 3
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]]> سووشون 83261 این رمان اولین بار در سال ۱۳۴۸ چاپ شد.]]> 310 Simin Daneshvar 9644870050 Shima 4 4.00 1969 سووشون
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average rating: 4.00
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]]> مایده‌ها� زمینی 518439 این اثر تاکنون چند بار توسط نویسندگان و پژوهشگران ایرانی به زبان فارسی ترجمه شده است که می توان یکی از بهترین نمونه های این ترجمه ها را نسخه ترجمه شده توسط ادیبان فقید ایران زمین، اساتید عرصه فرهنگ و ادب، مرحوم سید جلال آل احمد و مرحوم پرویز داریوش به حساب آورد.]]> 213 André Gide Shima 2 3.56 1897 مایده‌های زمینی
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]]> <![CDATA[The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule]]> 74766237 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023

A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023

‘I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book� Sathnam Sanghera

‘By thinking about gendered inequality as rooted in something unalterable within us, we fail to see it for what it something more fragile that has had to be constantly remade and reasserted.�

In this bold and radical book, award-winning science journalist Angela Saini goes in search of the true roots of gendered oppression, uncovering a complex history of how male domination became embedded in societies and spread across the globe from prehistory into the present.

Travelling to the world’s earliest known human settlements, analysing the latest research findings in science and archaeology, and tracing cultural and political histories from the Americas to Asia, she overturns simplistic universal theories to show that what patriarchy is and how far it goes back really depends on where you are.

Despite the push back against sexism and exploitation in our own time, even revolutionary efforts to bring about equality have often ended in failure and backlash. Saini ends by asking what part we all play � women included � in keeping patriarchal structures alive, and why we need to look beyond the old narratives to understand why it persists in the present.]]> 321 Angela Saini 0008418128 Shima 0 to-read 4.04 2023 The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
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]]> طوبا و معنای شب 318741
"Parsipur should be admired both as a courageous woman who endured jail and torture and as a writer and innovator." --Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran

Now available in paperback, this complex epic captures the changing fortunes of Iranian women in the twentieth century from the era of colonialism to the rule of two shahs.

The Iranian best-selling author of eleven books, including Women Without Men, Shahrnush Parsipur now lives in exile in the United States.]]> 512 Shahrnush Parsipur Shima 2 3.44 1989 طوبا و معنای شب
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]]> Symphony of the Dead 758283 272 Abbas Maroufi 0955233968 Shima 2 4.49 1989 Symphony of the Dead
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]]> سال بلوا 43451303 با این� صحنه شگفت� سال� بلوا آغاز می‌شو�. داستانی� که� در آن� همه� چیز منظم� است� و منظم� نیست‌� داستانی� که� تاریخی� است� و تاریخی� نیست‌� داستانی� که� روایتش� خطی� است� و در عین� حال� سیال� است�. ماجرا عمدتاً از زبان� دختری� روایت� می‌شو� که� پدرش� سرهنگ� است� و در آرزوی� صعود از پله‌های� ترقی� مدام� سقوط� می‌کن�. سرهنگ� هرگز به� پایتخت� خوانده� نمی‌شود� دخترش� نیز به� جای� آن� که� همسر ولیعهد و ملکه� ایران� شود، دل� سپرده� به� عشق� کوزه‌گری� غریب� به� ناچار به� همسری� پزشکی� در می‌آی� که� سرانجام� قاتل� اوست�. تصویر موشکافانه� مظلومیت� زن� ایرانی‌� مظلومیت� مرد هنرمند ایرانی� و تاریخ� پرهراس� یک� سرزمین� کهنسال‌� از سال� بلوا رمانی� ساخته� است� که� هرگز فراموش� نمی‌شو�.]]> Abbas Maroufi Shima 2 4.01 1992 سال بلوا
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]]> سیاوش خوانی 158607 برای فیلم و اجرای زنده ۱۳۷۲ 230 Bahram Beyzaie 9645512441 Shima 3 4.20 1993 سیاوش خوانی
author: Bahram Beyzaie
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average rating: 4.20
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]]> مسافران 50946741 112 Bahram Beyzaie Shima 3 3.67 1989 مسافران
author: Bahram Beyzaie
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]]> افرا، یا روز می‌گذر� 193392 96 Bahram Beyzaie 9646751598 Shima 4 3.92 2006 افرا، یا روز می‌گذرد
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]]> من او 137790322
کل داستان مربوط به یک روز ابتدای هفته (دوشنبه) است؛ روزی تمام ناشدنی که در انتهای داستان هنوز چند ساعتی از آن باقی است! صبح روز دوشنبه تلگرامی از پدرش می‌رس� که هدویگ دختر مدیر مدرسه (همکار پدر) برای ادامه تحصیل به شهر می‌آی� و فندریش می‌بایس� به ایستگاه راه آهن برود و او را با رعایت ادب به آپارتمانی که قبلن برای او اجاره کرده است برساند. او با کمی نارضایتی تن به این کار می‌ده� اما مواجهه او با هدویگ تاثیر عجیبی روی او می‌گذار� به نحوی که�. در رمان من او خانواده‌ا� اصیل و ایرانی در بستر تاریخ معاصر ایران با شیوه‌ا� نوآورانه تصویر می‌شو�. این اثر یکی از پرخواننده‌تری� رمان‌ها� دههٔ گذشته است.

رضا امیرخانی شیوه‌ها� روایی مدرنی را در این رمان می‌آزماید� بی‌آنک� تجربهٔ لذت‌بخ� خواندن رمان برای خواننده مختل شود. من او همچنین یکی از آثار جنجالی ادبیات داستانی فارسی در یک دههٔ گذشته است که نقدها و واکنش‌ها� بسیار متفاوتی را برانگیخت و البته بیشتر نقدها نگاهی ایدئواوژیک داشتند.

این اثر داستان حیات یک خانواده را از سال ۱۳۱۲ تا جنگ روایت می‌کن� و خطوط فرعی مختلفی را پی‌گیر� اما تم غالب آن عاشقانه است.

«هر کسی عاشقم شود، من عاشقش می‌شو� و هر کس من عاشقش شوم، او را می‌کش� و خونبهایش خودم هستم.»

حدیث قدسی منِ او داستان عشق است؛ داستان عشقی زمینی.

عشق علی فتاح نوهٔ حاج فتاح، تاجر قند، به دختر کلفت خانه، مهتاب. منِ او، داستان عشقی است که در گام‌زد� در مرز عرفان، به عشق آسمانی پیوند می‌خور� تا دو دلداده بدون تن، شهید شوند و در آسمان‌ه� به یکدیگر بپیوندند. منِ او، داستان یک تاریخ است، تاریخی که از سال ۱۳۱۲ و دوره رضاشاه آغاز می‌شو� و در یکی از محله‌ها� پایین‌شه� تهران، یعنی خانی‌آبا� روایتش را آغاز می‌کن�. روایت مردم ساده گذرها و لوطی‌گری‌ها� اکنون دیگر فراموش‌شد�.

روایت درویش‌ها� چاووشی‌خا� و حرمت نان و نمک و نقش‌آفرین� اصلی مسجد محل. روایت ارباب و رعیت‌ها� فقیر و غنی؛ روایتی از رنگ خاکی خانه‌ها� ساده تا صفای سبز دل آدم‌ه�. منِ او، دقیق و بی‌نق� آدرس می‌ده� و مو لای درز نشانی‌های� از کوچه پس کوچه‌ه� نمی‌رو�. سال‌ها� سال‌ها� از راه رسیدن ترقی‌خواه� حکومت است و چادر از سر زنان برداشتن سر یکی از همین پیچ‌ها� تاریخ؛ سال‌ها� کلاه پهلوی و اتول‌ها� پردود تازه از راه رسیده، و خانی‌آبا� همان محله‌ا� است که از روایت اربابش تا رعیت و نوکر و کلفتش دو قدم بیشتر راه نیست.

منِ او، روایت سه دوره پرآشوب است؛ دوره مدرن کردن مردم، دوره شاه و انقلاب و مبارزات مردمی و دوره جنگ هشت ساله ایران و عراق. عشق کودکی اما، راه می‌گیر� در خون و رگ و می‌شو� هویت روح. جهان تغییر می‌کند� آدم‌ه� بزرگ و پیر می‌شون� و حوداث یکی از پی دیگری طومار زندگی آدم‌ها� قصه را درمی‌نوردند� زمانه رنگ و بوی دیگری می‌گیرد� قصه به شهر عشاق، یعنی پاریس جایی در قلب اروپای مدرن می‌رسد� اما عشق همان است که بود و عاشق و معشوق همانند که بودند.

قصه عشق از لونی دیگر نمی‌شود� همانطور که هفت کور در پاریس هم هفت کورند، کشیش همان درویش مصطفا است و محراب کلیسا همان محراب مسجد قندی است و عشق حتی می‌توان� در ستون‌ها� فولادی برج ایفل هم بتپد.

منِ او، دو راوی دارد: علی فتاح و نویسنده که رضا امیرخانی است. رضا امیرخانی قصه گفتن را بلد است؛ پایتخت سال ۱۳۱۲ را بازسازی می‌کن� تا آدم‌های� را یکی یکی در آن بچیند. زبان مردم کوچه و بازار بدون تصنع و باورپذیر است و قصه عشق را از نظرگاه خود تعریف می‌کن�.]]> 599 Reza Amirkhani 9643697592 Shima 3 3.76 1999 من او
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]]> بوف کور 43240720 144 Sadegh Hedayat Shima 3 3.93 1937 بوف کور
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]]> ترانه‌ها� خیام 18796551
هدایت بر آن است که خیام، هر چند در آثار علمی و فلسفی خود با سپر کتمان و تقیه مقام امنی برای خویش فراهم آورده، در رباعیات زیر بار ضوابط اختناق‌آو� محیط نرفته و روح زخم‌خورده‌� او، بی‌پرو� و بی‌پرده‌پوش� مکنونات خود را بیرون ریخته و نمایان و آشکار ساخته است. به عقیده‌� خیام، طبیعت کور و کر گردش خود را ادامه می‌دهد� آسمان تهی است، چرخ ناتوان است و به فریاد کس نمی‌رسد� قوانین تغییرناپذیر اجرام فلکی و گردش منظم ستاره‌ه� بر زندگی انسان‌ه� حاکم است و همین بینش و نگرش است که پایه و مایه‌� مضامین ترانه‌هاس�. هدایت جادوی کلام خیام را در فکر نافذ، نظر موشکاف، صحت منطق، وسعت قریحه، زیبایی بیان، دلفریبی آهنگ و سرشاری تشبیهات و تمثیل‌ها� ساده‌� بی‌حش� و زواید می‌دان� که شاعر را قادر می‌ساز� بی‌واسط� به روح هر کس نزدیک شود و با او سخن گوید. وی همچنین به تأثیر این خصایصِ اندیشه و زبان و بیان خیام در شاعرانی چون خاقانی و سعدی و حافظ همچنان که در ادبیات انگلیس و آمریکا اشاره می‌کن�. هدایت با زبان ساده و روشن خاصِ خود، که به زبان محاوره بسیار نزدیک و سرشار از تعبیرات زنده آن است به تحلیل ترانه‌ها� خیام می‌پرداز�. وی با همین زبان و شیوه‌� مستقل بیان است که یکی از نمونه‌ها� بدیع نثر معاصر را در حوزه‌� تحقیقی و نقد پدید آورده است.]]> 102 Sadegh Hedayat 1780830122 Shima 4 4.16 1934 ترانه‌های خیام
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]]> کلیدر 7229729 565 Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Shima 3 4.19 1976 کلیدر
author: Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
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average rating: 4.19
book published: 1976
rating: 3
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]]> جای خالی سلوچ 1125970 قطع جیبی]]> 405 Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Shima 2 4.00 1979 جای خالی سلوچ
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]]> Missing Soluch 129257 This starkly beautiful novel examines the trials of an impoverished woman and her children living in a remote village in Iran after the unexplained disappearance of her husband, Soluch. Lyrical yet unsparing, the novel examines her life as she contends with the political corruption, authoritarianism, and poverty of the village. It follows her vacillation between love and anger at Soluch's absence, as she tries to raise her children without their father.
The novel critically evokes the unfulfilled aspirations of modern Iran--portraying a society caught between a past and a future that seems equally weighed down by injustice.
The Association of American Publishers' Freedom to Publish Committee joins in launching this book to support the publication of voices censored by the State Department's ban of books from the "Axis of Evil."]]> 507 Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 1933633115 Shima 5 4.06 1979 Missing Soluch
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]]> جای خالی سلوچ 118120 405 Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 9646194265 Shima 2 "عشق مگر حتما بايد پيدا و آشكار باشد تا به آدميزاد حق عاشق شدن،عاشق بودن بدهد؟گاه عشق گم است،اما هست.هست چون نيست.عشق مگر چيست؟آنچه كه پيداست؟نه...عشق اگر پيدا شد كه ديگر عشق نيست،معرفت است. عشق از آن رو هست كه نيست.پيدا نيست ولي حس ميشود.مي شوراند،منقلب ميكند،به رقص وا مي دارد،مي گرياند،مي چزاند،مي كوباند و مي دواند.ديوانه به صحرا!
گاه آدم،خود ِ آدم،عشق است.بودنش عشق است.رفتن و نگاه كردنش عشق است.در تو عشق مي جوشد بي آنكه ردش را بشناسي.بي آنكه بداني از كجا در تو پيدا شده،روييده.شايد نخواهي هم.شايد هم بخواهي و نداني.نتواني كه بداني."

]]> 4.02 1979 جای خالی سلوچ
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خواندن اين كتاب درد دارد.پر است از درد ِ زن بودن،فقير بودن،يتيم بودن،بي پناه بودن،تنها بودن،عاشق بودن.
"عشق مگر حتما بايد پيدا و آشكار باشد تا به آدميزاد حق عاشق شدن،عاشق بودن بدهد؟گاه عشق گم است،اما هست.هست چون نيست.عشق مگر چيست؟آنچه كه پيداست؟نه...عشق اگر پيدا شد كه ديگر عشق نيست،معرفت است. عشق از آن رو هست كه نيست.پيدا نيست ولي حس ميشود.مي شوراند،منقلب ميكند،به رقص وا مي دارد،مي گرياند،مي چزاند،مي كوباند و مي دواند.ديوانه به صحرا!
گاه آدم،خود ِ آدم،عشق است.بودنش عشق است.رفتن و نگاه كردنش عشق است.در تو عشق مي جوشد بي آنكه ردش را بشناسي.بي آنكه بداني از كجا در تو پيدا شده،روييده.شايد نخواهي هم.شايد هم بخواهي و نداني.نتواني كه بداني."


]]> جای خالی سلوچ 302983
داستان جای خالی سلوچ روایت دردمندانه زندگی یک زن روستایی در یکی از نقاط دورافتادهٔ ایران است که سعی می‌کن� پس از ناپدید شدن ناگهانی شوهرش کانون خانواده را همچنان حفظ کند.

جای خالی سلوچ توسط کامران رستگار به انگلیسی ترجمه شده و در سال ۲۰۰۷ منتشر شد. همچنین ترجمهٔ ایتالیایی آن نیز توسط آنا ونسن انجام گرفته‌اس�.]]> 405 Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Shima 3 4.17 1979 جای خالی سلوچ
author: Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
name: Shima
average rating: 4.17
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]]> <![CDATA[روزگار سپری شده‌� مردم سالخورده، كتاب اول]]> 4811630 a well-designed story with detailed information for each character either minor characters that let you good contact with them...]]> 560 Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Shima 2 3.82 1990 روزگار سپری شده‌ی مردم سالخورده، كتاب اول
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]]> عارف جان سوخته 5223079 398 Nahal Tajadod 9644483405 Shima 2 3.72 1989 عارف جان سوخته
author: Nahal Tajadod
name: Shima
average rating: 3.72
book published: 1989
rating: 2
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]]> سینوح 10209223 The Egyptian outsold every other novel published that year, and remains a classic; readers worldwide have testified to its life-changing power. It is a full-bodied re-creation of a largely forgotten era in the world’s the Egypt of the 14th century B.C.E., when pharaohs and gods contended with the near-collapse of history’s greatest empire. This epic tale encompasses the whole of the then-known world, from Babylon to Crete, from Thebes to Jerusalem, while centering around one unforgettable Sinuhe, a man of mysterious origins who rises from the depths of degradation to become personal physician to Pharaoh Akhnaton.]]> 644 Mika Waltari 9646092187 Shima 3 3.87 1945 سینوح
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average rating: 3.87
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]]> <![CDATA[سینوهه پزشک مخصوص فرعون (جلد ۱)]]> 162090 Translated by Naomi Walford Mika Waltari Shima 3 3.91 1945 سینوهه پزشک مخصوص فرعون (جلد ۱)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)]]> 54467051 9780316542753

Touraine is a soldier. Stolen as a child and raised to kill and die for the empire, her only loyalty is to her fellow conscripts. But now, her company has been sent back to her homeland to stop a rebellion, and the ties of blood may be stronger than she thought.

Luca needs a turncoat. Someone desperate enough to tiptoe the bayonet's edge between treason and orders. Someone who can sway the rebels toward peace, while Luca focuses on what really matters: getting her uncle off her throne.

Through assassinations and massacres, in bedrooms and war rooms, Touraine and Luca will haggle over the price of a nation. But some things aren't for sale.]]> 464 C.L. Clark Shima 0 to-read 3.83 2021 The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[White Torture: Interviews with Iranian Women Prisoners]]> 60680934
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2023

'A must-read for anyone concerned with human rights in Iran. A gripping, moving and utterly shocking account.' Kylie Moore-Gilbert

Iranian prisons systematically violate human rights. In White Torture , fourteen women, including Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, share their experiences of harassment and beatings by guards, total blindfolding and denial of medical treatment. Angry interrogators threaten their families and lie about their whereabouts. One prisoner is even told she is dead.

None of the women have committed crimes � they are prisoners of conscience or held hostage as bargaining chips. Through torture, the Iranian state hopes to remake their souls. These interviews, carried out by Narges Mohammadi while each woman was in prison or facing charges, are astounding documents of resistance and integrity. As Iranians still fight for Woman, Life, Freedom, White Torture indicts the regime for its crimes.]]> 272 Narges Mohammadi 0861545508 Shima 0 currently-reading 4.01 White Torture: Interviews with Iranian Women Prisoners
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]]> <![CDATA[Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free]]> 36373587
In the 1990s, a “purity industry� emerged out of the white evangelical Christian culture. Purity rings, purity pledges, and purity balls came with a dangerous girls are potential sexual “stumbling blocks� for boys and men, and any expression of a girl’s sexuality could reflect the corruption of her character. This message traumatized many girls—resulting in anxiety, fear, and experiences that mimicked the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder—and trapped them in a cycle of shame.

This is the sex education Linda Kay Klein grew up with.

Fearing being marked a Jezebel, Klein broke up with her high school boyfriend because she thought God told her to, and took pregnancy tests though she was a virgin, terrified that any sexual activity would be punished with an out-of-wedlock pregnancy. When the youth pastor of her church was convicted of sexual enticement of a twelve-year-old girl, Klein began to question the purity-based sexual ethic. She contacted young women she knew, asking if they were coping with the same shame-induced issues she was. These intimate conversations developed into a twelve-year quest that took her across the country and into the lives of women raised in similar religious communities—a journey that facilitated her own healing and led her to churches that are seeking a new way to reconcile sexuality and spirituality.

Sexual shame is by no means confined to evangelical culture; Pure is a powerful wake-up call about our society’s subjugation of women.]]> 341 Linda Kay Klein 1501124811 Shima 0 to-read 4.16 2018 Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
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]]> <![CDATA[The Master and Margarita (Modern Plays)]]> 76103 122 Edward Kemp 1840024488 Shima 5 4.16 1967 The Master and Margarita (Modern Plays)
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]]> آتش بدون دود (دوره ۷ جلدی) 75522556 نادر ابراهیمی بر اساس سه کتاب اول این رمان، یک مجموعه تلویزیونی هم کارگردانی کرده است.]]> 2260 Nader Ebrahimi 9645529298 Shima 5 4.31 1979 آتش بدون دود (دوره ۷ جلدی)
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]]> چهل نامه‌� کوتاه به همسرم 230181 140 Nader Ebrahimi 9645529190 Shima 2 3.73 1990 چهل نامه‌ی کوتاه به همسرم
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]]> امتناع تفكر در فرهنگ دينی 635953
از همین رو کشتن دشمنان و مخالفان به دست مسلمانان را، چون حادثه ای سودمند و پسندیده بوده و اسلام را تقویت میکرده، وقایع نویسان مشروحا می نگاشتند. اشکال اخص دین اسلام با هنر و موسیقی در بی تمدنی محضش نیز هست. از دینی که هنر نداشته و ندیده چگونه می توان انتظار حس استتیک داشت.

این که اسلام نمی توانسته بویی از هنر برده باشد و به جوانه های آفرینندگی بر سر راه و در قلمروی خود با بدویت سلطه طلب و تنگدستی جبلی اش آسیب نرساند، از طبیعت بی فرهنگش بر میخیزد.]]> 418 آرامش دوستدار 2912490537 Shima 5 4.36 2004 امتناع تفكر در فرهنگ دينی
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با اینکه سخت بود ولی بهترین کتاب فارسی‌ا� بود که در زمینه‌� به چالش کشیدن تفکر دینی خوندم. پیشنهاد می‌کن� اگه به مطالعه در این زمینه علاقه دارین حتما کتاب رو بخونین
]]> خسرو و شيرين 35820731 Rare Book 516 Nizami Ganjavi 9645958393 Shima 4 4.35 خسرو و شيرين
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]]> When The Body Says No 39899252 Can a person literally die of loneliness? Is there a connection between the ability to express emotions and Alzheimer’s disease? Is there such a thing as a ‘cancer personality�?

Drawing on deep scientific research and Dr Gabor Maté’s acclaimed clinical work, When the Body Says No provides the answers to critical questions about the mind-body link � and the role that stress and our emotional makeup play in an array of common diseases.

When the Body Says No:

- Explores the role of the mind-body link in conditions and diseases such as arthritis, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, irritable bowel syndrome and multiple sclerosis.
- Shares dozens of enlightening case studies and stories, including those of people such as Lou Gehrig (ALS), Betty Ford (breast cancer), Ronald Reagan (Alzheimer’s), Gilda Radner (ovarian cancer) and Lance Armstrong (testicular cancer)
- Reveals ‘The Seven A’s of Healing�: principles in healing and the prevention of illness from hidden stress]]> 306 Gabor Maté 178504222X Shima 0 to-read 4.17 2003 When The Body Says No
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]]> <![CDATA[The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma]]> 26192866
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers� capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.]]> 541 Bessel van der Kolk 0141978619 Shima 0 to-read 4.41 2014 The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
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]]> دیر یا زود 1306090 in12. broché. Alba de Céspedes Shima 2 3.14 1955 دیر یا زود
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]]> سال‌ها� ابری (دوره چهار جلدی) 2468147 بعضی روزها نمی‌گذر�
نمی‌گذر�
...
مثل یادت]]> 1640 علی‌اشر� درویشیان 9646194664 Shima 3 4.11 1991 سال‌های ابری (دوره چهار جلدی)
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]]> Remorse: Il Remorso 115795 408 Alba de Céspedes 0313207313 Shima 2 3.82 1967 Remorse: Il Remorso
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]]> از طرف او 678445 648 Alba de Céspedes 9644160908 Shima 4 3.53 1949 از طرف او
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]]> <![CDATA[The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living]]> 32203858
Why have history's greatest minds—from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with today's top performers from Super Bowl-winning football coaches to CEOs and celebrities—embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wisdom is timeless and that philosophy is for living a better life, not a classroom exercise.

The Daily Stoic offers 366 days of Stoic insights and exercises, featuring all-new translations from the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the playwright Seneca, or slave-turned-philosopher Epictetus, as well as lesser-known luminaries like Zeno, Cleanthes, and Musonius Rufus. Every day of the year you'll find one of their pithy, powerful quotations, as well as historical anecdotes, provocative commentary, and a helpful glossary of Greek terms.

By following these teachings over the course of a year (and, indeed, for years to come) you'll find the serenity, self-knowledge, and resilience you need to live well.]]> 416 Ryan Holiday 1781257655 Shima 0 to-read 4.38 2016 The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
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]]> <![CDATA[The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War]]> 56668328 An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war

ANew York Times Book Review Editors� Choice

In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history.

Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists, the “Bomber Mafia,� asked: What if precision bombing could cripple the enemy and make war far less lethal?

In contrast, the bombing of Tokyo on the deadliest night of the war was the brainchild of General Curtis LeMay, whose brutal pragmatism and scorched-earth tactics in Japan cost thousands of civilian lives, but may have spared even more by averting a planned US invasion. In The Bomber Mafia, Gladwell asks, “Was it worth it?�

Things might have gone differently had LeMay’s predecessor, General Haywood Hansell, remained in charge. Hansell believed in precision bombing, but when he and Curtis LeMay squared off for a leadership handover in the jungles of Guam, LeMay emerged victorious, leading to the darkest night of World War II. The Bomber Mafia is a riveting tale of persistence, innovation, and the incalculable wages of war.]]> 256 Malcolm Gladwell 0316296619 Shima 0 to-read 3.98 2021 The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
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]]> The Happy Couple 75670276 An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends who may draw them apart

Meet Celine and Luke--for all intents and purposes the happy couple. Luke (a serial cheater) and Celine (more inter­ested in piano than in domestic life) plan to marry in a year. Archie (the best man) should be moving on from his love for Luke and up the corporate ladder, but he finds himself utterly stuck. Phoebe (the bridesmaid and Celine’s sister) just wants to get to the bottom of Luke’s frequent unexplained disappearances. And Vivian (a wedding guest), as the only one with any emotional distance, observes her friends like ants in a colony. As the wedding approaches and these five lives intersect, each will find themselves looking for a path to their happily ever after--but does it lie at the end of an aisle?]]> 267 Naoise Dolan 1474613527 Shima 0 to-read 3.46 2023 The Happy Couple
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]]> The Marriage Portrait 62237869
Lucrezia is sixteen years old and has led a sheltered life, locked away inside Florence's grandest palazzo, guarded by her father's soldiers and her mother's ladies-in-waiting. Here in this remote villa, however, she is entirely at the mercy of her increasingly erratic husband.

What is Lucrezia to do with this sudden knowledge? What chance does she have against Alfonso, the ruler of a province, and a trained soldier? How can she ensure her survival?

The Marriage Portrait is a vivid evocation of the beauty and brutality of Renaissance Italy, and of a young woman whose proximity to power places her in mortal danger.]]> 438 Maggie O'Farrell 1472223853 Shima 0 to-read 4.02 2022 The Marriage Portrait
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]]> Black Cake 57926137 We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become?

In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. The heartbreaking tale Eleanor unfolds, the secrets she still holds back, and the mystery of a long-lost child challenge everything the siblings thought they knew about their lineage and themselves.

Can Byron and Benny reclaim their once-close relationship, piece together Eleanor’s true history, and fulfill her final request to “share the black cake when the time is right�? Will their mother’s revelations bring them back together or leave them feeling more lost than ever?

Charmaine Wilkerson’s debut novel is a story of how the inheritance of betrayals, secrets, memories, and even names can shape relationships and history. Deeply evocative and beautifully written, Black Cake is an extraordinary journey through the life of a family changed forever by the choices of its matriarch.]]> 385 Charmaine Wilkerson Shima 0 currently-reading 4.06 2022 Black Cake
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]]> Kairos 124946972 Jenny Erpenbeck’s much anticipated new novel Kairos is a complicated love story set amidst swirling, cataclysmic events as the GDR collapses and an old world evaporates


Jenny Erpenbeck (the author of Go, Went, Gone and Visitation) is an epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature. Erpenbeck’s new novel Kairos—an unforgettably compelling masterpiece—tells the story of the romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s when nineteen-year-old Katharina meets by chance a married writer in his fifties named Hans. Their passionate yet difficult long-running affair takes place against the background of the declining GDR, through the upheavals wrought by its dissolution in 1989 and then what comes after. In her unmistakable style and with enormous sweep, Erpenbeck describes the path of two lovers, as Katharina grows up and tries to come to terms with a not always ideal romance, even as a whole world with its own ideology disappears. As the Times Literary Supplement “The weight of history, the particular experiences of East and West, and the ways in which cultural and subjective memory shape individual identity has always been present in Erpenbeck’s work. She knows that no one is all bad, no state all rotten, and she masterfully captures the existential bewilderment of this period between states and ideologies.�


In the opinion of her superbly gifted translator Michael Hofmann, Kairos is the great post-Unification novel. And, as The New Republic has commented on his work as a “Hofmann’s translation is invaluable—it achieves what translations are supposedly unable to it is at once ‘loyal� and ‘beautiful.’”]]> 309 Jenny Erpenbeck 0811229351 Shima 0 currently-reading 3.39 2021 Kairos
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]]> The Beauty Queen of Leenane 1061479
Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag her manipulative aging mother whose interference in Maureen's first and potentially last loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that is as gothically funny as it is horrific.
The Beauty Queen of Leenane was first presented as a Druid Theatre/Royal Court Theatre co-production in January 1996.

]]> 80 Martin McDonagh 041370730X Shima 5
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]]> The Wretched of the Earth 66933 Orientalism or The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and it is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers.

The Wretched of the Earth is a brilliant analysis of the psychology of the colonized and their path to liberation. Bearing singular insight into the rage and frustration of colonized peoples, and the role of violence in effecting historical change, the book incisively attacks the twin perils of post-independence colonial politics: the disenfranchisement of the masses by the elites on the one hand, and intertribal and interfaith animosities on the other.

Fanon's analysis, a veritable handbook of social reorganization for leaders of emerging nations, has been reflected all too clearly in the corruption and violence that has plagued present-day Africa. The Wretched of the Earth has had a major impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black consciousness movements around the world, and this bold new translation by Richard Philcox reaffirms it as a landmark.]]> 251 Frantz Fanon 0802141323 Shima 0 to-read 4.35 1961 The Wretched of the Earth
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]]> <![CDATA[Summary of Janet W. Hardy & Dossie Easton's The Ethical Slut]]> 61256014
Sample Book

#1 Sluts are people who enjoy sex and love freely. They believe that sex and sexual love are fundamental forces for good, and that every consensual intimate relationship has these potentials.

#2 There are many ways to be an ethical slut, and that’s OK. As long as you and the people you care about are consenting, you’re doing ethical sluthood right.

#3 Sluts are not necessarily sexual athletes, but we do value sex for the pleasure it brings us and the good times we get to share with whoever we want. We love adventure and are not afraid of trying new things.

#4 The language in this book is sex-positive, and we aim to reclaim the original English words to describe sex and sexuality. We want to wash them clean of their offensive past meanings and use them as positive descriptors.]]> 56 Everest Media 1669354407 Shima 0 to-read 3.60 Summary of Janet W. Hardy & Dossie Easton's The Ethical Slut
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]]> <![CDATA[Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy]]> 52569124
Polyamorous psychotherapist Jessica Fern breaks new ground by extending attachment theory into the realm of consensual nonmonogamy. Using her nested model of attachment and trauma, she expands our understanding of how these emotional experiences influence our relationships. Then, she sets out six specific strategies to help you move toward secure attachments in your multiple relationships.

Polysecure is both a trailblaizing theoretical treatise and a practical guide. It provides nonmonogamous people with a new set of tools to navigate the complexities of multiple loving relationships, and offers radical new concepts that are sure to influence the conversation about attachment theory.]]> 268 Jessica Fern 1944934987 Shima 0 to-read 4.36 2020 Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
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]]> <![CDATA[Maximum Brainpower: Challenging the Brain for Health and Wisdom]]> 13151735 288 Shlomo Breznitz 0345526147 Shima 0 to-read 3.89 2012 Maximum Brainpower: Challenging the Brain for Health and Wisdom
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]]> The Complete Maus 15195
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in “drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust� (The New York Times).

Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek’s harrowing story of survival is woven into the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century’s grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us.]]> 296 Art Spiegelman 0141014083 Shima 0 to-read 4.57 1980 The Complete Maus
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]]> <![CDATA[The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony]]> 56620845
If you're like most people, you probably believe that your identity is stable. But in fact, your identity is constantly changing—often outside your conscious awareness and sometimes even against your wishes—to reflect the interests of the groups you belong to.

In The Power of Us , psychologists Dominic Packer and Jay Van Bavel integrate their own cutting-edge research in psychology and neuroscience to explain how identity really works and how to harness its dynamic nature
Along the way, they explore such seemingly unrelated phenomena as why a small town in Germany spent decades divided by shoes, why beliefs persist after they are disproven, how working together synchronizes our brains, what makes selfish people generous, why effective leaders say “we� a lot, and how playing soccer can reduce age-old conflicts.

Understanding how identity works allows people to take control, moving beyond wondering, “Who am I?� to answer instead, “Who do I want to be?”� Packed with fascinating insights, vivid case studies, and a wealth of pioneering research, The Power of Us will change the way you understand yourself—and the people around you—forever.]]> 320 Jay J. Van Bavel 0316538418 Shima 0 to-read 3.97 2021 The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony
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]]> Milarepa 4729 Pour sortir du cycle des renaissances, Simon doit raconter l'histoire des deux hommes, s'identifiant à eux au point de mêler leur identité et la sienne.
Mais où commence le rêve, où finit le réel ?]]> 64 Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt 2226093524 Shima 4 3.24 1997 Milarepa
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]]> The Shortest History of War 60532055 War has always been a defining feature of human society. This new addition to the Shortest History series explains why we do it—and how we can stop.

War has changed, but we have not. From our hunter-gatherer ancestors to the rival nuclear powers of today, whenever resources have been contested, we’ve gone to battle. Acclaimed historian Gwynne Dyer illuminates our many martial clashes in this brisk account, tracing warfare from prehistory to the world’s first cities—and on to the thousand-year “classical age� of combat, which ended when the firearm changed everything. He examines the brief interlude of “limited war� before eighteenth-century revolution ushered in “total war”—and how the devastation was halted by the nuclear shock of Hiroshima.

Then came the Cold War and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which punctured the longest stretch of peace between major powers since World War II. For all our advanced technology and hyperconnected global society, we find ourselves once again on the brink as climate change heightens competition for resources and superpowers stand ready with atomic bombs, drones, and futuristic “autonomous� weapons in development.

Throughout, Dyer delves into anthropology, psychology, and other relevant fields to unmask the drivers of conflict. The Shortest History of War is for anyone who wants to understand the role of war in the human story—and how we can prevent it from defining our future.]]> 244 Gwynne Dyer 1913083233 Shima 0 to-read 4.07 The Shortest History of War
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]]> Social Intelligence 2540846 403 Daniel Goleman 0099464926 Shima 0 to-read 3.76 2006 Social Intelligence
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]]> <![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ]]> 853571
“A thoughtfully written, persuasive account explaining emotional intelligence and why it can be crucial.”� USA Today

Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our “two minds”—the rational and the emotional—and how they together shape our destiny.

Drawing on groundbreaking brain and behavioral research, Goleman shows the factors at work when people of high IQ flounder and those of modest IQ do surprisingly well. These factors, which include self-awareness, self-discipline, and empathy, add up to a different way of being smart—and they aren’t fixed at birth. Although shaped by childhood experiences, emotional intelligence can be nurtured and strengthened throughout our adulthood—with immediate benefits to our health, our relationships, and our work.

The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of Emotional Intelligence could not come at a better time—we spend so much of our time online, more and more jobs are becoming automated and digitized, and our children are picking up new technology faster than we ever imagined. With a new introduction from the author, the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition prepares readers, now more than ever, to reach their fullest potential and stand out from the pack with the help of EI.]]> 358 Daniel Goleman 055338371X Shima 0 to-read 4.07 1995 Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
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]]> <![CDATA[The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse]]> 43708884
Here, you will find them together in this book of Charlie's most-loved drawings, adventuring into the Wild and exploring the thoughts and feelings that unite us all.]]> 128 Charlie Mackesy 1529105102 Shima 5 4.56 2019 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
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]]> Fresh Water for Flowers 52649136
Violette’s routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of a man—Julien Sole, local police chief—who insists on depositing the ashes of his recently departed mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger. It soon becomes clear that the grave Julien is looking for belongs to his mother’s one-time lover, and that his mother’s story of clandestine love is intertwined with Violette’s own secret past.

With Fresh Water for Flowers, Valérie Perrin has given readers a funny, moving, intimately told story of a woman who believes obstinately in happiness. Perrin has the rare talent of illuminating what is exceptional and poetic in what seems ordinary. A #1 best-seller in France, Fresh Water for Flowers is a delightful, atmospheric, absorbing fairy tale full of poetry, generosity, and warmth.]]> 476 Valérie Perrin 1609455959 Shima 4 4.25 2018 Fresh Water for Flowers
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]]> شیخ صنعان از منطق الطیر عطار 1692712 شاهکارهای ادبیات فارسی جلد 09 - شیخ صنعان یا پیر سمعان؛ شاعر: فریدالدین عطار نیشابوی؛ به اهتمام: سید صادق گوهرین؛ زیرنظر: پرویز ناتل خانلری؛ ذبیح الله صفا؛ تهران، امیرکبیر، 1336؛ در 36 ص، چاپ دیگر: 1362؛ چاپ چهاردهم 1381؛ موضوع: شعر و منظومه های عرفانی فارسی قرن ششم هجری قرن 12 م]]> 36 Attar of Nishapur Shima 2 3.87 شیخ صنعان از منطق الطیر عطار
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]]> <![CDATA[The Thousand and One Nights: Commonly Called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Volume 2 of 3]]> 311186
The original concept is most likely derived from a pre-Islamic Persian prototype that probably relied partly on Indian elements, but the work as we have it was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars across the Middle East and North Africa. The tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Indian, Egyptian and Mesopotamian folklore and literature. In particular, many tales were originally folk stories from the Caliphate era, while others, especially the frame story, are most probably drawn from the Pahlavi Persian work Hazār Afsān. Though the oldest Arabic manuscript dates from the 14th century, scholarship generally dates the collection's genesis to around the 9th century.
Some of the best-known stories of The Nights, particularly "Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp", "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" and "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor", while almost certainly genuine Middle-Eastern folk tales, were not part of The Nights in Arabic versions, but were interpolated into the collection by its early European translators. (From wikipedia)]]> Anonymous 0543895025 Shima 4 3.82 The Thousand and One Nights: Commonly Called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Volume 2 of 3
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]]> Olga Dies Dreaming 57693171
Despite their alluring public lives, behind closed doors things are far less rosy. Sure, Olga can orchestrate the love stories of the 1%, but she can't seem to find her own...until she meets Matteo, who forces her to confront the effects of long-held family secrets...

Twenty-seven years ago, their mother, Blanca, a Young Lord-turned-radical, abandoned her children to advance a militant political cause, leaving them to be raised by their grandmother. Now, with the winds of hurricane season, Blanca has come barreling back into their lives.

Set against the backdrop of New York City in the months surrounding the most devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico's history, Olga Dies Dreaming is a story that examines political corruption, familial strife and the very notion of the American dream--all while asking what it really means to weather a storm.]]> 369 Xóchitl González 1250786177 Shima 0 to-read 3.95 2022 Olga Dies Dreaming
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]]> <![CDATA[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]> 1505525 52 Vera Southgate Shima 3 3.66 1812 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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]]> Disney's The Little Mermaid 371423 24 Walt Disney Company 0736421289 Shima 4 4.45 1989 Disney's The Little Mermaid
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]]> <![CDATA[Secularism: Politics, Religion, and Freedom]]> 34927510 onwards, some European states began to set up their political order on a different basis. Not religion, but the rule of law through non-religious values embedded in constitutions became the foundation of some states -- a movement we now call secularism. In others, a de facto secularism emerged as
political values and civil and criminal law altered their professed foundation from a shared religion to a non-religious basis.

Today secularism is an increasingly hottopic in public, political, and religious debate across the globe. It is embodied in the conflict between secular republics -- from the US to India -- and the challenges they face from resurgent religious identity politics; in the challenges faced by religious
states like those of the Arab world from insurgent secularists; and in states like China where calls for freedom of belief are challenging a state imposed non-religious worldview. In this short introduction Andrew Copson tells the story of secularism, taking in momentous episodes in world history,
such as the great transition of Europe from religious orthodoxy to pluralism, the global struggle for human rights and democracy, and the origins of modernity. He also considers the role of secularism when engaging with some of the most contentious political and legal issues of our
"blasphemy," "apostasy," religious persecution, religious discrimination, religious schools, and freedom of belief and thought in a divided world.]]> 176 Andrew Copson 0198809131 Shima 0 currently-reading 3.90 Secularism: Politics, Religion, and Freedom
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]]> صد نامه‌� عاشقانه 6475340 174 نزار قباني 9643625028 Shima 0 3.82 1970 صد نامه‌ی عاشقانه
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]]> <![CDATA[The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships]]> 40629898
From our earliest years, we develop an attachment style that follows us through life, replaying in our daily emotional landscape, our relationships, and how we feel about ourselves. And in the wake of a traumatic event―such as a car accident, severe illness, loss of a loved one, or experience of abuse―that attachment style can deeply influence what happens next.

In The Power of Attachment , Dr. Diane Poole Heller, a pioneer in attachment theory and trauma resolution, shows how overwhelming experiences can disrupt our most important connections� with the parts of ourselves within, with the physical world around us, and with others.

The good news is that we can restore and reconnect at all levels, regardless of our past.

Here, you’ll learn key insights and practices to help

� Restore the broken connections caused by trauma
� Get embodied and grounded in your body
� Integrate the parts of yourself that feel wounded and fragmented
� Emerge from grief, fear, and powerlessness to regain strength, joy, and resiliency
� Reclaim access to your inner resources and spiritual nature

"We are fundamentally designed to heal," teaches Dr. Heller. "Even if our childhood is less than ideal, our secure attachment system is biologically programmed in us, and our job is to simply find out what’s interfering with it―and learn what we can do to make those secure tendencies more dominant."

With expertise drawn from Dr. Heller’s research, clinical work, and training programs, this book invites you to begin that journey back to wholeness.]]> 224 Diane Poole Heller 1622038258 Shima 4 4.28 2019 The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships
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]]> <![CDATA[The School of Life: An Emotional Education]]> 43264830 Discover everything you were never taught at school about how to lead a better life...

Introduced and edited by the bestselling author of The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel and The Course of Love

We spend years in school learning facts and figures but the one thing we're never taught is how to live a fulfilled life. That's why we need The School of Life - a real organisation founded ten years ago by writer and philosopher Alain de Botton. The School of Life has one simple aim: to equip people with the tools to survive and thrive in the modern world. And the most important of these tools is emotional intelligence.

This book brings together ten years of essential and transformative research on emotional intelligence, with practical topics including:

- how to understand yourself
- how to master the dilemmas of relationships
- how to become more effective at work
- how to endure failure
- how to grow more serene and resilient

The School of Life is nothing short of a crash course in emotional maturity. With all the trademark wit and elegance of Alain de Botton's other writings, and rooted in practical, achievable advice, it show us a path to the better lives we all want and deserve.]]> 310 Alain de Botton 0241382327 Shima 0 currently-reading 4.23 2019 The School of Life: An Emotional Education
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]]> <![CDATA[In Paris: 20 Women on Life in the City of Light]]> 38237110
A window on the world's most stylish city, with more than 100 full-color photos and profiles of 20 diverse and inspiring Parisian women, by "the coolest, most beautiful French girl in France" ( GQ ) and a former editor in chief of French Elle

"We've always been crazy in love with this city. . . . We love its arrogance, its clumsiness, its simplicity. And especially the women who live here."

Two quintessential Parisian women--model and fashion designer Jeanne Damas and journalist Lauren Bastide--shine a spotlight on twenty real-life women of Paris, dispelling the myth that there's only one type of Parisian woman and introducing us to the city that real Parisiennes live in. They're booksellers, singers, writers, activists, and antique dealers; they live in small studios, spacious apartments, or houseboats; their ages range from fourteen to seventy . . . and all embody the effortless chic and insouciant spirit of the legendary Parisian woman.

In Paris takes us into these women's lives, telling us about their careers, families, favorite nightlife spots, shopping habits, and beloved books and films. Full-color photos taken by Jeanne herself accompany charming lists of advice on the French art de vivre --from the best places to people-watch with a glass of wine after work to the perfect Parisian playlist to the ten things that a French woman would never, ever post on Instagram. Witty, elegant, and modern, In Paris is an ode to Paris through the eyes of its eternally cool women--for everyone who has ever dreamed of one day living in Paris.]]> 224 Jeanne Damas 0143133683 Shima 4 3.92 2017 In Paris: 20 Women on Life in the City of Light
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]]> سفر به ایران در قرن هفدهم 31702885 328 Frederic Jacquin Shima 0 currently-reading 0.0 سفر به ایران در قرن هفدهم
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