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Home Fire (2017) is the seventh novel by Kamila Shamsie.It reimagines Sophocles's play Antigone unfolding among British Muslims. The novel follows the Pasha family: twin siblings Aneeka and Parvaiz and their older sister Isma, who has raised them in the years since the death of their mother; their jihadi father, whom the twins never knew, is also dead.
Fire is an ALA Best Books for Young Adults (2010) and a Cybils Awards winner (in the young adult fantasy/scifi category). [2] It was also awarded: Publishers Weekly Best Children's Books of 2009 [3] Washington Post Best Kid's Book of The Year [4] Seattle Times Best YA Book of 2009 [5] School Library Journal Best Books of 2009 [6]
Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America is a narrative nonfiction book by Don Katz. Originally published in 1992, it was reissued in 2014 in ebook and audiobook formats with a new introduction by Jonathan Alter . [ 1 ]
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Home was named one of the "100 Notable Books of 2008" by The New York Times, [3] one of the "Best Books of 2008" by The Washington Post, [4] one of the Los Angeles Times' "Favorite Books 2008", [5] one of the "Best Books of 2008" by San Francisco Chronicle, [6] as well as one of The New Yorker book critic James Wood's ten favorite books of 2008 ...
Beth L. Meister, writing for School Library Journal, compared Icefire to early books in the series, noting that the novel "offers a darker and more mature story" than The Fire Within. Further, Meister found that "Liz's clay dragons develop a greater degree of realism within the story, and their background is further explored".
Reality TV producer Mark Burnett ('The Apprentice," "The Voice," and "Survivor") was named the UK special envoy by President-elect Donald Trump.
City of Glass is the third book in the urban fantasy series The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare. [1] In 2009, Walker Books published the third book of the series worldwide. [ 2 ] It is a journey that explores Simon's and Clary's experience in the Shadowhunter city, and Clary works on saving her mother, as they travel from the New York ...