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Elif Shafak Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Elif Shafak is a novelist and essayist. Storyteller, Novelist, Writer, Reader, Learner, Human Rights Advocate, Feminist, Introvert, Citizen of Humanity 📚🌈 https://t.co/Fju2plwBdd

7 books
Book Cover for: The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi, Elif Shafak

The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi

Elif Shafak
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I was so moved by this piece in @guardian Masouma Tajik,a brilliant 23 yr old from Afghanistan,software engineer & data analyst,left her land for Ukraine w nothing but a laptop & a copy of The Forty Rules of Love,now she has to escape another horrific war @masouma3 @lorenzo_tondo https://twitter.com/lorenzo_tondo/status/1501253856663162885

Paperback, 2011

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Apples Never Fall, Liane Moriarty

Apples Never Fall

Liane Moriarty
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RT @ArtsonRN: Today on #TheBookShow w/@NicholsClaire: ▶️Bestselling author Liane Moriarty talks about her new book, Apples Never Fall ▶️Bri…

Paperback, 2022

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak

The Island of Missing Trees

Elif Shafak
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RT @McrLitFest: Ellah P. Wakatama introduces Elif Shafak to talk about her latest novel The Island of Missing Trees. https://t.co/jb5uCbrjbH

Paperback, 2023

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Madonna in a Fur Coat, Sabahattin Ali

Madonna in a Fur Coat

Sabahattin Ali
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“Madonna in a Fur Coat,” by Sabahattin Ali, a prominent left-wing author who was jailed for his writings, is one of the most important Turkish classics, with a brilliant translation by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe.

Paperback, 2017

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison
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A school board in America banned Toni Morrison’s masterpiece The Bluest Eye. And now another board has banned the brilliant graphic novel Maus, and this is happening on the eve of #HolocaustMemorialDay Deeply disturbing the ongoing war against books, memory, knowledge & diversity https://t.co/sOUzdkYoxM

Paperback, 2007

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Rethink: Leading Voices on Life After Crisis and How We Can Make a Better World, Amol Rajan

Rethink: Leading Voices on Life After Crisis and How We Can Make a Better World

Amol Rajan
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“Leading Voices on Life After Crisis and How We Can Make a Better World.” I am delighted to have an essay in this timely, deeply insightful book, inspired by the hit @BBCRadio4 podcast, edited by @amolrajan Now is the time to #Rethink https://t.co/T5E837Ftwx

Paperback, 2022

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Afropean: Notes from Black Europe, Johny Pitts

Afropean: Notes from Black Europe

Johny Pitts
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A wonderful book, both eye-opening and lyrical: #Afropean by @johnypitts I am surprised to learn that it doesn’t have a US publisher yet when this book is so relevant to the most urgent debates in America today (coffee stains on the cover further proof of my appreciation 📚☕️) https://t.co/OI6yWATJpv

Paperback, 2020

$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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