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[CD] A Thousand Splendid Suns By Hosseini, Khaled/ Hosseini, Khaled (NRT) $33.11 Two women born a generation apart witness the destruction of their home and family in wartorn Kabul, losses incurred over the course of thirty years that test the limits of their strength and courage. By the author of The Kite Runner. Simultaneous. Author: Hosseini, Khaled/ Hosseini, Khaled (NRT) Publication Date: 2007/05/22 Binding Type: CD/Spoken Word Language: English Depth: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Height: 5.75 |
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A Thousand Splendid Suns By Hosseini, Khaled $31.6 Two women born a generation apart witness the destruction of their home and family in wartorn Kabul, losses incurred over the course of thirty years that test the limits of their strength and courage. By the author of The Kite Runner. 600,000 first printing. Author: Hosseini, Khaled Publication Date: 2007/05/22 Number of Pages: 372 Binding Type: Hardcover Language: English Depth: 1.50 Width: 6.00 Height: 9.50 |
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The Kite Runner By Hosseini, Khaled $34.67 A deluxe edition of the bestselling first novel by the author of A Thousand Splendid Suns traces the period between the final days of Afghanistans monarchy through the horrific rule of the Taliban and follows the unlikely friendship between a wealthy Afghan boy and the son of his fathers servant. 40,000 first printing. Author: Hosseini, Khaled Publication Date: 2007/10/04 Number of Pages: 329 Binding Type: Hardcover Language: English Depth: 1.00 Width: 6.25 Height: 9.25 |
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Reading Khaled Hosseini $24.95 One of the most important emerging novelists today, Khaled Hosseini has enjoyed critical success and popular accolades. His first book, The Kite Runner, was voted Reading Group Book of the Year in 2006 and 2007 and was made into a major motion picture. His second book, A Thousand Splendid Suns, seems destined to follow the same path. Written for book club members and students, this guide overviews Hosseini’s works, themes, characters, and contexts and relates his fiction to current events and popular culture. Sidebars present interesting information, and chapters contain questions to stimulate book club discussions and student research. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography of print and electronic resources. The book begins with a glance at Hosseini’s life and his use of the novel form. It then looks at his novels, summarizing their plots and discussing his characters, themes, and contexts. The book gives close attention to his handling of current events in his works, and to the presence of his fiction in popular culture. Chapters include sidebars of interesting information, along with discussion questions designed to promote book club discussion and student research. |
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Bookclub in a Box Discusses Khaled Hosseini’s Novel a Thousand Splendid Suns $18.98 A Thousand Splendid Suns, the spectacular new novel by Khaled Hosseini, follows on the heels of The Kite Runner, Hosseini’s best-selling first novel. This book tells the dramatic story of an unlikely friendship between two women, Mariam and Laila, who are married to the same man. The story takes us through each of their lives before the Russians enter Afghanistan, into the horrible years of Taliban rule, and beyond. Watching these women grow in their relationship, we are given a picture of what it has meant to be a woman in Afghanistan during the last four decades. The novel lifts the veil of these women and shows the reader the female face of Afghanistan’s population. Readers can use Bookclub-in-a-Box to unravel and be sensitive to the exceptionally difficult situation in Afghanistan today, to appreciate the intricate nature of human endurance, faith, hope and resilience, to explore the complex relationships of Afghanistan’s sons and daughters to each other and to the world at large, and to find out what Hosseini and others envision for Afghanistan’s future. Every Bookclub-in-a-Box discussion guide includes complete coverage of the themes and symbols, writing style and interesting background information on the novel and the author. |
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Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseini, Khaled Leoni, Atossa Edition , 0 $13.49 After more than two years on the bestseller lists and over four million copies in print, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel of enormous contemporary relevance. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan’s last thirty years-from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding-that puts the violence, fear, hope, and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives-the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness-are inextricable from the history playing out around them. Propelled by the same storytelling instinct that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of Afghan history and a deeply moving account of family and friendship. It is a striking, heart-wrenching novel of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love-a stunning accomplishment. |
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[CD] The Kite Runner By Hosseini, Khaled $33.15 Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servants son, in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistans monarchy through the atrocities of the present day. Author: Hosseini, Khaled Publication Date: 2003/06/01 Binding Type: CD/Spoken Word Language: English Depth: 1.00 Width: 5.00 Height: 6.00 |
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The Kite Runner By Benioff, David/ Hosseini, Khaled (FRW) $27 Author: Benioff, David/ Hosseini, Khaled (FRW) Subtitle: A Portrait of the Marc Forster Film Publication Date: 2008/01/31 Number of Pages: 160 Binding Type: Paperback Language: English Depth: 0.50 Width: 8.50 Height: 10.00 |
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Bookclubinabox Discusses the Novel the Kite Runner By Hosseini, Khaled $27 Looks at background information, themes, characters, writing style, and symbols of Khaled Hosseinis The Kite Runner. Author: Hosseini, Khaled Series Title: Bookclubinabox Publication Date: 2006/04/06 Number of Pages: 81 Binding Type: Paperback Language: English Depth: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Height: 8.75 |
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Reading Khaled Hosseini by Stuhr, Rebecca Edition , 0 $35 Discusses Hosseini’s fiction and its relation to current events and popular culture. |
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The Kite Runner By Benioff, David/ Hosseini, Khaled $34.67 Author: Benioff, David/ Hosseini, Khaled Series Title: Newmarket Pictorial Movie Book (cloth) Subtitle: A Portrait of the Marc Forster Film Publication Date: 2008/01/31 Number of Pages: 160 Binding Type: Hardcover Language: English Depth: 0.75 Width: 8.75 Height: 10.50 |
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Cometas en el cielo / The Kite Runner By Hosseini, Khaled $21.89 Author: Hosseini, Khaled Publication Date: 2009/03/09 Number of Pages: 382 Binding Type: Paperback Language: Spanish Depth: 0.75 Width: 5.00 Height: 8.00 |
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Khaled Hosseini’s the Kite Runner $29.25 No Synopsis Available |
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Stones into Schools By Mortenson, Greg/ Hosseini, Khaled (FRW) $54.93 A followup to the bestselling Three Cups of Tea continues Mortensons story of his humanitarian efforts to bring education into disadvantaged Middle East regions, describing such events as the 2005 earthquake and a tense eightday abduction by the Taliban. (Education). Simultaneous. Author: Mortenson, Greg/ Hosseini, Khaled (FRW) Series Title: Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series Subtitle: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan Publication Date: 2009/12/01 Number of Pages: 607 Binding Type: Hardcover Language: English Depth: 1.25 Width: 5.75 Height: 8.75 |
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1000 Splendid Suns, by Hosseini $19.46 This book is in New – Excellent condition |
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The Patience Stone By Rahimi, Atiq/ Mclean, Polly (TRN)/ Hosseini, Khaled (INT) $24.7 In Persian folklore, Syngue Sabour is the name of a magical black stone, a patience stone, which absorbs the plight of those who confide in it. It is believed that the day it explodes, after having received too much hardship and pain, will be the day of the Apocalypse. But here, the Syngue Sabour is not a stone but rather a man lying braindead with a bullet lodged in his neck. His wife is with him, sitting by his side. But she resents him for having sacrificed her to the war, for never being able to resist the call to arms, for wanting to be a hero, and in the end, after all was said and done, for being incapacitated in a small skirmish. Author: Rahimi, Atiq/ Mclean, Polly (TRN)/ Hosseini, Khaled (INT) Subtitle: Sange Saboor Publication Date: 2010/01/19 Number of Pages: 141 Binding Type: Hardcover Language: English Depth: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Height: 7.75 |
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The Kite Runner by Hosseini, Khaled Edition , 0 $13.49 “I sat on a bench near a willow tree and watched a pair of kites soaring in the sky. I thought about something Rahim Khan said just before he hung up, almost as an afterthought, ‘There is a way to be good again.’”Now in paperback, one of the year’s international literary sensations — a shattering story of betrayal and redemption set in war-torn Afghanistan.Amir and Hassan are childhood friends in the alleys and orchards of Kabul in the sunny days before the invasion of the Soviet army and Afghanistan’s decent into fanaticism. Both motherless, they grow up as close as brothers, but their fates, they know, are to be different. Amir’s father is a wealthy merchant; Hassan’s father is his manservant. Amir belongs to the ruling caste of Pashtuns, Hassan to the despised Hazaras.This fragile idyll is broken by the mounting ethnic, religious, and political tensions that begin to tear Afghanistan apart. An unspeakable assault on Hassan by a gang of local boys tears the friends apart; Amir has witnessed his friend’s torment, but is too afraid to intercede. Plunged into self-loathing, Amir conspires to have Hassan and his father turned out of the household.When the Soviets invade Afghanistan, Amir and his father flee to San Francisco, leaving Hassan and his father to a pitiless fate. Only years later will Amir have an opportunity to redeem himself by returning to Afghanistan to begin to repay the debt long owed to the man who should have been his brother.Compelling, heartrending, and etched with details of a history never before told in fiction, The Kite Runner is a story of the ways in which we’re damned by our moral failures, and of the extravagant cost of redemption. |
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A Thousand Splendid Suns $12.99 After more than 189 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list for The Kite Runner , Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman’s love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival. A stunning accomplishment, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love |
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[CD] Stones into Schools By Mortenson, Greg/ Hosseini, Khaled (FRW)/ Leoni, Atossa (NRT) $41.56 A followup to the bestselling Three Cups of Tea continues Mortensons story of his humanitarian efforts to bring education into disadvantaged Middle East regions, describing such events as the 2005 earthquake and a tense eightday abduction by the Taliban. Simultaneous. Author: Mortenson, Greg/ Hosseini, Khaled (FRW)/ Leoni, Atossa (NRT) Subtitle: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan Publication Date: 2009/12/01 Binding Type: CD/Spoken Word Language: English Depth: 1.50 Width: 5.75 Height: 6.25 |
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CliffsNotes on Hosseini’s The Kite Runner $3.99 The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. In CliffsNotes on Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, you explore life in Afghanistan and the United States, and through that the similarities as well as the differences between the two countries and the two vastly different cultures. The Kite Runner is the story of both fathers and sons and friends and brothers, and it is a novel about right and wrong and the nature of evil.  This is an historical novel about the pre-Russian invasion and pre-Taliban rule of Afghanistan, as well life in Afghanistan under Taliban rule and life in a post-Taliban Afghanistan. Although the story is fictitious, the information about the political, social, and cultural systems of this Middle Eastern country provides a contrast to the contemporary headlines about Afghanistan primarily being home to terrorist cells. The Kite Runner paints a realistic portrait of a country about which most readers probably know very little and enables readers to separate the people of a country from its leaders (the Taliban) and/or groups (terrorists) associated with it. This study guide carefully walks you through every step of Amir’s journey by providing summaries and critical analyses of each chapter of the novel. You’ll also explore the life and background of the author, Khaled Hosseini. Other features that help you study include:; An overview of the novel; A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters; A glossary of important terms and phrases from the novel. Classic literature or modern-day treasure — you’ll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.  |