Books by Marilyn Herbert
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review 1: This book was gripping, intense, emotional, and disturbing. It was so vivid. The characters were came alive on the paper and the descriptions of surroundings took me from the heat of Africa to the bitter cold of North America. It is not a depressing story but one of perseveranc...
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review 1: When eleven-year-old Aminata Diallo is abducted from her African village and forced onto a slave ship bound for America, her terror is unspeakable. Traumatized by the attacks on her parents, the brutality of white men and the filth of the ship, she can only think of survival, and...
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review 1: I gave it 4 stars—a unique story, some fascinating parts about Ethiopia, the government and other topics I'm sadly ignorant of. And mostly beautifully written and realized, but, I think you need to be pre-med, or at least interested in medical procedures, to stay with the detaile...
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review 1: This is a fantastic read that will take you first to Ethiopia and then later to NY where you can take a surgical residency. The book had a lot of nostalgia for me as it was so reminiscent of my own time spent as a surgical resident.The book is quite well written and carries the r...
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review 1: A Thousand Splendid Suns was a brilliantly written portrait of two Afghani women, Miriam and Laila. Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner, writes with unusual depth and sensitivity of the often brutal treatment of women in a male-dominated society. The story is tense and gri...
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review 1: The Life of Pi, by Yann Martel. so a book made for small adventerus minds turned out to be a dissapointmentso i read another book for science and i was not impressed at all, the book was about a kid who literally lived in a zoo in like india. he grew up with the zoo animals and g...