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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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From civil war to safety

Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family’s Journey by Margriet Ruurs

October 3, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

While the story presented in Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family’s Journey, is fantastic it is the art that really blew me away. It is an experience book that you must experience on your own, without any real background, to fully understand the delicateness of it all.  Margriet Ruurs found the artwork of Nizar Ali Badr online and found the artist after a lot of twists and turns. Long story short (you can read the story in the book), they collaborated. And Stepping Stones was born. […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Fiction, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Religion Tagged With: Arabic, Emigration & Immigration, English, Margriet Ruurs, Middle East, Nizar Ali Badr, refugees, Syria

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:510 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Fiction, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Religion · Tags: Arabic, Emigration & Immigration, English, Margriet Ruurs, Middle East, Nizar Ali Badr, refugees, Syria ·
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A promising new fantasy series (without a single white character!)

July 2, 2016 by Malin 1 Comment

3.5 stars Resorting to the blurb for a plot summary, because I need to get my reviews up to date, and trying to come up with my own synopsis takes too long: The Crescent Moon Kingdoms are at a boiling point. A struggle between the iron-fisted Khalif and the mysterious Falcon Prince is reaching its climax. In the midst of this brewing rebellion, a series of brutal supernatural murders strike at the heart of the Kingdoms. Doctor Adoulla Makhslood, three score and more years old, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History Tagged With: Arabic, CBR8, Crescent Moon Kingdoms, fantasy, magic, Malin, Saladin Ahmed, shapeshifters, Throne of the Crescent Moon

Malin's CBR8 Review No:64 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History · Tags: Arabic, CBR8, Crescent Moon Kingdoms, fantasy, magic, Malin, Saladin Ahmed, shapeshifters, Throne of the Crescent Moon ·
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