Further Reading
My favorite books from researching this novel:
The Goddess
Eisler, Riane, The Chalice and the Blade, HarperCollins, San Francisco, 1987
Gimbutas, Marija, The Language of the Goddess, Harper & Row, San Francisco, 1989
Shlain, Leonard, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image, Penguin Books, New York, 1998
Shlain, Leonard, Sex, Time and Power: How Women’s Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution, Penguin Books, New York, 2004
Stone, Merlin, When God was a Woman, Barnes & Noble Books, New York, 1993
Tate, Karen, Sacred Places of Goddess: 108 Destinations, CCC Publishing, San Francisco, 2006
The Druze
Betts, Robert Benton, The Druze, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1988
Falah, Salman, The Druze in the Middle East, Druze Research & Publications Institute, New York, 2002
Firro, Kais, A History of the Druzes, E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1992
Hitti, Philip, The Origins of the Druze People and Religion, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1928
Makarem, Sami Nasib, The Druze Faith, Caravan Books, Delmar, NY, 1974
Honor & Honor Killing
Mojab, Shahrzad, and Nahla Abdo, editors,
Violence in the Name of Honour: Theoretical and Political Challenges,
Istanbul Bilgi University Press, Istanbul, 2004
Peristiany, J.G., ed., Honour and Shame: The Values of Mediterranean Society,
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1966
For more sources, please see my Bibliography.