World History/Politics/Current Affairs
American Veterans on War
Personal Stories from WWII to AfghanistanElise Forbes Tripp
Elise Forbes Tripp brings our current wars and their predecessors home in the words of 55 veterans aged 20 to 90. The veterans raise questions about when wars are worth fighting, what missions can and can’t be won, and the costs and benefits of US intervention, both around the world and domestically.
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World Travel
World Travel/Cadogan Guides USA
Languedoc-Roussillon (3rd ed.)
(Cadogan Guides USA)Dana Facaros
Discover the vibrant cities of Montpellier, Perpignan and Narbonne, the medieval splendor of Carcassonne, lagoons full of oysters and flamingos, medieval Catalan villages in quiet Pyrenean valleys and houseboats lazing down the Canal du Midi, all punctuated by Roman ruins, Cathar castles and Gothic cathedrals.
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Illustrated Gift Books
A Million Steps
Discovering the Lebanon Mountain TrailHana El-Hibri; Photography by Norbert Schiller
Hana El-Hibri and her fellow hikers were the first to walk the length of Lebanon from north to south, and her up-close account of the month-long journey is accompanied by Norbert Schiller’s superb photos, capturing the region’s diverse wildlife, its stunning scenery and the colorful characters that live there. A Million Steps gives us snapshots of a Lebanon that is rarely seen.
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International Cookbooks
One World Vegetarian Cookbook
Troth Wells
One World Vegetarian Cookbook starts in your backyard-buying produce at your local farmers' market or perhaps growing your own vegetables and herbs-then reaches around the world to bring the diversity and delight of vegetarian dishes into your kitchen.
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The Viennese Kitchen
Tante Hertha's Book of Family RecipesMonica Meehan and Maria von Baich
This beautiful book, based on original notebook and recipe journal of a 1900s baroness, takes readers on a journey through
fin de siècle Viennese high society. With over 100 original tested and updated recipes, it is not only a wonderful collection of recipes but also a fascinating look at the life of a Viennese family.
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Biographies & Memoirs
Bye Bye Babylon
Beirut 1975-1979Lamia Ziadé; translated by Olivia Snaije
Part artist’s sketchbook, part travel notebook and part family album,
Bye Bye Babylon is a unique graphic memoir, and an important visual record of a terrible war. Looking back on the golden days before the war, and its immediate, devastating effects,
Bye Bye Babylon positions an elegiac and shocking narrative next to a child’s perspective of the years 1975–79.
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Jimmy Cliff
An Unauthorized BiographyDavid Katz
One of Jamaica’s most prolific and innovative performers and a recent inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Jimmy Cliff has been hailed as the first true superstar of Jamaican music. As a uniquely talented singer-songwriter, he is one of the first artists responsible for disseminating reggae music to a global audience.
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World Fiction
Always Coca-Cola
Alexandra Chreiteh; translated from the Arabic by Michelle Hartman
Always Coca-Cola is the story of three very different young women attending university in Beirut: Abeer, Jana, and Yasmine. The narrator, Abeer Ward (fragrant rose, in Arabic), daughter of a conservative family, admits wryly that her name is also the name of her father’s flower shop. First-time novelist Alexandra Chreiteh asks us to see, with wonder, humor, and dismay, how inextricably confused are naming and desire, identity and branding.
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Sarmada
Fadi Azzam; translated from the Arabic by Adam Talib
“With Sarmada, Fadi Azzam proves to us that there are still undiscovered gems in Arabic literature… beautiful writing, long stifled by dictatorship, has just begun to free itself from the grips of censorship. Sarmada and its women dance in front of us with all their senses; they take us by the hand and escort us into their village homes, where the events of this great novel take place.”—Rafik Schami author of
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Poetry
Flawed Landscape
Poems 1987-2008Sharif S. Elmusa
"These are an exile's poems, marked by loss but offered with a generous spirit. Through them, the landscape transforms-revealing, through Elmusa's vision, its difficult beauty. This is not grounds for despair, then. But ground to work from. That is hope, indeed."
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Language & Reference
World Textiles
A SourcebookD. Waller, S. Weir, S. Paine, G. Corrigan, A. Hecht, C. Sayer, C. Spring, J. Hudson, J. Gillow
The essential textile and design source book packed full of vibrant color combinations and magnificent patterns from around the worldmore »
Children's Picture Books
