Interlink Books

World History/Politics/Current Affairs

9/11 Contradictions
An Open Letter to Congress and the Press
David Ray Griffin

"David Ray Griffin... has presented the often incredible but true details of 25 major contradictions in the Bush administration's accounts of 9/11. This book, based on careful research but written in a fast-moving, readable style, blows apart the notion that The 9/11 Commission Report presents an accurate account of what happened on September 11. It makes crystal clear the need for a new investigation."
-- Bill Christison, former senior CIA official

Surviving Iraq
Soldiers' Stories
Elise Forbes Tripp

The Iraq war is being fought by an all-volunteer army recruited from working-class America, ordinary citizens in uniform. These men and women are the stars of Tripp's powerfully moving book about our war and our warriors in Iraq. Surviving Iraq: Soldiers' Stories is the result of a close collaboration between the author and thirty veterans who volunteered to tell their stories of the invasion, occupation, and ongoing insurgency in Iraq.

World Travel

Florida for Families
Larry Lain

Florida is America's backyard, the biggest, coolest backyard in the country. From the swing set (the mind-boggling theme parks of Orlando and Tampa) to the sandbox (hundreds of miles of beautiful beaches) to the wading pool (the mighty Atlantic Ocean and magnificent Gulf of Mexico), Florida is where the whole world comes to relax, to play, and to pretend for a week or two that grown-up cares have been banished from the world.

Thailand (Travellers' Wildlife Guide)
David L. Pearson and Les Beletsky

Thailand holds a special place in the minds of the world's nature-lovers as a paradise of splendid tropical forests, untrammeled ocean beaches, and spectacular underwater coral grottos. Nature travellers to Thailand want to experience these stunning habitats and catch glimpses of exotic wildlife-gibbons and elephants, hornbills and storks, gliding lizards and cobras, brightly colored reef fishes and marine invertebrates.

Illustrated Gift Books

Fairy Tale Feasts
A Literary Cookbook for Young Readers and Eaters
tales retold Jane Yolen, recipes Heidi E. Y. Stemple; illustrated by Phillippe Beha

“A creative book, which folds fairy tales into a cookbook of kid-friendly recipes…Yolen retells them with her usual verve and ease…the resulting dishes, as well as Beha’s spare, whimsical spot illustrations, will capture children’s fancy. Detailed marginalia greatly enhance both the folktales and the food sections of this charming offering that the whole family will appreciate."
—Booklist

Palestine (2nd ed.)
A Guide
Mariam Shahin; photography by George Azar

"Hugely impressive... deeply researched, written with flair and passion, and enriched throughout with Azar's beautiful photography. All the historic sites get their due, but so do the foods, costumes, arts and traditions of the Palestinians... this enticing and absorbing book genuinely does what its genre should: it makes you want to go there."
--The Independent

International Cookbooks

Paris Neighborhood Cookbook, The
Danyel Couet’s Guide to the City’s Ethnic Cuisines
Danyel Couet; photography by David Loftus

After innumerable outings in Paris's many ethnic quarters, chef Danyel Couet has developed a love for couscous, strudel , and Peking duck that is just as strong as that for boeuf bourguignon and mousse au chocolat. Through eight neighborhoods and just as many kitchens, via markets, shops and restaurants-and approximately 90 recipes-he takes you with him to his Paris.

Portuguese Homestyle Cooking (2008)
new revised & updated edition
Ana Patuleia Ortins

Everyone loves Mediterranean food. But few can say what makes the soul-comforting, understated peasant food of Portugal distinct from that of its neighbors. The abundant use of legumes and leafy greens in its hearty soups and stews? The unusual combinations of meat and shellfish? The wine and garlic marinated braises? The easy seafood preparations? Or, perhaps...

World Fiction

Everything Good Will Come
Sefi Atta

WINNER OF THE WOLE SOYINKA PRIZE FOR AFRICAN LITERATURE
"A literary masterpiece... Everything Good Will Come put me into a spell from the first page to the very last... It portrays the complicated society and history of Nigeria through... brilliant prose."
--World Literature Today

Honey, The
Zeina B. Ghandour

Ruhiya is an intensely spiritual young girl, the muezzin's daughter in an oasis village in Palestine under Israeli occupation. One night her childhood love, a recently converted fundamentalist, sets off on a suicide mission. Ruhiya breaches one of the deepest taboos of Islam by chanting the call to the dawn prayer herself.

Wild Mulberries
Iman Humaydan Younes, translated by Michelle Hartman

Sarah is on the brink of adulthood in her village in the mountains of Lebanon in the 1930s, a world itself hesitating on the verge of change. In Younes's textured, lyrical prose, the story of one young woman's coming of age becomes a meditation on a nation's hardship, on home and freedom, hope and loss.

Zigzag through the Bitter-Orange Trees
Ersi Sotiropoulos; translated by Peter Green

WINNER OF THE GREEK STATE PRIZE FOR LITERATURE AND THE BOOK CRITICS' AWARD
"A darkly comic story told in four quirky voices...Increasingly intricate parallels and connections among the characters become political, cultural, outrageous and, ultimately, hopeful...the story, aided by Green's fluid translation, moves quickly."
-- Publishers Weekly

Poetry

Flawed Landscape
Poems 1987-2008
Sharif 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."
-Melanie Carter, poet

Mahmoud Darwish, Exile's Poet
Critical Essays
edited by Hala Kh. Nassar and Najat Rahman

Mahmoud Darwish's work has long been considered seminal in shaping modern Arabic poetry. He has received wide international recognition and is regarded as a contender for the Nobel Prize. This book examines the complex connections between poetry, myth, lyric, prose, and history in Darwish's poetry.

Children's Picture Books

My Bodyworks
Songs About Your Bones, Muscles, Heart and More!
by Jane Schoenberg; music by Steven Schoenburg; illustrated by Cynthia Fisher

"Here is a splendid book for all the senses. The illustrations are lively and delightful."
–Eric Carle

"What a delicious combination of talents: lyrics, music, and facts all together. This one is earmarked for my twin granddaughters who are just the right age for it."
–Jane Yolen

Rescuing Einstein’s Compass
Shulamith Levey Oppenheim; illustrated by George Juhasz

“A charming picture book, most ably illustrated in watercolors by George Juhasz…”
–The Boston Globe

“In this charming story…Juhasz has created wonderful pictures that sweep across each spread…an excellent read-aloud.”
–School Library Journal