Interlink Books

World History/Politics/Current Affairs

New Pearl Harbor Revisited, The
9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé
David Ray Griffin

"David Ray Griffin stands at the center of one of the most impressive citizen research projects in history. In this superb new volume, he draws together a great quantity of recent evidence and demonstrates beyond question the fraudulent nature of the official account of 9/11."
— Dr. Graeme MacQueen, Founder of McMaster University's Center for Peace Studies

Understanding the US-Iran Crisis
A Primer
Phyllis Bennis

"This important analysis deals with the facts -- and not deception and fear-mongering -- of the Bush Administration's verbal, thus far, war against Iran. Its format is understated but direct -- we are told what the President has said about Iran and then we are told what the reality is. Can anyone read this book and still support an attack on Iran? Only in the Bush White House..."

-- Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker

World Travel

Café Life Venice
A Guidebook to the Cafés and Bacari of La Serenissima
Joe Wolff; photography by Roger Paperno

The Café Life series takes you to its third Italian city-La Serenissima (the Most Serene Republic)-with Café Life Venice. Like predecessors Café Life Rome and Café Life Florence, it explores a select group of family-run establishments. However, because Venice moves to the stroke of its very own gondola paddle (voga), you'll be drinking less coffee, eating less gelato-and sipping more wine.

Wisconsin
Mark D. Van Ells

Starting with the days that wooly mammoths tromped over the landscape, Mark Van Ells brings us on a journey through the fascinating history of the Badger State. Wisconsin remembers the brutal Black Hawk War and the fall of the first Paleo-Indian residents, the booming migration of thousands of Americans, the conflicted German population during and after the two world wars, and the famous Vietnam protests of University of Wisconsin students...

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

Palestinian Costume
Shelagh Weir

The traditional costumes of the Palestinian villagers and Bedouin are of exceptional beauty and diversity, especially the festive costumes of the women with their lavish silk embroidery and patchwork and their dramatic headdresses encrusted with coins. This book surveys male and female fashions from the early nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth, and describes the main regional styles of costume, their materials and ornamentation...

International Cookbooks

Cucina Napolitana
100 Recipes from Italy’s Most Vibrant City
Arturo Iengo; photography by Hannah Mornement and Frank Wieder

The Napoletana cuisine makes maximum use of fruit and vegetables grown on the rich volcanic soil, mono-cultivar olive oils, and creamy buffalo mozzarella. Cucina Napoletana includes an extensive selection of the best of the region's classic and innovative recipes, with additional features on key ingredients, the part they play in Naples cuisine, and how they are produced.

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.

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