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New World History/Politics/Current Affairs  Darkness Over Germany
A Warning from History
E. Amy Buller
A LESSON FROM HISTORY THAT IS NEEDED TODAY MORE THAN EVER
Darkness over Germany delivers a stark warning from history of how a man with little political experience rose up as a voice of the people, a voice for the disenfranchised...
$20.00
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 Freedom Hospital
A Syrian Story
Hamid Sulaiman
Winner English PEN Award
It is spring 2012 and 40,000 people have died since the start of the Syrian Arab Spring. In the wake of this, Yasmine has set up a clandestine hospital in the north of the country. Her town is c...
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 Israel
Democracy or Apartheid State?
Josh Ruebner
AN INSIGHTFUL ANALYSIS OF ONE OF TODAY’S MOST PRESSING WORLD ISSUES
2017 marks a year of significant milestones in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. One hundred years ago, the British government issued the Balfour Declaration,...
$15.00
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 The Moor's Last Stand
How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Came to an End
Elizabeth Drayson
SELECTED BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2017 BY THE TIMES (LONDON)
STARRED REVIEW IN BOOKLIST
THE FIRST FULL ACCOUNT IN ANY LANGUAGE OF THE LAST MUSLIM KING OF SPAIN. AN ACTION-PACKED STORY OF BETRAYAL, COURAGE, INTRIGUE, BATHOS, HEROISM AND TR...
$20.00
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 Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (updated 7th edit
A Primer
Phyllis Bennis
If you have ever wondered “Why is there so much violence in the Middle East?”, “Who are the Palestinians?”, “What are the occupied territories?” or “What does Israel want?”, then this is the book for yo...
$15.00
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New World Travel  A Traveller's History of New Zealand
& the South Pacific Islands (3rd edition)
John H. Chambers
A Traveller's History of New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands gives the curious tourist not only a modern-day portrait of New Zealand and the far-flung islands, their political systems, and economic diversity, but also looks at the...
$14.95
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 Frontline Madrid
Battlefield Tours of the Spanish Civil War
David Mathieson; with a foreword by Jon Snow
TAKES THE READER INTO THE GRIPPING WORLD OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR: GUN EMPLACEMENTS, BUNKERS, TRENCHES AND MORE In July 1936 insurgent Spanish troops organized a military coup to oust the elected Republican government in Madrid. The rebel general...
$18.00
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 St. Petersburg
A Cultural Guide
Neil Kent
St. Petersburg is one of the world’s most beautiful cities. Most of its baroque and neoclassical palaces and churches are modeled on those of Italy and France, in turn inspired by the temples of classical Greece and Rome. Yet it is situated on...
$17.95
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 The Four Roads to Heaven
France and the Santiago Pilgrimage
Edwin Mullins
“THERE ARE FOUR ROADS LEADING TO SANTIAGO, WHICH COMBINE TO FORM A SINGLE ROAD” So begins The Pilgrim’s Guide, the world’s first guidebook. Written early in the twelfth century by Benedictine monks, it served tr...
$20.00
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New Illustrated Gift Books  Jewish Fairy Tale Feasts
A Literary Cookbook
retold by Jane Yolen; recipes by Heidi E.Y. Stemple; illustrations by Sima Elizabeth Shefrin
New paperback edition available Spring 2018!
A FUN BOOK FOR PARENTS AND CHILDREN TO ENJOY AND TREASURE Master storyteller Jane Yolen and her daughter Heidi Stemple have teamed up to bring the magic of their acclaimed Fairy...
$25.00
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New International Cookbooks  Aleppo Cookbook, The
Celebrating the Legendary Cuisine of Syria
Marlene Matar
AN INSPIRING COLLECTION OF RECIPES FROM ONE OF THE WORLD’S OLDEST CITIES It is hardly surprising that Aleppo, one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities, is also home to one of the world’s most distinguished an...
$25.00
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 Coastline
The Food of Mediterranean Italy, France, and Spain
Lucio Galletto and David Dale
THE PERFECT PESTO • THE BEST BOUILLABAISSE • THE PUREST PAELLA A river of gold flows through western Italy, southern France, and eastern Spain. It’s the olive oil that links three great cuisines, along with a lo...
$35.00
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 Mouneh
Preserving Foods for the Lebanese Pantry
Barbara Abdeni Massaad
PRESERVING FOOD AND CULTURE THE LEBANESE WAY The very best memories connecting us to time and place are often stimulated by the tastes and smells of our childhood. Freshly-baked bread, hot from the oven, sweet homemade jam dribbling down our...
$50.00
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 Oklava
Recipes from a Turkish-Cypriot Kitchen
Selin Kiazim; photography by Chris Terry
TURKISH-CYPRIOT DISHES THAT WILL INSPIRE FOOD LOVERS TO NEW GASTRONOMIC HEIGHTS With influences from the Mediterranean, Southern Europe, and the Middle East, Turkish-Cypriot food offers incredible flavor combinations unique to its region. O...
$35.00
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 Palestine on a Plate
Memories from My Mother’s Kitchen
Joudie Kalla; photography by Ria Osbourne
A BEAUTIFULLY PHOTOGRAPHED CULINARY AND CULTURAL TOUR OF PALESTINE Palestinian food is not just found on the streets with the ka’ak (sesame) bread sellers and stalls selling za’atar chicken and mana’eesh (...
$35.00
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 Persiana
Recipes from the Middle East & beyond
by Sabrina Ghayour; photography by Liz and Max Haarala Hamilton
WINNER OF THE OBSERVER FOOD MONTHLY BEST NEW COOKBOOK 2014 LIBRARY JOURNAL COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR 2014 BBC GOOD FOOD MAGAZINE'S BEST COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR 2...
$35.00
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 The Afghan Cookbook
A Culinary Journey
Shahnaz Zikria
Contemporary Afghan cuisine is bold, warming, and flavorful, uniting the culinary influence of the Pashtun majority along with that of the many other peoples and cultures in the region. The Afghan Cookbookreveals how today’s A...
$30.00
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 The Immigrant Cookbook
Recipes that Make America Great
collected and edited by Leyla Moushabeck
A DIVERSE BOUNTY OF RECIPES BY IMMIGRANT CHEFS FROM AROUND THE WORLD, FROM THE PUBLISHER OF THE AWARD-WINNING HUMANITARIAN COOKBOOK SOUP FOR SYRIA INTERLINK PUBLISHING WILL DONATE A MINIMUM OF $5 FROM THE SALE OF EACH BOOK TO THE AMERIC...
$35.00
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New International Cookbooks  Wild Honey and Rye
Modern Polish Recipes
Ren Behan
In this refreshing approach to Polish cuisine, food writer and blogger Ren Behan takes us on a journey to discover the new tastes of her beloved culinary heritage. The food of Eastern Europe, long misunderstood in the West, is changing—the f...
$30.00
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New Biographies & Memoirs  A Vision for My Father
The Life and Work of Palestinian-American Artist and Designer Rajie Cook
Rajie Cook
“A powerful and poignant expression of the Palestinian narrative of exile weaving together the aesthetic and the personal story of longing for home. Rajie Cook’s personal account is an intimate revelation of the special bond between fa...
$35.00
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 Kahlil Gibran
Beyond Borders
Jean Gibran and Kahlil Gibran; with a foreword by Salma Hayek-Pinault
Painter and poet, immigrant, rebel, global citizen, author of the beloved classic, The Prophet. Kahlil Gibran: Beyond Borders tells the inspiring saga of the artist’s life and creative vision. ...
$25.00
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 Monkey Business
The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers
Simon Louvish
THE FIRST AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE MARX BROTHERS, THEIR ORIGINS AND OF THE ROOTS OF THEIR COMEDY
This is the first full and properly researched biography of all five Marx Brothers—Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo and Zeppo. First and forem...
$20.00
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 The Journey
Memoirs of an Egyptian Woman Student in America
Radwa Ashour; translated by Michelle Hartman
THIS TRANSLATION IS AN HOMAGE TO A GREAT LITERARY FIGURE AND TO THOSE MOVEMENTS WHICH CARRY ON HER LEGACY IN THEIR WORK Never neutral and deeply engaged in politics, literature, people’s struggles, and what she calls the “most urgen...
$20.00
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New World Fiction  American Quarter, The
Jabbour Douaihy; translated by Paula Haydar
Jabbour Douaihy’s The American Quarter is set in the Mediterranean port city of Tripoli, on the northern coast of Lebanon. Unfolding at the height of the US-led invasion of Iraq, it revolves around the radicalization of an ordinary you...
$15.00
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 Printed in Beirut
Jabbour Douaihy; translated by Paula Haydar
A DAZZLING MYSTERY SET IN THE WORLD OF LEBANON’S BOOK PUBLISHING INDUSTRY Farid Abou Cha’r arrives in Beirut on a hot summer morning with his manuscript, looking for a publisher. He is turned down by all of them—“nobody re...
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 Road to Damascus, A
Meedo Taha
A CINEMATIC DEBUT OF A PROMISING YOUNG NOVELIST FROM LEBANON A Road to Damascus is a captivating thriller that reveals a nation’s deepest fears, a family’s intergenerational secrets, and an underworld of politics, religion,...
$20.00
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 Sophia
or The Beginning of All Tales
Rafik Schami; translated by Monique Arav and John Hannon
A MASTERPIECE FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE DARK SIDE OF LOVE A murder in Damascus, a love with the power to save a young man’s life… In his latest novel, Rafik Schami ventures to the land of his childhood, where he...
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New Poetry  I Don't Want This Poem to End
Early and Late Poems
Mahmoud Darwish; translated by Mohammad Shaheen; indroduction by Elias Khoury
FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF NEW POETRY BY THE LATE MAHMOUD DARWISH, THE MOST IMPORTANT PALESTINIAN CONTEMPORARY POET
When the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish died in 2008, his friends visited his home and retrieved poems and writings some...
$20.00
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New Children's Picture Books  A Day with Yayah
Nicola I. Campbell; illustrated by Julie Flett
Set in the Nicola Valley, British Columbia, in Canada's westernmost province, a First Nations family goes on an outing to forage for herbs and mushrooms. A grandmother passes down her knowledge of plant life and the natural world to her young gra...
$17.95
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 African Orchestra (The)
Wendy Hartmann; illustrated by Joan Rankin
A MAGICAL JOURNEY THAT CELEBRATES THE AFRICAN SOUNDS OF NATURE
“In the beginning, when all things began,
these were the sounds which were music to man.
‘Cicadas, crickets, beetles and frogs
S...
$17.95
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 Eeny, Meeny, Miney Mole
Jane Yolen; illustrations by Kathryn Brown
CURIOUS EENY MOLE EMERGES FROM HER DARK HOLE HOME TO DISCOVER THE WORLD UP ABOVE Eeny, Meeny, and Miney Mole live at the bottom of a deep, dark hole. In that hole, dark is light, day is night, and summer and winter seem the same. Meeny and Mi...
$17.95
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 Invincible Kingdom, The
(Part III of the Invisible Kingdom Trilogy)
Rob Ryan
THE THIRD TITLE IN THE STUNNINGLY ILLUSTRATED FAIRYTALE TRILOGY FOR ALL AGES FROM INTERNATIONALLY-ACCLAIMED PAPERCUT ARTIST ROB RYAN
Born into the royal family, John has always known he doesn't want to be King. To escape his destin...
$19.95
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 Invisible Kingdom, The
(Part I of the Invisible Kingdom Trilogy)
Rob Ryan
GORGEOUS WORDS AND STUNNING ILLUSTRATIONS COMBINE IN A BOOK FOR ANYONE AGED 8-80, BY INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED PAPER-CUT ARTIST ROB RYANThis is a story about a prince. He lived in a palace that seemed to have been specially designed to make someone...
$19.95
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 Kingdom Revealed, The
(Part II of the Invisible Kingdom Trilogy)
Rob Ryan
A STUNNINGLY ILLUSTRATED FAIRYTALE FOR ALL AGES FROM INTERNATIONALLY-ACCLAIMED PAPERCUT ARTIST ROB RYAN-THE FOLLOW-UP TO THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM
This is a story about a young boy who doesn't want to be King. What he wants, more th...
$19.95
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 Spy Dad
Jukka Laajarinne; illustrations by Timo Mänttäri
Olivia is Fed up! Having a dad who’s a secret agent is hard: spies work long hours and travel a lot. Olivia wants more family time, so what’s to be done? In this fast-paced story, Dad makes a decision that takes them on an adventure....
$17.95
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 This is the Chick
Wendy Hartmann; illustrated by Joan Rankin
A HUMOROUS PICTURE BOOK THAT TEACHES CHILDREN ABOUT AFRICAN ANIMALS A tiny guinea fowl chick hatches early one morning and lets out a “cheep.” Find out what happens in the bush when the “cheep” is heard by all the...
$17.95
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