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  • Best of Enemies: A History of US and Middle East Relations, Part One: 1783-1953

    • ASIN: 1906838453
    • ISBN: 1906838453
    • Brand: Self Made Hero
    • Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams

    “Best of Enemies is surely destined to stand alongside Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis as a graphic history of the Middle East. A must read for anyone interested in learning, or teaching, about the region.”—Mark Levine, professor of history at UC-Irvine and author of Heavy Metal Islam   In the third volume of their graphic history of US and M... [Read More]

  • Culture and Conflict in the Middle East

    • ASIN: 1591025877
    • ISBN: 1591025877
    • Brand: Brand: Humanity Books
    • Manufacturer: Humanity Books

    In an era of increasing interaction between the United States and the countries of the Middle East, it has become ever more important for Americans to understand the social forces that shape Middle Eastern cultures. Based on years of his own field research and the ethnographic reports of other scholars, anthropologist Philip Carl Salzman presents a... [Read More]

  • When You Reach Me (Yearling Newbery)

    • ASIN: 0375850864
    • ISBN: 1921656069
    • Brand: Random House
    • Manufacturer: Yearling

    "Like A Wrinkle in Time (Miranda's favorite book), When You Reach Me far surpasses the usual whodunit or sci-fi adventure to become an incandescent exploration of 'life, death, and the beauty of it all.'" —The Washington Post This Newbery Medal winner that has been called "smart and mesmerizing," (The New York Times) and "superb" (The Wall Stre... [Read More]

  • Jerusalem: A Cookbook

    • UPC: 001607743949
    • ASIN: 1607743949
    • ISBN: 1607743949
    • Brand: Random House
    • Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press

  • Orphan Train

    • ASIN: 0061950726
    • ISBN: 0061950726
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

    The #1 New York Times BestsellerNow featuring a sneak peek at Christina's forthcoming novel A Piece of the World, coming February 2017.Christina Baker Kline’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel—the captivating story of a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her ... [Read More]

  • The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World (P.S.)

    • ASIN: B000SCHBR0
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books

  • The Boy Who Saved Baseball

    • ASIN: 0142402869
    • ISBN: 0142402869
    • Brand: Ritter, John H.
    • Manufacturer: Puffin Books

    Tom Gallagher is in a tight spot. The fate of the Dillontown team rests on the outcome of one baseball game, winner take all. If Tom's team loses, they lose their field too. But how can they possibly win? Just when everything seems hopeless, a mysterious boy named Cruz de la Cruz rides into town and claims to know the secret of hitting. Not to ment... [Read More]

  • War in the Middle East: A Reporter's Story: Black September and the Yom Kippur War

    • ASIN: 0763624934
    • ISBN: 0763624934
    • Brand: Brand: Candlewick
    • Manufacturer: Candlewick

    An award-winning journalist offers a reporter’s-eye view of the Middle East conflict, from Black September to the Yom Kippur War to events of the present day.In 1970, when the Jordanian civil war known as Black September began, U.P.I. correspondent Wilborn Hampton was sent to report on unfolding events. Holed up in the InterContinental Hotel and ... [Read More]

  • Cooking in Iran: Regional Recipes and Kitchen Secrets

    • ASIN: 193382395X
    • ISBN: 193382395X
    • Manufacturer: Mage Publishers

    After five years of overcoming obstacles, meticulous planning, and ten thousand miles of traveling the length and breadth of Iran cooking with local cooks, visiting workshops, and developing recipes Najmieh's dream has been realized with the creation of Cooking in Iran: Regional Recipes and Kitchen Secrets. This book is a distillation of those past... [Read More]

  • The Bronze Bow

    • UPC: 046442137195
    • ASIN: 0395137195
    • ISBN: 0395137195
    • Brand: HMH Books for Young Readers
    • Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

    He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. –from the Song of David (2 Samuel 22:35)The Bronze Bow, written by Elizabeth George Speare (author of The Witch of Blackbird Pond) won the Newbery Medal in 1962. This gripping, action-packed novel tells the story of eighteen-year-old Daniel bar Jamin—a fierce, hotheaded young... [Read More]

  • Home of the Brave

    • ASIN: 0312535635
    • ISBN: 9780312535636
    • Brand: Square Fish
    • Manufacturer: Square Fish

    A man I helped to settle heretaught me a saying from Africa.I'll bet you would like it:A cow is God with a wet nose.Kek comes from Africa where he lived with his mother, father, and brother. But only he and his mother have survived. Now she's missing, and Kek has been sent to a new home. In America, he sees snow for the first time, and feels its st... [Read More]

  • Practice Makes Perfect Basic Spanish, Second Edition: (Beginner) 325 Exercises + Online Flashcard App + 75-minutes of Streaming Audio (Practice Makes Perfect Series)

    • ASIN: 0071849211
    • ISBN: 9780071849210
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Education

    Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Bite-size lessons. Big-time learning, now with digital supportPractice Makes Perfect Basic Spanish is a trusted and proven companion for your Spanish-learning exp... [Read More]

  • Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)

    • ASIN: 0312427735
    • ISBN: 0312427735
    • Brand: Picador USA
    • Manufacturer: Picador

  • The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America

    • UPC: 884752196866
    • ASIN: 1400078679
    • ISBN: 1400078679
    • Brand: Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    In a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that shaped American history. "Astonishing . . . A book that will permanently alter the way we regard our collective past." --The New York Times When the ... [Read More]

  • Hybrid Sovereignty in the Arab Middle East: The Cases of Kuwait, Jordan, and Iraq (Middle East in Focus)

    • ASIN: 0230600409
    • ISBN: 0230600409
    • Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan

    This book provides readers with a fresh analysis of the Arab state by using a new theoretical framework: hybrid sovereignty. The author examines various areas to make his argument: citizenship, the issue of minorities, electoral engineering, the failure of central rule, tribalism, and the lack of impersonal bureaucratic mechanism.

  • Roller Girl

    • ASIN: 0803740166
    • ISBN: 9780803740167
    • Brand: Dial Books
    • Manufacturer: Dial Books

    The Newbery Honor Award Winner and New York Times bestseller Roller Girl is a heartwarming graphic novel about friendship and surviving junior high through the power of roller derby—perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier's Smile!  For most of her twelve years, Astrid has done everything with her best friend Nicole. But after Astrid falls in love ... [Read More]

  • War and Peace in the Middle East: A Concise History, Revised and Updated

    • ASIN: 0140245642
    • ISBN: 9780140245646
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    "Remarkable...breathtaking in its scope and historical precision, this is highly recommended volume for both publivc and academic libraries.—Library Journal.

  • Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry

    • ASIN: 0195062833
    • ISBN: 0195062833
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    From before the days of Moses up through the 1960s, slavery was a fact of life in the Middle East. Pagans, Jews, Christians, and Muslims bought and sold at the slave markets for millennia, trading the human plunder of wars and slave raids that reached from the Russian steppes to the African jungles. But if the Middle East was one of the last region... [Read More]

  • Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)

    • ASIN: 0199537828
    • ISBN: 0199537828
    • Brand: Saint Augustine
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is one of the great works of Western literature. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine relates his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors o... [Read More]

  • The Source: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0375760385
    • ISBN: 0375760385
    • Brand: Dial Press
    • Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

    In his signature style of grand storytelling, James A. Michener transports us back thousands of years to the Holy Land. Through the discoveries of modern archaeologists excavating the site of Tell Makor, Michener vividly re-creates life in an ancient city and traces the profound history of the Jewish people—from the persecution of the early Hebre... [Read More]

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