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Geflimmer der Vergangenheit
By: Sylvia Petter
German translation of stories appearing in The Past Present and Back Burning as well as some others. Translation by Eberhard Hain, Chemnitz, Germany, my first and dear colleague at the 1973 Geneva Conference on...
The Past Present
By: Sylvia Petter
THE PAST PRESENT is an eclectic mix of 21 stories with just some of the premises—Al Gore is Spartacus?—octogenarian love—leprechauns—the fate of a Haider fan …. What they said:...
Mercury Blobs
By: Sylvia Petter
A collection of flash fiction which will challenge and delight readers. All over the place in the space of a mind. Short and shorter stories that "are sometimes very funny and sometimes very moving, and often they a...
Back Burning
By: Sylvia Petter
Winner, IP Picks 2007, Best Fiction Sylvia Petter s collection flings the reader across the globe in its bold exploration of love, death, passion, relationship, and family. Echoing her own life experience, Sylvia Petter...
Cairo: Memoir of a City Transformed
By: Ahdaf Soueif
From the best-selling author of The Map of Love, here is a bracing firsthand account of the Egyptian revolution—told with the narrative instincts of a novelist, the gritty insights of an activist, and the long pers...
The Map of Love
By: Ahdaf Soueif
Booker Prize Finalist Here is an extraordinary cross-cultural love story that unfurls across Egypt, England, and the United States over the course of a century. Isabel Parkman, a divorced American journalist, has fall...
The Great American Family: A Story of Political Disenchantment
By: Weam Namou
Winner of Eric Hoffer Book Award “We came here for America’s freedoms,” Weam Namou writes. “As an immigrant, I saw through the Dawn Hanna case how we are losing the very things we came here for...
A Muslim on the Bridge: On Being an Iraqi-Arab Muslim in the Twenty-First Century
By: Ali Shakir
A memoir and meditation on faith, A Muslim on the Bridge: On Being an Iraqi-Arab Muslim in the Twenty-first Century tells a story of transformation and reflection as the author thoughtfully but pointedly deconstructs the...
Kisses from a Distance
By: Raff Ellis
Kisses is an award winning literary memoir that follows the turn of the 20th Century American immigration experience to of two destitute Lebanese families. The tale begins in 1885 with the abduction of the author's g...
Esperanza
By: Karim Fadali
Passion, a dead-end marriage, a guilty mother, a lost son, a haunting dream, a strange mural, an isolated village, two broken hearts, an old man traveling with the wind, and a great deal of magic are some of the colorful...
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