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The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts
By: Karen Armstrong

Today the Quran is used by some to justify war and acts of terrorism, the Torah to deny Palestinians the right to live in the Land of Israel, and the Bible to condemn homosexuality and contraception. The significance of...

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Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War
By: Robin Yassin Kassab

In 2011, many Syrians took to the streets of Damascus to demand the overthrow of the government of Bashar al-Assad. Seven years later, Syria is a warzone, and there seems to be no end in sight.  Burning Country&n...

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Consuming the Muse - erotic tales
By: Sylvia Petter

Writing as AstridL, Sylvia Petter´s Consuming the Muse is a collection of erotic tales. The book is interspersed wit drawings by Sharon Ratheiser, Vienna....

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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...

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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:...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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