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Mushrooms of Cape Cod and the National Seashore
$29.95 Add to cartAlthough known for its sandy beaches and pounding surf, historic Cape Cod is also home to a unique community of mushrooms that can be found in its heath, pine, and oak barrens and on the borders of it
- Author: Bessette, Arleen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: June 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0815606877
- Language: English
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Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences
$19.95 Add to cartIs insanity a myth? Does it exist merely to keep psychiatrists in business? In Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences, Dr. Szasz challenges the way both science and society define insanity; in the p… [more below]
- Author: Szasz, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0815604602
- Language: English
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Resting Among Us: Authors’ Gravesites in Upstate New York
$32.95 Add to cartToo often, the lives and works of authors who called Upstate New York home are overshadowed by the icons of New York City. Resting among Us uncovers the region’s rich literary heritage through Steven … [more below]
- Series: New York State
- Author: Huff, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0815611609
- Language: English
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The Soul of Central New York: Syracuse Stories
$15.95 Add to cartA group of strangers risk death along the New York State Thruway to save a soldier from a burning truck. The true story, as told by football legend Jim Brown, of how the number 44 rose to prominence a
- Author: Kirst, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0815610831
- Language: English
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Rural Hours
$19.95 Add to cartNature and the mid nineteenth-century American landscape is beautifully revealed in this journal of the seasons. Susan Fennimore Cooper, daughter of the great American novelist, wrote this book in 185
- Series: New York State
- Author: Cooper, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: May 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0815603177
- Language: English
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Of Lodz and Love
$66.58 Add to cartIn Of Lodz and Love, Chava Rosenfarb revisits her themes of the the shtetl and pre-Holocaust Poland, of economic and political oppression, and of the upheavals that would herald a new Jewish national
- Series: Library of Modern Jewish Literature
- Author: Rosenfarb, Chava
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0815605773
- Language: English
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Felâtun Bey and Râkim Efendi: An Ottoman Novel
$14.95 Add to cartAhmet Midhat Efendi’s famous 1875 novel Felâtun Bey and Râkim Efendi takes place in late nineteenth-century Istanbul and follows the lives of two young men who come from radically different backgrou
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Efendi, Ahmet Mithat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: March 14 2016
- ISBN10: 0815610645
- Language: English
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Finders: Justice, Faith, and Identity in Irish Crime Fiction
$29.95 Add to cartSome of the most iconic, hard-boiled Irish detectives in fiction insist that they are not detectives at all. Hailing from a region with a cultural history of mistrust in the criminal justice system, I
- Series: Irish Studies
- Author: Babbar, Anjili
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0815611579
- Language: English
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Bociany
$66.58 Add to cartIn Bociany, Rosenfarb offers completely absorbing portrayals of Jews and Christians from several walks of life in the shtetl. Her primary characters are the scribe’s widow Hindele, her son Yacov, the
- Series: Library of Modern Jewish Literature
- Author: Rosenfarb, Chava
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0815605765
- Language: English
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Jerusalem Stands Alone
$19.95 Add to cartBy turns bleak, nostalgic, and lighthearted, Jerusalem Stands Alone explores the interconnected lives of its mostly Palestinian cast. This series of quick moving vignettes tells the story of occupied … [more below]
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Shukair, Mahmoud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 16 2018
- ISBN10: 081561103X
- Language: English
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Allah’s Spacious Earth
$22.95 Add to cartAllah’s Spacious Earth is a stunningly fresh and timely political dystopia that depicts the tragic yet very real consequences of tensions between majority populations and Muslim minorities in the West
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Sayfo, Omar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0815611552
- Language: English
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Surrender
$18.95 Add to cartIn the tradition of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, Brian O’Hare’s Surrender is a rich collection of coming-of-age stories, a journey into the heart of the American hero myth, from the Friday n
- Series: Veterans Writing Award
- Author: O’Hare, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0815611501
- Language: English
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In Search of Walid Masoud
$26.95 Add to cartWalid Masoud disappears. A Palestinian intellectual, he has been living in Baghdad since the first Israeli War of 1948. As a member of an organization engaged in the armed struggle against Israel, sus
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Jabra, Jabra Ibrahim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: August 01 2000
- ISBN10: 081560646X
- Language: English
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Chronicles of Majnun Layla and Selected Poems
$14.95 Add to cartChronicles of Majnun Layla and Selected Poems brings together in one volume Haddad’s seminal work and a considerable selection of poems from his oeuvre, stretching over forty years. The central poem,
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Haddad, Qassim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 24 2014
- ISBN10: 0815610378
- Language: English
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Return to Dar Al-Basha
$9.95 Add to cartReturn to Dar al-Basha by the contemporary Tunisian author Hassan Nasr depicts the childhood of Murtada al-Shamikh and his return forty years later to his home in the medina or old city of Tunis. Afte
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Nasr, Hassan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0815608780
- Language: English
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Sons of the People: The Mamluk Trilogy
$49.95 Add to cartThis monumental family saga offers a vivid portrait of Egypt’s Mamluk period, one that is at both sweeping in scope and intimate in detail. Set in medieval Cairo, the novel centers on three generation
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Bassiouney, Reem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: June 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0815611412
- Language: English
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Sour Grapes
$17.95 Add to cartSet in the Syrian neighborhood of al-Qaweyq, Sour Grapes is a collection of fifty-nine wry, satirical short stories loosely connected by a cast of rotating characters living at society’s margins. Tame
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Tamer, Zakaria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0815611544
- Language: English
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Tree of Pearls, Queen of Egypt
$19.95 Add to cartShajar al-Durr, known as Tree of Pearls, was one of the most famous Arab queens and the only woman in the medieval Arab world to rule in her own name. Her narrative is one element of a much larger sto
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Zaydan, Jurji
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 04 2012
- ISBN10: 081560999X
- Language: English
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A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories
$26.95 Add to cartWhen the young narrator of Miriam Karpilove’s A Provincial Newspaper leaves New York to work for a new Yiddish newspaper in Massachusetts, she expects to be treated with respect as a professional writ
- Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
- Author: Karpilove, Miriam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0815611587
- Language: English
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A Taste of Upstate New York: The People and the Stories Behind 40 Food Favorites
$29.95 Add to cartUpstate New York is the birthplace of many of America’s favorite foods. The chicken wing was born in a bar in Buffalo, the potato chip originated in the kitchen of a glitzy Saratoga Springs hotel, the
- Series: New York State
- Author: D’Imperio, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0815610491
- Language: English
