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Out West: Travels Through the American West—Past and Present
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British writer and filmmaker Tim Slessor created documentaries featuring the American West for the BBC for over 40 years. He became so intrigued by ...Read Review
Scottish Highlands: A Cultural History
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The Scottish Highlands loom large in public imagination, a popular destination for travel and a familiar setting for fiction and film. Andrew Beattie’...Read Review
America and WWI: A Traveler’s Guide
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The 2014 centennial of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and the beginning of World War I has been marked by ceremony ...Read Review
Gertrude
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Hassan Najmi, a renowned Moroccan author and poet, presents in Gertrude an unusual novel about the famous American Gertrude Stein. Najmi’s narrator ...Read Review
Ben Barka Lane
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In 1964, al-Sharqi, an Iraqi political refugee, arrives in Mohammadiya, a town on the Moroccan Mediterranean coast. Finding a high-school teaching position and an ...Read Review
The Young Man in the Gray Suit
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Repercussions to the Armenian genocide of nearly a century ago follow characters, Armenian and Turkish, to Istanbul and New York in this sequel ...Read Review
The House of Jasmine
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This book is set in Alexandria, Egypt, during the Sadat era and is essentially a snapshot of Egyptian life and attitudes in that ...Read Review
The Calligrapher’s Secret
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Noura is a woman who is educated by her scholarly father in mid-20th century Damascus, Syria. However, that spirit of curiosity and ...Read Review
A Summer Without Dawn
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This is the compelling story of a family caught up in the deportation and extermination of Armenians during the Great War. In the ...Read Review
Sabriya: Damascus Bitter Sweet (Emerging voices – new International fiction)
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Middle-aged Sabriya hangs herself in her family’s Damascus garden, leaving behind a book of memoirs for her young niece. This story-within-a-story takes ...Read Review
