East, West: Stories, Paperback

Reducere. From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Satanic Verses comes nine stories that reveal the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies betwe...

This dazzling collection of short stories explores the allure and confusion of what happens when East meets West. With one foot in the East and one...

Reducere. "Penkov's teeming stories accomplish in phrases what lesser writers take chapters to convey. . . . A collection of triumphs." --Susan Salter Reynol...

This anthology of 20 stories are from all over Africa, grouped geographically into four different sections - West, East, North and Southern Africa.

Reducere. 'East of the Sun and West of the Moon' is a collection of Nordic and Norwegian folklore, edited and collated by Peter Christen Asbj rnsen and J rge...

The Oxford Reading Tree Traditional Tales series is a collection of some of the best known stories from around the world carefully adapted for chil...

Reducere. Essential writings provide a penetrating introduction to the Indian Jesuit who bridged East and West with his stories and parables.

The debut of a new international star with an outstanding collection of short stories, spiked with homesickness and fizzing with the absurdPublishe...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nina McConigleySet in Wyoming and India, the stories in Cowboys and East Indians explore the immigrant experience and colli...

Bringing together young musicians from Palestine, Israel and the other countries of the Middle East, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra is both one o...

Reducere. Traveling from East to West over thousands of years, tea has played a variety of roles on the world scene - in medicine, politics, the arts, cultur...

As Europe's borderlands emerged from Soviet rule, the author travelled from the Baltic to the Black Sea, through Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and th...

Reducere. Milton Keynes, as a new town, is just over 50 years old and in that half century, what was a rural landscape between a triangle of small towns, has...

Reducere. Master mythologist Joseph Campbell had a genius for finding the unifying symbols and metaphors in apparently distinct cultures and traditions. In M...

Divided in 1961, reunited in 1989, Berlin has morphed over the last twenty-five years into Europe's most vibrant melting-pot of artists, immigrants...

Reducere. Kay Nielsen, one of the most famous children's book illustrators of all time, will delight children and adults, with this his masterpiece. The stor...

Reducere. This is a collection of stories provided from personal experiences of Stan Stoops. The stories take place on the east and west coasts of the United...

"Lina's style engaged not only my thoughts and feelings but also my fi ve senses.Each story left me with powerful emotions, an influential refl ect...

Over the decades, countless thousands have traveled to India's Maharashtra State to honor or worship Avatar Meher Baba at His Samadhi in upper Mehe...

Reducere. In American pop art, gangster rap, punk rock, and gay filmmaking, there is a Continental Divide between East Coast and West Coast culture typified ...

Reducere. Central Texas is an area as diverse culturally as it is geographically. Bordered by Hill Country in the west, green farmland in the east and Waco a...

Reducere. Fiction. Short Stories. Fleeing communist Budapest by air balloon; a wrestler tries to reinvent himself in Canada. On a formal invitation from the ...

Reducere. Until the end of World War II, East Prussia was the German empire's farthest eastern redoubt, a thriving and beautiful land on the southeastern coa...

Reducere. For years, Christians have fled from the horrific conflict in the Middle East. Today, in the land where the church began, less than two percent of ...

DescriptionSub-Saharan Africa is a land of colourful contrasts and diverse cultures. Despite the destructive influences of colonialism and the slav...

Reducere. The internet has long been a hotbed of the creepy and unknown. In the West we have stories like Jeff the Killer or Slender Man that have enthralled...

Why would anyone travel across the American continent on foot? The answer can be found in each of the 27 adventures in this compilation. This book ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe 287-mile stretch of highway that runs east to west across Nevada's desert is billed as the "Loneliest Road in America." But those wh...

Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2020 What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespe...

Reducere. These 57 short stories are an entertaining introduction to the history of Cleveland, Ohio, for natives and newcomers alike. They hit the highlights...

Reducere. A sometimes hilarious, occasionally heartbreaking, and always entertaining joint memoir by Joseph Fink, cocreator of Welcome to Night Vale, and his...

Reducere. The bonds of family are stronger than the Berlin Wall...Berlin, 1961. Sabine can't imagine a life separated from her beloved brother. So when the ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alfian Sa'atForeword by: Isrizal Mohamed Isa--SELECTED BY ELECTRIC LITERATURE AS 1 OF 7 SHORT-STORY COLLECTIONS TO READ THI...

Reducere. What is it like to be a young person in the Arab world today? This lively collection of eight short stories about Arab teenagers living in Iraq, Tu...

Reducere. The Protevangelium of James tells stories about the life of the Virgin Mary that are absent from the New Testament Gospels: her miraculous birth to...

How 12 Tibetan Buddhist Teachers Succeed in Merging East and West - including Pema Ch dr n, Joan Halifax, and Thubten Chodron, among others Persona...

Reducere. In this personal, multifaceted memoir, Hala Buck, a professional artist and integrative therapist, reflects on her mixed Muslim and Christian famil...

Reducere. In this beautifully written memoir (Publishers Weekly), Jean Said Makdisi illuminates a century of Arab life and history through the stories of her...

DescriptionGet to know your own mind, stop judging, and be attentive--a Buddhist guide to happiness that's relevant to everyone. Now available in p...

Reducere. In this updated edition of Backroads & Byways of Pennsylvania, David Langlieb takes readers down country roads, through lush farmland vistas, and i...

Reducere. A good story is a good story wherever it comes from, and this place is full of them." - from "Charlie's Point of View" Playboy Magazine once called...

DescriptionA city of stories--short, fragmented, amorphous, and at times contradictory--Tehran is an impossible tale to tell. For the capital city ...

Reducere. DescriptionDaisy Kwok's life spanned old Shanghai and modern Shanghai, old China and "New" China, in a way that no other did. This book presents st...

Reducere. How does an English, Christian girl grow up to be an acclaimed Tibetan Buddhist Lama? It was a search for Truth and a deep wish to understand the m...

A teacher asked me a question, and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, knowing with perfect certainty that nothing would...

For the first time, poetry, short stories, critical and creative essays, chants, and excerpts of plays by Indigenous Micronesian authors have been ...

You're twelve years old. A month has passed since your Korean Air flight landed at lovely Newark Airport. Your fifteen-year-old sister is miserable...

Reducere. Duluth, the beautiful city at the head of the world's largest freshwater lake, has gone from boom to bust to boom and back again. In this richly te...

On the shrouded corpse hung a tablet of green topaz with the inscription: 'I am Shaddad the Great. I conquered a thousand cities; a thousand white ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mecca Jamilah SullivanBlue Talk and Love's "voice, despite material that seems frankly contemporary, is paradoxically lyric...

DescriptionIn the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval ...

Along with Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac, Kay (pronounced "kigh") Nielsen was one of a triumvirate of great artists from the golden age of illust...

In this extraordinary book, the controversial and profoundly influential Hans K ng chronicles the Roman Catholic Church's role as a world power thr...

Reducere. 16 LOVECRAFTIAN TALES FROM AN UNFORGETTABLE JOURNEY Trains embody the promise and peril of technological advance. They unlock opportunities for wea...

Discover the maritime and human history of Florida's 30 awe-inspiring lighthouses along the East Coast, through the Keys, and up the west coast to ...

Reducere. The thirteen stories of Dialogues in Paradise are eloquent in a way the West associates with both the modern and the ancient: the dark oracles of A...

Reducere. The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, ...

Reducere. The African continent, where life began, has gifted us with amazing legends who have stood up against injustice and inspired us to be brave. They a...

Reducere. A young woman forms her own idea of feminine sexuality while skinny-dipping with her best friend's mother during a thunderstorm. A naive bride retu...

Reducere. DescriptionImagine being left by the person you love and bouncing back stronger than ever.Written by best-selling authors, Dr. Elaine and Joe Foste...

Reducere. Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city...

Reducere. DescriptionMany children of World War II have stories to tell. Memoirs of a Girl from Berlin is the compelling story of one young girls strength, c...

In Cairo in the 1940s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a generation of women who never dressed in the veils and headscarves their mothers and grandmother...

Reducere. Asian steampunk at its finest with three new tales of adventure from bestselling author Jeannie Lin East meets West in a clash of gunpowder technol...

Reducere. Become an active participant in three mythological stories, restored for today's reader from a rare 16th-century Druid text. A grimoire follows eac...

"They're mostly Muslims--they'll hate you " was the dire warning given to the author before she embarked upon the adventure that would change her l...

Reducere. One flew east, one flew west, one stayed thirty years in the cuckoo's nest. This is his story.Kevin O'Hara worked for three decades as a psychiatri...

Reducere. I'm pleased to introduce my novel" I have invested last 10 years of my life researching. writing and rewriting this book. More than 500 books I hav...

Reducere. What if young teens could read an exciting novel describing the places they live and the problems they face? What if they learned history through t...

Reducere. It's the last days of Prohibition and the first days of the Depression and East Coast crime bosses are vying for control of Los Angeles. Caught in ...