East, West: Stories

Reducere. An illuminating celebration of more than 80 of the world's most important thinkers, this book explores the fascinating stories of their lives, thei...

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

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...

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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...

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. 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 ...

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. Even before he was shot and killed in 1881, Billy the Kid's charisma and murderous career were generating stories that belied his brief life--and t...

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...

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...

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...

A sweeping and lively history of one of the most dramatic stories never told--of the greatest railroad war of all time, fought by the daring leader...

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

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

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

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...

"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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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. 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 ...

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

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...

"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. A riveting history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman Empire At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded ...

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

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

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. DescriptionAs the U.S. Latino population grows rapidly, and as the LGBTQ Latino community becomes more visible and a more crucial part of our liter...

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...

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

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

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. 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. 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. 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 ...

Reducere. If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of the Byzantine Empire then keep reading...The Byzantine Empire was founded durin...

DescriptionAs British and American forces closed in from the west, the Russians pushed in hard from the east, and the RAF and USAAF bombed Germany ...

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

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

Reducere. Delray Beach lies on Florida's Atlantic coast, nestled between a sea grape-filled beach to the east and rich farmland to the west. Throughout its p...

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...

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. Settlers in the frontier West were often easy prey for criminals. Policing efforts were scattered at best and often amounted to vigilante retaliati...

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. 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...

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. 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...

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

East meets West in this fresh, modern take on a timeless challenge: how to find contentment and meaning in life.In Radically Happy, a meditating Si...

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

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...

Her best book yet, a dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and the present with a chorus of voices' Observer'A story of our times... Savour it, b...

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...

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...

DescriptionA captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world's most enduring ideas were put into words In th...

DescriptionAn elegantly packaged new edition of a classic Chinese folk tale collection that responds to the contemporary fascination with the ancie...

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

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...