Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia, Hardcover - Zainab h

With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. Return to Ruin tells the human s...

The first three novels set in Ursula K. Le Guin's famed Hainish universe, together in one volume.

Best known for his 1979 film David, Peter Lilienthal was an unusual figure within postwar filmmaking circles. A child refugee from Nazi Germany who...

Using Vladimir Nabokov and Salman Rushdie's work, this study argues that transnational fiction refuses the simple oppositions of postcolonial theor...

A powerfully moving family memoir of loss, exile and self-concealment in Nazi Germany.Illustrations: 16pp b/w plates

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From a powerful new diverse voice in commercial fiction comes a poignant romance about a young Ghanaian woman learning to fall in love in one of th...

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Next Year in Jerusalem recognizes that Jews have often experienced or imaged periods of exile and return in their long tradition. The fourteen pape...

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Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Gregory Lee CuellarNumber of pages: 174Collection: American University StudiesPublication date: 2008...

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If your grown-ups bring home a small monster, er, baby, don't panic. Just send it back! In this hilarious and heartfelt book about sibling relation...

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Offers more than 100 recipes for meals that babies eating for the first time will love. They use baby-friendly herbs and spices as safe, healthy an...

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When Football Was Football is a fully illustrated book that takes us through a Century of English football from the photographic and written archiv...

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The epic Godslayer Cycle begins with a thief with an imagination beyond his situation witnessing a prince performing a dark ritual, soon after take...

In this brilliant sequel to The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.--an enthralling, history-bending adventure traversing time and space, fact and fiction, m...

This book presents a new account of the significance and the human costs of work. A collaboration between experts in philosophy, social theory, and...

The first in a gripping fantasy duology inspired by West African folklore in which a grieving crown princess and a desperate refugee find themselve...

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Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): William L. (Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow, Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow, Harvard University's...

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How and why breastfeeding can trigger negative emotions & intrusive thoughts, and what to do about it.

A mother's anguish is laid bare as she faces her last chance to recover her abducted son.

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