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  • Audiobook

    Of Loss and Lavender

    A Novel

    by Sinan Antoon ...
    Narrated by Fajer Al-Kaisi ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 58 min

    In this achingly beautiful novel of trauma, memory, and identity, two Iraqi men struggle to start a new life in the United States after the Gulf War.Sami, a retired doctor, lives with his son and grandchildren in Brooklyn. As he tries to navigate this new city, it becomes increasingly clear he is losing his memory due to dementia. Every day he sinks deeper into old memories of a life in Iraq ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Repealing National Prohibition

    Second Edition

    In this new edition of the most comprehensive study of the political reaction against the Eighteenth Amendment, a response that led to its reversal fourteen years later by the Twenty-first Amendment, David E. Kyvig examines the operation of the national liquor ban, discusses central issues of U.S. constitutional development, and illuminates continuing public policy issues of alcohol and drug ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Quiet Unfolding

    I am mine to reassemble,to complete as a whole.I am no one's project but my own.A Quiet Unfolding is a collection written by eight Filipino poets discussing the theme of healing. It is the maiden collection birthed from a call for submissions to discover emerging poets from the Philippines, spearheaded by Filipina poet Dawn Lanuza's community called a soft landing. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Corpse Washer

    by Sinan Antoon ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    Young Jawad, born to a traditional Shi'ite family of corpse washers and shrouders in Baghdad, decides to abandon the family tradition, choosing instead to become a sculptor, to celebrate life rather than tend to death. He enters Baghdad’s Academy of Fine Arts in the late 1980s, in defiance of his father’s wishes and determined to forge his own path. But the circumstances of history dictate ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The Sleep Thief

    by Ibtisam Azem ...
    Translated by Sinan Antoon ...
    The experimental first novel from International Booker-Prize longlisted Palestinian author Ibtisam Azem, rails against the commodification of suffering, and dreams of a Palestinian identity that will transcend sorrow. ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

  • Of Loss and Lavender

    A Novel

    by Sinan Antoon ...
    **A Best Book of the Year So Far by The New YorkerIn this achingly beautiful novel of trauma, memory, and identity, two Iraqi men struggle to start a new life in the United States after the Gulf War.**Sami, a retired doctor, lives with his son and grandchildren in Brooklyn. As he tries to navigate this new city, it becomes increasingly clear he is losing his memory due to dementia. Every day he ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Book of Disappearance

    A Novel

    Translated by Sinan Antoon ...
    by Ibtisam Azem ...
    Series series Middle East Literature In Translation
    What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would happen next? How would Israelis react? These unsettling questions are posed in Azem’s powerfully imaginative novel. Set in contemporary Tel Aviv forty eight hours after Israelis discover all their Palestinian neighbors have vanished, the story unfolds through alternating narrators, Alaa, a young Palestinian man who ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Baghdad Eucharist

    A Novel

    by Sinan Antoon ...
    Translated by Maia Tabet ...
    Series series
    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTIONAn intimate and remarkably human novel of modern Iraq**Displaced by the sectarian violence in the city, Maha and her husband are taken in by a distant cousin, Youssef. As the growing turmoil around them seeps into their household, a rare argument breaks out between the elderly Youssef and his young guest. Born into sanctions and war, Maha ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Collateral Damage

    by Sinan Antoon ...
    Translated by Jonathan Wright ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memoryWidely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon’s fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his doctorate at Harvard, who is hired by filmmakers to help document the devastation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During the excursion, Nameer ventures to al-Mutanabbi street in ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Justice, Luck & Responsibility in Health Care

    Philosophical Background and Ethical Implications for End-of-Life Care

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    In this book, an international group of philosophers, economists and theologians focus on the relationship between justice, luck and responsibility in health care. Together, they offer a thorough reflection on questions such as: How should we understand justice in health care? Why are health care interests so important that they deserve special protection? How should we value health? What are its ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Neurovascular Anatomy in Interventional Neuroradiology

    A Case-Based Approach

    A highly practical, case-based approach to neurovascular anatomy in interventional neuroradiologyThis case-based book presents detailed information on neurovascular anatomy in concise, easily digestible chapters that focus on the importance of understanding anatomy when performing neurointerventional procedures. The case discussions include modern examples of invasive and non-invasive angiographic ... Read more

    $103.49 USD

  • Baghdad Noir

    Series series Akashic Noir
    This unique anthology of Iraqi noir fiction collects fourteen original stories of crime, conspiracy, regret, and revenge in the capital of Iraq.The centuries-old city of Baghdad has known many rulers, many troubles, and many crimes. But while most Iraqis would agree that their life has always been noir, there has not been a literary tradition to capture this aspect of the culture. By commissioning ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus