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  • Wonder and Shame

    by Gregory Orfalea ...
    Could you throw yourself away? Frank Matter asks himself this question as he boards a one-way flight to Syria. He might as well ask: Can you find your life by losing it?In spring 2016, after a run of personal sorrows, Frank, a lapsed Catholic clinging to one last scrap of faith, undertakes a dangerous journey to his family’s village of origin outside Damascus on a two-pronged rescue mission. He ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Messengers of the Lost Battalion

    The Heroic 551st and the Turning of the Tide at th

    by Gregory Orfalea ...
    The author of Before the Flames and the son of a member of the ill-fated infantry battalion discusses America's 551st Battalion and their heroic, little-known role during World War II's Battle of the Bulge. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Journey to the Sun

    Junipero Serra's Dream and the Founding of California

    by Gregory Orfalea ...
    The fascinating narrative of the remarkable life of Junípero Serra, the intrepid priest who led Spain and the Catholic Church into California in the 1700s and became a key figure in the making of the American West.The fascinating narrative of the remarkable life of Junípero Serra, the intrepid priest who led Spain and the Catholic Church into California in the 1700s and became a key figure in the ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Man Who Guarded the Bomb

    Stories

    by Gregory Orfalea ...
    Series series Arab American Writing
    A boy finds himself alone with his first love in a toboggan stalled atop the Matterhorn at Disneyland. A woman, bitter about her marriage to a man turned blind, must decide if he lives or dies. A man haunted by his role in creating the H-bomb suddenly disappears in old age, only to turn up at Alamagordo, seeking an Indian and redemption. Such characters, at the crossroads of emotion and ethics, ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Arab American Women

    Representation and Refusal

    by Jess Bier, Amy Rowe, Gregory Orfalea, Charlotte Karem Albrecht, Sarah M. A. Gualtieri, Lisa Suhair Majaj, Mejduline Shomali, Carol Haddad, Bridget Blomfield, Nadine Naber, Umayyah Cable, Evelyn Asultany, Amira Jarmakani, Rita Stephan, Therese Saliba ...
    Series series Critical Arab American Studies
    Arab American women have played an essential role in shaping their homes, their communities, and their country for centuries. Their contributions, often marginalized academically and culturally, are receiving long- overdue attention with the emerging interdisciplinary field of Arab American women’s studies. The collected essays in this volume capture the history and significance of Arab American ... Read more

    $62.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Laila Lalami ...
    In this literary novel, four Moroccans escape their circumstances to seek a new beginning for themselves—and places they can home—in Spain."A dream of a debut, by turns troubling and glorious, angry and wise." —Junot DiazHope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, the debut of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Laila Lalami, evokes the grit and enduring grace that is modern Morocco. The book ... Read more

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  • Band of brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

    by Stephen E. Ambrose ...
    Band of Brothers tells the extraordinary true story of Easy Company, a unit of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army, who fought their way across Europe in World War II. From their grueling training in Georgia in 1942 to the final victory at Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest in 1945, these men—ordinary citizens transformed into elite paratroopers—faced some of the war’s ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD

  • Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

    by Lila Abu-Lughod ...
    Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam. It offers a detailed, moving portrait of the actual experiences of ordinary Muslim women, and of the contingencies with which they live. ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Secret Son

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    by Laila Lalami ...
    A literary novel about a young man fighting for his future in poverty-stricken Morocco.Raised by his mother in a one-room house in the slums of Casablanca, Youssef El Mekki has always had big dreams of living another life in another world. Suddenly his dreams are within reach when he discovers that his father—whom he'd been led to believe was dead—is very much alive. A wealthy businessman, he ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Liberator

    One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau

    by Alex Kershaw ...
    The untold story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War—now a Netflix original series starring Jose Miguel Vasquez, Bryan Hibbard, and Bradley James“Exceptional . . . worthy addition to vibrant classics of small-unit history like Stephen Ambrose’s Band of Brothers.”—Wall Street JournalWritten with Alex Kershaw's trademark narrative drive and vivid immediacy, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Pleasures of the Damned

    Poems, 1951-1993

    by Charles Bukowski ...
    “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriterThe Pleasures of the Damned features selected later poetry of Charles Bukowski, America’s most influential and imitated American poet.To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was—and remains—a counterculture icon. A hard-drinking wild man of ... Read more

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  • Feminism in Islam

    Secular and Religious Convergences

    by Margot Badran ...
    While many in the West regard feminism and Islam as a contradiction in terms, many Muslims in the East have perceived Western feminist forces in their midst as an assault upon their culture. In this career-spanning collection of influential essays, Margot Badran presents the feminisms that Muslim women have created, and examines Islamic and secular feminist ideologies side by side. Borne out of ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD