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Product Description: On one side, there is Grace: prize-winning author Diana Abu-Jaber s tough, independent sugar-fiend of a German grandmother, wielding a suitcase full of holiday cookies. On the other, Bud: a flamboyant, spice-obsessed Arab father, full of passionate argument...read more
Hardcover:
9781410489326 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 4, 2016), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: On one side, there is Grace: prize-winning author Diana Abu-Jaber s tough, independent sugar-fiend of a German grandmother, wielding a suitcase full of holiday cookies.
Hardcover:
9780393249095 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 18, 2016, cover price $26.95
Product Description: Numerous people fumble while on public speaking. Some of us even become panicky while speaking even to a few of people. There are some people who stammers and becomes cold and sweat while talking to a person unknown even one is to one basis...read more
Paperback:
9781505448740 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 25, 2014, cover price $6.75 | About this edition: Numerous people fumble while on public speaking.
In the tropical paradise that is Miami, Avis and Brian Muir are still haunted by the loss of their daughter, Felice, who ran away at thirteen. After five years of modeling tattoos, skateboarding, clubbing, and sleeping rough, Felice is turning eighteen. Her parents and her brother Stanley will each be forced to confront their anguish, and sense of betrayal, while Felice must reckon with the guilty secret that drove her away from them.
Hardcover:
9781410445070 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, February 1, 2012), cover price $31.99 | About this edition: In the tropical paradise that is Miami, Avis and Brian Muir are still haunted by the loss of their daughter, Felice, who ran away at thirteen.
Paperback:
9780393342598 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 7, 2012), cover price $15.95
CD/Spoken Word:
9781611745771 | Highbridge Co, September 6, 2011, cover price $36.95
Product Description: A multilayered, beautifully textured novel about family and self, self-indulgence and generosity, against the vivid backdrop of contemporary Miami. In the tropical paradise that is Miami, Avis and Brian Muir are still haunted by the disappearance of their ineffably beautiful daughter, Felice, who ran away when she was thirteen...read more
Hardcover:
9780393064612 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 6, 2011), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A multilayered, beautifully textured novel about family and self, self-indulgence and generosity, against the vivid backdrop of contemporary Miami.
Product Description: Diana Abu-Jaberâs vibrant, humorous memoir weaves together stories of being raised by a food-obsessed Jordanian father with tales of Lake Ontario shish kabob cookouts and goat stew feasts under Bedouin tents in the desert. These sensuously evoked repasts, complete with recipes, in turn illuminate the two cultures of Diana's childhoodâAmerican and Jordanianâwhile helping to paint a loving and complex portrait of her impractical, displaced immigrant father who, like many an immigrant before him, cooked to remember the place he came from and to pass that connection on to his children...read more
Paperback:
9781400077762 | Anchor Books, March 14, 2006, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In a memoir about the joys and difficulties of straddling two cultures, the author describes her life with an extended Arab and American family, exploring the role of food, cooking, and eating in shaping her life.
Prebinding:
9781435294578 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Diana Abu-Jaberâs vibrant, humorous memoir weaves together stories of being raised by a food-obsessed Jordanian father with tales of Lake Ontario shish kabob cookouts and goat stew feasts under Bedouin tents in the desert.
Paperback:
9780393331554 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 2008), cover price $13.95
New York-based fingerprint expert Lena investigates a series of crib deaths that may actually be the work of a serial killer, a case that reminds Lena of the mystery surrounding her own childhood, marked by her orphaned status and her intuitive talents.
Hardcover:
9780393064551 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: New York-based fingerprint expert Lena investigates a series of crib deaths that may actually be the work of a serial killer, a case that reminds Lena of the mystery surrounding her own childhood, marked by her orphaned status and her intuitive talents.
In a memoir about the joys and difficulties of straddling two cultures, the author of Arabian Jazz describes her life in upstate New York with an extended Arab and American family, her family's move 'home' to Jordan, and her return to the United States, exploring the role of food, cooking, and eating in shaping her life. 20,000 first printing.
Hardcover:
9780375423048 | Pantheon Books, March 15, 2005, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: In a memoir about the joys and difficulties of straddling two cultures, the author describes her life with an extended Arab and American family, exploring the role of food, cooking, and eating in shaping her life.
Product Description: An Arab-American Chocolatâa sensual blend of food, love and longing.Half-Iraqi, half-American Sirine is a cook at Nadia's Cafe, which draws the neighborhood's Arab students, expatriates, and exiles. All are hungry for "real true Arab food" and connection to their homes...read more
Hardcover:
9781574905571 | Large print edition (Thomas t Beeler, August 30, 2004), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: An Arab-American Chocolatâa sensual blend of food, love and longing.
9780393057478 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Never married, living with an Iraqi-immigrant uncle and devoted dog, and working as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, thirty-nine-year-old Sirine finds her life turned upside down by a handsome Arabic literature professor.
Paperback:
9780330413275 | New edition (Pan Macmillan, May 7, 2004), cover price $13.50 | About this edition: This is a tale of food, love and geography.
9780393325546 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 2004), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Never married, living with an Iraqi-immigrant uncle and devoted dog, and working as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, thirty-nine-year-old Sirine finds her life turned upside down by a handsome Arabic literature professor who not only awakens unexpected feelings but also stirs up memories of her parents and questions about her Arab-American identity.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781565117747 | Abridged edition (Highbridge Co, April 14, 2003), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Never married, living with an Iraqi immigrant uncle, and working as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, thirty-nine-year-old Sirine finds her life turned upside down by a handsome Arabic literature professor who not only awakens unexpected feelings but alsostirs up memories of her parents and questions about her Arab American identity.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781565117730 | Abridged edition (Highbridge Co, May 1, 2003), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Never married, living with an Iraqi immigrant uncle, and working as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, thirty-nine-year-old Sirine finds her life turned upside down by a handsome Arabic literature professor who not only awakens unexpected feelings but alsostirs up memories of her parents and questions about her Arab American identity.
Hardcover:
9780151078622 | Harcourt, June 1, 1993, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Matussem and his two daughters live in a poor, mostly white town in upstate New York, where 'ethnics' are few and far between, in this story about the individual search for self and for home
9789990110104 | Harcourt, June 1, 1993, cover price $0.02
Paperback:
9780393324228 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 2003), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Jordanian immigrant Matussem Ramoud and his two daughters live in a poor, mostly white town in upstate New York, where 'ethnics' are few and far between, in this story about the individual search for self and for home.
9780156000482 | Reprint edition (Harvest Books, June 1, 1994), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Matussem and his two daughters live in a poor, mostly white town in upstate New York, where 'ethnics' are few and far between, in this story about the individual search for self and for home
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