A coming-of-age tale, family saga, and nostalgic view of the fifties and sixties, Noha Shaath Ismail's memoirs describe her formative years in Alexandria, Egypt, and the personal journey that lead her to the United States in 1970. International in scope, universal in outlook,her story is set against the backdrop of political and social upheaval. She writes about the loss of her homeland, Nasser's Egypt, and the tumultuous 1960s in Philadelphia with lots of insightful reminiscences about her family and her rapidly changing world. Read about Ismail's Palestinian father, Lebanese mother, Egyptian husband, and American sons, and be touched by a complex multitude of emotions - tenderness, pride, love, sadness and yearning. Here is an immigrant's tale with stories about Muslim traditions, courting habits, and a way of life that has since disappeared. Here are also the recollections of a world traveler spurred by View-Master images her father shared with her after overseas trips, who like Sindbad longed for a taste of adventure and the freedom to begin her own journey of discovery. Not least, here is the world view of a strong-minded woman of the world, whose home is Palestine, Egypt, Minnesota, Florida, everywhere, and whose personal story about loss, grace, and memory can inform our own.

East of the Sun and Other Stories is Dean Francis Alfar's love letter to his many interests, whether it's wuxia films, fairy tales, comics, Dungeons & Dragons, and family-most of which are filtered through the lens of speculative fiction. Alfar aims for the heart and personal relationships, reminding readers why short stories can be heart-wrenching.

A girl travels east of the sun and west of the moon to free her beloved prince from a magic spell.

The ninth edition of this successful textbook describes the full range of the astronomical universe and how astronomers think about the cosmos.

A girl travels east of the sun and west of the moon to free her beloved prince from a magic spell.