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  • The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit

    My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

    "Poignant . . . deeply personal . . . an indelible history of the largely forgotten Jews of Egypt . . . "—Miami HeraldIn vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years before Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power. With Nasser's nationalization of Egyptian industry, her father, Leon, a boulevardier who conducted business in his white ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Arrogant Years

    One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn

    “[Lagnado writes] in crystalline yet melodious prose.”—New York TimesLucette Lagnado’s acclaimed, award-winning The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit (“[a] crushing, brilliant book” —New York Times Book Review) told the powerfully moving story of her Jewish family’s exile from Egypt. In her extraordinary follow-up memoir, The Arrogant Years, Lagnado revisits her first years in America, and describes ... Read more

    $13.49 USD

  • Between Memory and History

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Historiography
    The recent wave of interest in oral history and return to the active subject as a topic in historical practice raises a number of questions about the status and function of scholarly history in our societies. This articles in this volume, originally pubished in 1990, and which originally appeared in History and Anthropology, Volume 2, Part 2, discuss what contributions, meanings and consequences ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Widow's Captive

    An Historical Christmas Romance

    by Lucette Nell ...
    Series series Christmas Holiday Extravaganza
    On the run with two small children and a third due within weeks, Adeline Spencer fears the approaching blizzard will seal their fate. An abandoned cabin is an answer to her prayers. She hopes it will shield them from both the storm and the enraged brother-in-law hot on her tail. But when a stranger knocks at the door, she is convinced they have been found by one of Ward's lackeys. Blamed for the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Match of Sorts

    An Historical Christmas Romance

    by Lucette Nell ...
    Series series Christmas Holiday Extravaganza
    As Christmas approaches, widowed Reverend Caleb Brennan needs a wife, or his vengeful father-in-law will take his young daughters. When his mail-order bride jilts him, Caleb grows desperate. During a storm, he finds an unconscious boy outside his home with signs of foul play. Despite his previous misfortune, obligation compels Caleb to lug the stranger inside. But as he provides first aid, he ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dominican Way

    Edited by Lucette Verboven ...
    The Dominicans are to be found in every part of the world and engaged in every sort of activity, from fighting for justice and peace to painting and poetry. They live on many frontiers, of the Church and of the World, of the rich and of the poor, of the West and East, and these are places of growth and discovery. This book will communicate some of the inspiration and excitement to be found there ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • Neurocognitive Complications of HIV-Infection

    Neuropathogenesis to Implications for Clinical Practice

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This volume aims at presenting the latest international research and discoveries in the neurocognitive aspects and complications in HIV/AIDS, and how this understanding can shape and inform how we think about clinical practice and patient care in HIV/AIDS as well as lead to a better understanding of the underlying neuropathogenesis.The chapter, "Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiovascular Disease ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • World Without End

    Thomas Keating, author of Open Mind, Open Heart and father of the centering prayer movement, reflects on his life and Christian practice.In these conversations with film maker and writer Lucette Verboven, Thomas Keating OCSO – bestselling author, Trappist monk and founder of the Centering Prayer movement – looks back on his long life and spiritual development.Following on from his previous books ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

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    The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit

    My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

    Narrated by Joyce Bean ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 21 min

    “Poignant . . . deeply personal . . . an indelible history of the largely forgotten Jews of Egypt . . . ”—Miami HeraldIn vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years before Gamal Abdel Nasser’s rise to power. With Nasser’s nationalization of Egyptian industry, her father, Leon, a boulevardier who conducted business in his white ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Christopher Junior (Unabridged)

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    Unabridged

    3 hours 2 min

    Having accidentally placed himself in a compromising situation, Christopher Jedbury, Jr. is forced to marry a woman without ever seeing her. When his father finds out about the marriage he turns Christopher out and sends him to India to work as a lowly clerk in his trading company offices there. The matter of Christopher’s wife becomes complicated when he meets the lovely Dora and asks his lawyer ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Mice and Men (Unabridged)

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    Unabridged

    2 hours 56 min

    No, not the famous “Of Mice and Men” you’re thinking of. Instead, we have a sweet romantic comedy that tells the story of a bachelor, Mr. Embury, who decides to conduct an experiment to see if he can create the perfect wife for himself. To do so, he chooses an orphaned girl named Peggy to become his ward and ultimately his wife. Peggy, however, thinks that Mr. Embury has plans for her to become ... Read more

    $4.99 USD