Each evening, nestled in Berlin's Treptower Park, the immigrant circus comes to life."A provocative, heartfelt journey from the first page to the striking conclusion." ~ Alyssa Elmore, from Readers' Favorite Book ReviewsWhen Yusuf fled Syria, he lost everything. Now the circus, with its middle-eastern flair, is the only home he knows. When the lights go on, the refugees dazzle their audience, but off-stage tensions flare.

Stephen Nasser somehow dug deep within his soul to survive the brutal and inhumane treatment his captors inflicted on the Jews. He was the only one of his family to survive--but the memory of his brother's dying words compelled him to live. Stephen's account of the Holocaust, told in the refreshingly direct and optimistic language of a young boy, appeals to both younger audiences and his contemporaries. Written in a straightforward, narrative style, Nasser avoids the cloying or maudlin lan...

Popular science readers embrace epics—the sweeping stories that claim to tell the history of all the universe, from the cosmological to the biological to the social. And the appeal is understandable: in writing these works, authors such as E. O. Wilson or Steven Weinberg deliberately seek to move beyond particular disciplines, to create a compelling story weaving together natural historical events, scientific endeavor, human discovery, and contemporary existential concerns.In A

My sister was magic. They killed her. They say we are magic too.Three sisters living together in their forties has its challenges. Life is humming along just fine if you overlook our clashing personalities, codependency issues and romances that fizzle out before they ignite.When our oldest sister’s personality changes overnight, we plan a boozy lunch to chase away the midlife blues. We find her in our kitchen, battling a troop of men dressed like Indian roy...

Sometimes we can't escape the webs we are born into. Sometimes we are the architects of our own fall.WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award - Summer 2018 - Best Women's FictionMidwest Book Reviews says, "Replete with hard lessons, determined dreams, and illusions and realities surrounding love and relationships, All the Tomorrows is a gripping saga set under the sweltering heat of not just India,...

ALL RECIPES NATURALLY GLUTEN FREE'Scrummy recipes from a brilliant new book to improve gut health, boost energy levels and make you feel younger.' THE DAILY MAIL"Your gut will love you for getting this book."Dr Rupy Aujla, The Doctor's Kitchen"An enlightening and practical read that demystifies fibre nutrition with precision and warmth. Packed with smart, science-backed advice you can put into practice immedi...

Shivers of excitement shot up my spine. It was time to draw a line under the past and find a new me.By forty, I thought I’d be living my best life. When my idiot husband gambles away our savings, I divorce him and try not to kick him in the nuts when he fights me for custody of my cat. I throw myself into teaching English and survival skills to anyone unlucky enough to land in my night class in godforsaken London.That is, until my mum dies in a car crash an...

In The Time beneath the Concrete, Nasser Abourahme argues that settler colonialism is always as much an attempt to conquer time as it is to conquer land. Taking as his primary object Palestinian refugee camps, created in the fallout of the eliminatory violence of Israel’s founding, Abourahme shows how these camps become the primary place where settler colonial attempts to dominate space and time encounter Indigenous refusal. Seen from the camps, Israel becomes a settler colonial p...

Missing everything but the point: visual poetry celebrating excitement!The exclamation point is much maligned. It’s bad style. It’s like laughing at your own joke. It screams, it yells, it’s hysterical, it’s maybe even embarrassingly obsequious.Nasser Hussain disagrees! What’s so bad about expressing enthusiasm? What if you really need to scream? The prescriptions of ‘style’ can feel like an artificial limit placed on our language, insist...

What happens when you finally listen, not to the noise of the world, but to the quiet hum beneath it?When life became too loud, Ellen Nasser began to listen. What started as a few stolen minutes each morning turned into a practice of presence—a way of finding meaning in the ordinary and beauty in the ache of becoming.In Interlude, she traces a journey that begins on the Canadian Prairies and moves through the wider landscapes of travel, motherhood,...

The Software Engineering industry often evaluates engineers based on how many lines of code they write, how many years of experience they have, or how many features they ship. But I think a more powerful metric is the number of bugs they encountered, reproduced, traced to their root cause and fixed. Those experiences shape an engineer far more than raw output or time served in my opinion, let me elaborate.Bugs hinder the stability of software, which affects the user experience. You...

"An engaging, humorous read . . . Startlingly honest and well-written, Giant George's story stands apart from the slew of other dog books on the shelves." — Publishers WeeklyWith his big blue eyes and soulful expression, George was the irresistible runt of the litter. But Dave and Christie Nasser's "baby" ended up being almost five feet tall, seven feet long, and 245 pounds. Eager to play, and boisterous to the point of causing chaos, this...