Helen Plum Library

"This book is not about weight loss, but it will help you lose weight if you want to do this. It is not a diet book, but it will take your hands and tell you the philosophy and idea of the diet and how it works so that you can deal with your body. This book is not about healthy eating, but about a healthy, healthy and beautiful life. You will not find advice in it, but after you read it, you will find yourself alone knowing how to calculate and understand...

"From a "brilliant, absolutely essential voice" whose "poems feel like whole worlds" (Naomi Shihab Nye), a poetry collection considering the body physical, the body politic, and the body sacred. Zeina Hashem Beck writes at the intersection of the divine and the profane, where she crafts elegant, candid poems that simultaneously exude a boundless curiosity and a deep knowingness. Formally electrifying-from lyrics and triptychs to ghazals and Zeina's...

Beloved Sesame Street characters show readers basic words and phrases in Arabic so they can connect with new friends who speak the language

"The Commandments follows the Dar Selim family in Upper Egypt through several generations, beginning in 1920s Egypt, from the time of the monarchy, the 1952 July revolution and Abdel Nasser, through to Sadat, the Naksa and the 1973 October War. The grandfather Abdel Rahman gives his grandson 10 commandments to help him endure life, enjoy its pleasures and stay away from temptations. Although he may not keep them, these commandments remain an important...