Abu-Jaber, Diana

Desperate to help her ailing grandmother, Sami consults Sitti's spell book and falls into the magical Silverworld, where she must try to save the enchanted city and, perhaps, Sitti, too.

Sitti, Sami s Lebanese grandmother, has been ill for a while, slipping from reality and speaking in a language only Sami can understand. Desperate to help, Sami casts a spell from her grandmother s mysertious charm book and falls through an ancient mirror into Silverworld. In Silverworld, light and dark creatures called Flickers and Shadows strive to live in harmony. Lately Flickers have started going missing, and powerful Shadow soldiers are taking over the land. Everyone suspects that Shadow Queen Nixie is responsible for the chaos and could be holding Sami s grandmother in her grasp too?.

A young Arabic woman living with her uncle in Los Angeles falls in love with a man who appreciates her Middle Eastern cuisine.

Falling in love conjures up old memories and reflections on ethnic identity for a thirty-nine-year-old Arab-American woman in Los Angeles whose only passion heretofore has been the culinary arts.

Mentally fragile Lena Dawson, a fingerprint expert at a Syracuse crime lab, is forced to face the truth about her own past when she begins investigating a rash of crib deaths in the community.

Diana Abu-Jaber was raised by a food-obsessed Jordanian father who lived in America. He would tell stories of feasts under Bedouin tents in the desert and great meals in America. He cooked food from two cultures to remember the place he came from and the place he now called home. As a result, Diana learned about her heritage by sharing unforgettable meals with her family.

Diana Abu-Jaber chronicles her life in upstate New York and in Jordan, using the dishes her Jordanian father cooked to weave together her most memorable moments and the defining events in her life.