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Author
Series
Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
3) Salt houses
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home ... On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is up rooted...
Author
Series
Love from (Ali) volume 1
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Muslims Adam and Zayneb meet in Doha, Qatar, during spring break and fall in love as both struggle to find a way to live their own truths.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2006].
Language
English
Description
The lives of the inhabitants of an apartment building in downtown Cairo intertwine as the destinies of a fading aristocrat, voluptuous siren, devout doorman, secretly-gay editor, roof-squatting tailor, and corrupt politician come together.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to drive on, to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend, to the checkpoints, both physical and emotional, that they must negotiate. Their worlds shift irreparably after ten-year-old old Abir is killed by a rubber bullet, and thirteen-year-old Smadar becomes the victim...
8) The tunnel
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed Israeli author, a suspenseful and poignant story of a family coping with the sudden mental decline of their beloved husband and father-an engineer who they discover is involved in an ominous secret military project"--
Author
Series
Harlequin presents volume 3922
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The family she never thought she'd have, with the desert king she should never have met! Jackie Ashenden brings us a royal romance brimming with drama and desire." --
Children? Not for illegitimate Sheikh Nazir Al Rasul, whose desert fortress is less intimidating than his barricaded heart. Until Ivy Dean appears on his doorstep and he finds out that, through IVF, she's bearing his heir! Surrogate Ivy agreed to carry her best friend's baby. Then...
10) Arabesques
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1986 Israeli writers and readers alike were startled by the appearance of a novel about an Arab village in the Galilee and the protean identity of its narrator. That this first novel was written in resourceful and often eloquent Hebrew and in a highly sophisticated narrative mode was remarkable enough. But even more provocative and significant was the identity of the author. For Anton Shammas was not another aspiring Jewish author haunted by the...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Hamid, a college student, has entered Israeli territory illegally for work. Rushing past soldiers, he bumps into Vera, a German journalist headed to Jerusalem to cover the story of Salem, a Palestinian boy beaten into a coma by a group of revenge-seeking Israeli teenagers. On her way to the hospital, Vera runs in front of a car that barely avoids hitting her. The driver is Ido, a new father traveling with his American wife and their baby. Ido is...
13) Tunnels
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"When a great antiquities collector is forced to donate his entire collection to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Nili Broshi sees her last chance to finish an archeological expedition begun decades earlier--a dig that could possibly yield the most important religious artifact in the Middle East. Motivated by the desire to reinstate her father's legacy as a great archeologist after he was marginalized by his rival, Nili enlists a ragtag crew--a...
14) The haj
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
The Middle East is the setting for this sweeping tale of a land where revenge is sacred and hatred noble. Where an Arab ruler tries to save his people from destruction but cannot save them from themselves.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home ... On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is up rooted...
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