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An Omar Yussef Mystery
by Matt Beynon Rees
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by Moriel Rothman-Zecher
Published Feb 2019
Read ReviewsIn this lyrical and searing debut novel written by a rising literary star and MacDowell Fellow, a young man is preparing to serve in the Israeli army while also trying to reconcile his close relationship to two Palestinian siblings with his deeply ingrained loyalties to family and country.
by Izzeldin Abuelaish
Published Jan 2012
Read ReviewsThe extraordinary, riveting story of a Palestinian doctor who, rather than seek revenge after witnessing his three daughters' deaths by Israeli tank shells, continues his humanitarian call for the people of the region to come together in understanding, respect, and peace.
by Avner Mandelman
Published Jul 2010
Read ReviewsDisguised as a breathtaking thriller, Avner Mandelmans novel reveals Israels double soul, its inherent paradoxes, and its taste for both art and violence. (Paperback Original)
It's Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street
by Emma Williams
Published Dec 2009
Read ReviewsA deeply affecting memoir and a unique contribution to our understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
by Zoë Ferraris
Published May 2009
Read ReviewsA novel of taut psychological suspense, offering an unprecedented window into Saudi Arabia and the lives of the men and women who live there.
by Steven Galloway
Published Apr 2009
Read ReviewsThis brilliant novel with universal resonance, set during the 1990s Siege of Sarajevo, tells the story of three people trying to survive in a city rife with the extreme fear of desperate times, and of the sorrowing cellist who plays undaunted in their midst.
by Jacqueline Winspear
Published Nov 2008
Read ReviewsIn her fifth outing, Maisie Dobbs, the extraordinary Psychologist and Investigator, delves into a strange series of crimes in a small rural community.
by Rawi Hage
Published Aug 2008
Read ReviewsTwo young friends caught in Lebanons civil war must choose their futures: To stay in the city and consolidate power through crime, or to go into exile abroad, alienated from the only existence they have known.
by Jimmy Carter
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsFollowing his #1 New York Times bestseller, Our Endangered Values, the former president, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers an assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice to Palestine.
by A B. Yehoshua
Published Aug 2007
Read ReviewsA tale about a beautiful woman - an anonymous victim of a suicide bombing in Jerusalem - whose luminous smile, graceful neck and bright eyes are so beguiling that even in death she can lead a man to fall in love with her.
by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
Published Jan 2006
Read ReviewsA ruthless group of corrupt cops is playing a lethal game of cat and mouse in the latest installment in Garcia-Roza's Brazilian crime series.
by Masha Hamilton
Published Oct 2005
Read ReviewsA straight-ahead story of human passiondesire, conviction, and the guilt of a survivorstruggling for order within the frayed justice of the Middle East conflict.
by Leora Skolkin-Smith
Published Sep 2005
Read ReviewsSet in 1960s Israel, this is a hypnotic meditation on the ever-changing boundaries of love and need etched in a wartime Mideast as shifting and dangerous and mysterious as the Israeli desert.
by Simone Zelitch
Published Dec 2001
Read ReviewsThe year is 1949 and Nora, a prickly, strong-willed survivor of the Holocaust, has just walked off the boat in Israel with her German daughter-in-law, Louisa. Superb...a seamless interweaving of observation, memory, and imagination...A mature and absorbing story...
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