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by David Bezmozgis
Published Jun 2015
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by Rabih Alameddine
Published Nov 2014
Read ReviewsFrom the author of the international bestseller The Hakawati comes an enchanting story of a book-loving, obsessive, seventy-two-year-old "unnecessary" woman with a past shaped by the Lebanese Civil War
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 Ron Leshem
Published Feb 2009
Read ReviewsA searing coming-of-age story and a novel for our timesone of the most powerful, visceral portraits of the horror, camaraderie, and absurdity of war in modern fiction.
by Ishmael Beah
Published Aug 2008
Read ReviewsThe devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier. Beah tells how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, hed been picked up by the government army, and became a soldier.
by Matt Beynon Rees
Published Jan 2008
Read ReviewsFor decades, Omar Yussef has been a teacher of history to the children of Bethlehem. When a favorite former pupil is arrested for collaborating with the Israelis, Omar is sure he has been framed. Then the wife of the dead man, also one of Omar Yussefs former pupils, is murdered, possibly raped. And, as no one else will, it is up to him to ...
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 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 Yasmina Khadra
Published Apr 2005
Read ReviewsThis dazzling novel by one of Algeria's top writers is set in the hot, dusty streets of Kabul under Taliban rule and offers a compassionate insight into a society brought to the edge of despair by hypocrisy and violence.
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