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c2004., DC Books Call No: QWF Fic Nas c.2 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: New writers series
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2018., Adult, Esplanade Books Call No: QWF Fic Nas Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "An election sets the stage for Oedipal rivalry and civil revolt. An intimate novel about the levers of power and privilege that shape the lives of the people most affected by war and insurrection."--From publisher.
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2022., Adult, Esplanade Books, the fiction imprint at Véhicule Press Call No: QWF Fic Nas Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: It's 1986, and after four months of unemployment Muna Heddad is in a bind. She and her son have moved to Montreal from Beirut to escape a never-ending civil war. She had plans to find work as a French teacher, but no one in Quebec has confidence in a new arrival like her to teach the language. She needs to start making money, and fast. The only work Muna can find is at a weight-loss center where she gets a job as a hotline operator. All day, she takes calls from people responding to ads seen in magazines or on TV. On the phone, she's Mona, and she's quite good at listening. These strangers all have so much to say once someone shows interest in their lives -- marriages gone bad, parents dying, isolation, personal inadequacies. Even as her daily life in Canada is filled with invisible barriers at every turn, at the office Muna is privy to her clients' deepest secrets. Much to her surprise, Muna finds that she is actually becoming successful at selling diet plans. Even though she's pretending to be someone else, her natural empathy can't help but shine when listening to the confidential tribulations of people who, elsewhere in life, wouldn't sit with her for lunch or offer her a job.
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2011., Esplanade Books Call No: QWF Fic Nas Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Six-year-old Niko Karaam has never known a life outside civil war. He rarely leaves his parents§ small apartment, and from its small balcony he listens to the world outside tumble down one building at a time. But after a car bomb kills his pregnant mother, Niko is thrust into a much wider and confusing world without apartments or balconies, as he and his father Antoine embark upon the open seas on an impossible international adventure in search of a new place to call home. Throughout a twelve-year odyssey that leads them across seven countries, young Niko will have to choose between his swollen faith in an increasingly God-like and unreliable Antoine, and the pragmatic, hard-nosed alternatives that will ultimately lead to a better future.Swiftly paced, poignantly moving, and beautifully imagined, Niko is the powerful epic story of what it takes to survive after war,of what to hold dear and what to leave behind in a world that won§t let you have it all.
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2024., Adult, Esplanade Books Call No: BLK Fic Nda Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The paths of a Canadian documentary filmmaker and two former rebel soldiers from the Congo collide in this searing revenge tale about those who profit from the misery of others.
