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2006., Random House Call No: Fic Sht Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryConnect to Contributor biographical information Connect to Publisher description
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2012., Emblem Call No: Fic Wil Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Alif (that's his handle) is a brilliant young superhacker working out of his mother's small apartment, and his computer has just been breached. While Alif scrambles to protect his clients -- dissidents and outlaws alike, whoever needs to hide their digital traces, he and his friends realize that they've been found by 'the Hand' -- maybe a person, maybe a program, but definitely able to find anyone, and that could lead to prison, or worse. Alif, with the help of his childhood friend Dina, an ancient book sent to him in secret by his lost love (who may be frighteningly connected to the Hand) and a terrifying protector who almost looks human, must go underground -- or rather, find a way into the hidden world of the djinn. They wrote the mysterious book centuries ago, and have knowledge that might just allow Alif to infiltrate the most sophisticated information technology the world has ever seen, and perhaps save himself, his loved ones, and freedom itself. With shades of Neil Gaiman, Philip Pullman, William Gibson, and the timeless Thousand and One Nights, Alif the Unseen is a tour-de-force debut with major potential -- a masterful, addictive blend of the ancient and the more-than-modern, smuggled inside an irresistible page-turner.
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[2015]., Doubleday Call No: Fic Ste Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From a real-life ambassador's wife comes a harrowing novel about the kidnapping of an American woman in the Middle East and the heartbreaking choices she and her husband each must make in the hope of being reunited.
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-- House for Mister Biswas1995., Knopf : Distributed by Random House Call No: Fic Nai Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Everyman's library Volume: 213
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By Barnes, Kimc2012., General, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Bar Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Gin Mitchell knows a better life awaits her when she marries hometown hero Mason McPhee. Raised in a two-room shack by her Oklahoma grandfather, a strict Methodist minister, Gin never believed that someone like Mason, a handsome college boy, the pride of Shawnee, would look her way. And nothing can prepare her for the world she and Mason step into when he takes a job with the Arabian American Oil company in Saudi Arabia. In the gated compound of Abqaiq, Gin and Mason are given a home with marble floors, a houseboy to cook their meals, and a gardener to tend the sandy patch out back. Even among the veiled women and strict laws of shariah, Ginœs life has become the stuff of fairy tales. She buys her first swimsuit, she pierces her ears, and Mason gives her a glittering diamond ring. But when a young Bedouin woman is found dead, washed up on the shores of the Persian Gulf, Ginœs world closes in around her, and the one person she trusts is nowhere to be found. Set against the gorgeously etched landscape of a country on the cusp of enormous change, In the Kingdom of Men abounds with sandstorms and locust swarms, shrimp peddlers, pearl divers, and Bedouin caravansa luminous portrait of life in the desert. Award-winning author Kim Barnes weaves a mesmerizing, richly imagined tale of Americans out of their depth in Saudi Arabia, a marriage in peril, and one womanœs quest for the truth, no matter what it might cost her.
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2011,p2010., Adult, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Incendies Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: After the death of their mother, a set of twins make a life-altering discovery. The pair travels to the Middle East on a mission to uncover the truth about the father they thought was dead who is still very much alive, and the brother they never knew existed. Along the way they will piece together the story of the woman who brought them into the world, discovering a tragic fate as well as the courage of an exceptional woman.
![Incendies [DVD] (2010) Directed by Denis Villeneuve](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Incendies [DVD] (2010) Directed by Denis Villeneuve")
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c2014., Large Print Treasury Call No: LP Fic Twa Edition: Large print ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2009., Nan A. Talese Call No: Fic Uns Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In this thriller set in the Middle East of 1914, Somerville, a British archaeologist, and his team are excavating a long-buried Assyrian palace when an American geologist from an oil company posing as an archaeologist arrives one day and insinuates himself into Somerville's group. But he's not the only one working undercover to stake a claim on Iraq's rich oil fields.
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2015., Pushkin Press Call No: Fic Gun Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Captain Corelliœs Mandolin meets The Marrying of Chani Kaufman in this cinematic novel about the birth of Israel and the true story of the marriages of convenience that were arranged to smuggle Jewish women out of Nazi-occupied Europe.On the eve of World War II, a ship bearing twenty young men sets sail from the Palestine Territory toward Europe. Eagerly awaiting them on the other side are twenty young women, whom the men have never met. They have been set up in arranged marriages to enable Jewish women to escape Nazi Germany and enter Palestine without being turned back by the British.But when Yaacov Markovitch, a thoroughly unremarkable man, finds himself married to Bella Zeigerman, the most beautiful woman he has ever set eyes upon, things start to get complicated. Yaacovœs fake marriage is the beginning of a lifelong obsession, as he vows to make his beautiful bride, Bella, love him, despite her determination to break free. Their changing fortunes take them through war, upheaval, terrible secrets, tragedy, joy, and loss.Vital, funny, and tender, One Night, Markovitch brilliantly fuses personal lives and epic history in an unforgettable story of endless, hopeless longing and the desperate search for love.
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2019., Miroland (Guernica) Call No: Fic Sha Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: MiroLand imprint Volume: 21.Summary Note: "French journalist Marc Taragon is at the apex of his career in 2007. A tenacious idealist, Taragon has spent the last thirty years attempting to bring to readers the truths about the wars and political intrigues of the region. He is unsparing in his criticism of extremists and has earned many enemies. He agrees to be interviewed in Cyprus, by a young Canadian journalist, Marie Boivin, not knowing that Marie has a hidden agenda: to discover through Taragon the truth about her childhood. Before Marie finds the answers she seeks, she is enmeshed in Taragon's plan to broker peace negotiations between a left-wing Israeli politician and a dissident Palestinian leader. Taragon succeeds in persuading the two adversaries to agree to an ambitious peace plan. The action then moves quickly through Europe and the Middle East as Taragon and his associates try to stay one step ahead of deadly opponents of their initiative. Blended into the 2007 story are a series of flashbacks to Taragon's early years as a journalist covering the Lebanese civil war. In them, the readers discover the origin of Taragon's bonds to his partners in the peace initiative and the tragedy surrounding Marie's childhood."--
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2000., Knopf : Distributed by Random House Call No: Fic Beg Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2012., Adult, Doubleday Call No: Fic Chi Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Professor Jeremy Logan is brought onto famed explorer Porter Stone's archaeological team to investigate a series of harrowing and inexplicable occurrences that are causing people on the expedition to fear a centuries-old curse behind Pharoah Narmer's elusive "double" crown of the two Egypts.
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-- War, Incorporated.2008, p2007., Adult, Videoville Showtime Call No: DVD Fic War Inc Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Recreating his role as a hitman, John Cusack gives a hilarious performance in War Inc., a politically charged action satire set in Turaqistan, a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former US Vice President (Dan Aykroyd). In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires Hauser (Cusack) to kill a Middle Eastern oil minister. Now struggling with his own growing demons the assassin must pose as the corporation's Trade Show Producer in order to pull off this latest hit while maintaining his cover by organizing the high-profile wedding of Yonica Babyyeah (Hilary Duff), an outrageous Central Asian pop star, and keeping a sexy left-wing reporter (Marisa Tomei) in check.
