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Mother of Strangers
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Set in Jaffa in between 1947 and 1951, this "fable-like historical novel of young love ... darkly humorous and touching" (Oprah Daily) is based on ...
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Freedom Hospital: A Syrian Story
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /JOE SACCO MEETS PERSEPOLIS IN THIS GRAPHIC NOVEL FROM A NEW INTERNATIONAL TALENT, HAMID SULAIMAN--WINNER ENGLISH PEN AWARD---It is spring 2012 and ...
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The Treason of Isengard: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Two (History of Middle-earth #7)
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The second part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many add...
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The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two (History of Middle-earth #2)
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /“Tolkien devotees will no doubt rejoice. . . . Christopher Tolkien shows himself to be his father’s son, delving into the question of Elvish gene...
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The Book of Lost Tales, Part One (History of Middle-earth #1)
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /The extraordinary history of Middle-earth, edited by Christopher TolkienThe Book of Lost Tales stands at the beginning of the entire conception o...
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A Nearby Country Called Love
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A sweeping, propulsive novel about the families we are born into and the families we make for ourselves, in which two brothers struggle to find the...
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The House of the Coptic Woman
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /Tightly plotted and taboo-breaking, this explosive story takes readers to the roots of religious strife where the smallest of sparks can start a bo...
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The House of the Coptic Woman
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Tightly plotted and taboo-breaking, this explosive story takes readers to the roots of religious strife where the smallest of sparks can start a bo...
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Where the Wind Calls Home
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Ali, a nineteen-year-old soldier in the Syrian army, lies on the ground beneath a tree. He sees a body being lowered into a hole--is this his funer...
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Sour Grapes
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Set in the Syrian neighborhood of al-Qaweyq, Sour Grapes is a collection of fifty-nine wry, satirical short stories loosely connected by a cast of ...
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Mister N
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Shortlisted for the 2023 EBRD Literature PrizeModern-day Beirut is seen through the eyes of a failed writer, the eponymous Mister N. He has left hi...
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Where I Am
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"Serves up heaping portions of yearning, passion, alienation, and regret, and establishes Dana Shem-Ur as one of the rising stars of the new Israel...
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Allah's Spacious Earth
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Allah's Spacious Earth is a stunningly fresh and timely political dystopia that depicts the tragic yet very real consequences of tensions between m...
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Hope You Are Satisfied
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The Sheik is pissed. Along with his wives and children, the Sheik got put on the wrong plane, and ended up waiting hours in the desert on a hot tar...
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Professor Schiff's Guilt
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"A writer contends with slavery's legacy, and his own link to it . . . Daring in both scope and imagination."--The New York TimesA stellar novel re...
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Un Soplo En El Río / A Murmur Over the River
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /«Un soplo en el r√≠o es una narraci√≥n acerca de unas personas gobernadas, destruidas, de diferentes maneras por ideales inalcanzables. --Hugo Hir...
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Joyas de la Familia / Family Jewels
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /«Mi cerebro no guarda secretos, ni recuerdos ya. Es una c√°rcel con techo de paja en la que los recuerdos reposan la parranda y despu√©s se van. ...
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Poison in the Air
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The final novel from one of Lebanon's greatest writers and narrator of Lebanese life. Poison in the Air, Jabbour Douaihy's final novel, chronicles ...
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The Last Pomegranate Tree
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /An extraordinary chronicle of war and an occult story of love between a father and his son from one of Iraq's most celebrated contemporary writers ...
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The Bird Tattoo: A Novel
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A powerful and sweeping novel set over two tumultuous decades in Iraq from the National Book Award-nominated author of The Beekeeper. Shortliste...
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The Return of the Shadow: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part One (History of Middle-earth #6)
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The first part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, The Return Of The Shadow is J.R.R. Tolkien's enthralling account of the writing of the Bo...
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Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Assia Djebar, one of the most distinguished woman writers to emerge from the Arab world, wrote Children of the New World following her own involv...
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Fragments of Memory: A Story of a Syrian Family
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /An autobiographical novel, set in the early 20th century, about the life of a boy born to a poor family in northern Syria.Fragments of Memory off...
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Little Mountain
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Written in the opening phases of the Lebanese Civil War (1975—1990), Little Mountain is told from the perspectives of three characters: a Joint F...
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