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  • The Village Indian

    by Abbas Khider ...
    Translated by Donal McLaughlin ...
    Series series The German List
    Part Odyssey of the Persian Gulf and part 1001 Nights in Europe, this debut novel is drawn from the author’s experiences as a political prisoner and years as a refugee. Our hero Rasul Hamid describes the eight different ways that he fled his home in Iraq and the eight different ways he has failed to find himself a new way home.From Iraq via Northern Africa through Europe and back again, Abbas ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • A Slap in the Face

    by Abbas Khider ...
    Translated by Simon Pare ...
    Series series The German List
    Now in paperback, the touching, timely story of an Iraqi refugee in Germany.In our era of mass migration, much of it driven by war and its aftermath, A Slap in the Face could not be more timely. It tells the story of Karim, an Iraqi refugee living in Germany whose right to asylum has been revoked in the wake of Saddam Hussein’s defeat. But Hussein wasn’t the only reason Karim left, and as Abbas ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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    by Deborah Ellis ...
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  • The Last Secret of the Temple

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    An ancient secret threatens to unleash a modern war in this international-bestselling "thriller on par with the best literature out there" (James Rollins).Jerusalem, 70 AD: As the invading Romans destroy the Holy Temple, a young Jewish boy is hidden away—chosen as the guardian of a great secret. And for seventy generations, the secret is kept safe . . .But now, in order to ignite a new conflict ... Read more

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  • The Labyrinth of Osiris

    by Paul Sussman ...
    From the international-bestselling author comes a “taut, entertaining archaeological murder-mystery-meets-spy-thriller” (Kirkus Reviews).When journalist Rivka Kleinberg is brutally murdered in a Jerusalem cathedral, it’s a complicated case for detective Arieh Ben-Roi. Kleinberg had racked up a wide array of enemies exposing corruption in the halls of power—from international corporations and the ... Read more

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  • On the Bone (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 18)

    Inspiration for THE TURKISH DETECTIVE, BBC Two's sensational new crime drama

    by Barbara Nadel ...
    Barbara Nadel's gripping Ikmen mysteries are the inspiration behind The Turkish Detective, BBC Two's sensational eight-part TV crime drama series, out now.In Istanbul - the golden city on the Bosphorus - ancient myths and modern evils are at work...On the Bone is the eighteenth novel in the brilliant Istanbul crime thriller series starring Inspector Cetin Ikmen, 'the Morse of Istanbul' (Daily... ... Read more

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  • My Forbidden Face

    by Latifa ...
    Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She dreamed of one day of becoming a journalist, she was interested in fashion, movies and friends. Her father was in the import/export business and her mother was a doctor.Then in September 1996, Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul. From that moment, Latifa, just 16 years old became a prisoner in her own home. Her ... Read more

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  • Journey from the Land of No

    A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran

    by Roya Hakakian ...
    An emotional, evocative coming-of-age story about one deeply intelligent and perceptive girl’s attempt to find her own voice in prerevolutionary Iran“An immensely moving, extraordinarily eloquent, and passionate memoir.”—Harold BloomRoya Hakakian was twelve years old in 1979 when the revolution swept through Tehran. The daughter of an esteemed poet, she grew up in a household that hummed with ... Read more

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  • My Road from Damascus

    A Memoir

    by Jamal Saeed ...
    Translated by Catherine Cobham ...
    Finalist for the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction“A lyrical, extremely rich narrative of loss, memory, and trauma.” — STARRED review, Kirkus ReviewsAn extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written with “brutal clarity — and yet, there is a poetic quality to the telling.” — Frances Itani, award-winning author of Deafening and ... Read more

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  • Brandenburg Gate

    by Henry Porter ...
    As East Germany collapses, a former Stasi agent is caught in the crossfire of international espionage in this "tour de force on par with John le Carré" ( Library Journal, starred review).Winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger AwardSeptember 1989. In the tense final days before the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany's Communist government is on the brink of collapse. Even the Stasi, once a ... Read more

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  • The Terrorist Factory

    ISIS, the Yazidi Genocide, and Exporting Terror

    **A riveting, behind-the-scenes look of the Yazidi genocide and the terrorist threat it holds for the West, based on the investigation by Father Patrick Desbois, Costel Nastasie, and their team at Yahad–In Unum, as first shown on 60 Minutes.With testimony drawn from more than 200 interviews with Yazidi survivors—girls, women, boys, and men—recorded during 11 investigative trips to refugee camps in ... Read more

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  • Revolutionary Ride

    On the Road to Shiraz, the Heart of Iran

    by Lois Pryce ...
    "A proper travelogue - a joyful, moving and stereotype-busting ride." - National Geographic Traveller, Book of the YearIn 2011, at the height of tension between the British and Iranian governments, travel writer Lois Pryce found a note left on her motorcycle outside the Iranian Embassy in London:... I wish that you will visit Iran so you will see for yourself about my country. WE ARE NOT ... Read more

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