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“hassan daoud”

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  • No Road to Paradise

    A Novel

    by Hassan Daoud ...
    Translated by Marilyn Booth ...
    Series series
    In a small Lebanese village a disillusioned imam, diagnosed with terminal cancer, must face his demons. Having consented to an arranged marriage, he has found himself in a loveless union and lusts after another. To please his family, he took up the robe and turban of his forefathers but the expected path to fulfillment did not unfold before him. Meticulous, sparse prose quietly evokes the essence ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Penguin's Song

    by Hassan Daoud ...
    Translated by Marilyn Booth ...
    "I loved this book when I read it in Arabic. The Penguin's Song is a classic novel of the Lebanese civil war."--Rabih Alameddine, author of An Unnecessary Woman"Sixteen years after appearing in Daoud's native Lebanon, this elegiac novel has finally arrived in English . . . Daoud's novel seems to have inherted its sensibilities--its recursive and dense sentences, its damaged narrator, its poignant ... Read more

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  • The Cairo Trilogy

    Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street; Introduction by Sabry Hafez

    by Naguib Mahfouz ...
    Translated by William Maynard Hutchins, Olive E. Kenny, Lorne M. Kenny, Angele Botros Semaan ...
    Series series Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
    Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt—Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street—together in one volume.The masterwork of the Nobel Prize-winning author, the three novels of The Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life ... Read more

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  • Secrets of the Oasis

    by Abby Green ...
    Shocking secrets of the sands!When she gave herself to Sheikh Salman in Paris five years ago, Jamilah Moreau fantasized about wedding dresses and happy endings. But Salman was driven by desire, not diamond solitaires.…Now, sheikh of a desert kingdom, Salman can have anything he wants-and, as Jamilah discovers when he spirits her off to a desert oasis, it's still her! However, time has wrought ... Read more

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  • Palace Walk

    The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 1

    by Naguib Mahfouz ...
    Series Book 1 - The Cairo Trilogy
    Volume I of the masterful Cairo Trilogy. A national best-seller in both hardcover and paperback, it introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900s. ... Read more

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  • The Aristocrat And The Desert Prince (Yaoi Novel)

    by Haruhi Tono, Ai Hasukawa ...
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  • To Touch a Sheikh

    by Olivia Gates ...
    Series series Pride of Zohayd
    The Sheikh's SurrenderNo one gets past Prince Amjad Aal Shalaan's defenses. No one. But when Princess Maram shows up at Amjad's gala in her father's place, destroying Amjad's plans to reclaim what was stolen from his family, Amjad sees red…and uses a freak sandstorm to make her his prisoner of passion.Swept to safety by the man she's always loved from afar, Maram knows she has one chance to make ... Read more

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  • To Tame a Sheikh

    by Olivia Gates ...
    Series series Pride of Zohayd
    He'd noticed her across a crowded room, and in that instant Sheikh Shaheen Aal Shalaan wanted her. With just a few words, Shaheen had his mystery woman in his bed, where she awakened passions he'd long denied.Then the sheikh discovered his lover's true identity. She was Johara, his childhood friend, now fully blossomed into a vision he could not do without. But his lineage demanded he take a wife ... Read more

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    by Roya Hakakian ...
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  • Celestial Bodies

    by Jokha Alharthi ...
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  • Love in a Torn Land

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    In this incredible true love story, bestselling author Jean Sasson shares Joanna al-Askari's personal journey of fear and fortitude through a Baghdad childhood and life as a Kurdish freedom fighter during the Iran-Iraq War. Inspiring and unforgettable, Love in a Torn Land shares Joanna's passionate and unflagging determination to survive and fight—for love, life, and the freedom of her beloved ... Read more

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