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The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria
₦3,500- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Ebury Press; Reprint edition (July 1, 2016)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 184604488X
- ISBN-13: 978-1846044885
- Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.8 x 8 inches
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The Couple Next Door
₦3,500- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Corgi (20 April 2017)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0552173142
- ISBN-13: 978-0552173148
- Product Dimensions: 12.7 x 2.2 x 19.8 cm
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How to Stop Time
₦5,000- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: Canongate Books; Main edition (6 July 2017)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1782118616
- ISBN-13: 978-1782118619
- Product Dimensions: 16.2 x 3.1 x 22 cm
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Black Sheep by Na’ima B. Robert
₦5,500Black Sheep by Na’ima B. Robert When Misha decides to follow her heart, the web of secrets and lies begins to tighten, for Dwayne is not quite who he says he is. And as he struggles to turn his life around while hiding his darker side from Misha
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Reunited in the Desert
₦3,500By Helle Amin
As I approached the house, I was gripped with terror. Call it a mother’s instinct, call it what you will. I knew that something terrible had happened. When I saw that my husband’s car had gone, I feared the worst. I raced into the house and tore through all the bedrooms screaming, sobbing and desperate. I wanted my children so badly. Where were they? Why would he take them? I knew I had to get them back, but how?
Helle Amin seemed to have the perfect life on the tropical island of Bali with her husband and four children. But one day in 2002 this idyllic existence was shattered when she returned home from a shopping trip to find her children gone. It didn’t take long to discover that her Saudi Arabian husband had taken them to live in his home country.With her children thousands of miles away in the totally unfamiliar surroundings of an Islamic state, Helle drew upon her remarkable courage.
Enlisting the help of her friends, she set off for the desert in a desperate attempt to find her beloved boys. Her journey was filled with drama, danger, excitement and sorrow. In the astonishing struggle that followed, Helle was reduced to catching occasional glimpses of her boys as they went to and from school in Jeddah. Some women might have given up, but not Helle. In a male-dominated society, she prepared her case and demanded justice in the Saudi courts.After a long battle, Helle and her boys were reunited forever, and as a testament to her bravery she was a recent Tesco Mum of the Year winner. This gripping story cannot fail to touch any reader’s heart and is packed with adventure, heartache and joy.
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For the Love of a Son: One Afghan Woman’s Quest for her Stolen Child
₦3,500From the time she was a little girl, Maryam rebelled against the terrible second-class existence that was her destiny as an Afghan woman.
She had witnessed the miserable fate of her grandmother and three aunts, and wished she had been born a boy. As a feisty teenager in Kabul, she was outraged when the Russians invaded her country. After she made a public show of defiance, she had to flee the country for her life.
A new life of freedom seemed within her grasp,but her father arranged a traditional marriage to a fellow Afghan, who turned out to be a violent man. Beaten, raped and abused, Maryam found joy in the birth of a baby son. But then her brutal husband stole him away far beyond his mother’s reach. For many long years she searched for her lost son, while civil war and Taliban oppression raged back home in Afghanistan.
Set against a landscape littered with tragic tales of horrific suffering, Jean Sasson, author of Princess, chronicles the story of one resolute but tormented woman determined to achieve freedom and equality with men.
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Shackled to My Family
₦3,000By Samina Younis
This is the true story of Samina Younis, born in Britain to a strict, religious Muslim family – a family that practices the tradition of forced marriage which they brought back with them from their village in Pakistan. One of seven sisters and two brothers, she was a bitter disappointment to her parents who desperately wanted a son; as a result she suffered terrible physical and mental abuse at the hands of both her mother and father.
At the age of just sixteen, on a trip to Pakistan Samina was told that she must marry her second cousin, a boy she had met only once in her life and for whom she had no affection whatsoever. The writing of this book was Samina’s only way of coming to terms with the life that she had been forced into, the mental conflict over her enduring love for a mother, now dead, who even on her deathbed was compelled to dominate and control her future. The book recounts her struggle against her family and her dramatic escape to a life of her own.
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Heroine of the Desert
₦3,000By Donya Al-Nahi
Reuniting distraught mothers with their children has turned into a life’s work for this incredibly courageous woman, who has ventured into countries where few would dare to go to attempt such acts of heroism, facing death threats and imprisonment on more than one occassion.
Told with sincere compassion and brutal honesty, Donya’s stories are at once heart-stopping adventures, yet also are a telling reflection on what can go wrong when people marry across the culture gap.
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From My Sisters Lips By Na’ima B Robert
₦11,500Covered from head to toe with only her eyes visible, the sight of a Muslim woman on a western city street rarely fails to provoke a strong reaction. Feelings of shock, horror, repulsion, pity or even fear are not uncommon. But have you ever wondered who it is behind the veil and what makes her tick? Ever wondered what her life is really like and whether her dreams, hopes and aspirations differ from yours? From My Sisters’ Lips offers a rare glimpse into the lives of a community of women, most of whom are converts to Islam, and invites you to share their joys, sorrows, convictions and faith.
When Na’ima B Robert abandoned her western lifestyle and embraced Islam six years ago, it was not a decision taken lightly. Yet soon after she took her first tentative steps towards covering, she felt empowered; no longer judged on physical appearances alone, no longer seeking the approval to feel beautiful – or using her looks to wield power over men – the experience effected her greatly. Before long she grew in confidence and courage. As she says, ‘Something just clicked. I thought, “Good, don’t look; don’t compare me with your latest squeeze, don’t try and guess my measurements – my body is my own business!”‘
From My Sisters’ Lips offers a glimpse into the lives of just some of the extraordinary women who, like herself, have chosen to live behind the veil. What emerges is a vivid and intimate portrait of a sisterhood; as they speak candidly and with conviction on a diverse range of subjects ranging from marriage to motherhood, stereotypes, submission and self-image, we hear the strong, proud voices of those who are seldom heard.
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Salaam, Love By Ayesha Mattu and Nura MAznavi
₦7,000Salaam, Love: American Muslim Men on Love, Sex, and Intimacy By Ayesha Mattu and Nura MAznavi who are about Muslim men who are stereotyped as either oversexed Casanovas willing to die for seventy-two virgins in heaven or controlling, big-bearded husbands ready to rampage at the hint of dishonor.
The truth is, there are millions of Muslim men trying to figure out the complicated terrain of love, sex, and relationships just like any other American man.
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Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women
₦7,000By Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi
In this groundbreaking collection, American Muslim women writers sweep aside stereotypes to share their real-life tales of flirting, dating, longing, and sex. Their stories show just how varied the search for love can be–from singles’ events and college flirtations to arranged marriages, all with a uniquely Muslim twist.
These heartfelt tales are filled with passion and hope, loss and longing. One follows the quintessential single woman in the big city as she takes a chance on a Muslim speed-dating event. Another tells of a shy student from a liberal college town who falls in love online and must reveal her secret to her conservative family.
A third recounts a Southern girl who surprises herself by agreeing to an arranged marriage, unexpectedly finding the love of her life. These compelling stories of love and romance create an irresistible balance of heart-warming and tantalizing, always revealing and deeply relatable.
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Dubai Wives by Zvezdana Rashkovich
₦6,000Dubai Wives by Zvezdana Rashkovich takes the reader into a hidden world behind the walls of lavish mansions and into the desperate back alleys of Dubai; from the hills of Morocco to the gloomy English countryside and from the slums of India to the glittering lights of the Burj Al Arab.
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American Chick in Saudi Arabia By Jean Sasson
₦3,500It all begins with an ad in the newspaper. This book American Chick in Saudi Arabia By Jean Sasson talk about, a young Southern woman living in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, answers a call to work in the royal hospital in Saudi Arabia,
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The Forty Rules of Love By Elif Shafak
₦4,500Elif Shafak’s compelling novel, The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak, follows Ella Rubinstein on a journey of self-discovery as she examines her life and the concept of love through Sufi mysticism.
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Girls of Riyadh By Rajaa Alsanea
₦8,500The Girls of Riyadh By Rajaa Alsanea are young, attractive and living by Saudi Arabia’s strict cultural traditions. Well, not quite. In-between sneaking out behind their parents’ backs, dating, shopping, watching American TV and having fun, they’re still trying to be good little Muslim girls.
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The Consequences of Love
₦4,000By Sulaiman Addonia
It is summer in Jeddah but Naser’s life seems bleak. An immigrant in an unfriendly land, his friends have fled town for cooler climes and left him to his dead-end job and the scrutiny of the religious police, who keep watch through the shaded windows of their government jeeps. He spends his time writing to his mother in Africa and yearning to meet a woman – but in a country that separates men and women with walls and veils he feels increasingly trapped. Then, one of the black-clad women drops a piece of paper at his feet, instructing him to follow her pink shoes and suddenly his black-and-white life blooms into colour.
But relationships between unmarried men and women are illegal under the strict Wahhibism of Saudi state rule – and it’s not long before their forbidden love must face the hardest test of all…