• I Shall Not Hate

    I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity

    Heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is a Palestinian doctor’s inspiring account of his extraordinary life, growing up in poverty but determined to treat his patients in Gaza and Israel regardless of their ethnic origin.

    A London University- and Harvard-trained Palestinian doctor who was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and ‘who has devoted his life to medicine and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians’ (New York Times), Abuelaish is an infertility specialist who lives in Gaza but works in Israel. On the strip of land he calls home (where 1.5 million Gazan refugees are crammed into a few square miles) the Gaza doctor has been crossing the lines in the sand that divide Israelis and Palestinians for most of his life – as a physician who treats patients on both sides of the line, as a humanitarian who sees the need for improved health and education for women as the way forward in the Middle East. And, most recently, as the father whose three daughters were killed by Israeli shells on 16 January 2009, during Israel’s incursion into the Gaza Strip. It was his response to this tragedy that made news and won him humanitarian awards around the world. Instead of seeking revenge or sinking into hatred, Izzeldin Abuelaish called for the people in the region to start talking to each other. His deepest hope is that his daughters will be ‘the last sacrifice on the road to peace between Palestinians and Israelis’. – See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/i-shall-not-hate-9781408815625/#sthash.fATcysAf.dpuf

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  • The African Equation By Yasmina Khadra

    The African Equation By Yasmina Khadra

    By Yasmina Khadra

    Kurt Krausmann, a recently bereaved Frankfurt doctor, is persuaded to join his friend, wealthy benefactor Hans Makkenroth, on a humanitarian mission to the Comoros. The journey helps him begin to confront his loss, but soon misfortune strikes again: the boat he and Hans are travelling in is hijacked in the Gulf of Aden and the men are taken hostage.

    Held in a remote hideout, the prisoners suffer harsh conditions and the brutality of their guards; self-styled warriors, ex-army captains and even poets drawn to banditry through poverty or opportunism.

    When the group decamps to a lawless desert region and Hans is taken away, Kurt sinks deeper into despair. But fellow inmate Bruno, a French ethnologist who has been travelling Africa for 40 years, attempts to show Kurt another side to the wounded yet defiant continent he has taken to his heart.

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  • A Colder War By Charles Cumming

    A Colder War By Charles Cumming

    By Charles Cumming

    Perfect for fans of John le Carré, a gripping and suspenseful spy novel from ‘the master of the modern spy thriller’ (Mail on Sunday)

    MI6’s Head of Station in Turkey is killed in a mysterious plane crash. Amelia Levene, chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, wants the incident investigated – quickly and quietly.

    The only man she can trust is Thomas Kell, a disgraced spy searching for redemption.

    Arriving in Istanbul, Kell discovers that MI6 operations in the region have been fatally compromised: a traitor inside Western Intelligence threatens not just the Special Relationship, but the security of the entire Middle East.

    Kell’s search for the mole takes him from London, to Greece, and into Eastern Europe. But when Kell is betrayed by those closest to him, the stakes become personal. He will do anything to see this operation through – including putting himself, and others, in the line of fire…

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  • American Dervish

    American Dervish By Ayad Akhtar

    By Ayad Akhtar

    A stirring and explosive debut novel about an American Muslim family’s struggle with faith and belonging.

    Hayat Shah was captivated by Mina long before he met her: his mother’s beautiful, brilliant friend is a family legend. When he learns that Mina is leaving Pakistan to live with the Shahs in America, Hayat is thrilled.

    Hayat’s father is less enthusiastic. Ever wary of fundamentalism, he doesn’t relish the idea of Mina’s fervid devotion under his roof. What no one expects is that when Mina shows Hayat the beauty of the Quran, it will utterly transform him.

    Mina’s real magic may be that the Shah household becomes a happy one. But when Mina catches the eye of a Jewish doctor and family friend, Hayat’s jealousy is inflamed by the community’s anti-Semitism – and he acts with catastrophic consequences for those he loves most.

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    Run: A Gritty and Gripping Crime Thriller. You’ll be Hooked

    Run by Mandasue Heller is a gritty story of Manchester’s criminal underworld.

    After being cheated on by her ex, Leanne Riley is trying her hardest to get her life back on track, which isn’t easy without a job and living in a bedsit surrounded by a junkie and a mad woman.

    On a night out with her best friend she meets Jake, a face from her past who has changed beyond all recognition. Jake is charming, handsome and loaded, a far cry from the gawky teenager he used to be. Weary of men, Leanne isn’t easy to please, but Jake tries his best to break through the wall she’s built around herself.

    But good looks and money can hide a multitude of sins. Is that good-looking face just a mask? And what’s more, what will it take to make it slip, and who will die in the process . . . ?

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  • i am missing

    I Am Missing: David Raker Missing Persons

    I’m the person that’s missing.

    ‘I love the brilliant opening twist – a missing person with no memory searching for himself. It had me racing to the end’ Fiona Barton, bestselling author of The Widow

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    When a young man wakes up bruised and beaten, with no memory of who he is or where he came from, the press immediately dub him ‘The Lost Man’. 

    Naming himself Richard Kite, he spends the next ten months desperately trying to find out who he is. But despite media appeals and the efforts of the police, no one knows him.

    Richard’s last hope may be private investigator David Raker – a seasoned locator of missing people. But Raker has more questions than answers.

    Who is Richard Kite?

    Why does no one know him?

    And what links him to the body of a woman found beside a London railway line two years ago?

    Could Richard be responsible for her death – or is he next?

     

    Praise for I Am Missing:

    ‘So cleverly constructed I never guessed any of the twists’ Claire Douglas, bestselling author of Local Girl Missing

    ‘Tim Weaver is the rising star of British crime and I Am Missing will haunt your dreams’ Tony Parsons, bestselling author of the DC Max Wolfe series

    ‘Tim Weaver writes books so meticulously researched that the reader is educated as well as entertained, enthralled and intrigued. David Raker is a most complex and engaging investigator, each case leaving its mark on his soul, and ours’ Liz Nugent, bestselling author of Lying in Wait

    ‘A really exciting, interesting and genuinely original read. I had no idea where it was going’ Gillian McAllister, bestselling author of Everything but the Truth

    ‘Weaver’s credentials are sui generis, and they are burnished by this latest novel’ Barry Forshaw, Crime Time

    A fast-paced story packed with twists and surprises . . . a thrilling and hugely enjoyable novel with a frantic, engrossing finale’ Jon Coates, Daily Express

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  • Girl Online

    Girl Online: On Tour By Zoe Sugg

    By Zoe Sugg

    In this sequel to the New York Times bestseller, Girl Online, Penny joins her rock-star boyfriend on the road in Europe.

    When Noah invites Penny on his first-ever European tour, she can’t wait to spend the summer with her rock-god-tastic boyfriend.

    But, between Noah’s jam-packed schedule, less-than-welcoming band mates, and threatening messages from jealous fans, Penny wonders whether she’s really cut out for life on tour. She can’t help but miss her family, her best friend Elliot, and her blog, “Girl Online.”

    Can Penny learn to balance life and love on the road, or will she lose everything in pursuit of the perfect summer?

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  • Kingdom of Strangers By Zoë Ferraris

    Kingdom of Strangers By Zoe Ferraris

    Kingdom of Strangers By Zoe Ferraris is about a secret grave is unearthed in the desert revealing the bodies of 19 women and the shocking truth that a serial killer has been operating undetected in Jeddah for more than a decade.

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  • Dubai Dreams

    Dubai Dreams: Inside the Kingdom of Bling

    By Raymond Barrett

    • Paperback: 240 pages
    • Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing (January 7, 2010)
    • Language: English
    • ISBN-10: 1857885279
    • ISBN-13: 978-1857885279
    • Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.7 x 8.6 inches
    • Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces

     

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  • Painted Hands

    Painted Hands: A Novel by Zobair, Jennifer

    By Jennifer Zobair

    Muslim bad girl Zainab Mir has just landed a job working for a post-feminist, Republican Senate candidate. Her best friend Amra Abbas is about to make partner at a top Boston law firm. Together they’ve thwarted proposal-slinging aunties, cultural expectations, and the occasional bigot to succeed in their careers. What they didn’t count on? Unlikely men and geopolitical firestorms.

    When a handsome childhood friend reappears, Amra makes choices that Zainab considers so 1950s―choices that involve the perfect Banarasi silk dress and a four-bedroom house in the suburbs. After hiding her long work hours during their courtship, Amra struggles to balance her demanding job and her unexpectedly traditional new husband.

    Zainab has her own problems. She generates controversy in the Muslim community with a suggestive magazine spread and friendship with a gay reporter. Her rising profile also inflames neocons like Chase Holland, the talk radio host who attacks her religion publicly but privately falls for her hard. When the political fallout from a terrorist attempt jeopardizes Zainab’s job and protests surrounding a woman-led Muslim prayer service lead to violence, Amra and Zainab must decide what they’re willing to risk for their principles, their friendship, and love.

    Jennifer Zobair’s Painted Hands is The Namesake meets Sex and the City, an engaging and provocative debut novel about friendship and the love lives of American Muslim women.

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  • His Other Wife

    His Other Wife by Umm Zakiyyah

    By Umm Zakiyyah

    • Paperback: 642 pages
    • Publisher: Al-Walaa Publications (January 1, 2016)
    • Language: English
    • ISBN-10: 1942985002
    • ISBN-13: 978-1942985006
    • Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.4 x 9 inches

    Daughter of American converts to Islam,

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  • Hijaab Waali (the veiled girl) by Dr. Syed Ikram Hussain Abidi

    Hijaab Waali (the veiled girl) by Dr. Syed Ikram Hussain Abidi

    ISBN: 983065219X
    Author: Dr. Syed Ikram Hussain Abidi
    Publisher: A.S. Noordeen (2006)
    Pages: 399 Binding: Paperback
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