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Your Money Matters: The Islamic Approach to Business, Money, and Work
₦4,500By Muhammad Rahman Ph.D
Hardcover, 288 pages
Published February 2014 by International Islamic Publishing House – IIPH
Size: 5.75 x 8.75 x 0.75″
ISBN13 9786035012539
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The Prophet Muhammad Storybook Part 2
₦6,000Description from the publisher:
The Prophet Muhammad Storybook takes you back to the early days of Makkah, to a period long before the birth of the Prophet Muhammad. It relates fascinating stories about the Kabah and how the pilgrimage to it and trade with far-off lands such as Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Persia were organized along the silk route by the Prophet’s great grandfather. Everything is covered from the re-digging of the Zamzam well to the year of elephants, to the birth of the Prophet Muhammad, and then on to his childhood in the desert and his early life in Makkah.
The Prophet Muhammad Storybook, meant for 7 year olds and above, encourages children to discover for themselves the message of the life of the Prophet and to find their own ways of applying the Prophet’s timeless teachings to their lives. With its colorful, child-friendly illustrations, this book is perfect for reading to your children or grandchildren, and is excellent for use at home or at school.
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Yasmeena’s Choice A True Story of War, Rape, Courage and Survival
₦4,000By Jean Sasson
This is the true story of Yasmeena, a bright and beautiful young Lebanese woman who was imprisoned in Kuwait during the first Gulf War. Yasmeena’s shocking journey is a tale of the madness of war, of the sexual brutality unleashed by chaos, and of one woman
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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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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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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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Love in a torn land
₦3,800By Jean Sasson
Bestselling author Jean Sasson tells the dramatic true story of a young woman caught up in Saddam Hussein’s genocide of the Kurdish people of Iraq.
One morning Joanna, a young bride living in the Kurdish mountains of Iraq, was surprised to see dead birds drop silently out of the clear sky. They were followed by sinister canisters falling to the ground, bringing fear and death.
It was 1987, and Saddam Hussein had ordered his cousin ‘Chemical Ali’ to bombard Joanna’s village, Bergalou, with chemical weapons. Temporarily blinded in the attack, Joanna was rescued by her husband, a Kurdish freedom fighter. After being caught in another bombardment and left for dead in the rubble, they managed to flee over the mountains in a harrowing escape.
Now living in the UK and working for British Airways, Joanna has told the story of her eventful life to Jean Sasson, the bestselling chronicler of oppressed women’s lives in the Princess trilogy and Mayada. Love in a Torn Land is published while the world watches the trial of the notorious ‘Chemical Ali’, Saddam Hussein’s most bloodthirsty henchman, for crimes including the genocide of the Kurdish people.
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The One
₦3,500“Fantastic … I can’t remember the last time I was simultaneously this entertained and this disturbed. The One is a clever story with great pacing but it’s the characters that make this a standout thriller.” Hollie Overton, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Richard and Judy pick Baby Doll
How far would you go to find THE ONE?
One simple mouth swab is all it takes. A quick DNA test to find your perfect partner – the one you’re genetically made for.
A decade after scientists discover everyone has a gene they share with just one other person, millions have taken the test, desperate to find true love. Now, five more people meet their Match. But even soul mates have secrets. And some are more shocking – and deadlier – than others…
“Wonderful conceit, ridiculously entertaining … an absolute pleasure” T. A Cotterell, author of What Alice Knew
“Gripping from the start and full of surprises, this kept us up long after lights out” Isabelle Broom, Heat
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The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
₦7,500By Deborah Rodriguez
In a little coffee shop in one of the most dangerous places on earth, five very different women come together.
SUNNY, the proud proprietor, needs an ingenious plan – and fast – to keep her café and customers safe.
YASMINA, a young pregnant woman stolen from her remote village and now abandoned on Kabul’s violent streets.
CANDACE, a wealthy American who has finally left her husband for her Afghan lover, the enigmatic Wakil.
ISABEL, a determined journalist with a secret that might keep her from the biggest story of her life.
And HALAJAN, the sixty-year-old den mother, whose long-hidden love affair breaks all the rules.
As these five women discover there’s more to one another than meets the eye, they form a unique bond that will forever change their lives and the lives of many others.
The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul is heart-warming and life-affirming fiction.