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And the Mountains Echoed

Khaled Hosseini - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

An unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else.Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices...
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The Ambassador's Wife: A Novel

Jennifer Steil - Doubleday Books
Format: Hardcover

From a real-life ambassador's wife comes a harrowing novel about the kidnapping of an American woman in the Middle East and the heartbreaking choices she and her husband each must make in the hope of being reunited. When bohemian artist Miranda falls in love with Finn, the British ambassador...
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The Stationery Shop

Marjan Kamali - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Together Tea - a debut novel hailed as "compassionate, funny, and wise" by Jill Davis, bestselling author of Girls' Poker Night - comes a powerful love story exploring loss, reconciliation, and the quirks of fate. Roya is a dreamy, idealistic...
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The Beekeeper of Aleppo: A Novel

Christy Lefteri - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

This unforgettable novel puts human faces on the Syrian war with the immigrant story of a beekeeper, his wife, and the triumph of spirit when the world becomes unrecognizable. "Courageous and provocative, The Beekeeper of Aleppo is a beautifully crafted novel of international...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback

After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Propelled by the same...
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Girls of Riyadh

Rajaa Alsanea - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

When Rajaa Alsanea boldly chose to open up the hidden world of Saudi women - their private lives and their conflicts with the traditions of their culture - she caused a sensation across the Arab world. Now in English, Alsanea's tale of the personal struggles of four young upper-class...
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House on Endless Waters: A Novel

Emuna Elon - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

"Elon powerfully evokes the obscurity of the past and its hold on the present, as we stumble through revelation after revelation with Yoel. As we accompany him on his journey...we share in his loss, surprise and grief, right up to the novel's shocking conclusion." - The New York...
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The Devil in Jerusalem: A Novel

Naomi Ragen - St. Martin's Press, 2015. ©2015
Format: Print book

Two brothers are admitted to Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital with horrific injuries. Their mother, a young American, devoutly recites Psalms at the bedside, refusing to answer any questions. Brought in to investigate, Detective Bina Tzedek follows a winding path that takes her through...
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The Secret Chord: A Novel

Geraldine Brooks - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"A page turner. . .Brooks is a master at bringing the past alive. . .in her skillful hands the issues of the past echo our own deepest concerns: love and loss, drama and tragedy, chaos and brutality." - Alice Hoffman, The Washington PostA rich and utterly absorbing novel...
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Duet in Beirut: A Thriller

Mishka Ben-David - Overlook Press
Format: Hardcover

In this riveting thriller by an ex-Mossad agent, an Israeli spy risks his life to save a Hezbollah leader For over a decade, Mishka Ben-David was a professional spy, taking part in secret operations on behalf of the Mossad, Israel's legendary intelligence agency. But after twelve years...
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Asylum City: A Novel

Liad Shoham - Harper
Format: Hardcover

In this edgy thriller from the #1 international bestselling author of Lineup, which was described by New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder as "a marvel of tight plotting, spare prose, and relentless pacing," a young police officer's investigation of a murder plunges...
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Prince of Fire

Daniel Silva - Putnam; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Few recent thriller writers have excited the kind of critical praise that Daniel Silva has, with his novels featuring art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon. Now Allon is back in Venice, when a terrible explosion in Rome leads to a disturbing personal revelation: the existence of a dossier...
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A Cup of Friendship: A Novel

Deborah Rodriguez - Ballantine Books; First Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the ldquobighearted inspiringrdquo Vogue memoir Kabul Beauty School comes a fiction debut as compelling as real life the story of a remarkable coffee shop in the heart of Afghanistan and the men and women who meet theremdashthrown together by circumstance bonded by secrets...
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The Mullah's Storm

Thomas W. Young - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel about courage and survival in Afghanistan, written as only a man who has "been there and done that" could tell it. "When you write fiction, your best work may come from what scares you the most," writes airman Thomas W. Young. "When...
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The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi

Elif Shafak - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

In this lyrical, exuberant tale, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees (a Reeses Book Club Pick) , incarnates Rumis timeless message of loveThe Forty Rules of Love unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives - one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth...
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

Marjane Satrapi - Pantheon Books
Format: Hardcover

Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images,...
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Salt Houses

Hala Alyan - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback

Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR * Nylon * Kirkus Reviews * Bustle * BookPage "Moving and beautifully written." - Entertainment Weekly "[Alyan is] a master." - Los Angeles Review of Books On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's...
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The Map of Salt and Stars: A Novel

Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

This rich, moving, and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart - a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and a medieval adventurer apprenticed to a legendary mapmaker - places today's headlines...
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The Saffron Kitchen

Yasmin Crowther - Viking Adult; 1st Us Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A passionate and timely debut about mothers and daughters, roots and exile, from the streets of Iran to the suburbs of London In what is certain to be one of the most talked-about fiction debuts of the year, Yasmin Crowther paints a magnificent portrait of betrayal and retribution set against...
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Mornings in Jenin: A Novel

Susan Abulhawa - Bloomsbury USA; 1 Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel that could do for Palestine what The Kite Runner did for Afghanistan. Forcibly removed from the ancient village of Ein Hod by the newly formed state of Israel in 1948, the Abulhejas are moved into the Jenin refugee camp. There, exiled from his beloved...
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