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While My Eyes Were Closed
THE #1 BESTSELLER: a nail-biting psychological drama for fans of Liane Moriarty and CL Taylor.
One, two, three . . . Lisa Dale shuts her eyes and counts to one hundred during a game of hide-and-seek. When she opens them, her four-year-old daughter Ella is gone. Disappeared without a trace. The police, the media and Lisa’s family all think they know who snatched Ella. But what if the person who took her isn’t a stranger? What if they are convinced they are doing the right thing? And what if Lisa’s little girl is in danger of disappearing forever?
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My Accidental Jihad by Krista Bremer (Hardcover)
Fifteen years ago, Krista Bremer was a surfer and an aspiring journalist who dreamed of a comfortable American life of adventure, romance, and opportunity. Then, on a running trail in North Carolina, she met Ismail, sincere, passionate, kind, yet from a very different world. Raised a Muslim—one of eight siblings born in an impoverished fishing village in Libya—his faith informed his life.
When she and Ismail made the decision to become a family, Krista embarked on a journey she never could have imagined, an accidental jihad: a quest for spiritual and intellectual growth that would open her mind, and more important, her heart.
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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife.
A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison’s virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized her writing.
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Paradise by Toni Morrison
“They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.” So begins this visionary work from a storyteller. Toni Morrison’s first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Paradise opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black small town in rural Oklahoma. Founded by the descendants of freed slaves and survivors in exodus from a hostile world, the patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But seventeen miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these women in flight from death and despair that nine male citizens of Ruby will lay their pain, their terror, and their murderous rage.
In prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem, Toni Morrison challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation of race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present.
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Tar Baby By Toni Morrison
Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison’s reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
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Normal Calm By Hend Hegazi
Normal Calm By Hend Hegazi is about Amina an Arab American woman attending one of the best universities in the US. During the spring of her junior year, Amina is raped by one of her friends, making her essentially unmarriageable in the eyes of her parents and, possibly, the entire Arab community.
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Sandcastles & Snowmen: A Personal Search for Spirituality
- Paperback: 294 pages
- Publisher: Fb Partners; first edition (1 June 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0985751223
- ISBN-13: 978-0985751227
- Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 1.6 x 22.9 cm
Sahar El-Nadi’s new book demystifies Islam and Muslims. From a female leader’s worldwide perspective, Sandcastles & Snowmen explores faith through the story of a woman on a personal journey to search for spirituality, leading her to reconnect with Islam in a new, global context in the turbulent post 9/11 world. While taking the reader on a beautiful journey to discover the self and the world, Sahar El-Nadi tells her personal story of life, faith, and triumph. A brave woman and an intellectual thinker, Sahar reveals in eloquent English the Islamic perspective of Reward and Punishment, Manners and Ethics, Human Rights and more.
This book is for the global reader, to inform and inspire and to help break barriers and encourage communication across divides of race and creed. It is also a good tool for addressing integration issues related to Muslim immigrants and asylum seekers. But most of all, this book is meant to show how women can help make this a better world, by reaching out and speaking up, to challenge ignorance and hate and to engage the world in a peaceful dialogue based on facts, mutual respect and friendship
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A Thousand Pardons: A Novel Paperback
- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (August 6, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0812983386
- ISBN-13: 978-0812983388
- Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.5 x 8 inches
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The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria
- 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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How to Stop Time
- 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
Black 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