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A Romeo and Juliet story set against the strict Muslim laws of Saudi Arabia, Sulaiman Addonia’s astonishing debut novel is a sensuous and intensely wrought story of a young immigrant and a girl behind a veil who defy law and risk their lives to be together.
Under a relentless summer sun, women dressed like long dark shadows and men decked out in light cotton robes roam the streets of Jeddah. While most of Naser’s friends have left town...
Under a relentless summer sun, women dressed like long dark shadows and men decked out in light cotton robes roam the streets of Jeddah. While most of Naser’s friends have left town...
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Love from (Ali) volume 2
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English
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Adam and Zayneb embark on the Umrah, a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, in Saudi Arabia, but as one wedge after another drives them apart while they make their way through rites in the holy city, Adam and Zayneb start to wonder if their meeting was just an oddity after all.
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Katya Hijazi novels volume 3
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
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English
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Saudi lead inspector Ibrahim Zahrani discovers that a serial killer has been burying women's bodies in Jeddah for more than ten years at the same time his mistress disappears, and he seeks assistance from Katya, one of the few women on the force.
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Queen and country (Novels) volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sixteen-year-old half-Hindu/half-Parsi Zarin Wadia is the class troublemaker and top subject for the school rumor blogs, regularly leaving class to smoke cigarettes in cars with boys, but she also desperately wants to grow up and move out of her aunt and uncle's house, perhaps realizing too late that Porus, another non-Muslim Indian who risks deportation but remains devoted to Zarin, could help her escape.
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John Wells novels volume 5
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English
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CIA operative John Wells goes undercover in Saudi Arabia and Lebanon to find conspirators bent on tearing down the monarchy of King Abdullah. If the conspirators prevail, it will mean more than just the fall of a monarch -- it may be the start of a final conflagration between America and the full force of Islam itself.
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Ferraris' novel, set in Saudi Arabia, features desert guide Nayir al-Sharqi, who is hired by wealthy friends to find their missing daughter. When the girl turns up dead, apparently drowned in a flash flood in the desert, Nayir suspects that all is not as it seems. And as he looks into her death, he develops an uncomfortable partnership with a female technician at the local coroner's office.
11) La chica nueva
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Español
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LO QUE ESTÁ HECHO NO PUEDE DESHACERSE... En un exclusivo colegio privado suizo, el misterio envuelve la identidad de una niña de cabello negro que llega cada mañana acompañada por una escolta digna de un jefe de estado. Dicen que es hija de un empresario muy rico. En realidad su padre es el todopoderoso Jalid bin Mohamed, el ahora denostado príncipe heredero de Arabia Saudí y otrora aclamado por la comunidad internacional por su promesa de emprender...
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2013
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English
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"After serving his country, Larry Larson wants to make up for lost time by a new career in bounty hunting where the rewards are high and the risks higher, even though he knows the terrain. He takes us on an adventure across the Saudi deserts, through religious and political intrigue, until he meets Carmen. She shows him a new path by following A Sufi's Ghost to unexpected places."--Page 4 of cover.
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"A game-changing peace treaty between Israel and the Saudis is nearly done. The secretary of state is headed to the region to seal the deal. And Special Agent Marcus Ryker is leading an advance trip along the Israeli-Lebanon border, ahead of the secretary's arrival. But when Ryker and his team are ambushed by Hezbollah forces, a nightmare scenario begins to unfold. The last thing the White House can afford is a new war in the Mideast that could derail...
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