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Death and the Dervish by Meša Selimović
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsDeath and the Dervish is an acclaimed novel by Bosnian writer Mesa Selimovic. It recounts the story of Sheikh Nuruddin, a dervish residing in an Islamic monastery in Sarajevo in the eighteenth century during the Ottoman Turk hegemony over the Balkans. When his brother is arrested, he must descend into the Kafkaesque world of the Ottoman authorities in his search to discover what happened to him... -
![Alamut by Vladimir Bartol]()
Alamut by Vladimir Bartol
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAlamut takes place in 11th Century Persia, in the fortress of Alamut, where self-proclaimed prophet Hasan ibn Sabbah is setting up his mad but brilliant plan to rule the region with a handful elite fighters who are to become his "living daggers... -
![When Stars Fall at Midnight by Tess Thompson]()
When Stars Fall at Midnight by Tess Thompson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1921EstelleCast out and alone, I lost everything weeks before my wedding—my betrothed, my family, my future. With nowhere to turn, I accept the help of a compassionate stranger, not knowing it may lead me towards a path I swore never to tread.PercivalAfter my wife succumbed to a psychotic break, I placed her in an asylum, a decision that haunts me as I raise our daughter alone...Categorized as:
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![The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog by Elizabeth Peters]()
The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog by Elizabeth Peters
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAmelia hopes to rekindle some of the old fire with Emerson in a return journey to Amarna, Egypt where they met 13 years before...Categorized as:
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![The Last Camel Died at Noon by Elizabeth Peters]()
The Last Camel Died at Noon by Elizabeth Peters
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsBestselling author Peters brings back 19th-century Egyptologist Amelia Peabody and her entourage in a delicious caper that digs up mystery in the shadow of the pyramids...Categorized as:
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![Samarkand by Amin Maalouf]()
Samarkand by Amin Maalouf
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAccused of mocking the inviolate codes of Islam, the Persian poet and sage Omar Khayyam fortuitously finds sympathy with the very man who is to judge his alleged crimes. Recognising genuis, the judge decides to spare him and gives him instead a small, blank book, encouraging him to confine his thoughts to it alone. Thus begins the seamless blend of fact and fiction that is Samarkand... -
![Servant of the Bones and The Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice]()
Servant of the Bones and The Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice
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![River God: A Novel of Ancient Egypt by Wilbur Smith]()
River God: A Novel of Ancient Egypt by Wilbur Smith
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsTanus is the fair-haired young lion of a warrior whom the gods have decreed will lead Egypt's army in a bold attempt to reunite the Kingdom's shattered halves...Categorized as:
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![Sugar Street by Naguib Mahfouz, Naguib Mahfouz]()
Sugar Street by Naguib Mahfouz, Naguib Mahfouz
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSugar Street is the third and concluding volume of the celebrated Cairo Trilogy, which brings the story of Al-Sayid Ahmad and his family up to the middle of the twentieth century.Aging and ill, the family patriarch surveys the world from his housewares's latticed balcony, as his long-suffering wife once did... -
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Scarred Mail Order Bride and her Lonely Bachelor by Florence Linnington
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat can a scarred mail order bride do when she is stranded in the west with no one to get married to? Leanne Robinson has hit rock bottom – her father is gone, her life is in ruins, and she has no hope for the future. Until… she receives a letter from a man in Colorado, inviting her to marry him and live out west. With no other options, she accepts... -
![RNWMP: Bride for Calvin by Amelia C. Adams]()
RNWMP: Bride for Calvin by Amelia C. Adams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFaith Hansen is eager to head into the wilderness and take up residence at Reindeer Rock as the new wife of a Mountie. She can't imagine anything better than the chance to meet new people and learn about their ways... -
![Autumn Daffodils - Charlie's Story: Heart warming, thought provoking story. A look back on life and relationships. by Peter Turnham]()
Autumn Daffodils - Charlie's Story: Heart warming, thought provoking story. A look back on life and relationships. by Peter Turnham
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is the first book in the two-part "Autumn Daffodils" story. Five extraordinary people, having retired early in order to escape their past, find themselves reliving the very past they came to the 'Village' to forget. What unites the group is the guilt, shame or sorrow they have each tried so hard to leave behind... -
![Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf]()
Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratings"I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come from no country, from no city, no tribe... -
![The Open Door by Latifa Zayyat, لطيفة الزيات]()
The Open Door by Latifa Zayyat, لطيفة الزيات
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Open Door is a landmark of women's writing in Arabic. Published in 1960, it was very bold for its time in exploring a middle-class Egyptian girl's coming of sexual and political age, in the context of the Egyptian nationalist movement preceding the 1952 revolution... -
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![Mountolive by Lawrence Durrell]()
Mountolive by Lawrence Durrell
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMountolive is a novel of vertiginous disclosures, in which the betrayer and the betrayed share secret alliances and an adulterous marriage turns out to be a vehicle for the explosive passions of the modern Middle East... -
![Tomb of the Golden Bird by Elizabeth Peters]()
Tomb of the Golden Bird by Elizabeth Peters
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsConvinced that the tomb of the little-known king Tutankhamon lies somewhere in the Valley of the Kings, eminent Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson and his intrepid wife, Amelia Peabody, seem to have hit a wall. Having been banned forever from the East Valley, Emerson, against Amelia's advice, has tried desperately to persuade Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter to relinquish their digging rights...Categorized as:
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![The Hippopotamus Pool by Elizabeth Peters]()
The Hippopotamus Pool by Elizabeth Peters
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAmelia, her husband Emerson, their 13-year-old son Ramses, and their beautiful ward Nefret return to Egypt for an exciting excavation. The dig is at an undisturbed Royal Tomb, a true find--and an irresistible temptation for art thieves, jealous colleagues, looters, the press, and the countless evil-doers...Categorized as:
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![The Egyptian by Mika Waltari, Lynda S. Robinson]()
The Egyptian by Mika Waltari, Lynda S. Robinson
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThis epic tale encompasses the whole of the then-known world, from Babylon to Crete, from Thebes to Jerusalem, while centering around one unforgettable figure: Sinuhe, a man of mysterious origins who rises from the depths of degradation to become personal physician to Pharaoh Akhnaton...Categorized as:
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![Collected Poems 1945-1990 by R.S. Thomas, Andrew Motion]()
Collected Poems 1945-1990 by R.S. Thomas, Andrew Motion
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPublished to mark the poet's 80th birthday, this is a collection of poems by R.S. Thomas, written between 1945 and 1990. Thomas won numerous awards for his work, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1964... -
![Mail Order Bride's Baby And Her Mismatched Rancher by Florence Linnington]()
Mail Order Bride's Baby And Her Mismatched Rancher by Florence Linnington
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA mail order bride with a baby mismatched to a rancher with no interest in children… Abbie Hustley thinks her future is secure when she becomes a mail order bride for a rancher in the west. There will be no more singing in saloons, no more late nights. Sam Sayler has everything he wants, a ranch of his own, loyal ranch hands, and a life under the wide Colorado skies. All he needs now, is a wife... -
![RNWMP: Bride for Wesley by Kirsten Osbourne]()
RNWMP: Bride for Wesley by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLisa Allen has spent her entire life being different, and being different was perfectly fine with her as long as her two best friends were at her side. But now both of her friends have gone West to marry Mounties, leaving Lisa without their constant companionship... -
![The Sands of Ammon by Valerio Massimo Manfredi]()
The Sands of Ammon by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratings. THE BESTSELLING EPIC OF THE GLORY AND THE GRANDEUR INTRIGUES AND PASSIONS OF ANCIENT GREECE...AND THE WARRIOR KING WHOSE CONQUESTS BUILT AN ETERNAL LEGEND. ALEXANDER "Volume II: " THE SANDS OF AMMONA thousand years after Agamemnon fought the Trojan War. Alexander, the king of Macedonia and descendant of Achilles, follows in the footsteps of Greek legend...Categorized as:
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![Mort sur le Nil by Agatha Christie]()
Mort sur le Nil by Agatha Christie
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsCe n'est pas très joli de voler son fiancé à sa meilleure amie pour se marier avec lui. Et même si l'amie en question semble se résigner, la ravissante et riche Linnet Ridgeway a bien des raisons d'être inquiète... Surtout quand le hasard les rassemble, pour une croisière sur le Nil, avec d'inquiétants personnages, dans une atmosphère lourde de sensualité et de cupidité... -
![Children of the Alley by Naguib Mahfouz]()
Children of the Alley by Naguib Mahfouz
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsChildren Of The Alley, by Mahfouz, NaguibThe history of a Cairo alley through several generations. Successive heroes struggle to restore the rights of the people to the trust fund set up by their ancestor Gebelaawi, usurped by embezzlers and tyrants. Mahfouz creates in all its detail a world on the frontier between the real and the imaginary... -
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![Collected Poems by Primo Levi]()
Collected Poems by Primo Levi
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPoems deal with the experiences of concentration camp prisoners, and nature, science, and... -
![Helen in Egypt by H.D.]()
Helen in Egypt by H.D.
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe fabulous beauty of Helen of Troy is legendary. But some say that Helen was never in Troy, that she had been conveyed by Zeus to Egypt, and that Greeks and Trojans alike fought for an illusion. A fifty-line fragment by the poet Stesichorus of Sicily (c. 640-555 B.C.), what survives of his Pallinode, tells us almost all we know of this other Helen, and from it H. D. wove her book-length poem... -
![Sinuhé, el egipcio I by Mika Waltari]()
Sinuhé, el egipcio I by Mika Waltari
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTranslated by Naomi...Categorized as:
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![The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse by Shiwu Qinggong, Stonehouse]()
The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse by Shiwu Qinggong, Stonehouse
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWinner of the 2015 Washington State Book Award in Poetry Translation " The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse [is] a tough-spirited book of enlightened free verse."— Kyoto Journal The Zen master and mountain hermit Stonehouse—considered one of the greatest Chinese Buddhist poets—used poetry as his medium of instruction... -
![The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters]()
The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsRadcliffe Emerson, the irascible husband of fellow archaeologist and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, has earned the nickname "Father of Curses" -- and at Mazghunah he demonstrates why. Denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, he and Amelia are resigned to excavating mounds of rubble in the middle of nowhere...Categorized as:
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![Stories of New Cairo by Naguib Mahfouz]()
Stories of New Cairo by Naguib Mahfouz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn Naguib Mahfouz's suspenseful novel a bitter and ambitious nihilist, a beautiful and impoverished student, and a corrupt official engage in a doomed ménage à trois.Cairo of the 1930s is a place of vast social and economic inequities... -
![The Mirage by Naguib Mahfouz]()
The Mirage by Naguib Mahfouz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA stunning example of Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz’s psychological portraiture, The Mirage is the story of an intense young man who has been so dominated by his mother that her death sets him dangerously adrift in a world he cannot manage alone.Kamil Ru’ba is a tortured soul who hopes that writing the story of his life will help him gain control of it... -
![أشهد أن لا امرأة إلا أنت by Nizar Qabbani, نزار قباني]()
أشهد أن لا امرأة إلا أنت by Nizar Qabbani, نزار قباني
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"بعدما ضمّت نوفل إلى لائحة إصداراتها الإرث الأدبيّ للشاعر الأكثر شعبية في العالم العربيّ، نزار قباني، الذي قاربت قصائده مجالات مختلفة مثل السياسة والوطنيات ولا سيّما الحبّ والمرأة، تقوم بإصدار دواوينه الفرديّة في حلّة جديدة عصريّة، تحيّةً وتقديرًا لشاعر الحبّ والمرأة، شاعر بيروت ودمشق، شاعر الحلم والثورة. نزار قباني - وُلد ""شاعر الحبّ والمرأة"" عام 1923 في أسرة دمشقيّة عريقة... -
![Koolaid's Art of War by Rabih Alameddine]()
Koolaid's Art of War by Rabih Alameddine
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDetailing the impact of the AIDS epidemic and the Lebanese civil war in Beirut on a circle of friends and family, "Koolaids" tells the stories of characters who can no longer love or think except in fragments of time, each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears... -
![Cry of the Peacock: A Novel by Gina B. Nahai]()
Cry of the Peacock: A Novel by Gina B. Nahai
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNahai begins her vivid, intriguing historical chronicle in the 1780s in Persia and concludes 200 years later in contemporary Iran. Following a family of Jews through seven generations, from Juyy Bar, the Jewish ghetto of Esfahan, to America, she begins with Esther the Soothsayer. Versed in magic and witchcraft Esther can foretell the future... -
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![A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories by Edna O'Brien]()
A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories by Edna O'Brien
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn these selections from twenty years of her best short fiction, Edna O'Brien pulls the reader into a woman's experience. Her stories portray a young Irish girl's view of obsessive love and its often wrenching pain, while tales of contemporary life show women who open themselves to sexuality, to disappointment, to madness... -
![Granada by Radwa Ashour, رضوى عاشور]()
Granada by Radwa Ashour, رضوى عاشور
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRadwa Ashour skillfully weaves a history of Granadan rule and an Arabic world into a novel that evokes cultural loss and the disappearance of a vanquished population... -
![Funeral Games by Mary Renault]()
Funeral Games by Mary Renault
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsAs Funeral Games opens, Alexander the Great lies dying. Around his body gather the generals, the provincial satraps and the royal wives, already competing for the prizes of power and land. Only Bagoas, the Persian boy mourning in the shadows, wants nothing...Categorized as:
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![A River in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters]()
A River in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Peters comes one of her most baffling and intriguing mysteries in her phenomenally popular Amelia Peabody series.August 1910. Banned from the Valley of the Kings, Amelia Peabody and husband Emerson are persuaded to follow would-be archaeologist Major George Morley on an expedition to Palestine...Categorized as:
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![The Call of the Curlew by طه حسين, Taha Hussein]()
The Call of the Curlew by طه حسين, Taha Hussein
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA unique work of fiction in modern Arabic literature. It is a romantic story about the triumph of love over revenge. It describes the social taboos of the time and how one girl eventually overcomes them. Highly poetic style with deep insight into the human heart... -
![The Sound of Language by Amulya Malladi]()
The Sound of Language by Amulya Malladi
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this luminous story of bravery, tradition, and the power of language, an Afghan woman and Danish widower form an unexpected alliance.Escaping the turmoil and heartbreak of war-torn Kabul, Raihana settles with distant relatives in the strange, cold, damp country of Denmark... -
![Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile, Egypt, 57 B.C. by Kristiana Gregory]()
Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile, Egypt, 57 B.C. by Kristiana Gregory
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 21 ratings3 JANUARIUS, MORNINGI could feel my insides shaking. Would this sister try to poison me? Yes, I believe so. As for my other older sister, Berenice -never! She and I adore each other even thought I am eight years younger...Categorized as:
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![Diary of a Country Prosecutor by Tawfiq Al-Hakim, Tawfik Al-Hakim]()
Diary of a Country Prosecutor by Tawfiq Al-Hakim, Tawfik Al-Hakim
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWho shot Kamar al-Dawla Alwan? Was it a crime of passion? What was the role of the beautiful peasant girl Rim? Is the mysterious Sheikh Asfur as crazy as he seems?Diary of a Country Prosecutor is an Egyptian comedy of errors. Partly autobiographical, it is written as the journal of a young public prosecutor posted to a village in rural Egypt... -
![The Eternal Temple by Christian Jacq]()
The Eternal Temple by Christian Jacq
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe splendor and danger of ancient Egypt continues in the second volume of this magnificent saga. For Ramses, the Son of Light, the coronation has arrived. Now he will learn whether the friends of his youth--people such as Moses and the aging Greek poet, Homer--can truly be trusted...Categorized as:
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![Return of the Spirit by Tawfiq Al-Hakim, توفيق الحكيم]()
Return of the Spirit by Tawfiq Al-Hakim, توفيق الحكيم
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe celebrated, revolutionary novel from a pioneering Egyptian writer Tawfiq al-Hakim, now for the first time in Penguin Classics with a foreword by Egyptian writer Alaa Al-AswanyFirst published in Arabic in 1933, Egyptian playwright and novelist Tawfiq Al-Hakim's Return of the Spirit follows a patriotic young Egyptian and his extended family as they grapple with the events leading up to the... -
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![To Catch a Bride by Anne Gracie]()
To Catch a Bride by Anne Gracie
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt was the perfect excuse to delay a dreaded marriage of convenience—head off on an exotic journey to track down a young lady missing in Egypt for six years. Rafe Ramsey, son of the Earl of Axebridge, is utterly besotted when he finally locates the beautiful and spirited Ayisha, who has taken a new name... -
![Let It Come Down by Paul Bowles]()
Let It Come Down by Paul Bowles
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn Let It Come Down , Paul Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to his darkest impulses... -
![Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories by Alifa Rifaat, أليفة رفعت]()
Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories by Alifa Rifaat, أليفة رفعت
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"More convincingly than any other woman writing in Arabic today, Alifa Rifaat lifts the vil on what it means to be a women living within a traditional Muslim society." So states the translator's foreword to this collection of the Egyptian author's best short stories. Rifaat (1930-1996) did not go to university, spoke only Arabic, and seldom traveled abroad... -
![Problem at Sea: a Hercule Poirot Short Story by Agatha Christie]()
Problem at Sea: a Hercule Poirot Short Story by Agatha Christie
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOn a Mediterranean cruise ship, a woman is found stabbed to death in her cabin while the ship was in the port of Alexandria, Egypt. Was the murder committed by one of the sellers of post cards and beads who came on board in port? There's a rumour that money was missing from her cabin. Unfortunately for the murderer, Hercule Poirot is also one of the passengers... -
![Ramses: The Son of Light by Christian Jacq]()
Ramses: The Son of Light by Christian Jacq
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsHistorical fiction meets mythology as ancient Egypt comes alive in this monumental epic with over 2 million copies sold around the world.At fourteen, Ramses, the second son of the Pharaoh Seth, must begin to pass a series of royal tests designed to build his mental and physical prowess-or break him...Categorized as:
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![The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho]()
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 56 ratingsThe Alchemist by Paulo Coelho continues to change the lives of its readers forever. With more than two million copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has established itself as a modern classic, universally admired.Paulo Coelho’s masterpiece tells the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found...
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