Shatila Stories
By: Omar Khaled Ahmad
4.24
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
‘This remarkable novel isn’t about the refugee voice; it is born from it and told through it. On ev…
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1. On Palestine
By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more
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- politics
- audiobook
"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
2. Bliss & Other Stories
By: Katherine Mansfield
3.93
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Another cover edition can be found HERE. A collection of short stories by Katherine Mansfield, w… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
"How long did they stand there? Both, as it were, caught in that circle of unearthly light, understanding each other perfectly, creatures of another world, and wondering what they were to do in this o…"-Katherine Mansfield, Bliss & Other Stories
3. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
By: Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey
4.00
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Librarian Note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here On a rainy Sunday in Januar… read more
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- fiction
"Abrió el libro, pero ninguna página parecía ser lo bastante potente para borrar la soledad que sentía."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"La catastrofe de la vejez residía en no atreverse a ir a cualquier parte, en resignarse a perder la libertad"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"If you don't praise people just sometimes a little early on they die of despair, or turn into Hitlers, you know?"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"...pensaba en el amor y en sus espantosas desigualdades. Siempre hay alguien que ofrece la mejilla y otro que la besa."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
4. The Seance
By: John Harwood
3.87
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Wraxford Hall, a decaying mansion in the English countryside, has a sinister reputation. Once, a fa… read more
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- fiction
5. Villette
By: Charlotte Brontë , A.S. Byatt , Μαρία Λαϊνά , Ignes Sodre
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Bronte's final novel … read more
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- fiction
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- fiction
7. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
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- fiction
8. The Blue Between Sky and Water
By: Susan Abulhawa
4.15
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of Mornings in Jenin, a novel about four generations of… read more
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9. A Doll's House
By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer
3.76
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more
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- fiction
"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
10. Selected Poetry
By: John Keats
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is an entirely new selection of Keats's finest poetry containing all his best known work as we… read more
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11. The Words
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Bernard Frechtman
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Jean-Paul Sartre's famous autobiography of his first ten years has been widely compared to Rousseau… read more
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12. Love in a Cold Climate
By: Nancy Mitford
4.40
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found One of Nancy Mitford's most beloved nov… read more
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13. The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham
By: H.G. Wells
4.29
Format: 120 pages, Audiobook
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14. Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire
By: Jehad Abusalim
4.70
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
Imagining the future of Gaza beyond the cruelties of occupation and Apartheid, Light in Gaza is a p… read more
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- politics
- short stories
- audiobook
15. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.74
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more
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- politics
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
16. A Spell of Good Things
By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ayobami Adebayo, the celebrated author of Stay With Me unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria a… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"Time was unforgiving, it didn’t stop, not even to give people a chance to scrape themselves off the floor if they’d been shattered."-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
"He stared back at her, unconcerned. She had always marvelled at his calm assurance that everything good in his life would either remain the same or get better. He took good fortune for granted. As th…"-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
17. It's Not About the Burqa
By: Mariam Khan
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter? In 2016, Mari… read more
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- politics
- audiobook
"I believe the role of the writer is to tell society what it pretends it does not know."-Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa
"In early Islam in seventh century Arabia, Muslim women were feisty and unafraid to fight for their rights. With the passing of the centuries, their dramatic progress stagnated and stalled, causing th…"-Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa
"Dissecting the rishta sites quickly becomes me and Fiz's favorite pastime. 'Look at this one, Fiz, look at this one. "i am looking for simple, obedient girl." Vom!' 'Why doesn't he just advertise for…"-Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa
"Revolutions 'go too far': if your community is ready for you, then you are too late. You must challenge your community. You must throw down the gauntlet of freedom to your community and dare it to ac…"-Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa
18. Shatila Stories
By: Omar Khaled Ahmad
4.24
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
‘This remarkable novel isn’t about the refugee voice; it is born from it and told through it. On ev… read more
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- novella
- politics
- asia
- short stories
- fiction
- lebanon
- audiobook
19. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
20. Nails and Eyes
By: Kaori Fujino
3.43
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
Tense, subtly disturbing Japanese literary horror perfect for fans of The Memory Police, Tender is … read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
"As a woman, Shoko is extremely petite, but as a heart, she is wondrously large."-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
"Maybe she suddenly had a deathwish, the way some people fall in love at first sight."-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
"There were always going to be people who loved you and people who hated you, no matter what you did, so why let anything trouble you?"-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
"You felt that your life would always be this way. Not as one day going by, and then another, but life as an ever-expanding single day. And yet, time did go by."-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
21. Frankenstein in Baghdad
By: Ahmed Saadawi
3.58
Format: 281 pages, Paperback
From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadi--a scavenger and an oddball fixture a… read more
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"Death stalked the city like the plague."-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad
"Each of us has a measure of criminality."-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad
"None of us should think only of ourselves."-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad
"Your wonderful stories saved you, my friend."-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad
22. Tentacles & Triathlons (Leviathan Fitness, #2)
By: Ashley Bennett
4.11
Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition
Leviathan Fitness is the favorite place of monsters, muscles, and a tentacled creature who can sedu… read more
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- audiobook
23. They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom
By: Ahed Tamimi
4.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates th… read more
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- politics
- audiobook
24. The Liar's Dictionary
By: Eley Williams
3.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating and laugh-out-loud debut novel from a prize-winning new talent which chronicles the… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"Too precise a meaning erases the mystery of your literature."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
"He was a sweet man who loved words, and played chess with ghosts."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
"Onomatopoeia is onomatopoeia for mashing your hands unthinkingly but hopefully onto a keyboard."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
"All words are made up," I said. "That is true," David Swansby replied, "and also not a useful contribution."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
25. The High House
By: Jessie Greengrass
3.97
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this powerful, highly anticipated novel from an award-winning author, four people attempt to mak… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"I only knew that when they came back, they brought fear with them. Tracked in like mud across the carpet."-Jessie Greengrass, The High House
"—What they don’t seem to understand, she said, —is that anxiety is a perfectly reasonable response to what we are living through."-Jessie Greengrass, The High House
"I thought that it was not defeat at all. Rather, it was a kind of furious defiance that had led her to have a child, despite all she believed about the future. A kind of pact with the world, that, ha…"-Jessie Greengrass, The High House
"Somehow, while we had all been busy, while we had been doing those small things that added up to living, the future had slipped into the present—and despite the fact that we had known that it would c…"-Jessie Greengrass, The High House
26. Past Present Future (Rowan & Neil, #2)
By: Rachel Lynn Solomon
3.96
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
They fell for each other in just twenty-four hours. Now Rowan and Neil embark on a long-distance re… read more
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- audiobook
27. Mantras & Minotaurs (Leviathan Fitness, #3)
By: Ashley Bennett
4.21
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Leviathan Fitness is a sanctuary for monsters, muscles, and a widow on a journey of self-discovery.… read more
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- novella
28. Polar Vortex: A Family Memoir
By: Denise Dorrance
4.24
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
For fans of Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? , an unputdownable debut graphic The what… read more
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29. A Dream So Wicked (Entangled with Fae, #5)
By: Tessonja Odette
4.14
Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition
A vicious rivalry. A forbidden desire. A curse only her enemy can break. After twenty years st… read more
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- fiction
"I was named for vengeance. My beautiful nemesis must lose everything I’ve already lost."-Tessonja Odette, A Dream So Wicked (Entangled with Fae, #5)
"Hope is something I’ve learned to smother, to shove aside in favor of sensibility when I’m really made for dreaming."-Tessonja Odette, A Dream So Wicked (Entangled with Fae, #5)
"... I just need you to know—no matter what happens—that you never have to earn anyone’s care. Not Monty’s. Not your family’s. Not mine. No one’s.You deserve to be cared about. You, my enemy. You, my …"-Tessonja Odette, A Dream So Wicked (Entangled with Fae, #5)
30. The Fear of Winter (The Fear Of, #1)
By: S.C. Sterling
3.93
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
On a frigid December night, Megan Floyd vanishes from the mountain town of Fraser, Colorado. The ex… read more
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- audiobook
31. The Black Cat and Other Short Stories
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.56
Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition
Three classic short stories from legendary writer Edgar Allan Poe. An Edgar Allan Poe short story c… read more
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