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2023 Read Widely: The Middle East & North Africa
Muslim American Heritage - Adult
National Arab American Heritage Month
Plagues
Muslim American Heritage - Adult
National Arab American Heritage Month
Plagues
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"A new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic-a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague taking over a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire. It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingeria-the 29th state of the Ottoman Empire-located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. Half the population is Muslim, the other half are Orthodox Greeks, and tension...
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"Millionaire Grayson Landers has fled the paparazzi back home--only to find himself in another media storm: rescuing the king's niece from a thief! Lady Annabelle DiSalvo is no pampered princess--she's come to the Mediterranean island of Mirraccino to solve the mystery of her mother's death. Grayson can't help but want to assist her. Plagued by guilt over not being able to save his ex, this is his chance for redemption. Only he absolutely cannot fall...
4) Noce zarazy
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Polish
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Liczba ofiar szybko rośnie. Ale zaraza nie jest jedynym zabójcą. Zamordowany zostaje główny inspektor sanitarny, Bonkowski Pasza, a wkrótce potem dochodzi do otrucia jego asystenta. Czy te zbrodnie mają coś wspólnego z epidemią? Śledztwo utyka w martwym punkcie, fiaskiem kończą się też próby zaprowadzenia kwarantanny i izolacji. Podzieleni i sfrustrowani mieszkańcy - Grecy i Turcy, muzułmanie i chrześcijanie - w sobie nawzajem upatrują...
5) Chumni nochi
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Ukrainian
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"Na rubezhi XIX--KHKH stolit' stara Osmans'ka imperiya, horezvisna «khvora lyudyna Yevropy», vzhe ne spravlyayet'sya z upravlinnyam na mistsyakh. I v tsiy sytuatsiyi chuma, shcho pryyshla zi Skhodu na mal'ovnychyy seredzemnomors'kyy ostriv Minger, staye problemoyu zdebil'shoho samykh yoho zhyteliv, hubernatora ta molodoho stolychnoho epidemioloha Nuri-pashi, yakyy opynyvsya tut razom iz druzhynoyu Pakize-sultan -- ridnoyu pleminnytseyu sultana Abdul-Hamida,...
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Interweaving three narratives, a story of love, mystery, and murder during World War II follows three courageous women--an award-winning British landscape designer, a young, blind perfumer's apprentice, and a junior British intelligence officer.
Near the end of World War II, Marthe, a young blind woman apprenticed at a perfume factory in Nazi-occupied Provence, finds herself at the center of a Resistance cell. Iris, a junior British intelligence...