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Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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From a real-life ambassador's wife comes a harrowing novel about the kidnapping of an American woman in the Middle East and the heartbreaking choices she and her husband each must make in the hope of being reunited.
When bohemian artist Miranda falls in love with Finn, the British ambassador to an Arab country, she finds herself thrust into a life for which she has no preparation. Trailed everywhere by bodyguards to protect her from the dangers of...
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Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Two regimes have already fallen to the terrorists, and J. B. Collins must act fast if the 'New York Times' foreign correspondent hopes to stop the al-Qaeda splinter cell from attacking an unknown third target with the chemical weapons it just commandeered in Syria.
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English
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For years, ex-Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and facing off against America's enemies at every turn. When Moore arrives at a rendezvous to take charge of a high-ranking Taliban captive, the meeting takes a horrific turn.
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Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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"The president of the United States . . . is missing."With these words, New York Times foreign correspondent J. B. Collins - reporting from the scene of a devastating attack by ISIS terrorists on an Arab-Israeli peace summit in Amman - puts the entire world on high alert. Israeli and Palestinian leaders are critically injured. Jordans king is fighting for the very existence of his kingdom. And the U.S. president is missing and presumed captured.As...
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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Based on four years of intensive primary document research, "Lawrence in Arabia" definitively overturns received wisdom on how the modern Middle East was formed. Sweeping in its action, keen in its portraiture, acid in its condemnation of the destruction wrought by European colonial plots, this is a book that brilliantly captures the way in which the folly of the past creates the anguish of the present.
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Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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A USA Today and Publishers Weekly Bestseller
#1 Fiction (ECPA) Christian Bestseller
"It was the perfect day—until the gunfire."
Nir Tavor is an Israeli secret service operative turned talented Mossad agent.
Nicole le Roux is a model with a hidden skill.
A terrorist attack brings them together, and then work forces them apart—until they're unexpectedly called back into each...
#1 Fiction (ECPA) Christian Bestseller
"It was the perfect day—until the gunfire."
Nir Tavor is an Israeli secret service operative turned talented Mossad agent.
Nicole le Roux is a model with a hidden skill.
A terrorist attack brings them together, and then work forces them apart—until they're unexpectedly called back into each...
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Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Language
English
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After Israel launches a first strike on Iran, wiping out their nuclear weapons, it is up to undercover CIA operative David Shirazi to prevent a counter attack by the Iranians who have managed to hold onto two nuclear war heads by hiding them in an undisclosed location.
8) Wishing moon
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After a fourteen-year-old orphan named Aminah comes to possess a magic lamp, the wishes granted her by the genie inside it allow her to alter her life by choosing prosperity, purpose, and romance.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Following his #1 New York Times bestseller, Our Endangered Values, the former president and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers an assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice to Palestine. President Carter, who was able to negotiate peace between Israel and Egypt, has remained deeply involved in Middle East affairs since leaving the White House. Now he shares his intimate knowledge of the history...
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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Exiled to the United States after her father, a Middle Eastern dictator, is killed in a coup, fifteen-year-old Laila must cope with a completely new way of life, the truth of her father's regime, and her mother and brother's ways of adjusting.
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Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Believing he has discovered the burial chamber of a near-mythical Egyptian pharaoh and a mystical double crown, famed archaeologist Porter Stone and his team suffer bizarre accidents that Professor Jeremy Logan is brought in to investigate.
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Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
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English
Description
In 1928, when timid ten-year-old Nate learns that his parents have been lost at sea, he joins his father's cousin on a flight to Arabia where they must oversee the death and rebirth of the phoenix, thus beginning his training as a "beastologist."
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Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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The enemy is invisible and moving fast. The body count is rising. And time is running out. With the unexpected death of Russian President Aleksandr Luganov, and Iran's efforts to acquire fully operational nuclear warheads successfully thwarted, American President Andrew Clarke decides the moment has come to unveil his comprehensive proposal to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians. However, when a series of senior American officials involved...
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English
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Despite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle East has long sheltered many distinctive and strange faiths: one regards the Greek prophets as incarnations of God, another reveres Lucifer in the form of a peacock, and yet another believes that their followers are reincarnated beings who have existed in various forms for thousands of years. These religions represent the last vestiges of the magnificent civilizations in ancient history:...
16) Promised land
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
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"Despite their Israeli citizenship, Hana and Daud cannot safely return to their homeland because a dangerous terrorist ring is threatening Daud. Hana is perfectly fine remaining in the United States, working for a law firm in Atlanta, especially when she learns she's pregnant. But Daud can't shake the draw to return home to Israel, even if it makes him a walking target. Hana is helping her boss plan a huge Middle East summit in Atlanta when Jakob...
17) Wild Poppies
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
Two brothers fight to reunite amidst the turmoil of the Syrian War.
Since the passing of their father, Omar has tried—and in his little brother Sufyan's eyes, failed—to be the man of his family of Syrian refugees. As Omar waits in line for rations, longing for the books he left behind when his family fled their home, Sufyan explores more nontraditional methods to provide for his family. Ignoring his brother's...
Since the passing of their father, Omar has tried—and in his little brother Sufyan's eyes, failed—to be the man of his family of Syrian refugees. As Omar waits in line for rations, longing for the books he left behind when his family fled their home, Sufyan explores more nontraditional methods to provide for his family. Ignoring his brother's...
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Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas L. Friedman of The New York Times, author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree, has drawn on his decade in the Middle East to produce the most trenchant, vivid, and thought-provoking book yet on the region.
No issue in international politics has been more hotly debated than the Arab-Israeli conflict. And no reporter has illuminated both the conflict and the rhythms of life in the Middle East with more immediacy
...19) Sharp shot
Author
Publisher
Speak Group
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
British twins Rich and Jade Chance are back for a third adventure with their spy father as they try to save the Middle East and the President of the United States from a terrorist government coup.
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Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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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...