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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Ibrahim Al-Brehm, a respectable husband and police inspector on Jeddah's murder squad, goes to Katya, one of the few women on the force, to locate a missing woman and Katya uncovers a murder which connects the woman to a human trafficking ring.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
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. When the two end...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Twenty-five years into her marriage to wealthy Abdullah al-Baylani, the American Rosalie is shattered to find that her husband has taken another wife, and worries about the effect this will have on their teenage children, Faisal and Mariam--worries that will soon prove prescient.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
8) Finding Nouf
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Nouf goes missing and is found drowned in the desert outside Jeddah, Nayir--a desert guide hired by her prominent family to search for her--feels compelled to find out what really happened.
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
Español
Description
"En esta nueva novela, Deepak Chopra nos ofrece la apasionante vida de uno de los profetas más grandes: Mahoma. Esposo y padre de familia, Dios le habla a través del arcángel Gabriel para encomendarle una peligrosa tarea: convencer a su pueblo de que renuncie a sus ídolos ancestrales y a la veneración de múltiples dioses para confiar en un dios único."-- Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
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.
12) Sword of God
Author
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In a secret bunker, one of the world's most dangerous terrorists is rescued, and his captors are slaughtered. Jonathan Payne vows revenge -- but there is more to the bloody atrocity than terrorist reprisal. There is a plot in motion that will burn the world in the fires of holy war.
13) The new girl
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
At an exclusive private school in Switzerland, mystery surrounds the identity of the beautiful girl who arrives each morning and leaves each afternoon in a heavily protected motorcade fit for a head of state. She is said to be the daughter of a wealthy international businessman. She is not. And when she is brutally kidnapped across the border in the Haute-Savoie region of France, Gabriel Allon, the legendary chief of Israeli intelligence, is thrust...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
""Without guides who reached higher consciousness, the world would be bereft of its greatest visionaries - fatally bereft, in fact. Muhammad sensed this aching gap in the world around him. He appeals to me most because he remade the world by going inward. That's the kind of achievement only available on the spiritual path. In the light of what the Prophet achieved, he raises my hope that all of us who lead everyday lives can be touched by the divine....
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