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  • The Lover

    The First Sufi Mystery

    by Laury Silvers ...
    Series Book 1 - The Sufi Mysteries
    Baghdad 295 hijri/907 CEZaytuna just wants to be left alone to her ascetic practices and nurse her dark view of the world. But when an impoverished servant girl she barely knows comes and begs her to bring some justice to the death of a local boy, she is forced to face the suffering of the most vulnerable in Baghdad and the emotional and mystical legacy of her mother, a famed ecstatic whose love ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Unseen

    A Sufi Mystery

    by Laury Silvers ...
    Series Book 3 - The Sufi Mysteries Quartet
    Laury Silvers is a retired historian of early Islam and early Sufism. She is a North American Muslim living in Toronto.Book Three in The Sufi Mysteries QuartetIt’s easier to solve a crime than solve yourselfBaghdad, 295 Hijri (908 CE)When a young man is found dead, killed in the exact manner as a martyr slain on the fields of Karbala some two hundred years before, there is no mistaking it as ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Peace

    A Sufi Mystery

    by Laury Silvers ...
    Series series The Sufi Mysteries Quartet
    “A fitting end for Zaytuna.”Karen Heenan, author of The Tudor Court Series_________________Baghdad, 297 Hijri (909 CE)When an unscrupulous young scholar who claims to possess a controversial Quran manuscript goes missing, most of his colleagues are only too happy to see him gone. Is he merely drunk in one of Baghdad’s gambling houses? Is he hiding while he considers what to do with the manuscript? ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Jealous

    A Sufi Mystery

    by Laury Silvers ...
    Series Book 2 - The Sufi Mysteries
    Book Two in the Sufi Mysteries SeriesBaghdad 295 hijri/907 CEA woman’s howl of pain echoed through the courtyard. “She’s killed him!” Her husband’s face was twisted with terror, staring at something that was not there, looking at the space just over his chest, grasping at his left arm as if to wrest some unseen force away. Saliha gasped, “A jinn! God protect us from evil things!”When a ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Revenge In Three

    by Laury Silvers, Jibril Stevenson, J. Austin Yoshino ...
    REVENGE IN THREELove, money, power, betrayal... revenge. The Count of Monte Cristo has enthralled generations of readers the world over. Now three Muslim authors offer their interpretations of this classic tale. From the seedy underbelly of a medieval plague fortress, to the lawless borderlands of the Wild West, to the darkest depths of outer space, each novella delivers a full dose of adventure ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • A Soaring Minaret

    Abu Bakr al-Wasiti and the Rise of Baghdadi Sufism

    by Laury Silvers ...
    The development of early Islamic mysticism and metaphysics is presented through the life and work of theologian Abu Bakr al-Wasiti.Sufi scholar Abu Bakr al-Wasiti (d. ca. 320 AH/932 CE) was called a "soaring minaret" for his cutting comments and keen theological insights. Wasiti's life is little known today, but elements of his lost Qur ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Some Justice

    The First Ghazi Ammar Medieval Mystery

    by Laury Silvers ...
    Series Book 1 - A Ghazi Ammar Medieval Mystery
    Transport Yourself to the Scene of a Crime in Medieval BaghdadThe Beloved Characters of The Sufi Mysteries Quartet Return in a New SeriesA renowned embellisher and beloved father is dead, and the police have written it off as a natural death. The family refuses to accept it and begs Ammar to investigate. The problem is, nearly every clue points to suicide.Since opening Ghazi Ammar's Agency of ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Disgraced

    A Toronto Thriller

    by Jayne Green, Laury Silvers ...
    Series Book 1 - Toronto Stories
    When cybersecurity expert Nick Barnes targets the payday loan company that ruined his mother's life, those in his path are forced into desperate and compromising actions. From a young journalist who sacrifices her integrity to a lonely man caught in the cult behind it all, Nick's vigilantism triggers redemption for some and self-destruction for those unwilling to confront their own twisted desire ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew

    by M.G. Aune, Bruce E. Brandt, Douglas Bruster, Sheila T. Cavanagh, Alice Dailey, Silver Damsen, Laurie Ellinghausen, Laura Grace Godwin, Anne F. Gossage, Peter H. Greenfield, Jay L. Halio, Peter C. Herman, James Hirsch, Shawn Kairschner, Wesley Kisting, Cynthia Lewis, Todd M. Lidh, Laury Magnus, Robert Matz, Michael McClintock, Joseph M. Ortiz, Margaret Maurer, Meg F. Pearson, Joseph Ricke, Edward L. Rocklin, James M. Welsh ...
    Series Book 123 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    The impetus for this Approaches to Teaching volume on The Taming of the Shrew grew from the editors' desire to discover why a play notorious for its controversial exploration of conflicts between men and women and the challenges of marriage is enduringly popular in the classroom, in the performing arts, and in scholarship. The result is a volume that offers practical advice to teachers on editions ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Last Girl

    My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

    by Nadia Murad ...
    WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE • In this “courageous” (The Washington Post) memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story.Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters lived a quiet life. Nadia had dreams of ... Read more

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  • Growing Up bin Laden

    Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World

    by Najwa bin Laden, Omar bin Laden, Jean Sasson ...
    The New York Times calls GROWING UP BIN LADEN: "The most complete account available of the terrorist's immediate family." (May 15, 2011)A true story that few ever believed would come to light, GROWING UP BIN LADEN uncovers startling revelations and hidden secrets carefully guarded by the most wanted terrorist of our lifetime, Osama bin Laden."I was not always the wife of Osama bin Laden. Once I ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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  • The House of the Mosque

    by Kader Abdolah ...
    Translated by Susan Massotty ...
    This "beautifully written," international bestselling novel charts the triumphs and tragedies of an Iranian family on the brink of national revolution ( Daily Mail, UK).Senejan, Iran, 1969. The family of Aqa Jaan has lived for eight centuries in the house of the mosque. Now it is occupied by the families of three cousins: Aqa Jaan, a merchant and head of the city's bazaar; Alsaberi, the imam of ... Read more

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