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  • Damascus Nights

    by Rafik Schami ...
    Rafik Schami's award-winning novel. In the classical Arab tradition of tale-telling, here is a magical book that celebrates the power of storytelling, delightfully transformed for modern sensibilities by an award-winning author. The time is present-day Damascus, and Salim the coachman, the city's most famous storyteller, is mysteriously struck dumb. To break the spell, seven friends gather for ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Dark Side of Love

    by Rafik Schami, Anthea Bell ...
    A dead man hangs from the portal of St Paul Chapel in Damascus. He was a Muslim officer and he was murdered. But when Detective Barudi sets out to interrogate the man’s mysterious widow, the Secret Service takes the case away from him. Barudi continues to investigate clandestinely and discovers the murderer’s motive: it is a blood feud between the Mushtak and Shahin clans, reaching back to the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Sophia

    or The Beginning of All Tales

    by Rafik Schami ...
    A MASTERPIECE FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE DARK SIDE OF LOVE -- A murder in Damascus, a love with the power to save a young man’s life… In his latest novel, Rafik Schami ventures to the land of his childhood, where he is now unable to safely return: Syria. As a young girl, Sophia falls deeply in love with Karim, but weds a rich goldsmith instead. A few years later, Karim is accused of an ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Calligraphers Secret

    by Rafik Schami, Anthea Bell ...
    Even as a young man, Hamid Farsi is acclaimed as a master of the art of calligraphy. But as time goes by, he sees that weaknesses in the Arabic language and its script limit its uses in the modern world. In a secret society, he works out schemes for radical reform, never guessing what risks he is running. His beautiful wife, Noura, is ignorant of the great plans on her husband’s mind. She knows ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • A Hand Full of Stars

    by Rafik Schami ...
    Amid the turmoil of modern Damascus, one teenage boy finds his political voice in a message of rebellion that echoes throughout Syria and as far away as Western Europe. Inspired by his dearest friend, old Uncle Salim, he begins a journal to record his thoughts and impressions of family, friends, life at school, and his growing feelings for his girlfriend, Nadia. Soon the hidden diary becomes more ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • The Bee Sting

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    by Paul Murray ...
    One of The New York Times T**op 10 Books of the Year**Winner of the An Post Irish Book of the Year, the Nero Gold Prize, and the Nero Book Award for FictionShortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Writers' Prize for FictionFinalist for the Kirkus Prize for FictionOne of The New Yorker's Essential Reads<... ... Read more

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  • Demon Copperhead

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    by Barbara Kingsolver ...
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  • Great Circle: A Read with Jenna Pick

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    by Maggie Shipstead ...
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  • Every Move You Make

    by C.L. Taylor ...
    THE ONLY WAY TO STOP A STALKER IS TO BECOME ONE YOURSELF…‘Exceptional! A breathless, chilling read with twist after brilliant twist. Clever, original and filled with tension.’ Claire Douglas‘A totally brilliant twist. I absolutely loved it!’ Lisa Jewell'Exceedingly clever, tense and satisfying.' Andrea MaraKeep your friends close and your enemies closer…Alexandra, Lucy, Bridget, Rive... ... Read more

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  • The Gardens of Consolation

    by Parisa Reza ...
    Translated by Adriana Hunter ...
    A novel of love, family, and a fight for freedom in Iran featuring a "formidable and hard-to-forget heroine" ( Publishers Weekly).In the early 1920s, in the remote Persian village of Ghamsar, two young people dreaming of a better life fall in love and marry. Sardar brings his bride, Talla, with him across the mountains to the suburbs of Tehran, where the couple settles down and builds a home. From ... Read more

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