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 A Bit of Crack and Car Culture
Bess Ross
Scotland the Best ranks it as one of the ten essential Scottish books. Few writers in Scotland can catch a sense of place and time in the way that Bess Ross can. Her warmth and humanity have ensured her a growing audience over the years.$12.95
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 Abductor, The
Leila Marouane
Mrs. Nayla Zeitoun has just been informed by her son Omar that she has become a grandmother for the first time. In the ensuing excitement, he mentions the baby's weight whereupon Mrs. Zeitoun flies out of the house with a handful of salt to di...
$12.95
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 All That's Left to You
A novella and other stories
Ghassan Kanafani; translated by May Jayyusi and Jeremy Reed; introduction by Roger Allen
It should come as no surprise to learn that Palestinian writers themselves have been in the forefront of those who have addressed themselves to the tragedy of their own people, and in a variety of genres and styles… While all these writers dis...
$12.95
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 Alonso and the Drug Baron
Evan Jones
Everybody wants Alonso dead.
Detective Sergeant Swaby of the Jamaica Constabulary, who has set him up to take the rap for Chin Lee's murder, wants Alonso dead. The assassin Bulldog, who threw Chin Lee's body over the balcony of on...
$12.00
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 Another Sea, Another Shore
Stories of Iranian Migration
Shouleh Vatanabadi and Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami
In today’s world, with its often fluid national borders, many outstanding literary works have given voice to the life experience of immigrants, whose very being challenges traditional notions of national identity and culture. The recent immigra...
$15.00
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 As Good as It Gets
Simon Nolan
Steve, Ward, Kelvin and Marina share an apartment in Brighton, they are all flat broke and in no hurry to make any decisions about their lives. One day Ben, a seedy friend of Steve, shows up and asks to be able to hang out for a while, he hides his b...
$12.00
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 At the Wall of the Almighty
Farnoosh Moshiri
"I know that I'm in the hallways of El-Deen, the central prison of the Holy Republic, and I know that this guard is taking me from my solitary confinement — the Black Box — to cell number four, cell of the Unbreakables. But this...
$16.00
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 Attila
The Scourge of God
Ross Laidlaw
Early fifth century AD. The Western Roman Empire has been overrun by German tribes. Too weak to expel them, the Imperial government has been forced to grant federate status to the invaders. Aetius, the last of the great Roman generals, becomes the vi...
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 B as in Beirut
Iman Humaydan Younes; translated by Max Weiss
The four interlocking narratives that make up this extraordinary novel belong to four women who live in the same apartment building in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war. There is Lilian with her two children, desperate to emigrate, with or without...
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 Balcony over the Fakihani,A
Liyana Badr; translated by Peter Clark with Christopher Tingley
The title story of Liyana Badr’s remarkable collection of three short novellas interweaves the narratives of three Palestinians, two women and one man, relating their successive uprootings: from Palestine in 1948, from Jordan during Black Septe...
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 Beneath a Sky of Porphyry
Aicha Lemsine; translated by Dorothy S. Blair
This novel tells of everyday lives of villagers - both native Algerians and the occupying French and the effects of the War of Liberation against the French between 1950 and 1974....
$12.95
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 Bering
A Novel of the Russian Imperial Great Northern Expedition
Edward John Crockett
Empress Anna Ivanova decrees that Danish-born Captain-Commander Vitus Jonassen Bering is to spearhead an ambitious Imperial Great Northern Expedition to explore and map the coastal waters off Siberia, chart a northern sea route to Japan and Cathay, a...
$19.95
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 Bigot Hall
Steve Aylett
Welcome to Bigot Hall, the nightmare family home most people would want to forget, but which Steve Aylett chooses to celebrate. Uncle Burst believes his face is made of pasta; the violent, grill-mouthed Uncle Snapper is confined to a tree house; Uncl...
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 Bilal
(new ed. 2007)
H.A.L. Craig
Famed for his beautiful voice, Bilal is known as the first muezzin in Islam. He hears the Prophet begin his teaching and when told to beat a fellow slave for repeating Mohammad's assertion that slaves are the equal of their masters, he refu...
$20.00
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 Bleeding of the Stone, The
Ibrahim al-Koni; translated by May Jayyusi and Christopher Tingley
The moufflon, a wild sheep prized for its meat, continues to survive in the remote mountain desert of southern Libya. Only Asouf, a lone bedouin who cherishes the desert and identifies with its creatures, knows exactly where it is to be found. Now he...
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 Bloody Irish
Bob Curran
Did you know that the oldest recorded vampire story comes from Ireland? This book discusses the ancient Celtic beliefs about death and how these were assimilated by Christianity; the importance which the ancient Celts and early Christians placed on...
$19.95
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 Bridal Path
Nigel Tranter
On the remote isle of Eorsa, Ewan MacEwan has a problem: there are no suitable young women for him to marry. His arrival in Oban looking for a bride quickly leads to a series of misunderstandings and misadventures, as Ewan falls foul of the law and...
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 Brother Man
Roger Mais
Originally published in 1954 and acclaimed around the world as one of the classics of Caribbean fiction, Brother Man is the tragic story of an honest Rastafarian healer caught up in a web of intrigue and betrayal in Jamaica's tough West...
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 Burning Mirror, The
Suhayl Saadi
The Burning Mirror is a mixture of the steamy and the spiritual, the subtle, the baroque and the brutal. The canvas is broad; everything from Glaswegian Asian gangsta stories to themes drawn from various Trans-Mediterranean cultures, from th...
$14.95
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 By the Rivers of Babylon
Khalid Kishtainy
Khalid Kishtainy, depicts in fictional form an episode of Arab Jewish history which seems to have been forgotten. Based on many interviews with Israelis of Iraqi origin By the Rivers of Babylon is a harrowing tale with a love story at its co...
$24.95
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