 | Pomegranate Soup: A Novel by Marsha Mehran
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $8.37 Traditional Persian recipes begin each chapter and are incorporated into the story as we meet the 3 Aminpour sisters as they fulfill their dreams in 1980's Ireland.
|
 | Kabul by M. E. Hirsh
Buy used from: $8.54 Scene:Afghanistan just before the 1973 Soviet invasion. Plot: Sibling rivalry, romance, and a country and family torn apart by divergent political beliefs.
|
 | The Distance Between Us by Masha Hamilton
Buy new: $12.11 / Used from: $1.99 Fictional account of Middle East violence that accurately parallels todays headlines.
|
 | The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $0.01 Shamed, disowned and forced to leave Iran, this is a story of love & healing
|
 | The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $0.01 9/11 forever changes the life of a Princeton college grad of Muslim background.
|
 | Against Gravity by Farnoosh Moshiri
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $1.86 Fascinating story of 3 lives and how history can shape or destroy us.
|
 | The Rug Merchant by Meg Mullins
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $0.01 Romance blooms between an Iranian immigrant and an American college student.
|
 | The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $1.90 Examine the tangled history of two families, one Turkish and one Armenian American and the ties that link them.
|
 | The Space Between Us: A Novel (P.S.) by Thrity Umrigar
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $7.49 Compelling story of betrayal and the strong bonds between two women in modern day India. This is listed at teen-lit, but everyone can benefit from this compelling book.
|
 | Bitter Sweets by Roopa Farooki
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $4.99 The lies that bind a woman to her family and takes the reader on a trip from Calcutta to Pakistan to a London sweet shop.
|
 | Invisible Lives by Anjali Banerjee
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $1.24 Meet the young woman who has the uncanny ability to read peoples emotions in this unique and entertaining offering
|
 | Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (Oprah's Book Club) by Malika Oufkir
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.46 True story that chrolicles a familys journey from a life of privilege and wealth to imprisonment in a Moroccan penal colony. Their daring escape, recapture and final flight to freedom is compelling rreading.
|
 | The Horseman by Kristina O'Donnelly
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $9.47 Elegant epic set in 1960's Turkey that blends romance, past life regression, politics and religion into a spectacular read. If you like history, sizzling romance, political intrigue (or all of the above) this book is for you.
|
 | Winter in Kandahar by Steven E. Wilson
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $8.45 Clan rivalries, intrigue, history and cultural differences make this story about a little known corner of Afghanistan a real contender as a great modern spy novel. Don't let the slow pace at the start of the book put you off. Keep reading...you'll be glad you did.
|
 | A Thousand Veils by D. J. Murphy
Buy new: $19.75 / Used from: $18.95 A stunning scenario that allows us to occupy a front row seat as the life of Fatima Shihabi, poet-journalist and reluctant dissident unfolds. Should she abandon her child, place her family in jeopardy and flee her country in order to save herself? Read and see
|
Listmania!
