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  • Happiness Has a Slippery Tail

    by Abla Farhoud ...
    Translated by Judith Weisz Woodsworth ...
    Series series Literary Translation
    This novel paints the portrait of a Lebanese family that has settled in Montreal. The central figure is Dounia, a 75-year-old mother and grandmother. Hers is a story of loss—she first leaves her own village to live in her husband’s hometown, and then is wrenched from her homeland, not once but twice, to live in a strange land whose language and customs are foreign to her.Dounia can neither read ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Lion Women of Tehran

    by Marjan Kamali ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom nationally bestselling author Marjan Kamali, this perfect book club read is “evocative...and a powerful portrait of friendship, feminism, and political activism” (People**) set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran.**In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • What I Know About You

    by Éric Chacour ...
    Translated by Pablo Strauss ...
    NOMINATED FOR THE 2026 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDLONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2025CBC BOOKS CANADIAN FICTION BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 GILLER PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE 2024 DAYNE OGILVIE PRIZE FOR LGBTQ2S+ EMERGING WRITERSFINALIST FOR THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZESTARRED REVIEWS IN KIRKUS, <em... ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Hope Has Two Daughters

    by Monia Mazigh ...
    Translated by Fred Reed ...
    A bracing and vividly told story set against the backdrops of the Tunisian Bread Riots in 1984 and the Jasmine Revolution in 2010, Hope Has Two Daughters offers a glimpse inside revolution from the perspectives of a mother and daughter.Unwilling to endure a culture of silence and submission, and disowned by her family, Nadia leaves her native Tunisia in 1984 amidst deadly violence, chaos, and ... Read more

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  • Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits

    by Laila Lalami ...
    In this literary novel, four Moroccans escape their circumstances to seek a new beginning for themselves—and places they can home—in Spain."A dream of a debut, by turns troubling and glorious, angry and wise." —Junot DiazHope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, the debut of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Laila Lalami, evokes the grit and enduring grace that is modern Morocco. The book ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Secret Son

    A Novel

    by Laila Lalami ...
    A literary novel about a young man fighting for his future in poverty-stricken Morocco.Raised by his mother in a one-room house in the slums of Casablanca, Youssef El Mekki has always had big dreams of living another life in another world. Suddenly his dreams are within reach when he discovers that his father—whom he'd been led to believe was dead—is very much alive. A wealthy businessman, he ... Read more

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  • The Tale Of Two Nazanins

    by Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Susan McClelland ...
    Nazanin Afshin-Jam was on top of the world. In 2006, she had just signed her first record deal and, after placing as first runner-up for Miss World, was a sought-after fashion model and icon within the Iranian dissident community. But one afternoon, she received an email that would change the course of her life. The subject of that email—a Kurdish girl named Nazanin Fatehi—was facing execution in ... Read more

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  • The Bruising of Qilwa

    by Naseem Jamnia ...
    I loved this gorgeous book about blood magic, chosen family and refugees in a hostile city. Naseem Jamnia has created a rich, complex world.Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky[STARRED REVIEW] A delight to read. Highly recommended.Library JournalIn this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonb... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • All the Parts We Exile

    by Roza Nozari ...
    **WINNER OF THE DAYNE OGILVIE PRIZE FOR LGBTQ2S+ EMERGING WRITERS • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 TORONTO BOOK AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE JUDY GRAHN AWARD FOR LESBIAN NONFICTIONFrom a queer Muslim woman and artist, a generous, heartfelt and insightful memoir about family and finding the path to one's truest self.**The youngest of three daughters, and the only one born in Canada soon after her parents' ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • About My Mother

    by Tahar Ben Jelloun ...
    Translated by Roz Schwartz ...
    Since she's been ill, Lalla Fatma has become a frail little thing with a faltering memory. Lalla Fatma thinks she's in Fez in 1944, where she grew up, not in Tangier in 2000, where this story begins. She calls out to family members who are long dead and loses herself in the streets of her childhood, yearning for her first love and the city she left behind. By her bedside, her son Tahar listens to ... Read more

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  • A Palace in the Old Village

    by Tahar Ben Jelloun ...
    From 'Morocco's greatest living author' (The Guardian) comes a heartbreaking novel about parents and children, the powerful pull of home and the yearning for tradition and family. Mohammed has spent the past 40 years working in France. As he approaches retirement, he takes stock of his life - his devotion to Islam and to his assimilated children - and decides to return to Morocco, where he spends ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Book of Khartoum

    A City in Short Fiction

    by Ali al-Makk, Ahmed al-Malik, Abdel Aziz Baraka Sakin, Bawadir Bashir, Rania Mamoun, Bushra al-Fadil, Mamoun Eltlib, Hammour Ziada, Isa al-Hilu, Arthur Gabriel Yak ...
    Series series Reading the City
    Khartoum, according to one theory, takes its name from the Beja word hartooma, meaning meeting place . Geographically, culturally and historically, the Sudanese capital is certainly that: a meeting place of the Blue and White Niles, a confluence of Arabic and African histories, and a destination point for countless refugees displaced by Sudan s long, troubled history of forced migration.In the ... Read more

    $7.37 USD