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“charif majdalani”

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  • Moving the Palace

    by Charif Majdalani ...
    "A Middle Eastern heart-of-darkness tale that flows like a dream . . . Crackling with razor-sharp humor" ( The New York Times).At the dawn of the twentieth century, a young Lebanese explorer leaves the Levant for the wilds of Africa, encountering an eccentric English colonel in Sudan and enlisting in his service. In this lush chronicle of far-flung adventure, the military recruit crosses paths ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A History of the Big House

    A Novel

    by Charif Majdalani ...
    Translated by Ruth Diver ...
    This vibrant family saga chronicles the rise and fall of the Nassar clan, as they navigate the great events of the 20th century in Lebanon, from the Ottoman Empire to the French Mandate.At the end of the 19th century, a man is forced to flee his village after a quarrel. Starting over with nothing, the banished, audacious Wakim Nassar will create orange plantations on the outskirts of Beirut and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Beirut 2020: Diary of the Collapse

    by Charif Majdalani ...
    Translated by Ruth Diver ...
    **World Literature Today: Notable Translation of the YearPopMatters: Best Book of the YearTold in elegant, evocative prose, a devastating and necessary testament to the August explosion that thoughtfully examines the crises that preceded it and its aftermath.**At the start of the summer of 2020, in a Lebanon ruined by economic crisis and political corruption, in an exhausted Beirut still rising up ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Moving the Palace

    by Charif Majdalani ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Davis ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 52 min

    At the dawn of the twentieth century, a young Lebanese adventurer leaves the Levant to explore the wilds of Africa, encountering an eccentric English colonel in Sudan and enlisting in his service. In this lush chronicle of far-flung adventure, the military recruit crosses paths with a compatriot who has dismantled a sumptuous palace in Tripoli and is transporting it across the continent on a camel ... Read more

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    Mistress of the Ritz

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    Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat ...

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    A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II—while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hôtel Ritz in Paris—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue.“A compelling portrait of a marriage and a nation at war from within.” ... Read more

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    Stay with Me

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    by Ayobami Adebayo ...
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    **A New York Times Notable BookThe New York Times’ Critics’ Top Books of the YearNamed a Best Book of the Year by San Francisco Chronicle, National Public Radio, The Economist, Buzzfeed, Paste Magazine, Southern Living, HelloGiggles, and Shelf AwarenessHuffington Post’s Best Feminist Books of the YearThe New York Post’s Most Thrilling and Fascinating Books of the YearThe New York Public Librar... ... Read more

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    Year of Wonders

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    by Geraldine Brooks ...
    Narrated by Geraldine Brooks ...

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    **“Plague stories remind us that we cannot manage without community . . . Year of Wonders is a testament to that very notion.” – The Washington PostAn unforgettable tale, set in 17th century England, of a village that quarantines itself to arrest the spread of the plague, from the author The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize**When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from ... Read more

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    Caleb's Crossing

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    by Geraldine Brooks ...
    Narrated by Jennifer Ehle ...

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    A bestselling tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure from the author of The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.Bethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's Vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. At age twelve, she meets Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a secret bond that draws each ... Read more

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    Burial Rites

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    by Hannah Kent ...
    Narrated by Morven Christie ...

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    Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes—charged with the brutal murder of her former master and sent to await execution on an isolated farm.Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution.Horrified at ... Read more

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    Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

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    "Between author Rooney's story and narrator Xe Sands's craftsmanship, this Walk will sweep listeners off their feet...Through Sands we feel the force of Lillian's personality — with all its drive, wit, and grace — as well as the counterforces that want to constrain it." — AudioFile MagazineNOW A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLERA love letter to city life in all its guts and grandeur, Lillian Boxfish Takes ... Read more

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    The Revisioners

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    Narrated by Adenrele Ojo, Myra Lucretia Taylor ...

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    Following her National Book Award–nominated debut novel, A Kind of Freedom, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton returns with this equally elegant and historically inspired story of survivors and healers, of black women and their black sons, set in the American South.In 1925, Josephine is the proud owner of a thriving farm. As a child, she channeled otherworldly power to free herself from slavery. Now, her ... Read more

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    Where the Dead Sit Talking

    by Brandon Hobson ...
    Narrated by Eric Michael Summerer ...

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    With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface—that is, until he meets the seventeen-year-old Rosemary, another youth staying with the Troutts.Sequoyah ... Read more

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