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  • Audiobook

    Strange Mysteries Of The Universe

    Exploring Cosmic Secrets From Black Holes To The Edge Of Reality

    Narrated by Rick Font ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 29 min

    The universe is vast, silent, and filled with mysteries that continue to challenge everything we think we know.Strange Mysteries Of The Universe takes you on a fascinating journey through the most intriguing and unexplained phenomena of the cosmos—from the invisible matter holding galaxies together to the powerful gravity of black holes that bend space and time itself.This audiobook explores deep ... Read more

    $2.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Temple Folk

    by Aaliyah Bilal ...
    **Finalist for the National Book Award for FictionA “splendid and grand collection” (Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Known World) of literary short stories portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with faith, family, and freedom in America.**In Temple Folk, Black Muslims contemplate the convictions of their race, religion, economics, politics, and sexuality ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Dogstar Rising

    A Makana Mystery

    by Parker Bilal ...
    Series Book 2 - A Makana Investigation
    Summer, 2001. The mutilated bodies of young boys are turning up in the backstreets of Cairo, and the finger of suspicion is pointing at the city's Coptic community. As Makana, a private investigator who fled his native Sudan a decade ago, watches the embers of religious hatred begin to glow, he has a premonition that history may be about to repeat itself. But for now, Makana has another case to ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Golden Scales

    A Makana Investigation

    by Parker Bilal ...
    Series Book 1 - A Makana Investigation
    A lost child. A missing hero. A bitter rivalry.In Cairo the ghosts of the past are stirring...The ancient city of Cairo is a whirling mix of the old and the new, where fates collide and the super rich rub shoulders with the desperate and the dispossessed. It is a place where ambition and corruption go hand in hand, and where people can disappear in the blink of an eye.Makana is a former police ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Cold Nights of Childhood

    by Tezer Özlü ...
    Translated by Maureen Freely ...
    FINALIST FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE TRANSLATION PRIZE**“A profoundly moving account of desperation, exhilaration, and endurance.”—**Kirkus ReviewsThe Bell JarGood Morning, Midnight, by one of Turkey’s most beloved writers.The narrator of Tezer Özlü’s novel is between lovers. She is in and out of psychiatric wards, where she is forced to undergo electroshock treatments. She is ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Journey to the Edge of Life

    by Tezer Özlü ...
    Translated by Maureen Freely ...
    A writer finds solitude and salvation tracing the lives and deaths of three of her literary lights in a haunted and lyrical travelogue from NBCC Award-winner Tezer Özlü.An unnamed writer embarks on an obsessive journey through Europe, drawn to the gravesites of her literary idols—Cesare Pavese, Italo Svevo, Franz Kafka—putting her life, her writing, and her politics in conversation with theirs ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ghost Runner

    by Parker Bilal ...
    Series Book 3 - Makana Mysteries
    It is 2002 and as tanks roll into the West Bank and the reverberations of 9/11 echo across the globe, tensions are running high on Cairo's streets.Private Investigator Makana, in exile from his native Sudan and increasingly haunted by memories of his wife and daughter, is shaken out of his despondency when a routine surveillance job leads him to the horrific murder of a teenage girl. In a country ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • City of Jackals

    A Makana Mystery

    by Parker Bilal ...
    Series Book 5 - A Makana Investigation
    Mourad Hafiz appears to have dropped out of university and disappeared. Engaged by his family to try and find him, Makana comes to believe that the Hafiz boy became involved in some kind of political activity just prior to his disappearance. But before he can discover more, the investigation is sidetracked: a severed head turns up on the riverbank next to his home, and Makana finds himself drawn ... Read more

    $15.49 USD

  • Shoot an Iraqi

    Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun

    Wafaa Bilal's childhood in Iraq was defined by the horrific rule of Saddam Hussein, two wars, a bloody uprising and time spent interned in chaotic refugee camps in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Bilal eventually made it to the United States to become a professor and a successful artist, but when his brother was killed by an unmanned U.S. Predator drone, he decided to use his art to confront those in the ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dark Water

    by Parker Bilal ...
    Series Book 6 - A Makana Investigation
    The sixth thriller in the Makana series called "excellent" by Marilyn Stasio in the New York Times Book Review.When an Englishman, Marcus Winslow, appears at Private Investigator Makana's door one April morning, Makana does not realize that he will soon risk losing everything he has built for himself in Cairo. Winslow represents the British Secret Intelligence Services and he has a special mission ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Burning Gates

    A Makana Mystery

    by Parker Bilal ...
    Series Book 4 - A Makana Investigation
    In Cairo, private investigator Makana is called into the office of his new client, a powerful art dealer known as Kasabian. Kasabian wants him to track down a famous painting that went missing from Baghdad during the US invasion. All the dealer can tell Makana is that the piece was smuggled into Egypt by an Iraqi war criminal who doesn't want to be found.The world of art is a far cry from the ... Read more

    $15.49 USD

  • The Girls

    by Qasim Bilal ...
    Series Book 1 - The Girls Volume 1
    The Girls is a gripping paranormal fantasy horror novel following five teenage girls—Lila, Amara, Sophie, Tara, and Nia—who unleash a malevolent entity, the Keeper, after discovering a cursed amulet in Blackwood Hollow’s haunted manor. As they battle the vengeful spirit tied to their town’s dark history, the girls uncover their own supernatural powers and face terrifying consequences. Each of the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus