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Rabih Alameddine
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Book1Knopf2008
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Description
The city is a shell of the Beirut Osama remembers, but he and his friends and family take solace in the things that have always sustained them: gossip, laughter, and, above all, stories.Osamas grandfather was a hakawati, or storyteller, and his bewitching storiesof his arrival in Lebanon, an orphan of the Turkish wars, and of how he earned the name al-Kharrat, the fibsterare interwoven with classic tales of the Middle East, stunningly reimagined.
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Fic Ala (AVAILABLE)
- Collingswood Adult Fict
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by Terry A. Anderson
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BookCrown1993
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Description
The former Associated Press Chief Middle East Correspondent shares the story of his captivity by Shiite radicals in Beirut, the spiritual rebirth that allowed him to endure, and his ultimate release.
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- Collingswood Adult NonFic
956.9204/4 And (AVAILABLE)
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Milton Viorst
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Book1st edAlfred Knopf1994
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Description
A look at the social, historical, and cultural complexities motivating and tormenting the Arab world takes readers to Baghdad before and after the Gulf War, presents an interview with Egyptian writer Mahfouz, and illuminates life in Syria, Lebanon, and elsewhere.
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909./0974927 Vio (AVAILABLE)
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Florence Parry Heide& Judith Heide Gilliland; illustrated by Ted Lewin
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BookClarion Books1992
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Description
A ten-year-old Lebanese boy balances his life in a war-torn city.
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- Collingswood Juv Fiction
jE Hei (AVAILABLE)
- Collingswood Juv Fiction
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Jostein Gaarder; translated by Paulette Møller
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Book1st edFarrar, Straus and Giroux1994
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Description
Finding two thought-inducing philosophical questions in her mailbox, Sophie enrolls in a correspondence course with a mysterious philosopher, and begins receiving some equally strange letters.
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- Collingswood Adult Paperb
PAP Fic Gaa (AVAILABLE)
- Collingswood Adult Paperb
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Robert Baer
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Publication Details
BookCrown Publishers2002
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Description
A twenty-one-year veteran of the CIAs Directorate of Operations who had left the agency in 1997, Baer observed firsthand how an increasingly bureaucratic CIA lost its way in the postcold war world and refused to adequately acknowledge and neutralize the growing threat of Islamic fundamentalist terror in the Middle East and elsewhere.A throwback to the days when CIA operatives got results by getting their hands dirty and running covert operations, Baer spent his career chasing down leads on suspected terrorists in the worlds most volatile hot spots.
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- Collingswood Adult NonFic
B BAER (AVAILABLE)
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Attribution
Conor Cruise O’Brien
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Publication Details
BookSimon and Schuster1986
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956.94/001 OBr (AVAILABLE)
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Publication Details
Book1Random House2007
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Description
For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives.Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur?
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- Collingswood Adult NonFic
003.54 Tal (AVAILABLE)
- Collingswood Adult NonFic
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Attribution
by Terri Willis
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BookChildren’s Press(CT)2005
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- Collingswood Juv NonFict
j956.92 Wil (AVAILABLE)
- Collingswood Juv NonFict
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Attribution
by Jim Hargrove
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BookChildren’s Press (CT)1991
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Description
Describes the history, geography, reunification, notable cities, government, and lifestyles of Germany.
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Availability
- Collingswood Juv NonFict
j943 Har (AVAILABLE) - Collingswood Juv NonFict
j956.92 Fos (AVAILABLE)
- Collingswood Juv NonFict
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Brigitte Gabriel
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Publication Details
BookSt. Martin’s Press2006
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Links
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Description
Lebanon was the only Christian influenced country in the Middle East, and the Lebanese Civil War was the first front in what has become the worldwide jihad of fundamentalist Islam against non-Muslim peoples. Brigitte warns that the US is threatened by fundamentalist Islamic theology in the same way Lebanon was- radical Islam will stop at nothing short of domination of all non-Muslim countries.
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- Collingswood Adult NonFic
B GABRIEL (AVAILABLE)
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Ari Folman, David Polonsky
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Book1st U.S. edMetropolitan Books2009
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Description
Challenging the collective amnesia of friends and fellow soldiers, Folman painfully, candidly pieces together the war and his place in it. snipers pick off men on donkeys, men in cars, men drinking coffee;
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- Collingswood Adult NonFic
956.92044 Fol (DUE 09-09-10)
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Attribution
Raymond Khoury
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Publication Details
BookFirst EditionDutton Adult2007
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Description
In the powerful new thriller from the author of the international bestseller The Last Templar, a geneticist and a CIA agent on a deadly quest to find the most dangerous book in the world discover a secret that has destroyed everyone in its path for centuries Naples, 1750.
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Fic Kho (AVAILABLE)
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Jacobo Timerman; translated from the Spanish by Miguel Acoca
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Book1stKnopf1982
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- Collingswood Adult NonFic
956.04 Tim (AVAILABLE)
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Attribution
by Jeff Abbott
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Publication Details
BookDutton Adult2008
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Description
The international bestseller returns with his most ambitious, multidimensional, and tightly crafted thriller yet, a breakout achievement featuring his hallmark blend of ordinary people in extraordinary danger. But with everything at stake, Ben has no idea that Pilgrim is harboring some shocking secrets of his ownsecrets that will soon force Ben to confront just how blurred the line has become between best friends and bitter enemies.
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- Collingswood Adult Fict
Fic Abb (AVAILABLE)
- Collingswood Adult Fict
