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  We Are Now Beginning Our Descent

  by James Meek

  From the author of the best-selling, universally acclaimed The People’s Act of Love comes the incisive and timeless story of a globe-trotting journalist’s perils in the pursuit of love, set against the war zones and dinner parties of today’s discordant and bewildering world stage. The world around journalist and would-be novelist Adam Kellas is cracking. As a war correspondent in the Afghan mountains during... (more)
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  The Wandering Falcon

  by Jamil Ahmad

  A haunting literary debut set in the forbidding remote tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Traditions that have lasted for centuries, both brutal and beautiful, create a rigid structure for life in the wild, astonishing place where Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan meet-the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). It is a formidable world, and the people who live there are constantly subjected to... (more)
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  A Thousand Splendid Suns

  by Khaled Hosseini

  Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their... (more)