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In the Country of Men
by Hisham Matar
Libya, 1979. Nine-year-old Suleiman’s days are circumscribed by the narrow rituals of childhood: outings to the ruins surrounding Tripoli, games with friends played under the burning sun, exotic gifts from his father’s constant business trips abroad. But his nights have come to revolve around his mother’s increasingly disturbing bedside stories full of old family bitterness. And then one day Suleiman sees his... (more)
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John Corey: Book 2
The Lion's Game
by Nelson DeMille
John Corey and Asad Khalil have both lived hard-knock lives. As revealed in Nelson DeMille's monster bestseller Plum Island, the gruff, wisecracking NYPD homicide cop Corey stopped a hail of bullets--but he couldn't stop his wife from walking out on him. Asad, raised under Muammar Qaddafi's eye after his dad's murder, lost his surviving family in the 1986 bombing of Libya. He's heard the nasty rumors about his mom... (more)
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The Shadows of Ghadames
by Joëlle Stolz
“Stolz invigorates her tale with elegant prose and a deft portrayal of a girl verging on adolescence. The vivid backdrop is intoxicating, but the story’s universal concerns will touch readers most.” — Booklist, Starred
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The Lost Oasis
The Desert War and the Hunt for Zerzura
by Saul Kelly
The Lost Oasis tells the true story behind The English Patient . An extraordinary episode in World War II, it describes the Zerzura Club, a group of desert explorers and adventurers who indulged in desert travel by early-model-motor cars and airplanes, and who searched for lost desert oases and ancient cities of vanished civilizations. In reality, they were mapping the desert for military reasons and espionage.... (more)
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Sahara
by Michael Palin
Michael Palin's epic voyages have seen him circumnavigate the globe, travel from the North to the South Pole and circle the countries of the Pacific Ocean. This was perhaps the greatest challenge yet: to cross the vast and merciless Sahara desert. Shrugging aside the perils of camel stew and being run over by the Paris-Dakar rally, he travels through some of the most spectacular landscapes on earth. For the... (more)
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MacKenzie Family (Linda Howard): Book 3
Mackenzie's Pleasure
by Linda Howard
Barrie needed a saviour. The terrorists holding her hostage surely wouldn't tolerate her silence much longer. Instead they would silence her. Then out of the darkness he arrived. Rugged and dangerous, he led her straight into his sheltering arms.'
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Every Man in This Village Is a Liar
An Education in War
by Megan K. Stack
A shattering account of war and disillusionment from a young woman reporter on the front lines of the war on terror. A few weeks after the planes crashed into the World Trade Center on 9/11, journalist Megan K. Stack, a twenty-five-year-old national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times , was thrust into Afghanistan and Pakistan, dodging gunmen and prodding warlords for information. From there, she traveled... (more)
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The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday
Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East
by Neil MacFarquhar
Since his boyhood in Qadhafi’s Libya, Neil MacFarquhar has developed a counterintuitive sense that the Middle East, despite all the bloodshed in its recent history, is a place of warmth, humanity, and generous eccentricity. In this book, he introduces a cross-section of unsung, dynamic men and women pioneering political and social change. There is the Kuwaiti sex therapist in a leather suit with matching red... (more)
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Anatomy of a Disappearance
by Hisham Matar
“Two things stood out as I read Anatomy of a Disappearance . First, there was the quiet power of the language, and the author's control of it. Second, there was Hisham Matar's ability to tell a story that from the first sentence seems inevitable, yet is full of surprises. I was moved and very impressed.” – Roddy Doyle
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Arguably
Essays
by Christopher Hitchens
ARGUABLY collects the finest work by Christopher Hitchens, an English born and educated man who would emigrate to become "America's foremost rhetorical Pugilist" ( The Village Voice ), in one volume for the first time. Spanning four remarkable decades, this collection includes the author's masterful early writings on civil rights, Vietnam, and international incidents such as the Greek military junta, as well as... (more)
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Rock the Casbah
Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World
by Robin B. Wright
By a veteran reporter, an up-close portrait of the fierce struggle--between moderates and extremists--taking place within the Islamic world today.
People of the veil: Being an account of the habits, organisation and history of the wandering Tuareg tribes which inhabit the mountains of Air or Asben in the Central SaharaFrancis J. R Rodd
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People of the veil: Being an account of the habits, organisation and history of the wandering Tuareg tribes which inhabit the mountains of Air or Asben in the Central Sahara
by Francis Rodd (Lord Rennell of Rodd)
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Friends In Low Places
by Habib Ibrahim MD
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Club Tripoli
by Terry Wright
Cold war airman Ted Miller moonlights on guitar at Club Tripoli, a Libyan nightclub. Caught up in the club’s vice and crime, can he escape his entanglements and survive by assisting in a dangerous covert Air Force investigation of Club Tripoli? Miller arrives at Wheelus Air Base in Tripoli in 1957. He’s welcomed by former roommate Dave Walker who runs a rock and roll combo working at a downtown nightclub owned... (more)
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Ganymede
by Terrence Douglas
As a radical Christian Lebanese sect secretly plans an act of terrorism, Colin Gordon begins his next assignment at the American Embassy in Germany. Masquerading as a Foreign Service reserve officer, Gordon is in fact a senior CIA case officer with a specialty in obtaining unauthorized views of foreign governments. But when he receives a postcard from his operational contact Ganymede, everything around him begins... (more)
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The House of Sand
by Terrence Douglas
The House of Sand is not a story directed at the excesses of the House of Saud and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; nor is it a veiled reference to present-day Bahrain or Yemen and their exclusive ruling families, nor even to the once privileged - now embattled or deposed families of Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, or elsewhere in the world. Rather, The House of Sand is a story about the greed, ambition,... (more)
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AMERICANS AT WAR: 1975-1986.
by Daniel P. Bolger.
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A Way From Home
by Nancy Clark
It is 1992, and the Lowe family is living in a centuries-old castle in Prague. Alden Lowe works at the Czech Ministry of Finance and his wife Becky advises women entrepreneurs. With their daugher Julie, they appear a fortunate American family, but after twenty years with Alden, Becky shocks the family by fleeing to Libya, where she intends to reunite with a man who has loved her since before her marriage. In its... (more)
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Girl Stays in the Picture
by Melissa de la Cruz
If you can't be a mega teen superstar sensation then maybe you'll be lucky enough to join her entourage. Devon -- one name only, please -- is the latest and jail-bait-est pop star to hit number one on the Billboard chart, and she's making her big-screen debut in Juicy. But after her stint in rehab, the studio isn't so sure she's their girl anymore. If they cut any more of her lines, she'll be a silent film... (more)
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A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period
by Jamil M. Abun-Nasr
Building on the two previous editions of his History of the Maghrib, Professor Abun-Nasr has written a completely new history of North Africa within the Islamic period which begins with the Arab conquest and brings the story up to the present day. He emphasises the factors which led to the adoption of Islam by practically the entire population, the geographical position of the area, which made it the main trade... (more)

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