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Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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From a real-life ambassador's wife comes a harrowing novel about the kidnapping of an American woman in the Middle East and the heartbreaking choices she and her husband each must make in the hope of being reunited.
When bohemian artist Miranda falls in love with Finn, the British ambassador to an Arab country, she finds herself thrust into a life for which she has no preparation. Trailed everywhere by bodyguards to protect her from the dangers of...
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Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Two regimes have already fallen to the terrorists, and J. B. Collins must act fast if the 'New York Times' foreign correspondent hopes to stop the al-Qaeda splinter cell from attacking an unknown third target with the chemical weapons it just commandeered in Syria.
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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For years, ex-Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and facing off against America's enemies at every turn. When Moore arrives at a rendezvous to take charge of a high-ranking Taliban captive, the meeting takes a horrific turn.
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English
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"The president of the United States . . . is missing."With these words, New York Times foreign correspondent J. B. Collins - reporting from the scene of a devastating attack by ISIS terrorists on an Arab-Israeli peace summit in Amman - puts the entire world on high alert. Israeli and Palestinian leaders are critically injured. Jordans king is fighting for the very existence of his kingdom. And the U.S. president is missing and presumed captured.As...
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Language
English
Description
Based on four years of intensive primary document research, "Lawrence in Arabia" definitively overturns received wisdom on how the modern Middle East was formed. Sweeping in its action, keen in its portraiture, acid in its condemnation of the destruction wrought by European colonial plots, this is a book that brilliantly captures the way in which the folly of the past creates the anguish of the present.
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Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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A USA Today and Publishers Weekly Bestseller
#1 Fiction (ECPA) Christian Bestseller
"It was the perfect day—until the gunfire."
Nir Tavor is an Israeli secret service operative turned talented Mossad agent.
Nicole le Roux is a model with a hidden skill.
A terrorist attack brings them together, and then work forces them apart—until they're unexpectedly called back into each...
#1 Fiction (ECPA) Christian Bestseller
"It was the perfect day—until the gunfire."
Nir Tavor is an Israeli secret service operative turned talented Mossad agent.
Nicole le Roux is a model with a hidden skill.
A terrorist attack brings them together, and then work forces them apart—until they're unexpectedly called back into each...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behind the creation of modern-day Iraq. Born into privilege in 1868, Bell turned her back on Victorian society, choosing to read history at Oxford and going on to become an archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer,...
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Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
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English
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After Israel launches a first strike on Iran, wiping out their nuclear weapons, it is up to undercover CIA operative David Shirazi to prevent a counter attack by the Iranians who have managed to hold onto two nuclear war heads by hiding them in an undisclosed location.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
When a lethal illness with a suspicious source begins working its way through the United States and Europe, Homeland Security operative Scot Harvath teams up with a mysterious British counterpart to find out who is responsible.
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A year ago, few people had heard of ISIS-- today, they are a major terrorist threat.
Despite numerous warnings from intelligence services, ISIS's rise to power has left countries around the world floundering for solutions. Today, we face a threat that is more violent, powerful and financially stronger than ever before. In this book, Journalist Benjamin Hall will provide insights by answering the basic questions we still don't have the answers to;...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Following his #1 New York Times bestseller, Our Endangered Values, the former president and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers an assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice to Palestine. President Carter, who was able to negotiate peace between Israel and Egypt, has remained deeply involved in Middle East affairs since leaving the White House. Now he shares his intimate knowledge of the history...
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Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Exiled to the United States after her father, a Middle Eastern dictator, is killed in a coup, fifteen-year-old Laila must cope with a completely new way of life, the truth of her father's regime, and her mother and brother's ways of adjusting.
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Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Believing he has discovered the burial chamber of a near-mythical Egyptian pharaoh and a mystical double crown, famed archaeologist Porter Stone and his team suffer bizarre accidents that Professor Jeremy Logan is brought in to investigate.
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Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In 1928, when timid ten-year-old Nate learns that his parents have been lost at sea, he joins his father's cousin on a flight to Arabia where they must oversee the death and rebirth of the phoenix, thus beginning his training as a "beastologist."
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Freddy the golden hamster and his animal cohorts, along with a computerized, robotic golden hamster, travel back in time to Assyria, where some of them are captured by crusaders and Freddy gets a taste of undomesticated living.
18) The Middle East
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Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
Discusses, in text and illustrations, the history and importance of the Middle East and the ethnic, religious, and political divisions which continue to be the source of conflict in the region.
19) ISIS
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Series
Publisher
Essential Library
Pub. Date
c2016
Language
English
Description
ISIS covers the history of the terrorist organization and what it stands for, how its leaders recruit more followers, and the importance of understanding the threat this organization poses for the rest of the world. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Based on two decades of reporting, NBC's chief foreign correspondent's riveting story of the Middle East revolutions, the Arab Spring, war, and terrorism seen up-close--sometimes dangerously so. When he was just twenty-three, a recent graduate of Stanford University, Richard Engel set off to Cairo with $2,000 and dreams of being a reporter. Shortly thereafter he was working freelance for Arab news sources and got a call that a busload of Italian...
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