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In the Last Book of Baghdad, Sirois explores a world where, under desperate conditions, a lost collection of poems might be able to save a person's life. In The Last Book of Baghdad, we see Nisreen Abid robbed of two beloved things: Al Mutanabbi Street—the literary hub of Baghdad—and her husband. With Al Mutanabbi Street in ruins, Nisreen tricks a book printer to help her locate her kidnapped husband while navigating the deadly city. Baghdad is burning out of control. Little does she know, the book she uses as ransom to get her husband back will be the most important book of her life. ...

Starting in the year 2018, every person born has an identical twin. What was dubbed the mysterious Set Mutation is now, 20 years later, a worldwide phenomenon. Penny and Sam, two 16-year-old twins, have never understood why they are different from one another. While all the other sets of twins grow to be more alike in every way, Penny and Sam struggle to fit in - they aren't naturally the same person. Soon they will find out how deadly their secret really is.

White-collar Henry is hired by a successful software developer and college friend who has created kidnApp, a cell phone app and social network that allows people to kidnap each other for fun. The app is growing faster than they can handle. His friend wants to groom Henry as the Mid-Atlantic regional manager with part ownership of the company, but he will need to become a seasoned kidnApper first.

Book 2 of Justin Sirois's So Say the Waiters explores the history of kidnApp long before everyone carried cell phones. While Henry and Dani become accomplished kidnAppers, it's Glen Haymaker, one of the company's co-founders, who is stealing the show - and maybe more. He is more concerned about the public spectacle and becoming a celebrity within the network than sticking to the company's ethics. Jess and Kelly see Haymaker's extreme methods firsthand, and it will dramatically change their relationship.

This is the last book of the series. As Haymaker gains popularity and power within the kidnap network, his influence over people grows to the point of jeopardizing the company. Book three explores his rise to power and exactly who he has been manipulating the entire time.

Two boyhood friends leave Fallujah, Iraq on the eve of one of the largest sieges of the war. Neither of them want to fight in the uprising. The violence of the war follows them up the Euphrates River on a journey neither of them will ever forget. + Falcons on the Floor is the rare novel about war that re-humanizes everyone involved. Through excellent writing and a deep understanding of what occupation does, to civilians and soldiers alike, Sirois and Alshujairy take the reader on a deeply personal journey where we are shown how and why war should be avoided at all cost. Dahr Jamail, ...