Contemporary Arab

You’re Not a Girl in a Movie is a new collection of powerful poems by Hala Alyan, winner of the Arab American Book Award in Poetry and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In these nine extraordinary poems, Alyan wrestles with the intimate themes that have driven her acclaimed body of work to date: the aching loss of homeland, the image and worth of women, and the violence of love. In Beirut, Brooklyn, and roads in the American West, she unravels the effects of decades of war and displacement on love and human worth and identity.

“A moving meditation on motherhood, inter-generational trauma and how surface appearances often obscure a deeper truth. . . . A stunning second novel from a writer who set the bar very high with her first!”—Tara Conklin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last...

Arabella, the daughter of an impoverished country parson, dreams of a new life in London. But her beauty and charm will only get her so far - and when Arabella embarks on her first London season armed with nothing but a benevolent godmother and her own notoriously short temper, she quickly runs afoul of Robert Beaumaris.

Diana Quincy returns with a steamy affair between an Arab-American woman who inherits a run-down castle in the English countryside and the duke who asserts the castle is his, in the first book in a brand-new Victorian historical romance series. Anthony Cary, Duke of Strickland, inherits his...

One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century The extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed author of Bad Behavior and Two Girls, Fat and Thin, Veronica is about flesh and spirit, vanity, mortality, and mortal affection. Set mostly in Paris and Manhattan in the desperately...

A contemporary teen romance novel featuring a Palestinian-Canadian girl trying to hide her autism diagnosis while navigating her first year of high school, for fans of Jenny Han and Samira Ahmed. Fifteen-year-old Jessie, a quirky loner obsessed with the nineties, is diagnosed as autistic just...

STEAMY SHEIKH ROMANCE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN. ANNABELLE WINTERS STYLE. THIS BOX SET CONTAINS: SHARED FOR THE SHEIKH: The Professor from Pittsburgh (245 pages) ASSASSIN FOR THE SHEIKH: The Agent from Alabama (227 pages) PRIVILEGE FOR THE SHEIKH: The Librarian from Louisiana (241 pages) SHARED FOR THE SHEIKH When Professor Janice Johansen arrives in the Middle East to conduct research on shared marriages, she doesn’t expect to get first-hand experience . . . certainly not with two powerful Sheikhs on the brink of war. So is Jan just a pawn in some twisted game? Or is this for real? Only one...

STEAMY SHEIKH ROMANCE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN. ANNABELLE WINTERS STYLE. Nurse Eleanor Easton gets stuck with the nightshift on Christmas Eve . . . and she also gets stuck with the world’s most demanding patient: Sheikh Akbar, who after one look decides he's going to have to unwrap this curvy, full-figured nurse like she's his Christmas present! OMG! Steamy Contemporary with HEA!!

From one of Iran’s most acclaimed and controversial contemporary writers, his first novel to appear in English—a dazzlingly inventive work of fiction that opens a revelatory window onto what it’s like to live, to love, and to be an artist in today’s Iran. The novel entwines two equally...

North African Cooking. Algerian Style. It's time to learn the Algerian style of cooking. Algerian style cooking will fill your kitchen and with complex aromas and produce delicious meals that have a distinct and amazing North African taste. These recipes are authentic. Straight from Algerian kitchens modified for ease and simplicity so everyone can enjoy them. If cooking with orange blossoms, couscous and almonds sounds interesting then Algerian cooking is for you. A Kitchen in Algeria, is a North African cooking adventure with innovative, classical, and contemporary dishes that will have ...

A searing debut novel from the award-winning author of You Know When the Men are Gone, about jealousy, the unpredictable path of friendship, and the secrets kept in marriage, all set within the U.S. expat community of the Middle East during the rise of the Arab Spring. Both Cassie Hugo and...

Step into the captivating world of Middle Eastern theatre with a groundbreaking new eBook: "The Evolution of Middle Eastern Theatre." This comprehensive exploration delves into the rich history, diverse cultural practices, and fascinating development of theatrical arts in the Middle East – a region brimming with stories waiting to be told. Journey with us back in time to uncover the origins of Middle Eastern theatre, from ancient rituals and their influence on theatrical forms to the birth of Islamic theatre. Delight in the splendor of the Golden Age of Persian literature and drama, and ...

Arabella is a proud woman of Victorian England who rebels against the puritanical norms of society. She learns early in life that she loves the pleasures of sex and is in no way ashamed of her feelings. In fact, she felt sorry for women who did not experience the joys of sex but saw it merely as a rather "shameful duty". She describes, in great detail, the many “erotic adventures” she and her friends participate in behind the closed doors of fashionable Victorian homes.