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Culture conflict Fiction Families Palestine Fiction Holocaust survivors Fiction Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 Fiction Jews Palestine Fiction Jews Palestine History 20th century Fiction Middle East Palestine Palestine Fiction Palestine History 1929-1948 Fiction Palestinian Arabs FictionChristie, Agatha
Summary: Hercule Poirot's vacation in the Holy Land is interrupted by death in Petra, where the lifeless body of Mrs. Boynton, a detestable English woman who cowed her family and strangers alike, is found atop the rose red cliffs. Though her family claims her heart failure was a natural event, the tiny puncture mark on her wrist is a clear sign of the fatal injection that really killed her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2007
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Summary: Years after photographer William Harrington participates in a 1920s project to redesign Jerusalem with British parks against a backdrop of growing nationalist unrest, his revelations about long-buried secrets transform the life of his former employer's daughter. --Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOIHammad, Isabella
Summary: After years away from her family's homeland and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit her older sister Haneen. This is her first trip back since the second intifada and the deaths of their grandparents: while Haneen made a life here commuting to Tel Aviv to teach at the university, Sonia remained in London to focus on her acting career and now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAMMaier, Paul L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kregel Publications 1990
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DIADiamant, Anita.
Summary: Four young women haunted by unspeakable memories and losses, afraid to begin to hope, find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience even as they confront the challenge of re-creating themselves in a strange new country. Based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred Jewish prisoners from the Atlit internment camp outside Haifa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DIACopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIABourne, Sam
Summary: As the Baghdad Museum of Antiquities is looted, a teenage Iraqi boy finds an ancient clay tablet in a long-forgotten vault... At a rally for the signing of a historic deal between Israel and the Palestinians, an assassin pushes through the crowd towards the Israeli Prime Minister. Bodyguards shoot the man dead. But in his hand there is no gun: only a blood-stained note... A series of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M BOUAbdel-Fattah, Randa
Summary: "A family has fled their homeland in search of safety in another country, carrying a single suitcase. As their journey unfolds, the oldest child reflects on the special contents of that suitcase: photo albums that evoke eleven of many names for love in Arabic. From sunshine-warm friendship to the love that dissolves all tears; from the love that makes you swoon to the love that leaves you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ABDCunningham, Elizabeth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Station Hill/Barrytown,b 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUNWiesel, Elie
Summary: "A young Jewish man, Holocaust survivor, and Israeli freedom fighter named Elisha holds an English officer captive. One of his fellow freedom fighters has been executed by the British, so Elisha plans to murder his prisoner at dawn in retribution. But as the hours pass, Elisha struggles with guilty feelings. Haunted by his past and wrestling with his God, he grow increasingly troubled as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WIESpeare, Elizabeth George.
Summary: After witnessing his father's crucifixion by Roman soldiers, Daniel bar Jamin is fired by a single passion: to avenge his father's death by driving the Roman legions from the land of Israel. Time and again Daniel is drawn to the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, only to turn away, disappointed and confused by Jesus's lack of action in opposing the Romans. This is a novel about Daniel's tormented...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1989
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Summary: "In 1945, Jewish refugees by the thousands set out for Palestine. Those who made it relied on the underground to shelter them; taking false names, they blended with the population, joining the wildly different factions fighting for independence. "City of Secrets" follows one survivor, Brand, as he tries to regain himself after losing everyone he's ever loved. Now driving a taxi provided--like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ONALand, Jon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANAmiry, Suad
Summary: "Set in Jaffa in 1947-51, this fable-like novel is a heartbreaking tale of young love during the beginning of the destruction of Palestine and displacement of its people. At times darkly humorous and ironic but also profoundly moving, this novel based on a true story follows the lives of a 15 year old engineer, Subhi, and the 13 year old girl, Shams, he hopes one day to marry. It brings Jaffa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMILe Clezio, J.M.G. (Jean-Marie Gustave)
Summary: While both Esther and Nejma want peace, each has a different experience during the founding of Israel; Esther is a Jewish girl who participtes in the founding, and Nejma is a Palestinian who becomes a refugee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Curbstone 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LECMay, Antoinette.
Summary: Claudia's dreams have an uncanny way of coming true. She often "sees" things, real things, before they happen. But her gift can also be a curse in a time of deadly politics and social unrest. While destiny leads her to the temple of Isis, to Pompeii's Villa of Mysteries, the infamous snake pit of Pergamon, and into the arms of the Roman magistrate, Pontius Pilate, her heart always seems to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYHammad, Isabella
Summary: "A bold, evocative new novel from the National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 and Betty Trask Award winner Isabella Hammad that follows actress Sonia as she returns to Palestine and takes a role in a West Bank production of Hamlet. After years away from her family's homeland, and healing from an affair with an established director, stage actress Sonia Nasir returns to Palestine to visit her older...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2023
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Summary: "From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home ... On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALYAlyan, Hala
Summary: On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is up rooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Salma is forced to leave her home in Nablus;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOPeters, Elizabeth
Summary: Amelia and Emerson follow an expedition searching for the vanished treasures of the Temple of Jerusalem. Besides suspecting the leader of the expedition of inept excavation practices, they believe him to be secretly working for German intelligence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PETQashu, Sayed
Summary: "Having emigrated to America years before, a nameless memoirist now residing in Illinois receives word that his estranged father, whom he has not spoken to in fourteen years, is dying. Leaving his wife and their three children, he returns to Jerusalem and to his hometown of Tira in Palestine to be by his family's side. But few are happy to see him back and, geographically and emotionally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC QASHunt, Angela Elwell
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2006
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Summary: A diverse group of people find themselves brought together in Jerusalem on May 14, 1948, the day British troops will hand over the key to Zion Gate and leave the new State of Israel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000