Maalouf, Amin.

Summary: The life of Omar Khayyam, the 11th Century Persian poet who wrote The Rubaiyaat, chronicling his adventures and romances. The novel is in two parts, the second describing the manner in which the manuscript reached the West.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2004

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St. Vincent, Sarah

Summary: A young widow living in the Pennsylvania mountains and flipping burgers for hunters and hikers befriends a stranger visiting from Uzbekistan and becomes embroiled in a manhunt after he confesses to committing a terrible crime in his home country.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ST V

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STV

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