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English
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The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense--creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characters--brings her entire oeuvre of ingenious whodunits, locked room mysteries, and perplexing puzzles to Harper Paperbacks. Suspicious events at a Middle Eastern archaeological excavation site intrigue the great Poirot as...
6) Black storm
Author
Series
Tales of the modern Navy volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
With blistering action sequences and incredibly detailed military insight, Black Storm takes the reader along with the most covert Special Ops group straight to Saddam Hussein's stronghold, through harrowing instances of close-quarters combat, and into the heart of danger. With coalition forces amassing at the Iraqi border, Saddam Hussein issues a terrifying threat: In response to any Allied offense, he will use his most secret weapon to destroy Israel....
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After he constructs a corpse from body parts found on the street, Hadi wants the government to prepare a proper burial, but when the corpse goes missing, a series of strange murders occur and Hadi realizes he has created a monster.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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When Dismas Hardy agrees to clean up the caseload of recently disappeared attorney Charlie Bowen, he thinks it will be easy. But one of the cases is far from small-time--the sensational clash between National Guard reservist Evan Scholler and an ex-Navy SEAL and private contractor named Ron Nolan. Two rapid-fire events in Iraq conspired to bring the men into fatal conflict: Nolan's relationship with Evan's girlfriend, Tara, a beautiful school-teacher...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"The novel follows the plight of Abulhassan, an elderly pharmacist and respected alchemist, whose honesty over the years has won him the sultan's friendship. When his protege, the young prince of Persia, falls in love with the sultan's mistress, Abulhassan must choose between betraying his oldest friend and betraying his most beloved one."--Jacket.
Author
Series
Publisher
Debols!llo
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
"En Roma, un hombre se confiesa: 'Padre, me acuso de que voy a matar a un hombre ...' Al mismo tiempo Clara Tannenberg, una joven arqueóloga nieta de un ponderoso hombre de oscuro pasada, anuncia en el transcurso de un congreso el descubrimiento de unas tabillas que. de ser auténticas, serían la prueba científica de la existencia de patriarca Abraham"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Kurt Austin adventures volume 7
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Years after an ancient Phoenician statue is stolen from the Baghdad museum, a series of murders sparks interest in the statue's relevance in Austin and Zavala, who lead the NUMA team on a historical investigation into the lost treasures of King Solomon.
Author
Publisher
Subterranean
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
In medieval Baghdad, a penniless man is brought before the most powerful man in the world, the caliph himself, to tell his story. It begins with a walk in the bazaar, but soon grows into a tale unlike any other told in the caliph's empire. It's a story that includes not just buried treasure and a band of thieves, but also men haunted by their past and others trapped by their future; it includes not just a beloved wife and a veiled seductress, but...
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English
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Tom Bedford has put his past behind him--until his son Danny is charged with murder. In the chaos of war, Danny has been caught in a violent skirmish gone bloodily awry, and the Army needs someone to pay for the mistake. Shocked into action, Tom confronts the violence in his past and fights to save the son he'd let slip away.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In the early years of the Iraq war, a severely burned boy appears on a remote rock formation in the Akkad valley. A shadowy, powerful group within the US government speculates: Who is he? Where did he come from? And, crucially, what does he know? In pursuit of that information, an interrogator is summoned from his prison cell, and a hideous and forgotten apparatus of torture, which extracts "perfect confessions," is retrieved from the vaults. Over...
16) The runaways
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Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Anita lives in Karachi's biggest slum. Her mother is a maalish wali, paid to massage the tired bones of rich women. But Anita's life will change forever when she meets her elderly neighbour, a man whose shelves of books promise an escape to a different world. On the other side of Karachi lives Monty, whose father owns half the city and expects great things of him. But when a beautiful and rebellious girl joins his school, Monty will find his life...
Author
Publisher
Agora Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Mariam is pregnant and fleeing an abusive marriage as the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait begins. Leaving her husband Tareq for dead, she crosses the border and is evacuated with the help of Raj, who she meets at a refugee camp and insists she assume the identity of his dead wife so she can be issued Indian papers. Twenty-five years later, Mariam is still living under the identity of Raj's Indian wife in the US. In an attempt to put her past to rest, she...
19) The fire wish
Author
Series
Jinni wars volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"When a princess captures a jinn and makes a wish, she is transported to the fiery world of the jinn, while the jinn must take her place in the royal court of Baghdad"--
20) The blind wish
Author
Series
Jinni wars volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Zayele and Najwa's adventure continues as the war between jinnis and humans escalates"--
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