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Love from (Ali) volume 1
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Muslims Adam and Zayneb meet in Doha, Qatar, during spring break and fall in love as both struggle to find a way to live their own truths.
A marvel: something you find amazing. Even ordinary-amazing. Like potatoes--because they make French fries happen. Like the perfect fries Adam and his mom used to make together. An oddity: whatever gives you pause. Like the fact that there are hateful people in the world. Like Zayneb's teacher,...
2) Chosen prey
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Series
Language
English
Description
Hoping to use a supposedly straightforward case of murder to clear his mind, Deputy Chief Lucas Davenport finds himself matching wits with an ever-escalating serial killer, art history professor, congenial pervert, and sexual predator James Qatar.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
Jason Bourne is faced with an impossible mission. He has been hired to impersonate a high-level government minister at a political summit meeting in Qatar, shielding the minister from any assassination attempts. Suddenly, armed gunmen storm the room, killing everyone but Bourne. Their target, however, isn't the minister Bourne impersonates... it is Bourne himself. Kidnapped and transported to an underground bunker, Bourne finds himself face-to-face...
5) Mustang
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Language
Türkçe
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Description
It's the beginning of the summer. In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale and her four sisters come home from school, innocently playing with boys. The supposed debauchery of their games causes a scandal with unintended consequences. The family home slowly turns into a prison, classes on housework and cooking replace school, and marriages begin to be arranged.
6) Transformers
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
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Description
On the planet Cybertron, a war was waged between the Autobots and the Decepticons for control of the Allspark, a mystical talisman that would grant unlimited power to whoever possessed it. The Allspark is smuggled off the planet, but Megatron goes in search of it. He tracks it to Earth and his desire for power sends him into the Arctic Ocean. The sheer cold forces him into a paralyzed state. His body is later recovered, and before going into a comatose...
Publisher
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Josephine escapes poverty by coming to Kuwait from the Philippines to work as a maid, where she meets Rashid, an idealistic only son with literary aspirations. Josephine, with all the wide-eyed naivety of youth, believes she has found true love. But when she becomes pregnant, and with the rumble of war growing ever louder, Rashid bows to family and social pressure, and sends her back home with her baby son, Jose. Brought up struggling with his dual...
Author
Publisher
Dār Blūmzburī, Muʼassasat Qaṭar lil-Nashr
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Arabic
Description
Year Eleven at an exclusive prep school in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, would be tough enough, but it is further complicated for Amal when she decides to wear the hijab, the Muslim head scarf, full-time as a badge of her faith--without losing her identity or sense of style.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A daring novel that explores the taboos surrounding male-female relationships in Saudi Arabia's deeply conservative society, and the public tyranny of the so-called 'Committee For Virtue', which monitors young unmarried men and women in Saudi Arabia.
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
To all appearances, May Brennan has it all intelligence, looks, the recipient of raves from her recently published book and set to marry her loving fiancée Ziad, a distinguished New York scholar. But immediately upon returning to her hometown of Amman, Jordan for the wedding, the cracks in her seemingly perfect life begin to show. May's headstrong, born-again Christian mother Nadine disapproves of Ziad's Muslim faith and is firm in her decision to...
Author
Publisher
Dār Blūmzburī - Muʼassasat Qaṭar lil-Nashr
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Arabic
Description
"College-aged Guène was raised by Algerian immigrant parents in a Parisian housing project; in her debut novel, 15-year-old Doria and her illiterate mother, having been abandoned by Doria's alcoholic father, are stuck in a Paris housing project called the Paradise. Dependent on welfare and subjected to the obligatory succession of social workers, the two are determined to face forward, despite Doria's sense of doomed mektoub (destiny), where gradual...
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