Cranston Public Library

"In this unparalleled portrait of how the intelligence game is played, Tom Rogers is posted to Beirut to penetrate the growing Palestinian movement." --

"A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of how we hold on to the people and places we call home The Nasr family is spread across the globe--Beirut, Brooklyn, Austin, the California desert. A Syrian mother, a Lebanese father, and three American children: all have lived a life of migration. Still, they've always had their ancestral home in Beirut--a constant touchstone--and the complicated,...

"Aaliya Sohbi lives alone in her Beirut apartment, surrounded by stockpiles of books. Godless, fatherless, childless, and divorced, Aaliya is her family's 'unnecessary appendage.' Every year, she translates a new favorite book into Arabic, then stows it away. The thirty-seven books that Aaliya has translated over her lifetime have never been read-- by anyone. After overhearing her neighbors, 'the three witches,' discussing her too-white hair, Aaliya...

"A Lebanese-American CIA agent befriends the grandson of a reclusive Hezbollah terrorist by becoming his English tutor in order to stop the planned assassination of the U.S. secretary of state."--

The story of the doomed love affair between a young man and a married woman. "Kahlil Gibran deeply stirred readers the world over with his The Prophet, a modern classic of surpassing beauty and moral grandeur. In The Broken Wings, the Lebanese poet-philosopher reveals the same artistry and wisdom that have enshrined his name in the hearts of millions as an 'Immortal Prophet' and a 'Dante of the Twentieth Century.' This is the exquisitely tender story...

"In the city of Beirut, five shabby dwellings circle a courtyard with a pomegranate tree weeping blood red fruit. The residents hear screams in the night as a boy is beaten by his father - a punishment for masturbating in his sleep. A crime not worthy of the punishment: the neighbors gossip and decide that he must have tried to rape his sisters. The poems he writes are perhaps an even greater crime to his father, but ultimately a gift to his eldest...