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"Jina Modell definitely doesn't feel like a 'Babe', especially when she's working with the gruff, no-nonsense Levi Butcher, team leader for the GO-Team. When the Syrian base where she's stationed is attacked, Jina manages to escape. Levi would never willingly leave a soldier behind, especially a brave woman whose sweet voice haunts his every thought. Once he discovers Jina is alive, the tenacious warrior will walk into fire to save this intriguing...
2) Refugee
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
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Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
3) Code red
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Mitch Rapp hates owing anyone a favor--especially when it's the world's most powerful crime lord. But when Damian Losa calls, Mitch is honor-bound to answer. The Syrian government appears to have created a highly addictive new narcotic that it plans to distribute throughout Europe. It's a major threat to Losa's business and he's determined to send someone to keep him on top by any means necessary. Rapp is the perfect choice for the mission. Not only...
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Court Gentry is back in action. This time he's working on behalf of a well-connected group of Syrian expats to secure the Syrian president's mistress so they can use her to bring down the president's regime. But the expats' plan goes awry when it's discovered the mistress has a baby--the Syrian president's only male heir--hidden away in a Damascus safe house. Court goes after the baby, a decision that comes at the price of the mistress's life. The...
6) Sea prayer
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
930L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Sea Prayer is composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son, the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone.
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Pub. Date
2000
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
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The 14th in the Mrs. Pollifax series, Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled joins its predecessors as a delightful source of entertainment and suspense. After all her harrowing adventures in various parts of the world, America's most endearing and unlikely CIA agent is bored with her gardening. When headquarters calls with a deadly mission, she's ready with passport in hand. After single-handedly thwarting hijackers on a flight to the Middle East, a young American...
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Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tareq lives with his big and loving family... until the bombs strike. The city is in ruins, and in the wake of destruction, he's threatened by Daesh fighters and witnesses a public beheading. Tareq's family knows that to continue to stay alive, they must leave. As Tareq, his father, and his younger travel as refugees from Syria to Turkey to Greece, facing danger at every turn, he must find the resilience and courage to complete his harrowing journey....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
880L
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After Nadia is separated from her family while fleeing the civil war, she spends the next four days with a mysterious old man who helps her navigate the checkpoints and snipers of the rebel, ISIS, and Syrian armies that are littering Aleppo on her way to meeting her father at the Turkish border.
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo--until the unthinkable happens. When all they care for is destroyed by war, they are forced to escape. But what Afra has seen is so terrible she has gone blind, and so they must embark on a perilous journey through Turkey and Greece towards an uncertain future in Britain. As Nuri and Afra travel through a broken...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
360 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 2011, just after Nour loses her father to cancer, her mother moves Nour and her sisters from New York City back to Syria to be closer to their family. In order to keep her father's spirit as she adjusts to her new home, Nour tells herself their favorite story--the tale of Rawiya, a twelfth-century girl who disguised herself as a boy in order to apprentice herself to a famous mapmaker. But the Syria Nour's parents knew is changing,...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
174 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"For Farouk, family is all. He has protected his wife and daughter as best he can from the war and hatred that has torn Syria apart. If they stay, they will lose their freedom, will become lesser persons. If they flee, they will lose all they have known of home, for some intangible dream of refuge in some faraway land across the merciless sea. Lampy is distracted; he has too much going on in his small town life in Ireland. He has the city girl for...
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Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Yasmine Ajam has fled her past in the rough Stockholm borough Bergort, reinventing herself as a trendspotter in New York City. One day she receives a startling message: there are riots erupting on the streets of Stockholm and they appear to be connected with the disappearance of her brother, Fadi. Following rumors that Fadi was radicalized and died fighting for ISIS in Syria, Yasmine returns to Stockholm to discover what really happened to her brother....
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
419 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A CIA officer and his recruit arrive in war-ravaged Damascus to hunt for a killer. CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad. The two fall into a forbidden relationship, supercharging Haddad's recruitment and creating unspeakable danger when they enter Damascus to find the man responsible for the disappearance of an American spy. But the cat-and-mouse chase for the killer soon leads to a trail...
17) Boy, everywhere
Author
Publisher
Tu Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages : illustration, map ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Sami loves his life in Damascus, Syria, but when war breaks out his parents decide they must flee their home for the safety of the UK.
Sami loves his life in Damascus, Syria. He hangs out with his best friend playing video games; he's trying out for the football team; he adores his family and gets annoyed by them in equal measure. But his comfortable life gets sidetracked abruptly after a bombing in a nearby shopping mall. Knowing that the violence...
18) White Needle
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Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
880L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (95 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), map.
Language
English
Description
Syrian rebels have gotten their hands on a White Needle, or stolen chemical weapon, and plan to use it on an unknown target. Only Shadow Squadron has the talent and technology to locate and neutralize the missile before it's launched.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Vintage Books edition.
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Haris Abadi is a man in search of a cause. An Arab American with a conflicted past, he is now in Turkey, attempting to cross into Syria and join the fight against Bashar al-Assad's regime. But he is robbed before he can make it, and is taken in by Amir, a charismatic Syrian refugee and former revolutionary, and Amir's wife, Daphne, a sophisticated beauty haunted by grief. As it becomes clear that Daphne is also desperate to return to Syria, Haris's...