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The arsonists' city / by Alyan, Hala,1986-author.;: "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"--; Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Families; Family secrets;; Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Beirut Hellfire Society / by Hage, Rawi,author.;: "The Beirut Hellfire Society is a short and brilliant return to the world Rawi Hage first imagined in his extraordinary, award-winning first novel De Niro's Game, winner of the Dublin IMPAC Award, an international bestseller, finalist for the Giller, GG, and Writers' Trust, and widely considered a Canadian classic. Since publishing De Niro's Game more than a decade ago, Hage has followed up with two award-winning and acclaimed novels set in Montreal's immigrant community: Cockroach (shortlisted for the Giller Prize), and Carnival (shortlisted for the GG and Writers' Trust Fiction prizes). Now, with The Beirut Hellfire Society, Hage makes a stunning and mature return to wartorn Beirut of the 1970s, during the Civil War. Our protagonist, Pavlov, is the twenty-something son of an undertaker and as such has watched funeral processions pass below his window throughout his childhood. When his father dies, Pavlov is summoned by his former teacher, Mr. Tarraff, and tasked with providing burials that, for a variety of reasons -- because the deceased is homosexual, or an outcast, or abandoned by their family, or an atheist--must happen in secret. The society that arranges such burials is a hidden anti-religious sect called the Beirut Hellfire Society. Pavlov accepts this assignment, and over the course of the novel acts as a survivor-chronicler of his torn and fading community, bearing witness to both its enduring rituals and its inevitable decline. As Hage writes: "This is my first novel in the third person. Combining tragedy and comedy, it draws together my thoughts on living through war. I am questioning the importance of what we may seek, and what we are able to preserve -- if anything -- in the face of certain change and certain death." In short, this is a spectacular and timely new work from one of our major writers, and a mature, exhilarating return to some of the themes the author began to explore in his transcendent first novel, De Niro's Game"--; Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Secret societies; Death;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2; unAPI
Beirut Station : two lives of a spy / by Vidich, Paul,author.;: A stunning new espionage novel, 'Beirut Station' follows a young female CIA officer whose mission to assassinate a high-level, Hezbollah terrorist reveals a dark truth that puts her life at risk.; Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Spy fiction.; Novels.; Intelligence officers; Lebanon War, 2006;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
City on the edge / by Swinson, David(Author),author.;: In the wake of a baffling tragedy, 13-year-old Graham moves with his family to Beirut, Lebanon, a city on the edge of the sea and cataclysmic violence. Inquisitive and restless by nature, Graham suspects his State Department father is a CIA operative, and that their family's fragile domesticity is merely a front for American efforts along the nearby Israeli border. Over the course of one year, 1972, Graham's life will utterly change. Two men are murdered, his parent's marriage disintegrates, and Graham, along with his two ex-pat friends, run afoul of forces they cannot understand.; Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Noir fiction.; Historical fiction.; Americans; Espionage, American; Families; Murder;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
The road to Chlifa : a novel / by Marineau, Michèle,1955-; Ouriou, Susan.;: Karim has journeyed a long way from his home in war-torn Beirut to his new high school in Quebec. Now he must travel the difficult road to a life without war. There is contempt and racism here, too. But there is also My-Lan, a new companion in a new and challenging country. It is an adventure behind the headlines and a lesson in life you couldn't learn in the classroom.LSC; Subjects: Historical fiction.; Teenage boys; Immigrants; High school students; Diaries;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Zaytinya : delicious Mediterranean dishes from Greece, Turkey, and Lebanon / by Andrés, José,1969-author.; Costa, Michael,author.; Kremezi, Aglaia,writer of foreword.; Schauer, Thomas,1969-photographer (expression);: Since Chef José Andrés opened the doors to his restaurant Zaytinya twenty years ago, food lovers have savored his creative adaptations of the classic dishes of Greece, Turkey, and Lebanon. Zaytinya's menu has always showcased the region's extraordinary food traditions while innovating in José's signature style: delicious, surprising, and made for sharing. From crispy fried vegetables and perfectly spiced seafood, to tender grilled kebabs and warm, fluffy pita, these recipes are simply irresistible as well as accessible to the home cook. 'Zaytinya' brings to life the ingredients, techniques, dishes, and histories that are central to the way many of us love to eat today.; Subjects: Cookbooks.; Recipes.; Cooking, Mediterranean.; Cooking; Cooking; Cooking;; Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Pumpkinflowers : an Israeli soldiers story / by Friedman, Matti.;: Includes bibliographical references."It was small hilltop in a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples that continue to emanate worldwide today. The hill was called the Pumpkin; flowers was the military code word for "casualties." Friedman's visceral narrative recreates harrowing wartime experiences in a work that is part frontlines memoir, part journalistic reporting, part military history. The years in question were pivotal ones, and not just for Israel. They saw the perfection of a type of warfare that would eventually be exported to Afghanistan and Iraq. The new twenty-first century war is one in which there is never any clear victor, and not enough lives are lost to rally the public against it. Eventually Israel would come to realize that theirs was a losing proposition and pull out. But, of course, by then these soldiers--those who had survived--and the country had been wounded in ways large and small."--Provided by publisher.LSC; Subjects: Friedman, Matti.;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI

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