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Sean Dillon thrillers volume 1
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Former allies in the IRA, Sean Dillon and Martin Brosnan have chosen different paths. Now Dillon is a terrorist for hire, a master of diguise employed by Saddam Hussein. Brosnan is the one man who knows Dillon's strengths and weaknesses...and brilliant mastery of espionage. Once friends, now enemies, they are playing the deadliest game of their careers. A game that culminates in a frightening - and true - event: Iraq's attempted mortar attack on the...
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A Gulf War spy story featuring Mike Martin, an Arabic-speaking British agent. He is sent to Baghdad after the invasion of Kuwait to contact a mole in Saddam Hussein's entourage, but the information he obtains is so unbelievable, his superiors decide he's been duped. When they realize their mistake, Martin's mission becomes even more dangerous.
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English
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2023 Read Widely: The Middle East & North Africa
In Remembrance: Fiction Set in Times of War (SCPL)
National Arab American Heritage Month
In Remembrance: Fiction Set in Times of War (SCPL)
National Arab American Heritage Month
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Baghdad, 1991. In the midst of the first Gulf War, a young Iraqi girl huddles with her neighbors in an air raid shelter. There, she meets Nadia. The two girls quickly become best friends and together they imagine a world not torn apart by civil war, sharing their dreams, their hopes and their desires, and their first loves. But as they grow older and the bombs continue to fall, the international sanctions bite and friends begin to flee the country,...
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Polish
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"Kerim na własne oczy widzi śmierć ojca i z dnia na dzień przestaje być dzieckiem. Musi zaopiekować się rodzeństwem i przejąć rodzinny interes. Spokojne życie nie jest mu jednak pisane... W książce Sherko Fataha Irak Hussajna to apokaliptyczna kraina, w której przeciwnicy polityczni umierają uduszeni w wystawionej na słońce ciężarówce, a hordy zdziczałych psów atakują ludzi. Ledwie kończy się jedna wojna, już zaczyna się...
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