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In my mother's footsteps

a Palestinian refugee returns home
Refugees are like seeds that scatter in the wind, and land in different soils that become their reluctant homes' my mother once told me. As a small child, I looked up at my mother and clutched her hand. The puffiness of her palm reminded me of a loaf of warm pita bread, and when she laced her fingers into mine like a pretzel, I felt safe. I would have walked with her to the ends of the earth. When Mona moved from California to Ramallah to teach conflict resolution in a school for a year, she kept a journal. Within its pages, she wrote her impressions of her homeland, a place she had only experienced through her mother's memories. As she settled into her teaching role, getting to know her students and the challenges they faced living in a militarized, occupied town, Mona also embarked on a personal pilgrimage to find her mother's home in Jerusalem. Mona had dreamed of being guided by her mother down the old souqs, and the leafy streets of her neighborhood, listening to the muezzin's call for prayer and the medley of church bells. But after fifty-nine years of exile, it was Mona's mother who held her daughter's hand as they visited Jerusalem together, walking the narrow cobblestone alleys of the Old City. Their roles were reversed. Mona had become her Mama's legs and her memory - and the one to tell her story going forward. In My Mother's Footsteps is a moving and heart-rendering journey of a daughter discovering her roots and recovering her mother's beloved past. It's also an intimate and tender account of daily life for Palestinians as never seen before. For fans of The Bookseller of Kabul and The Beekeeper of Aleppo.

Salt houses

2018
A Palestinian family is caught between present and past, between displacement and home. On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is up rooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967.

The ethnic cleansing of Palestine

Provides an account of the Palestine-Israel War, and looks at the mass expulsion of the Palestinians following the end of the conflict, arguing for international recognition of what the author sees as a clear incident of ethnic cleansing.
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Appointment with death

a Hercule Poirot mystery
2011
Agatha Christie's classic novel featuring Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, who is called upon to investigate the murder of Mrs. Boynton, the cruel and tyrannizing matriarch of the Boynton family.
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Kings and carpenters

one hundred Bible land jobs you might have praised or panned
2010
An illustrated introduction to one hundred vocational options available during the Iron Age, describing the duties and responsibilities of date pickers, provincial governors, stone masons, sandal makers, pirates, oarsmen, and other occupations.
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The cat at the wall

2014
A North American girl comes back to life as a cat, and finds herself in the middle of a Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Midnight

a true story of loyalty in World War I
2014
A picture book version of the story of Guy Haydon and his horse Midnight, who joined the Australian Light Horse during World War I and took part in one of the last great cavalry charges in history.

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