Jasmine and Fire: A Bittersweet Year in Beirut

10 best books like Jasmine and Fire: A Bittersweet Year in Beirut (Salma Abdelnour): The Alexandria Quartet, The Wheel of Fortune, The General's Daughter, From Beirut to Jerusalem, The Language of Baklava: A Memoir, City of Light, Between, Georgia, A House Without Windows, Birds of Paradise, Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel

The Alexandria Quartet

Author	Lawrence Durrell
ISBN	0140153179

Lawrence Durrell's series of four novels set in Alexandria, Egypt during the 1940s. The lush and sensuous series consists of Justine(1957) Balthazar(1958) Mountolive(1958) Clea(1960).
Justine, Balthazar and Mountolive use varied viewpoints to relate a series of events in Alexandria before...

The Wheel of Fortune

Author	Susan Howatch
ISBN	0449206246

"Take me back to Oxmoon, the lost paradise of our childhood. Take me back to Oxmoon and make it live again!"

Oxmoon, the rambling old mansion on a sprawling estate in Wales, has been for generations, the dream, the downfall, and the destiny of the wealthy Godwin family. They are entranced by tales...

The General's Daughter

Author	Nelson DeMille
ISBN	0446364800

Captain Ann Campbell is a West Point graduate, the daughter of legendary General "Fighting Joe" Campbell. She is the pride of Fort Hadley until, one morning, her body is found, naked and bound, on the firing range.

Paul Brenner is a member of the Army's elite undercover investigative unit and...

From Beirut to Jerusalem

Author	Thomas L. Friedman
ISBN	0385413726

This extraordinary bestseller is still the most incisive, thought-provoking book ever written about the Middle East. Thomas L. Friedman, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, and now the Foreign Affairs columnist on the op-ed page of the New York Times, drew on his ten years...

The Language of Baklava: A Memoir

Author	Diana Abu-Jaber
ISBN	0375423044

From the acclaimed author of Crescent, called "radiant, wise, and passionate" by the Chicago Tribune, here is a vibrant, humorous memoir of growing up with a gregarious Jordanian father who loved to cook. Diana Abu-Jaber weaves the story of her life in upstate New York and in Jordan around vividly remembered...

City of Light

Author	Lauren Belfer
ISBN	0385337647

The year is 1901. Buffalo, New York, is poised for glory. With its booming industry and newly electrified streets, Buffalo is a model for the century just beginning.

Louisa Barrett has made this dazzling city her home. Headmistress of Buffalo’s most prestigious school, Louisa is at ease...

Between, Georgia

Author	Joshilyn Jackson
ISBN	0446699454

Nonny Frett understands the meaning of the phrase "in between a rock and a hard place" better than any woman alive. She's got two mothers, "one deaf-blind and the other four baby steps from flat crazy." She's got two men: a husband who's easing out the back door; and a best friend, who's laying siege to her...

A House Without Windows

Author	Nadia Hashimi
ISBN	0062449680

A vivid, unforgettable story of an unlikely sisterhood—an emotionally powerful and haunting story of friendship that illuminates the plight of women in a traditional culture, from the author of the bestselling The Pearl That Broke Its Shell and When the Moon Is Low.

For two decades, Zeba...

Birds of Paradise

Author

Diana Abu-Jaber

"A full-course meal, a rich, complex and memorable story that will leave you lingering gratefully at [Abu-Jaber's] table." —Ron Charles, Washington Post

At thirteen, Felice Muir ran away from home to punish herself for some horrible thing she had done—leaving a hole in the hearts of...

Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel

Author	Andrew Graham-Dixon
ISBN	1602393680

You cannot stand underneath the masterwork that is the Sistine Chapel without considering the genius and painstaking work that went into its creation. Michelangelo Buonarroti never wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel, though. Appointed by the temperamental Julius II, Michelangelo believed the...

Death Sung Softly

Author

David Archer

SEX, BOOZE, AND... DEATH?

Meet retired cop, Sam Prichard.

Sam opens his practice as a Private Investigator, and gets his first real case almost instantly: Find Barry Wallace, a local rock singer who was on the verge of making it big, and vanished suddenly! When Barry's body turns up...

Cut to the Bone

Author	Jefferson Bass
ISBN	0062262300

In this long-awaited prequel to his New York Times bestselling series, Jefferson Bass turns the clock back to reveal the Body Farm's creation-and Dr. Bill Brockton's deadly duel with a serial killer

In the summer of 1992, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and Tennessee Senator Albert Gore begin...

The Breaking Point

Author	Jefferson Bass
ISBN	0062262335

Past, present, and future collide to throw respected forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton’s successful, secure life into devastating turmoil in this poignant novel in the New York Times bestselling Body Farm mystery series

It’s been ten years since Dr. Bill Brockton created the...

The Burning Girl

Author	Mark Billingham
ISBN	0751534897

First off, I only read this book one time if it says anywhere I read it twice.

Second, I'd never choose this book to read twice. (Sorry, Mr. Billingham.)

After reading books 1, 2 and 3 in this series I looked forward to #4, but seriously it was a disappointment. Jumbled. Confusing. With...

The Storm on Our Shores: One Island, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of World War II

Author	Mark Obmascik
ISBN	1451678398

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“Mark Obmascik has deftly rescued an important story from the margins of our history—and from our country’s most forbidding frontier. Deeply researched and feelingly told, The Storm on Our Shores is a heartbreaking tale of tragedy and redemption.” —Hampton...

The Family Lawyer

Author	James Patterson
ISBN	1478918179

10 hours

From the world's number one best-selling writer - three pulse-pounding novels in one audiobook!

The Family Lawyer with Robert Rotstein
Matthew Hovanes is living a parent's worst nightmare: His young daughter is accused of bullying another girl into suicide. But this...

The Quarter

Author

Naguib Mahfouz

Meet the people of Cairo’s Gamaliya quarter. There is Nabqa, son of Adam the waterseller who can only speak truths; the beautiful and talented Tawhida who does not age with time; Ali Zaidan, the gambler, late to love; and Boss Saqr who stashes his money above the bath. A neighbourhood of demons, dancing...

Blood Test

Author	Jonathan Kellerman
ISBN	0345466616

When the parents of deathly ill five-year-old Woody Swope vanish with their child, psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware and his friend, homicide detective Milo Sturgis, begin an investigation into their disappearance. Their search, however, leads them into an amoral underworld, where drugs, dreams,...