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John Wells novels volume 5
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Entreated by the aging king of Saudi Arabia to infiltrate dark factions that are plotting against the monarchy, ex-CIA agent John Wells goes undercover only to learn of a massive conspiracy to trigger an ultimate confrontation between America and Islam.
2) Day of wrath
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c1998
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Colonel Peter Thorn and FBI Special Agent Helen Gray must work together to try and save the United States from the destructive plans of a madman.
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"A game-changing peace treaty between Israel and the Saudis is nearly done. The secretary of state is headed to the region to seal the deal. And Special Agent Marcus Ryker is leading an advance trip along the Israeli-Lebanon border ahead of the secretary's arrival. But when Ryker and his team are ambushed and captured by Hezbollah forces, a nightmare scenario begins to unfold. The last thing the White House can afford is a new war in the Mideast that...
5) Finding Nouf
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
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Ferraris' novel, set in Saudi Arabia, features desert guide Nayir al-Sharqi, who is hired by wealthy friends to find their missing daughter. When the girl turns up dead, apparently drowned in a flash flood in the desert, Nayir suspects that all is not as it seems. And as he looks into her death, he develops an uncomfortable partnership with a female technician at the local coroner's office.
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2007
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"...Miriam is a Saudi princess promised to another, a pawn in a political struggle that could shift the balance of power in the Middle East. Seth is a certified genius with a head full of numbers, a life full of baggage, and an attitude born on the waves of the Pacific. Cultures collide when they find themselves thrown together as fugitives in a high-stakes chase across Southern California..."--P. 4 of cover.
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2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
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In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sixteen-year-old half-Hindu/half-Parsi Zarin Wadia is the class troublemaker and top subject for the school rumor blogs, regularly leaving class to smoke cigarettes in cars with boys, but she also desperately wants to grow up and move out of her aunt and uncle's house, perhaps realizing too late that Porus, another non-Muslim Indian who risks deportation but remains devoted to Zarin, could help her escape.
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Dead Sea chronicles volume 2
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c2019.
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In Dead Sea Conspiracy, archaeologist Nicole Berman gets permission and secures funding for her controversial Saudi Arabian dig while grieving a personal tragedy. Nicole has more than a hunch that this dig may change history books forever. She assembles a team that will ultimately surprise-and in some cases-betray her. Will she find what she believes to be the key to unifying the three major religions before a dangerous enemy gets to her?
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Mitch Rapp novels volume 16
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After 9/11, the United States made one of the most secretive and dangerous deals in its history. The evidence against the powerful Saudis who coordinated the attack would be buried. In return, King Faisal would promise to keep the oil flowing and deal with the conspirators in his midst. When the king's own nephew is discovered to be funding ISIS, the U.S. president suspects that the Saudis never intended to live up to their agreement. He decides that...
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Katya Hijazi novels volume 3
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[2012]
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Ibrahim Al-Brehm, a respectable husband and police inspector on Jeddah's murder squad, goes to Katya, one of the few women on the force, to locate a missing woman and Katya uncovers a murder which connects the woman to a human trafficking ring.
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2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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Two best friends delight in the small acts of rebellion they carry out against the Saudi cultural police, but Leena and Mishie still find their ambitions for college and independence challenged by cultural restrictions.
13) City of Veils
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Katya Hijazi novels volume 2
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[2010]
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After the body of a brutally beaten woman is found on a beach in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Detective Osama Ibrahim, along with the help of female coroner Katya and her friend Nayir, discovers that the victim was a controversial filmmaker and must discern whowanted her dead.
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Queen and country (Novels) volume 1
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[2004]
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When an unthinkable act of terror devastates London, nothing will stop Tara Chace from hunting down those responsible. Her job is simple: stop the terrorists before they strike a second time. To succeed, she'll do anything and everything it takes. She'll have to kill again. Only this time the personal stakes will be higher than ever before.
15) Sarab
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2018.
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"November 1979. Violence has broken out in the holiest site of Islam after a charismatic rebel and his devoted followers have announced the coming of the Mahdi and seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Among the insurgents is a young woman, Sarab, disguised as a man. As the horror and chaos of the siege reach their peak, she escapes and encounters a French officer from the opposing side. They form an unexpected bond, as hostility turns to attraction,...
16) The assassin
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Pub. Date
2002
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It began when satellite photos revealed certain anomalies along the border of Saudi Arabia and Jordan - entire areas where there was no longer any sign of life. That, combined with reports from Iraq that some nomadic tribes had been decimated by a mysterious illness, could mean a global nightmare was becoming a reality - someone was perfecting a more effective, more deadly form of germ warfare. But who? The American government had to get to the truth...
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[2010]
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""Without guides who reached higher consciousness, the world would be bereft of its greatest visionaries - fatally bereft, in fact. Muhammad sensed this aching gap in the world around him. He appeals to me most because he remade the world by going inward. That's the kind of achievement only available on the spiritual path. In the light of what the Prophet achieved, he raises my hope that all of us who lead everyday lives can be touched by the divine....
18) Sword of God
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Pub. Date
2007
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In a secret bunker, one of the world's most dangerous terrorists is rescued, and his captors are slaughtered. Jonathan Payne vows revenge -- but there is more to the bloody atrocity than terrorist reprisal. There is a plot in motion that will burn the world in the fires of holy war.
19) The Bystander
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2018
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The desert of the Middle East combines with Saudi intrigue in this intricately woven story of Amy Prowers close friendship to Princess Hassa of the Saudi royal family. Her deceased husband's friend Prince Rashid asks her to assist his wife on an excavation to validate a major archeology finding. Althought not an archeologist, Amy's aunt's private international organization, the Committee, has access to experts who will validate the excavation at the...
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"For three decades, Richard Clarke worked in the White House, State Department, and Pentagon. As advisor to four Presidents, he traveled throughout the Middle East, visiting palaces, military bases, and intelligence centers, meeting rulers, soldiers, and spies. Some of what he found appeared in Against All Enemies. Much more of it appears here." "In an extraordinary geopolitical thriller filled with the kind of cutting-edge authenticity only someone...