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Adult Books to Celebrate Arab-American Heritage Month

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by Samantha Totman

Did you know that April is National Arab-American Heritage Month? We’re celebrating here at the Library with a list of books and other media. Click the links below to check out these titles, or stop by the Library and see our display in person next to the Reference Desk!

Fiction
Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
Book | Large Print

The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine
Book

The Arsonists’ City by Hala Alyan
Book | eBook | CD Audiobook

The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar
Book

A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum
Book | eBook | CD Audiobook | eAudiobook

Adult Graphic Novels
It Won’t Always Be Like This by Malaka Gharib
Book

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Book

Nonfiction
When Magic Failed: a Memoir of a Lebanese Childhood, Caught Between East and West by Fouad Ajami
Book

A Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria by Alia Malek
Book

House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid
Book | eBook | eAudiobook

Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami
Book

Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad
Book | eBookeAudiobook

Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen by Yasmin Khan
Book | eBook