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“rajaa alsanea”

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  • Girls of Riyadh

    by Rajaa Alsanea ...
    Translated by Rajaa Alsanea, Marilyn Booth ...
    “Alsanea's wisdom and insight into the female experience seem surreal. She captures the core, universal truths of the complications in finding and holding a life partner. Her characters provide wisdom to each other that are astounding in their accuracy, and Alsanea thus speaks for countless women everywhere.” —Bookreporter.comWhen Rajaa Alsanea boldly chose to open up the hidden world of Saudi ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Girls of Riyadh

    A Novel

    by Rajaa Alsanea ...
    Narrated by Kate Reading ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 34 min

    When Rajaa Alsanea boldly chose to open up the hidden world of Saudi women—their private lives and their conflicts with the traditions of their culture—she caused a sensation across the Arab world. Now in English, Alsanea’s tale of the personal struggles of four young upper-class women offers Westerners an unprecedented glimpse into a society often veiled from view. Living in restrictive Riyadh ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

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    Girls of Riyadh

    A Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisation

    by Rajaa Alsanea ...
    Narrated by Lara Sawalha, Nyla Levy, Jasmine Jones, Laila Alj, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 9 min

    Can you be a 21st century woman and a Saudi woman? Four friends come of age and look for love in a changing world.Follow the social, romantic, and sexual tribulations of four young women in elite Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Based on Rajaa Alsanea’s explosive novel that shook the Middle East, this full-cast dramatisation is a powerful, moving and, at times, funny story of being a young woman experiencing ... Read more

    $19.11 USD

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    Honeymoon in Tehran

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    by Azadeh Moaveni ...
    Narrated by Carrington MacDuffie ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 36 min

    Azadeh Moaveni was an American reporter covering the rise of Ahmadinejad in Tehran when the unexpected happened: she met her soul-mate, fell in love, and became pregnant. Facing an uncertain future, she continued to publish increasingly sensitive reports on Iran, while hiding her pregnancy from the religious authorities until she could marry. Shortly after giving birth, a government source, known ... Read more

    $22.95 USD

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    Inside the Kingdom

    My Life in Saudi Arabia

    by Carmen Bin Ladin ...
    Narrated by Shohreh Aghdashloo ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 18 min

    Osama bin Laden's former sister-in-law provides a penetrating, unusually intimate look into Saudi society and the bin Laden family's role within it, as well as the treatment of Saudi women.On September 11th, 2001, Carmen bin Ladin heard the news that the Twin Towers had been struck. She instinctively knew that her ex-brother-in-law was involved in these horrifying acts of terrorism, and her heart ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Growing Up bin Laden

    Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World

    by Najwa bin Laden, Omar bin Laden, Jean Sasson ...
    Narrated by Sherry Adams, Mel Foster, Lorna Raver ...

    Unabridged

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    "I was not always the wife of Osama bin Laden. Once I was an innocent child dreaming little girl dreams."Thus begins this powerful story by Najwa bin Laden, who married her cousin Osama bin Laden at the age of fifteen to become his first wife and the mother to eleven of his children, and her son, Omar bin Laden, the fourth-born son of Osama bin Laden. Together, mother and son tell an ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    The Twentieth Wife

    by Indu Sundaresan ...
    Narrated by Sneha Mathan ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 4 min

    An enchanting historical epic of grand passion and adventure, this debut novel tells the captivating story of one of India’s most controversial empresses, a woman whose brilliance and determination trumped myriad obstacles and whose love shaped the course of the Mughal Empire.Skillfully blending the textures of historical reality with the rich and sensual imaginings of a timeless fairy tale, The ... Read more

    $24.95 USD

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    The Violets of March

    by Sarah Jio ...
    Narrated by Lyssa Browne ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 19 min

    In her twenties, Emily Wilson was on top of the world: she had a bestselling novel, a husband plucked from the pages of GQ, and a one-way ticket to happily ever after. Ten years later, the tide has turned on Emily's good fortune. So when her great-aunt Bee invites her to spend the month of March on Bainbridge Island in Washington State, Emily accepts, longing to be healed by the sea. Researching ... Read more

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    The Man of My Dreams

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    by Curtis Sittenfeld ...
    Narrated by Susan Denaker ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 40 min

    In her acclaimed debut novel, Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld created a touchstone with her pitch-perfect portrayal of adolescence. Her prose is as intensely realistic and compelling as ever in The Man of My Dreams, a disarmingly candid and sympathetic novel about the collision of a young woman’s fantasies of family and love with the challenges and realities of adult life.Hannah Gavener is fourteen in the ... Read more

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    Everything and Nothing

    by Araminta Hall ...
    Narrated by Amy Elton ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 8 min

    A gripping psychological suspense readA family near breaking point hire a nanny with secrets of her own in this gripping novel from an exciting talent.Cupboards were sticky from spilt jam and honey, and the oven smoked when you turned it on because of the fat that had built up over the years. Agatha would never, ever let her future home end up like this. She would never leave it every day like ... Read more

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    City of Veils

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    by Zoe Ferraris ...
    Narrated by Kate Reading ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 45 min

    When the body of a brutally beaten woman is found on the beach in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Detective Osama Ibrahim dreads investigating another unsolvable murder—chillingly common in a city where the veils of conservative Islam keep women as anonymous in life as the victim is in death.But Katya, one of the few females in the coroner's office, is determined to identify the woman and find her killer. ... Read more

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    Finding Nouf

    by Zoe Ferraris ...
    Narrated by Pete Bradbury ...
    Series series Katya Hijazi and Nayir Sharqi

    Unabridged

    11 hours 12 min

    Zoe Ferraris' debut novel is hailed as a startling, richly textured work of the highest literary merit. Finding Nouf, 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 ... Read more

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