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All This Twisted Glory
By: Tahereh Mafi
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times bestselling series!The highly anticipated third novel in the This Woven Kingdom series, full of powerful magic, searing romance, and heartbreaking betrayal, from the award-winning and bestselling author of the Shatter Me series. Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, Sabaa Tahir, and Tomi Adeyemi.As the long-lost heir to the Jinn... Read more
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The Great Banned-Books Bake Sale
By: Aya Khalil
Narrated by: Dalia Ramahi
Length: 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Upon learning that the books with kids who look like her have been banned by her school district, Kanzi descends into fear and helplessness. But her classmates support her, and together—with their teacher’s help—they hatch a plan to hold a bake sale and use the proceeds to buy diverse books to donate to libraries. The event is a big success: the... Read more
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Eyeliner
By: Zahra Hankir
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Pick
“Cosmetic, tool of rebellion, status signifier: Eyeliner has been all these and more. Moving through millenniums and across civilizations, Hankir gives the makeup its eye-opening due.” —The New York Times Book Review
“An impressive, rigorously researched, winding path through centuries and over... Read more
I Will Greet the Sun Again
By: Khashayar J. Khabushani
Narrated by: Sean Rohani
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
“[A] masterful debut . . . a novel of survival and longing and love, and in many ways a modern portrait of an artist as a young man . . . a book written for us, we Iranian Americans whom you don’t often hear about.”—Porochista Khakpour, The Washington Post (Best Books of the Year)
“A triumph . . . a book of astonishing accomplishment and... Read more
Rana Joon and the One and Only Now
By: Shideh Etaat
Narrated by: Rasha Zamamiri
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
“A breath of fresh air and punch to the gut all rolled into one.” —Adib Khorram, award-winning author of Darius the Great Is Not Okay
This “lyrical” (Kirkus Reviews) coming-of-age novel for fans of Darius the Great Is Not Okay and On the Come Up, set in Southern California in 1996, follows a teen who wants to honor her deceased friend’s legacy... Read more
Watch Us Dance
By: Leila Slimani
Narrated by: Lara Sawalha
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
“A rich family saga . . . [written with] voluptuous lyricism and emotional precision.” —The Washington Post
The rebellions within an interracial family play out against the countercultural rebellions of the 1960s in this sexy, stylish, sophisticated new novel by the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny and In the... Read more
Starstruck
By: Sarafina El-Badry Nance
Narrated by: Sarafina El-Badry Nance
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
In a beautifully written, science-packed, and inspirational memoir, Egyptian-American astrophysicist Sarafina El-Badry Nance shares how she boldly carved out a place in the field of astrophysics, grounding herself in a lifelong love of the stars to face life’s inevitable challenges and embrace the unknown.
As a child, Sarafina El-Badry Nance... Read more
Something More
By: Jackie Khalilieh
Narrated by: Parmida Vand
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
A contemporary teen romance novel featuring a Palestinian-Canadian girl trying to hide her autism diagnosis while navigating her first year of high school, for fans of Jenny Han and Samira Ahmed.
Fifteen-year-old Jessie, a quirky loner obsessed with the nineties, is diagnosed as autistic just weeks before starting high school. Determined to make... Read more
Between Two Moons
By: Aisha Abdel Gawad
Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar Young
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION AND THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD • A BOOKLIST BEST BOOK OF 2023 • Set in the Arab immigrant enclave of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, following three siblings coming of age over the course of one Ramadan, "a moving look at family, survival, and celebration" (Hanif Abdurraqib, author of A Little... Read more
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Only This Beautiful Moment
By: Abdi Nazemian
Narrated by: Vikas Adam, Fajer Al-Kaisi & Iman Nazemzadeh
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Stonewall Book Award Winner * A Best Book of the Year from the Guardian, ALA Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, and BookPage From the award–winning author of Like a Love Story comes a sweeping story of three generations of boys in the same Iranian family. Perfect for fans of Last Night at the Telegraph Club and Darius the Great Is Not Okay. 2019. Moud is... Read more
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The Skin and Its Girl
By: Sarah Cypher
Narrated by: Victoria Nassif & Haneen Arafat Murphy
Length: 12 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great-aunt’s secrets in this “enchanting, memorable” (Bustle) debut, confronting questions of sexual identity, exile, and lineage.
“As beautifully detailed as a piece of Palestinian embroidery, this bold, vivid novel will speak to readers across genders, cultures, and... Read more
Who Gets Believed
By: Dina Nayeri
Narrated by: Ayesha Antoine
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Why are honest asylum seekers dismissed as liars? Former refugee and award-winning author Dina Nayeri begins with this question, turning to shocking and illuminating case studies in this book, which grows into a reckoning with our culture’s views on believability. From persuading a doctor that she’d prefer a C-section to learning to “bullshit... Read more
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Ghost Season
By: Fatin Abbas
Narrated by: Dion Graham & Bahni Turpin
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
A dynamic, beautifully orchestrated debut novel connecting five characters caught in the crosshairs of conflict on the Sudanese border.
A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and southern Sudan. For five strangers on an NGO compound, the discovery foreshadows trouble to come. South Sudanese... Read more
The Bird Tattoo
By: Dunya Mikhail
Narrated by: Vaneh Assadourian
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Helen is a young Yazidi woman, living with her family in a mountain village in Sinjar, northern Iraq. One day she finds a local bird caught in a trap and frees it, just as the trapper, Elias, returns. At first angry, he soon sees the error of his ways and vows never to keep a bird captive again. Helen and Elias fall deeply in love, marry and... Read more
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The Bruising of Qilwa
By: Naseem Jamnia
Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
In this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonbinary refugee practitioner of blood magic discovers a strange disease that causes political rifts in their new homeland. Persian-American author Naseem Jamnia has crafted a gripping narrative with a moving, nuanced exploration of immigration, gender,... Read more
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More Than a White Man's Religion
By: Abdu Murray
Narrated by: Abdu Murray
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Read by the author.Though many today accuse Christianity of being a white, imperialistic religion, it is actually the source for cherished Western ideals of racial and gender equality. In More Than a White Man's Religion, author and speaker Abdu Murray shares stories from the Bible and his own experiences as a global apologist, a member of an... Read more
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Mother of Strangers
By: Suad Amiry
Narrated by: Amin El Gamal & Lameece Issaq
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR from NPR • Set in Jaffa in between 1947 and 1951, this “fable-like historical novel of young love ... darkly humorous and touching” (Oprah Daily) is based on a true story during the beginning of the destruction of Palestine and displacement of its people.
Based on the true story of two Jaffa teenagers, Mother of Strangers... Read more
Yalo
By: Elias Khoury
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 11 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Elias Khoury’s novel Yalo propels us into a fantastic universe of skewed reality that leaves us breathless to the last sentence.We follow the path of a young man, Yalo, who is growing up like a stray dog on the streets of Beirut during the long years of the Lebanese civil war. Living with his mother, who “lost her face in the mirror,” he falls... Read more
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The Final Strife
By: Saara El-Arifi
Narrated by: Nicole Lewis & Dominic Hoffman
Length: 19 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
In the first book of a visionary fantasy trilogy with its roots in the mythology of Africa and Arabia that “sings of rebellion, love, and the courage it takes to stand up to tyranny” (Samantha Shannon, author of The Priory of the Orange Tree), three women band together against a cruel empire that divides people by blood.
“A game-changing new... Read more
These Impossible Things
By: Salma El-Wardany
Narrated by: Shazia Nicholls
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
In this “salacious, incisive, and unapologetically Muslim” (Blair Imani, activist and bestselling author of Read This to Get Smarter) novel, three best friends navigate love, sex, faith—and the one night that changes it all. It’s always been Malak, Kees, and Jenna against the world. Since childhood, under the watchful eyes of their parents,... Read more
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Man o' War
By: Cory McCarthy
Narrated by: E.R. Fightmaster
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
A Stonewall Honor Book
An achingly honest and frequently hilarious coming-of-age novel about an Arab American trans teen fighting to keep their head above water in a landlocked Midwestern town.
Man o' wars are not jellyfish, and River McIntyre is not happy. River doesn't know why they're unhappy—though perhaps it has something to do with the way... Read more
Either/Or
By: Elif Batuman
Narrated by: Elif Batuman
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
An instant New York Times bestseller!
A New York Times Notable Book of 2022
“Batuman has a gift for making the universe seem, somehow, like the benevolent and witty literary seminar you wish it were . . .This novel wins you over in a million micro-observations.” —The New York Times
“Batuman is a genius, rendering human folly at its most colorful... Read more
Son of Elsewhere
By: Elamin Abdelmahmoud
Narrated by: Elamin Abdelmahmoud
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “funny and frank” (The New York Times) collection of essays on Blackness, faith, pop culture, and the challenges—and rewards—of finding one’s way in the world, from a BuzzFeed editor and podcast host.
“A memoir that is immense in its desire to give . . . a rich offering of image, of music, of... Read more
The Secret Diary of Mona Hasan
By: Salma Hussain
Narrated by: Asia Mattu
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Mona learns to find her voice over the course of a year that sees her immigrating from Dubai to Canada in this novel for fans of Front Desk by Kelly Yang.
Mona Hasan is a young Muslim girl growing up in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, when the first Gulf War breaks out in 1991. The war isn’t what she expects — “We didn’t even get any days off... Read more
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