Product Description: Twelve-year-old Maria lives a lonely, latchkey-kid's life in the Bronx. Her Lebanese mother is working two nursing jobs to keep them afloat, and Maria keeps her worries to herself, not wanting to be a burden. Then something happens one day between home and school that changes everything...read more

Max doesn't remember his mother, who was murdered by burglars before they emigrated from Beirut to New Jersey. He lives with his father, Rasheed, who is enamored of his concept of American culture--baseball and barbeques--and tries to shed his Lebanese heritage completely. "When we are in America," Reed (for he goes by Reed in America, not Rasheed) tells Max, "we are Americans."Rasheed has a single purpose in life: to provide Max with a joyful childhood. He showers his son with gifts out of a belief that he deserves all and is capable of anything. Max wants nothing more than to convince his father that he is a successful single parent. The only thing that can disrupt their peaceful universe is the truth--which it does, with force.When Max turns seventeen, he learns from Rasheed's ex-girlfriend that his father has been lying to him. Max's understanding of the world is so rocked that he is subsequently launched on an uncertain mission to Beirut and then Paris.Lifted by the Great Nothing is a startlingly graceful, and often hilarious, coming-of-age story about the lengths we go to preserve the untruths we live by. With its poignant relationships, unsettling misadventures, and surprising love stories, it is a touching and devastating portrait of a young man coming to terms with his country's--and his own--violent past.

Product Description: Evelyn C. Shakir paints tales that are rich in history and background. She sets her stories in different eras, from the 1960s to the present, peopled with Lebanese women of different ages, sometimes writing letters, often reminiscing, looking back as far as the turn of the century...read more

Through a series of first chapters of unfinished novels and memoirs, Sarah Nour El-Din, a Lebanese-American artist, narrates the story of her life, from growing up in a hybrid family in war-torn Beirut and her own self-imposed exile in the United States to her struggle to deal with her family problems and her determination to tell her own story. 20,000 first printing.

A collection of provocative tales chronicles the lives of Lebanese men, women, and children whose lives have been utterly disrupted by civil war and exile and examines the depths of relationships that keep hope and reason alive. (view table of contents)

A Lebanese man who comes to the United States to seek his fortune suffers several setbacks, but makes his dream come true

A guide to finding the right man and understanding the way men play the dating game provides a series of personal anecdotes that reveal what men expect, how they think, and the ways to secure or end relationships. Original.

A novel about young girls in Kuwait in the 1950s and 60s.

After Grandmother explains why the trees in Lebanon kneel at Christmas, Afify and Hanna hope to witness a similar miracle in Brooklyn's Prospect Park (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Sakakeeny, Kaleel

Product Description: Book by Sakakeeny, Kaleel