Gaza: The Story of a Genocide is an urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, art, and frontline reportage. Together, these works bear witness to the vast and ongoing destruction in�flicted on the Palestinian people-their lives, their land, and their future.Ahmed Alnaouq recounts the devastating loss of twenty-one family members. Noor Alyacoubi offers a searing reflection on starvation. Mariam Barghouti examines the brutality of Israeli settler violence...

Most novels are written by professional writers using second hand material. Not this one. Peirene commissioned nine refugees to tell their 'Shatila Stories'. The result is a piece of collaborative fiction unlike any other. If you want to understand the chaos of the Middle East – or you just want to follow the course of a beautiful love story – start here.Adam and his family flee Syria and arrive at the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut. Conditions in this overcrowded P...

She doesn't wear a crown of gold—hers is invisible, forged in silence, resilience, and relentless thought. Every decision she makes, every emotion she balances, every moment she restrains herself when the world expects her to break—it's all part of her quiet reign.This story explores the inner kingdom of a woman's mind—where self-doubt and strength battle daily, where intuition is both shield and sword, and where true leadership begins not with dominance, but with depth. It’s not a...

A manuscript hidden for six centuries.A global outbreak engineered by design.A truth powerful enough to erase anyone who uncovers it.When epidemiologist Dr. Elena Marquez discovers a forbidden medieval manuscript deep beneath Vatican archives, she uncovers something impossible. The Black Death was not random. It was predicted, planned, and repeated throughout history.As modern scientists begin dying and gove...

Introduce young ones to the strength of love and kindness in this touching story about finding hope in the toughest places, authored by Olympic-medal-winner Fatima Whitbread.North Star, North Star,Are you near or are you far?Shining with a twinkling glow,Please show us which way to go.Join Little Fatima on a journey to find her forever home, even though it is not as easy as she had hoped. But through this journ...

A century-old Vatican prophecy. A priest with a soldier's past. A secret powerful enough to shake the world.Father Kevin Thrall lives a quiet life as chaplain to a poor inner-city parochial school in Washington, D.C. But beneath his collar is a past he has never fully escaped: combat with an elite military unit and instincts that can reach for a weapon as quickly as a prayer.Then the Vatican calls.Thrall is sent on a dangerous mission tied to one of history's most e...

"What if nothing happens on the 13th? Aren't you afraid people will laugh at you?" asked the parish priest as he looked closely at 10-year-old Lucia. "Oh no, Father!" replied Lucia. "I know something wonderful is going to happen on the 13th. The Lady told us so." This book tells what happened and gives the wonderful story of Our Lady's appearances to little Jacinta, Francisco and Lucia. Impr. 162 pgs 15 Illus,

Long-listed for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, a lyrical novel set over the course of one morning in a small town in PakistanFatima Bhutto’s stunning debut novel chronicles the lives of five young people trying to live and love in a world on fire. Set during the American invasion of Afghanistan, The Shadow of the Crescent Moon begins and ends one rain-swept Friday morning in Mir Ali, a small town in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas close to the Afghan borde...

Adhering faithfully to the memoirs of Sister Lucia, the longest surviving seer, this book follows the events of Fatima: from the first stirrings of the wings in the appearances of the angels before the six apparitions of the Blessed Virgin herself, the deaths of Francisco and Jacinta Marto, the subsequent apparitions to Sister Lucia in Pontevedra and Tuy, the consecration of the world and Russia to the Immaculate Heart, the dissolution of Soviet Communism, to the beatifications of Francisc...

An important dispatch from a new, multipolar order that is taking form before our eyesA vast cultural movement is emerging from outside the Western world. Truly global in its range and allure, it is the biggest challenge yet to Hollywood, McDonald’s, blue jeans, and other aspects of American mass-produced popular culture. This is a book about the new arbiters of mass culture—India’s Bollywood films, Turkey’s soap operas, or dizi, and South Korea’s pop musi...

Fatima Daoui is one of the Middle East’s most recognised business reporters, with over 15 years of experience in the industry. Known for her scoops and exclusive interviews, Fatima is based in the UAE and travels wherever the story takes her, from Saudi Arabia where she specialises in covering business stories, to the far reaches of the globe to moderate influential panels on global economic issues.Having been supported by other women throughout her life, Fatima has written this bo...

The Prophecy of Our Lady of Fatima (and the mad Catholics)On 13 July 1917, three children were startled to find a mysterious figure approaching them as they tended their flock of sheep in pastureland near Fatima in Portugal. Lucia dos Santos and her two cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto reported seeing what they described as a ‘pretty lady from Heaven’.Lucia said the lady was ‘brighter than the sun, shedding rays of light clearer and stronger than a cryst...