Assaf Cohen
1) Refugee
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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
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"When Orhan's brilliant and eccentric grandfather, who built a dynasty out of making kilim rugs, is found dead in a vat of dye, Orhan inherits the decades-old business. But his grandfather's will raises more questions than it answers. Kemal has left the family estate to a stranger thousands of miles away, an aging woman in a retirement home in Los Angeles. Her existence and secrecy about her past only deepen the mystery of why Orhan's grandfather...
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From the embers of the Second World War rose a family as ruthless as the forces that sought to destroy them. Guided by its indomitable matriarch, the Morfawitzes seek to build their own Olympus on the New York City skyline, in this engrossing tale from a winner of the Faulkner Society Award for Best Novel.
After fleeing from Nazis in Germany-just as her parents fled from Cossacks in Russia-Hadassah Morfawitz arrives in New York to begin her own dynasty,...
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Raisa Jordan thrillers volume 1
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Raisa "Rae" Jordan, an agent for the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service, isn't in Israel for more than a day before her predecessor is gunned down Tel Aviv square by a sniper. Assigned to investigate the assassination of one of her own, she must also protect Judge Ben Taylor and his teenage daughter. They may be the sniper's next target and are most certainly being threatened by a desperate cadre of terrorists with their sights set on the Secretary...
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As one of the most profound and insightful scholars of the Middle East, Fouad Ajami's sensibility was powerfully shaped by his childhood and youth in Lebanon in the '50s and '60s. The time was a transitional one, not only for the Middle East, but for America and the world. Lebanon in this era was just coming into its own as a cosmopolitan destination of the international jet set as well as earnest American educators seeking to modernize Arab society....
6) Dark Waters
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Raisa "Rae" Jordan, an agent for the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service, isn't in Israel for more than a day before her predecessor is killed in a Tel Aviv square. Assigned to investigate the assassination of one of her own, she must also protect Judge Ben Taylor and his teenage daughter. They may be the sniper's next target and are most certainly being threatened by a desperate cadre of terrorists with their sights set on the Secretary of State's upcoming...
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Syria - a country at war.
Amal, Hammoudi and Youssef are young and ambitious, the face of modern Syria. But when civil war tears through their homeland, they are left with a horrifying choice: risk death by staying in the country they love, or flee in search of a new life elsewhere?
From one of Germany's most talented literary voices comes this intricately woven story of brutality, loss, and how hope can shine through when darkness feels overwhelming....
9) Virgin
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An international thriller about the search for Mary, the mother of Jesus, from the New York Times–bestselling author of the Repairman Jack novels. During the Gulf War in 1991, an ancient scroll is found in the Negev Desert of southern Israel. Years later, scientists declare it a fake, but an American nun believes it will lead her to the resting place of the Virgin Mary. What she finds seems to possess miraculous healing powers that attract believers...
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"A gripping account of terror and escape." - New York Times Book Review
The Fox Hunt tells one young man's unforgettable story of his harrowing escape from Yemen's brutal civil war with the help of a daring plan engineered on social media by a small group of interfaith activists in the West.
WINNER: 2019 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS • A 2019 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS FINALIST
Born in the Old City of Sana'a, Yemen, to a pair of middle-class...
11) The Mind of Terror: A Former Muslim Sniper Explores What Motiviates ISIS and other Extremist Groups
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What motivates Islamic terrorists? What is in the mind of terror? Our news reports from the Middle East cover events: bombings, massacres, and suicide attacks. Our newscasters take time to explain who the players are, from Hezbollah to the Iranian Quds, from ISIS to the Palestinian National Authority. But there is something underneath these events and players that fuels atrocity after atrocity in the Middle East. What is it? Tass Saada provides the...
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A riveting story about the murder that changed a nation: the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin remains the single most consequential event in Israel's recent history and one that fundamentally altered the trajectory for both Israel and the Palestinians. Killing a King relates the parallel stories of Rabin and his stalker, Yigal Amir, over the two years leading up to the assassination, as one...
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When you're acquired by Private Equity, the first one hundred days are critical. You need to grow revenue faster, be more profitable, and integrate additional companies, all while getting buy-in from investors. In this environment, ramping up your sales pipeline is a major component of meeting board expectations.
In Post-Acquisition Marketing, Shiv Narayanan reveals how PE-backed companies can leverage marketing to scale faster and deliver on the...
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Pharma Customer Experience reveals twenty secrets that pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies are using today to connect emotionally with their customers-both patients and healthcare professionals.
In an increasingly competitive environment, it's no longer enough for pharma to develop drugs and technologies that treat, cure, or relieve the symptoms of disease. To be truly customer-centric-building long-term, reliable customer relationships-pharma...
16) The believer
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A New York City trendspotter returns to her Stockholm borough home to discover the truth about her missing brother's alleged ties to ISIS, while a human rights researcher, Klara Walldeen, discovers she may be unwittingly contributing to the dark agendas of powerful forces.
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A gripping, inspiring, and eye-opening memoir of fortitude and survival-of a twelve-year-old boy's traumatic flight from Afghanistan to the West-that puts a face to one of the most shocking and devastating humanitarian crises of our time. "To risk my life had to mean something. Otherwise what was it all for?" In 2006, after his father was killed, Gulwali Passarlay was caught between the Taliban who wanted to recruit him, and the Americans who wanted...
18) Listen or Die
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In this interconnected world dominated by social media, consumers' voices are broadcast louder and wider than ever before. Companies are faced with the choice to either listen to their customers and thrive...or eventually die. No matter what industry you're in, you need to deliver an exceptional experience to customers that will make them want to shout your name from the rooftops!
In Listen or Die, customer experience expert Sean McDade presents...
19) Ronit & Jamil
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Pamela L. Laskin's beautiful and lyrical novel in verse delivers a fresh and captivating retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet that transports the star-crossed lovers to the modern-day Israel-Palestine conflict.
Ronit, an Israeli girl, lives on one side of the fence. Jamil, a Palestinian boy, lives on the other side. Only miles apart but separated by generations of conflict-much more than just the concrete blockade between them. Their fathers,...