<div>&ldquo;[A] Harry Potter-ish action-adventure romance&rdquo; set during the Arab Spring, from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of the Ms. Marvel comic book series (The New York Times). In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker, who goes by Alif, shields his clients&mdash;dissidents, outlaws, revolutionaries, and other watched groups&mdash;from surveillance, and tries to stay out of trouble. The aristocratic woman Alif loves has jilted him for a prince chosen by her parents, and his computer has just been breached by the state&rsquo;s electronic security force, putting his clients and himself on the line. Then it turns out his lover&rsquo;s new fianc&eacute; is the &ldquo;Hand of God,&rdquo; as they call the head of state security, and his henchmen come after Alif, driving him underground. When Alif discovers The Thousand and One Days, the secret book of the jinn, which both he and the Hand suspect may unleash a new level of information technology, the stakes are raised and Alif must struggle for life or death, aided by forces seen and unseen. This &ldquo;tale of literary enchantment, political change, and religious mystery&rdquo; was a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (Gregory Maguire). &ldquo;Wilson has a deft hand with myth and with magic.&rdquo; &mdash;Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods </div>

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Alif the Unseen

<div>&ldquo;In this satisfying, lyrical memoir,&rdquo; an American woman discovers her true faith&mdash;and true love&mdash;by converting to Islam and moving to Egypt (Publishers Weekly). Raised in Boulder, Colorado, G. Willow Wilson moved to Egypt and converted to Islam shortly after college. Having written extensively on modern religion and the Middle East in publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and The New York Times Magazine, Wilson now shares her remarkable story of finding faith, falling in love, and marrying into a traditional Islamic family in this &ldquo;intelligently written and passionately rendered memoir&rdquo; (The Seattle Times, 27 Best Books of 2010). Despite her atheist upbringing, Willow always felt a connection to god. Around the time of 9/11, she took an Islamic Studies course at Boston University, and found the teachings of the Quran astounding, comforting, and profoundly transformative. She decided to risk everything to convert to Islam, embarking on a journey across continents and into an uncertain future. Settling in Cairo where she taught English, she soon met and fell in love with Omar, a passionate young man with a mild resentment of the Western influences in his homeland. Torn between the secular West and Muslim East, Willow&mdash;with her shock of red hair, shaky Arabic, and Western candor&mdash;struggled to forge a &ldquo;third culture&rdquo; that might accommodate her values as well as her friends and family on both sides of the divide. Part travelogue, love story, and memoir, &ldquo;Wilson has written one of the most beautiful and believable narratives about finding closeness with God&rdquo; (The Denver Post).</div>

The Butterfly Mosque

<div>One of NPR’s 50 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the Decade: A fifteenth-century palace mapmaker must hide his powers in the time of the Inquisition . . . Award-winning author G. Willow Wilson’s debut novel Alif the Unseen was an NPR and Washington Post Best Book of the Year and established her as a vital American Muslim literary voice. Now she delivers The Bird King, an epic journey set during the reign of the last sultan in the Iberian peninsula at the height of the Spanish Inquisition. Fatima is a concubine in the royal court of Granada, the last emirate of Muslim Spain. Her dearest friend, Hassan, the palace mapmaker and the one man who doesn’t leer at her with desire, has a secret—he can draw maps of places he’s never seen and bend the shape of reality. When representatives of the newly formed Spanish monarchy arrive to negotiate the sultan’s surrender, Fatima befriends one of the women, not realizing that she will see Hassan’s gift as sorcery and a threat to Christian Spanish rule. With their freedoms at stake, what will Fatima risk to save Hassan and escape the palace walls? As the two traverse Spain with the help of a clever jinn to find safety, The Bird King asks us to consider what love is and the price of freedom at a time when the West and the Muslim world were not yet separate. “Wilson has a deft hand with myth and with magic, and the kind of smart, honest writing mind that knits together and bridges cultures and people.” —Neil Gaiman, author of Norse Mythology “A triumph . . . one of the best fantasy writers working today.” —BookPage “A treasure-house of a novel, thrilling, tender, funny, and achingly gorgeous. I loved it.” —Lev Grossman, author of the Magicians trilogy</div>

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