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All ages can celebrate Arab American Heritage Month with these e- & audio-book selections by Katelyn

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Adult Fiction by Arab American Authors

The Prophet, & the Wanderer
By Khalil Gibran 
Audiobook available on OverDrive Listen

The Other Americans 
By Laila Lalami 
eBook available on Overdrive or Audiobook available on OverDrive Listen

The Woman Upstairs 
By Claire Messud
eBook available on Overdrive

When the World Was Steady 
By Claire Messud
eBook available on Overdrive

A Good Country 
By Laleh Khadivi
eBook available on Overdrive 

A Woman is No Man 
By Etaf Rum
eBook available on Overdrive or Audiobook available on OverDrive Listen

In the Country of Men
By Hisham Matar
eBook available on OverDrive

Call Me by Your Name
By André Aciman 
eBook available on OverDrive or Audiobook available on OverDrive Listen

Enigma Variations 
By André Aciman
eBook available on OverDrive

Memoir and Nonfiction by Arab American Authors

The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between
By Hisham Matar
eBook available on OverDrive 

House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and A Lost Middle East
By Anthony Shadid
eBook available on OverDrive

What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
By Mona Hanna-Attisha 
eBook available on OverDrive

American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent
By Tamer Elnoury
eBook available on OverDrive

Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now
By Ayaan Hirsi Ali
eBook available on OverDrive

YA Fiction by Arab American Authors

Mirage
By Somaiya Daud
eBook available on OverDrive

We Hunt the Flame
By Hafsah Faizal
eBook available on OverDrive

A Very Large Expanse of Sea
By Tahereh Mafi
eBook available on OverDrive

Shatter Me
By Tahereh Mafi
eBook available on OverDrive

YA Nonfiction by Arab American Authors

Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood
By Ibtisam Barakat
eBook available on OverDrive

Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine
By Ibtisam Barakat
eBook available on OverDrive

Juvenile Fiction by Arab American Authors

You Are My Happy
By Hoda Kotb
eBook available on OverDrive

I’ve Loved You Since Forever
By Hoda Kotb
eBook available on OverDrive

Amina’s Voice
By Hena Khan
eBook available on OverDrive

Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns: A Muslim Book of Colors
By Hena Khan
eBook available on OverDrive

The Turtle of Oman
By Naomi Shihab Nye
eBook available on OverDrive or Audiobook available on OverDrive Listen

Other Words for Home
By Jasmine Warga
eBook available on OverDrive

Juvenile Nonfiction by Arab American Authors

Cast Away: Poems of Our Time
By Naomi Shihab Nye
eBook Available on OverDrive