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Crescent

Author: Diana Abu-Jaber
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2003.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Never married, living with an Iraqi-immigrant uncle and devoted dog, and working as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, thirty-nine-year-old Sirine finds her life turned upside down by a handsome Arabic literature professor.
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Genre/Form: Romance fiction
Local author
Love stories
Fiction
Oregon authors
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Diana Abu-Jaber
ISBN: 039305747X 9780393057478 9780393325546 0393325547
OCLC Number: 50948489
Description: 349 pages ; 25 cm
Responsibility: Diana Abu-Jaber.

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Unmarried Sirine works as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, her passions only aroused by the preparation of food - until an Arabic literature professor drops by for a little home cooking. Falling in  Read more...

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<http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/690351#Topic\/women_cooks<\/a>> # Women cooks<\/span>\n\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0a \nschema:Intangible<\/a> ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\nrdfs:seeAlso<\/a> <http:\/\/id.loc.gov\/authorities\/subjects\/sh2008113429<\/a>> ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\nschema:name<\/a> \"Women cooks<\/span>\"@en<\/a> ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0.\n\n\n<\/div>\n
<http:\/\/id.loc.gov\/authorities\/subjects\/sh85006277<\/a>> # Arab Americans<\/span>\n\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0a \nschema:Intangible<\/a> ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\nschema:name<\/a> \"Arab Americans<\/span>\"@en<\/a> ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0.\n\n\n<\/div>\n
<http:\/\/id.loc.gov\/authorities\/subjects\/sh85031855<\/a>> # Cooking, Lebanese<\/span>\n\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0a \nschema:Intangible<\/a> ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\nschema:name<\/a> \"Cooking, Lebanese<\/span>\"@en<\/a> ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0.\n\n\n<\/div>\n
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