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The Gardener of Baghdad
Ahmad_Ardalan
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Ahmad_Ardalan
Complete, First published Sep 07, 2014
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"Two people, one city, different times; connected by a memoir. Can love exist in a city destined for decades of misery?"

Adnan leads a weary existence as a bookshop owner in modern-day, war-torn Baghdad, where bombings, corruption and assault are everyday occurrences and the struggle to survive has suffocated the joy out of life for most. But when he begins to clean out his bookshop of forty years to leave his city in search of somewhere safer, he comes across the story of Ali, the Gardener of Baghdad, Adnan rediscovers through a memoir handwritten by the gardener decades ago that beauty, love and hope can still exist, even in the darkest corners of the world
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The girl from the billionaire's dream

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Zayan Ahmed, a handsome and eligible billionaire, is infatuated by dreams of a mysterious girl- her laughter, her touch, the warmth of her presence. But every morning, when he wakes up, she's gone. What starts as a lingering desire soon turns into a devastating realization. She isn't just a dream. She's real. She's his wife. And he has forgotten her. Now, desperate to reclaim the love he lost, Zayan embarks on a journey to find her. But time has passed, and the question lingers-is she still waiting for him, or has she moved on just like he unknowingly did? Will the billionaire win back his lost love, or has fate already written a different ending?

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