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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE
The elegant and compelling novel about a Pakistani man's abandonment of his high-flying life in New York—an extraordinary portrait of a divided and yet ultimately indivisible world in America post-9/11.
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. He begins...
SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE
The elegant and compelling novel about a Pakistani man's abandonment of his high-flying life in New York—an extraordinary portrait of a divided and yet ultimately indivisible world in America post-9/11.
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. He begins...
Author
Language
English
Description
"An orphan grapples with gender, siblinghood, family, and coming-of-age as a Muslim in America in this lyrical debut novel that "shimmers with love" (Los Angeles Times), from the acclaimed author of If They Come For Us "Haunting . . . a knife-sharp story of self-discovery."-People In this heartrending, lyrical debut work of fiction, Fatimah Asghar traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, are left to raise...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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AANHPI Heritage Month - Adult Fiction
Arab American Heritage Month
Read-Alikes for Transcendent Kingdom
Arab American Heritage Month
Read-Alikes for Transcendent Kingdom
Description
Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable -- Salman Rushdie A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home. Ayad Akhtar forges a new narrative...
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Una novela profundamente personal sobre la identidad y la pertenencia en una naciAn que se desmorona por completo, y que combina hechos reales y ficciAn para contar una historia Acpica de pertenencia y desposesiAn en el mundo que se creA tras el 11 de septiembre. En parte drama familiar, en parte sAtira, en parte picaresca, esta es la historia de un padre y un hijo, y el paA-s al que llaman hogar. Desde las ciudades del corazAn de Estados Unidos hasta...
Author
Publisher
Mindy's Book Studio
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Dunia Ahmed lives an ordinary life-or she definitely used to. Now she's the subject of a true crime podcast. She's been missing for over a year, and no one knows if she's dead or alive. But her story has listeners obsessed, and people everywhere are sporting merch that demands "Find Dunia!" In the days before her disappearance, Dunia is a successful pharmacist living in New York. The daughter of Pakistani immigrants, she's coping with a broken engagement...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"In the vein of Dominicana and My Brilliant Friend, an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer love in a Pakistani-American community Razia Mirza grows up amid the wild grape vines and backyard sunflowers of Corona, Queens, with her best friend, Saima, by her side. But when a family rift drives the girls apart, Razia's idyllic childhood is shattered forever. In middle school, Razia befriends a new girl, Taslima, and they begin to chafe...
Author
Series
Marya Khan volume 4
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Excited for spring break, third-graders Marya, Hanna, and Alexa plan their visit to Skye Adventure Park, determined to experience all the park has to offer, but when Marya becomes determined to beat Alexa on the park's obstacle course she loses sight of everything else the park has to offer.
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