Lameece Issaq
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the author's life-changing rescue of a boatload of fellow refugees and how it inspired her to compete on the 2016 Refugee Olympic Team in Rio de Janeiro, tracing her subsequent advocacy on behalf of people who have been forced from their homes by war.
Author
Series
Once upon a Tim volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Tim and his friends travel by land and sea, collecting treasure and defeating monsters as they go.
Author
Series
Once upon a Tim volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tim and his friends must face The Labyrinth of Doom on their latest quest"--
Author
Series
Once upon a Tim volume 4
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tim and his friends flee the hazardous Sea of Terror and head toward the city of Atlantis in pursuit of King Neptuna's stolen trident.
"Tim, Belinda, Ferkle, and Princess Grace were headed to their doom...until a mythical sea creature came to their rescue. But in exchange for saving their lives, Princess Piscina needs them to bring back something very precious to the Kingdom of Merland: the trident of her father, King Neptuna. To do so, Tim and his...
Author
Language
English
Description
For all his wealth and success, Asher Malacouti--the head of a prosperous Jewish family living in the Iranian town of Kermanshah in the early twentieth century--cannot have the one thing he desires above all: a son. His young wife Rakhel, trapped in an oppressive marriage at a time when a woman's worth is measured by her fertility, is made desperate by her failure to conceive, and grows jealous and vindictive.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Noora's life is a little off track. She's an aspiring writer and amateur blogger in New York-which is a nice way of saying that she tutors rich Upper East Side kids and is currently crashing on her sister's couch. But that's okay. Noora has Leila, who has always been her rock, and now she has another major influence to lean on: Vinyl magazine. The pages of Vinyl practically raised Noora, teaching her everything from how to properly insert a tampon...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Usama Bin Laden's greatest fear was not capture or death, but the exposure of al-Qaeda's secrets. At great risk to themselves and the entire mission, the U.S. Special Operations Forces, who carried out the Abbottabad raid that killed Bin Laden, took an additional eighteen minutes to collect Bin Laden's hard drives and thereby expose al-Qaeda's secrets. In this ground-breaking book, Nelly Lahoud dives into Bin Laden's files and meticulously distills...
Author
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Iranian refugee Alice Ahmadi grew up in Northern England, never certain of where she belonged. Interning at a struggling expat magazine, Bonjour Paris, she discovers a priceless diamond and emerald necklace with a golden honeybee pendant. Alice shares the discovery with the magazine's American editor, Lily Wilkins, who sees it as a lifeline to save the magazine: they will put the necklace, and its history, on next month's cover. Lily's best friend...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"During a snowy Cleveland February, newlyweds Muneer and Saeedah are starting their lives in America and expecting their first child. But Muneer harbors a secret: the word divorce has begun whispering itself in his ear. Soon, their marriage will end, and Muneer will return to Saudi Arabia, while Saeedah remains in Cleveland with their daughter, Hanadi. The more time she shares with her daughter, the more Saeedah wants to keep her close, and before...
12) SAVAGE LEGION
Author
Series
Savage rebellion volume 1
Language
English
Description
An epic fantasy by Hugo Award–winning author Matt Wallace about a utopian city with a dark secret…and the underdogs who will expose it, or die trying.
They call them Savages. Brutal. Efficient. Expendable.
The empire relies on them. The Savages are the greatest weapon they ever developed. Culled from the streets of their cities, they take the ones no one will miss and throw them, by the thousands, at the empire's enemies. If they live, they...
13) Savage bounty
Author
Series
Savage rebellion volume 2
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Saga Press trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"The call them Savages. Brutal. Efficient. Expendable. The empire relies on them. The greatest weapon they ever developed. Culled from the streets of their cities, they take the ones no one will miss and throw them, by the thousands, at the empire's enemies. If they live, they fight again. If they die, well, there are always more"--
14) A girl like that
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sixteen-year-old half-Hindu/half-Parsi Zarin Wadia is the class troublemaker and top subject for the school rumor blogs, regularly leaving class to smoke cigarettes in cars with boys, but she also desperately wants to grow up and move out of her aunt and uncle's house, perhaps realizing too late that Porus, another non-Muslim Indian who risks deportation but remains devoted to Zarin, could help her escape....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A vital, inspiring book" (O, The Oprah Magazine)—a ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of the courageous movement that won Saudi women the right to drive.
Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year strict fundamentalism took hold. In her adolescence, she was a religious radical, melting her brother's...
Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year strict fundamentalism took hold. In her adolescence, she was a religious radical, melting her brother's...
16) Radicalized
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, Radicalized is four urgent SF novellas of America's present and future within one book Told through one of the most on-pulse genre voices of our generation, Radicalized is a timely collection consisting of four SF novellas connected by social, technological, and economic visions of today and what America could be in the near, near future. Unauthorized Bread is a tale of immigration, the toxicity...
17) Once upon a Tim
Author
Series
Once upon a Tim volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
With no knightly experience but plenty of pluck and an impressive vocabulary, a twelve-year-old peasant, hoping to improve his station in life, volunteers to help a cowardly prince and his not very powerful wizard rescue a princess from an evil, foul-smelling monster.
Author
Series
Amina al-Sirafi novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A thrilling, transportative adventure that is everything promised–Chakraborty's storytelling is fantasy at its best." — R.F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and The Poppy War
"An exhilarating, propulsive adventure, stitched from the threads of real history, Amina's adventures are the reason to read fantasy." — Ava Reid, internationally bestselling author of
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