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Private 16Tanaka, Shelley
Summary: Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TANHashimi, Nadia.
Summary: Adopting the custom of bacha posh in 2007 Kabul, which allows her to dress and be treated as a boy, attend school and chaperone her sisters until she is of marriageable age, Rahima, the daughter of a drug-addicted father, discovers that she is not the first in her family to adopt this unusual custom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HASElliot, Jason
Summary: Under the expert guidance of an old-school hero and veteran of the elite British Special Air Service, MI6 agent Taverner prepares to enter Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to destroy a cache of the CIA's precious Stinger missiles before they can fall into the hands of al-Qaeda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLEulate, Ana A. de
Summary: A story of a little Afghan girl's dreams of peace
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cuento de Luz SL 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WLD Culture Eulate 2012Young, Thomas W.
Summary: When their plane is shot down in a blizzard while transporting an important Taliban detainee, navigator Michael Parson and Army interpreter Sergeant Gold fight for survival in the harsh terrain of Afghanistan, where they struggle to outmaneuver terrorists and dubiously trustworthy villagers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YOUHashimi, Nadia
Summary: When her happy middle-class life in Afghanistan is shattered by the rise of the Taliban and her husband's murder by fundamentalists, former schoolteacher Fereiba embarks on a high-risk effort to escape to England with her three children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HASKipling, Rudyard
Contents: The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling - King Solomon's mines / H. Rider Haggard - With Clive in India / G.A. Henty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prion 2008
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Summary: "A wealthy businessman approaches Jack Morgan, head of Private - the world's largest investigation agency - with a desperate plea to track down his daughter and two grandchildren, who have disappeared without a trace. What at first seems to be a simple missing persons case soon escalates into something much more deadly, when Jack discovers the daughter is being pursued by highly trained...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024