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Air pilots, Military Fiction Intelligence officers Fiction Intelligence officers United States Fiction International relations Fiction Iran Fiction McLanahan, Patrick (Fictitious character) Fiction Middle East Fiction Nuclear warfare Prevention Fiction Prophecy Islam Fiction Terrorism FictionSummary: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PERCoonts, Stephen
Summary: Iran is much closer to having operational nuclear weapons than the CIA believes, and Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has a plan. Iran will become a martyr nation, and Ahmadinejad will lead the united Muslims of the world in a holy war against the non-believers. But the Americans have a secret weapon in a group of Iranian dissidents, including a pair of cousins determined to avenge the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COOCoonts, Stephen
Summary: Iran is weeks away from acquiring nuclear weapons and has every intention of using them to strike first--only Tommy Carmellini and Jake Grafton can stop a nuclear nightmare.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOSofer, Dalia
Summary: "Set in Iran and New York City, Man of My Time tells the story of Hamid Mozaffarian, who is as alienated from himself as he is from the world around him. After decades of ambivalent work as an interrogator with the Iranian regime, Hamid travels on a diplomatic mission to New York, where he encounters his estranged family and retrieves the ashes of his father, whose dying wish was to be buried...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOFKhorram, Adib
Summary: Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KHOJavaherbin, Mina
Summary: "While Mina is growing up in Iran, the center of her world is her grandmother. Whether visiting friends next door, going to the mosque for midnight prayers during Ramadan, or taking an imaginary trip around the planets, Mina and her grandma are never far apart. At once deeply personal and utterly universal, Mina Javaherbin's words make up a love letter of the rarest sort: the kind that shares a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JAVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JAVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE JAVFlynn, Vince.
Summary: In the aftermath of an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, CIA director Irene Kennedy and operative Mitch Kelly are dispatched to the Middle East to diffuse Iran's sworn retaliation against the United States.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FLYKhan, Ausma Zehanat
Summary: "On leave from Canada's Community Policing department, Esa Khattak is traveling in Iran, reconnecting with his cultural heritage and seeking peace in the country's beautiful mosques and gardens. But Khattak's supposed break from work is cut short when he's approached by a Canadian government agent in Iran, asking him to look into the death of renowned Canadian-Iranian filmmaker Zahra Sobhani....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KHAHiggins, Jack
Summary: An eminent Iranian scientist has made a startling breakthrough in nuclear weapons research, but he can't stand the thought of his regime owning the bomb. If he runs, his family dies. It is up to Sean Dillon and the small band known as the Prime Minister's private army to think of a plan. Most particularly, it is up to their newest member, an intelligence captain and Afghan war hero named Sara...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HIGSolomon, Anna
Summary: "Lily is a mother and a daughter. And a second wife. And a writer, maybe? Or she was going to be, before she had children. Now, in her rented Brooklyn apartment, she's grappling with her sexual and intellectual desires while also trying to manage her roles as a mother and a wife. Vivian Barr seems to be the perfect political wife, dedicated to helping her charismatic and ambitious husband find...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLRosenberg, Joel C.
Summary: With the prophecy of the Twelfth Imam seemingly fulfilled, Iran's military prepares to strike Israel and bring about the End of Days. CIA operative David Shirazi must take action to save his country and the world, but the clock is ticking.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ROSRosenberg, Joel C.
Summary: With the stakes high and few viable options left, the president of the United States orders CIA operative David Shirazi and his team to track down and sabotage Iran's nuclear warheads before Iran or Israel can launch a devastating first strike.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSBrown, Dale
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Luxe 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BROBrown, Dale
Summary: High hopes about a new Iranian leader who limits Islamic theocracy and pursues harmonious relations with America and Israel are shattered when a terrorist army declares holy war on Iran's new military regime, threatening to further destabilize the MiddleEast.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROMehran, Marsha
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEHBrown, Dale
Summary: General Patrick McLanahan, commander of the new Aerospace Battle Force, ignores directives from the White House and Pentagon to stand down and orders the ABF to attack secret Russian bases in Iran in an attempt to thwart Russian aggression.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBond, Larry.
Summary: LCDR Jerry Mitchell and the four surviving Navy SEALs sent to extract two Iranian nationals with sensitive information on Iran's nuclear weapons program must make a desperate escape by sea to Mitchell's submarine, the USS Michigan to get the Iranian nationals and their proof of an Iranian plot to the U.S. and prevent a new war.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BONBrokaw, Charles.
Summary: "An old friend summons dashing linguistics professor Thomas Lourds to Jerusalem to examine an ancient text. But Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, also wants the same document. Khamenei and many others believe that the book contains a secret that will allow its owner to rule all of Islam and wage a Global Jihad the likes of which has never been seen before. Arriving in Jerusalem,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROAbdolah, Kader
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABDCoes, Ben.
Summary: "Off a quiet street in Brooklyn, New York, Israeli Special Forces commander Kohl Meir is captured by operatives of the Iranian secret service, who smuggle Meir back to Iran, where he is imprisoned, tortured, and prepared for a show trial. What they don't know is that Meir was in New York to recruit Dewey Andreas for a secret operation. Andreas, a former Army Ranger and Delta, owes his life to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COEHiggins, Jack
Summary: An eminent Iranian scientist has made a startling breakthrough in nuclear weapons research, but he can't stand the thought of his regime owning the bomb. He would run if he could, but if he does, his family dies. He is desperate; he doesn't know what to do. It is up to Sean Dillon and the rest of the small band known as the Prime Minister's private army to think of a plan. Most particularly, it...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Higgins 2013Flynn, Vince.
Summary: In the aftermath of an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, CIA director Irene Kennedy and operative Mitch Kelly are dispatched to the Middle East to diffuse Iran's sworn retaliation against the United States.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2007