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Tzemach Lemmon, Gayle.

Summary: The true account of Kamila Sidiqi who, when her father and brother were forced to flee Kabul, became the sole breadwinner for her five siblings. Armed only with grit and determination, she picked up a needle and thread and created a thriving business of her own and held her family together.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 958.1 SED

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 SEDIQI, KAMELA LEM

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B SIDIQI LEM

Seierstad, Åsne

Summary: This the daily life of a middle-class family in Kabul, the family of Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul. Sultan has lived through several represive regimes, all of which burned and censored his books. Now with the Taliban gone, he is free to pursue his business and his dreams of turning his large collection into a library for Afghanistan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 SEI

Tanaka, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TAN

Adiba, Zarifa

Summary: A passionate musician growing up in the war-torn streets of Kabul takes her forbidden talents abroad in this triumphant memoir from debut author Zarifa Adiba. As an Afghan girl, Zarifa Adiba has big, unfathomable dreams. Her family is poor, her country mired in conflict. Walking to school in Kabul, Zarifa has to navigate suicide bombers. But Zarifa perseveres, nurturing her passion for music...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B ADIBA ADI

Summary: A quirky gaggle of Western hairstylists armed with blow dryers and designer scissors improbably open a school to teach eager Afghan women the high art of fixing hair. The women of Kabul embrace the beauty lessons with unbridled hope.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEA
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BEA

Rodriguez, Deborah.

Summary: Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a humanitarian aid group. Surrounded by people whose skills--as doctors, nurses, and therapists--seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother from Michigan, despaired of being of any real use. Yet she found she had a gift for befriending Afghans, and once her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.48 Rod

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4869 ROD

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