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1) Dough
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A comedy drama about the unlikely friendship of an old Jewish baker & a young Muslim. A warmhearted and gently humorous story about overcoming prejudice and finding redemption in unexpected places.
Author
Language
English
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
Saints and misfits novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Fifteen-year-old Janna Yusuf, a Flannery O'Connor-obsessed book nerd and the daughter of the only divorced mother at their mosque, tries to make sense of the events that follow when her best friend's cousin--a holy star in the Muslim community--attempts to assault her at the end of sophomore year.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JESSICA CHASTAIN AND RALPH FIENNES • A haunting novel exploring the reverberations of a random accident on the lives of Moroccan Muslims and Western visitors who converge on a luxurious desert villa for a decadent weekend-long party.
“Surprising and dark and excellent . . . a sinister and streamlined entertainment.”—The New York Times
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS...
“Surprising and dark and excellent . . . a sinister and streamlined entertainment.”—The New York Times
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS...
Author
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Valeria Luiselli and Mohsin Hamid comes a fresh new perspective on coming-of-age as a Pakistani Muslim in rural America. "This is a fearless, exacting, essential work, and marks the debut of a thrilling new global voice."-Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl. On a year-long exchange program in rural Oregon, sixteen-year-old Hira must swap Kashmiri chai for volleyball practice and understand why everyone around her seems to dislike...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2020 Rise: A Feminist Book Project Top Ten
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month - Books for Elementary Readers
Uplifting Children's books
¡Celebre Día! / Celebrate Día!
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month - Books for Elementary Readers
Uplifting Children's books
¡Celebre Día! / Celebrate Día!
Description
Faizah relates how she feels on the first day her sister, sixth-grader Asiya, wears a hijab to school.
Author
Series
Love from (Ali) volume 2
Language
English
Description
Adam and Zayneb embark on the Umrah, a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, in Saudi Arabia, but as one wedge after another drives them apart while they make their way through rites in the holy city, Adam and Zayneb start to wonder if their meeting was just an oddity after all.
Author
Language
English
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Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month - Books for High School
Celebrate PRIDE Month! (Teen Edition)
Queer Coffee House at the Library
Reading PRIDE through the Ages
Celebrate PRIDE Month! (Teen Edition)
Queer Coffee House at the Library
Reading PRIDE through the Ages
Description
Publisher Annotation: Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali has always been fascinated by the universe around her and the laws of physics that keep everything in order. Unable to come out to her conservative Muslim parents, she keeps that part of her identity hidden. And that means keeping her girlfriend, Ariana, a secret from them too. Luckily, only a few more months stand between her carefully monitored life at home and a fresh start at Caltech in the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rashin is an Iranian immigrant girl living in New York, excited by her first trip to Coney Island, and fascinated by the differences in the beach customs between her native Iran and her new home--but she misses the saffron flavored ice cream that she used to eat.
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