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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
After more than two years on the bestseller lists and over four million copies in print, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel of enormous contemporary relevance.
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan’s last thirty years—from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding—that puts the violence, fear,
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A.A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Skelly, a burned-out war correspondent, and his Pakistani translator, Najeeb, make a harrowing journey into war-torn Afghanistan, where they are plunged into a deadly web of intrigue, betrayal, violence, and religious extremism.
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Language
English
Description
Zeba's life is shattered when her husband is found brutally murdered. Zeba is arrested and jailed. With the fate of Zeba's life in his hands, Afghan-born, American-raised Yusuf discovers that, like Afghanistan itself, his client may not be at all what he imagines. A moving look at the lives of modern Afghan women, this is astonishing, frightening, and triumphant. From the author of the bestselling "The Pearl That Broke Its Shell."
6) Head hunters
Author
Series
Danny Black novels volume 6
Publisher
Coronet
Language
English
Description
A top-secret SAS kill team is assassinating high-value targets. When Danny Black joins the kill team, he learns that Taliban militants are not his only problem. Framed for a sickening war crime, Danny finds himself hunted in a brutal, dangerous terrain where his wits, training and strength may not be enough to survive.
Author
Series
Jonathan Ransom novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
The most riveting novel yet in Christopher Reich's bestselling series featuring Dr. Jonathan Ransom and his undercover-agent wife Emma. Emma is a dangerous woman with a mysterious past who has gone rogue in the high-stakes, serpentine world of international spies.
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English
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In Kabul in 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school and rarely leave the house, and their only hope lies in the ancient custom of "bacha posh," which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age.
Author
Publisher
Mawenzi House
Language
English
Description
"Nila: The Bleeding Garden describes the turbulent journey of an Afghan girl called Nila who suddenly has to escape her homeland during the long Afghan war. As a child refugee, she experiences the trauma of displacement during which her family struggles to survive and slowly falls apart. This collection describes first hand the loss and dysfunction caused by war and displacement in our times"--Publisher.
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English
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An emotionally resonant novel that confronts the deeply personal effects of war by a writer at the height of his power. Everything changes during a tragic roadside incursion when a routine patrol suddenly turns fatal. And Henry, who survives, knows in his heart that he is responsible. Upon returning home, now tormented by guilt in addition to ennui, he begins to feel even more rootless and restless until the question of his deceased friend's summer...
Author
Series
Michael Parson and Sophia Gold volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Description
A transport plane carrying an important Taliban detainee for interrogation is shot down in a blizzard over Afghanistan. For navigator Michael Parson and a woman Army interpreter, Sergeant Gold - a battle for survival begins across some of the most forbidding terrain on earth. An exciting debut from a decorated ex-airforce flight engineer. Print run 150,000.
Author
Publisher
Anansi
Language
English
Description
Kabul - 10 years after 9/11: when a car bomb explodes in a crowded part of the city, a Japanese-American journalist is shocked to discover that the vehicle's passengers were acquaintances - three fellow ex-pats who had formed an unlikely love triangle. Convinced the events that led to the fatal explosion weren't random, and curious to know more about what led each of them to Afghanistan, the journalist follows a trail from Kabul to Louisiana, Maine,...
18) The Valley
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Language
English
Description
"A former Army Captain's gripping portrait of a fighting division holding a remote outpost in Afghanistan reminiscent of Apocalypse Now, The Yellow Birds, and Matterhorn. There were many valleys in the mountains of Afghanistan, and most were hard places where people died hard deaths. But there was only one Valley. Black didn't even know its proper name. But he knew about the Valley. It was the farthest, and the hardest, and the worst. It lay deeper...
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Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Description
"A luminous meditation on sons and fathers, ghosts of war, and living history that moves between modern-day Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora. In playing "Metal Gear Solid V," a young man's video game experience turns into a surreal exploration on his own father's memories of war and occupation. A college student in "Hungry Ricky Daddy" starves himself in protest of Israeli violence against Palestine. Set in Kabul, "Return to Sender" follows a doctor...
Author
Series
Jason Bourne/Treadstone novels volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The final days of the American presence in Afghanistan bring Adam Hayes a summons he can't ignore in the latest electrifying thriller from the world of Robert Ludlum. Adam Hayes has stepped away from the field for the last time. He's promised his wife that he won't put his life on the line any more, and there's nothing that will make him break a promise to his wife. Well...almost nothing. With America withdrawing from Afghanistan and the Taliban...
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