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Under the persimmon tree Under the persimmon tree Suzanne Fisher Staples During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmal, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her huband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at… OL115620W
Firefight Firefight Chris Ryan,Chris Ryan The latest thriller from the author of number one bestseller Strike BackFormer SAS Captain Will Jackson is a man with nothing to lose. A veteran of the most dangerous missions the Regiment could thro… OL14990377W
SEALed with a Ring SEALed with a Ring Mary Daughtridge She's got it all...except the one thing she needs mostSmart, successful businesswoman JJ Caruthers has a year to land a husband or lose the empire she's worked so hard to build. With time running out… OL15183411W
Out of the Dark Out of the Dark David Weber Extraterrestrials invade Earth. Supernatural forces fight back. OL15370296W
Words in the dust Words in the dust Trent Reedy Zulaikha, a thirteen-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a series of frightening but exhilirating changes in her life as she defies her father and secretly meets with an old woman who teaches her to … OL15571448W
Something like normal Something like normal Trish Doller When Travis returns home from Afghanistan, his parents are splitting up, his brother has stolen his girlfriend and car, and he has nightmares of his best friend getting killed but when he runs into H… OL16262998W
The Maverick Experiment The Maverick Experiment Drew Berquist "In wartime, some operation have to conduction outside the normal lines of authority. Nowhere is this more true than in modern AFghanistan, the setting for this riverting military thriller... Drawn f… OL16485415W
Hinterland Hinterland Caroline Brothers Two boys are crossing Europe. Only fourteen and eight years old, they have nothing but the clothes on their backs and a dwindling inheritance stitched into the lining of a belt. Their goal is a futur… OL16589025W
Semper fido Semper fido C. Alexander London Gus Dempsey is a newly trained dog handler in the United States Marine Corps, and when he is deployed to Afghanistan he is paired with Loki, a bomb-sniffing black Labrador with a mischievous streak. OL16600015W
And the Mountains Echoed And the Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini Presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another, and how choices resonate through subsequent generations. Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their … OL16804912W
The Pearl That Broke It's Shell The Pearl That Broke It's Shell Nadia Hashimi In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and can rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of … OL17312575W
The Little Coffee Shop Of Kabul The Little Coffee Shop Of Kabul Deborah Rodriguez In a little coffee shop in one of the most dangerous places on earth, five very different women come together. SUNNY, the proud proprietor, who needs an ingenious plan - and fast - to keep her caf an… OL17495099W
When the Moon Is Low When the Moon Is Low Nadia Hashimi Mahmoud's passion for his wife Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she's ever known. But their happy, middle-class world—a life of education, work, and comfort—implodes when their coun… OL17621475W
The warriors The warriors Thomas W. Young "Lieutenant Colonel Michael Parson has seen plenty of action lately, so he's happy with his new assignment as safety officer at a Kyrgyzstan air base. It's a pretty laidback way to spend the next yea… OL17779485W
The kill zone The kill zone Ryan, Chris The guys in the Regiment know they face their fiercest enemies when they fight the Taliban. No-one is tougher, more deadly or more cunning. And if they enter the Taliban s kill zone, they know just w… OL17837779W
Allure of deceit Allure of deceit Susan Froetschel "A young inventor and his wife die in a car bombing - leaving behind a will that surprises friends and parents by directing a vast fortune toward charities in the developing world. On the ground in A… OL17874776W
Pashtun Pashtun Ron Lealos The Company has a special secret operation planned for one of their top agents: the leaders of the Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorist groups are hiding out in Pashtun country, and they must be eliminated… OL17886375W
The end of manners The end of manners Francesca Marciano From the critically acclaimed author of Rules of the Wild, a thrilling, timely, and darkly funny story of friendship, human frailty, and war--and the role of outsiders in a country where they do not … OL1843394W
The widow's husband The widow's husband Mir Tamim Ansary,Kemble Scott Three years after the 1841 British occupation of Kabul, news of the invasion still hasn't reached the remote village of Char Bagh. Here, the biggest excitement of the season is a mysterious vagabond … OL18707517W
The apostle The apostle Brad Thor When American doctor Julia Gallo is kidnapped in Afghanistan, the terms of her ransom leave the president with only one course of action: send covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath to free t… OL18734393W
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