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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
A mirror garden A mirror garden Zara Houshmand,Monir Farmanfarmaian,Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian In Persia in 1924, when a child still had to worry about hostile camels in the bazaar, the extraordinary and irresistible Monir was born. From the enchanted basement storeroom where she played as a g… OL12374325W
Honeymoon in Tehran Honeymoon in Tehran Azadeh Moaveni Both a love story and a reporter's first draft of history, Honeymoon in Tehran is a stirring, trenchant, and deeply personal chronicle of two years in the maelstrom of Iranian life. In 2005, Azadeh M… OL13752268W
My Prison, My Home My Prison, My Home Haleh Esfandiari At the Ministry of Intelligence in Tehran, a man in a checkered shirt sits down in an easy chair. He removes several documents from his pocket and hands one to Haleh Esfandiari, a sixty-seven-year-ol… OL15187573W
My name is Iran My name is Iran Davar Ardalan "Drawing on her remarkable personal history, NPR producer Davar Ardalan brings us the lives of three generations of women and their ordeals with love, rejection, and revolution. Her American grandmot… OL16064029W
The poet's daughter The poet's daughter Parvānah Bahār Intimate and emotionally engaging, this powerful and timely memoir introduces western readers to the high-profile Iranian hero Malek o'Shoara Bahar--whose freedom poem "Morghe Sahar" ("Bird of dawn")… OL16681193W
Fashion is freedom Fashion is freedom Tala Raassi "Since she was young, Tala Raassi knew her fate lay in fashion. But growing up in her beloved homeland of Iran, a woman can be punished for exposing her hair in public, let alone wearing the newest t… OL17867573W
Between two worlds Between two worlds Roxana Saberi "A chronicle of the Iranian-American journalist's imprisonment, as well as a look at Iran and its political tensions"--Provided by publisher. OL18682449W
Not without my son Not without my son Mariam Naseem Not Without My Son is the memoir of Iranian-born Dr. Mariam Naseem, a Jewish woman who must flee for her safety from the new theocracy of Iran. Together with her infant son and the husband who was ch… OL24289159W