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Under a starless sky
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Banafsheh Serov |
From the streets and bazaars of Tehran to the moonlit Turkish mountains, Under A Starless Sky is a beautiful memoir about one family's extraordinary journey. Banafsheh is eight when the revolution be… |
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The saffron kitchen
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Yasmin Crowther |
Growing up in contemporary London, Sara struggles to understand her Iranian mother, Maryam. When tragedy strikes, Sara realises that only by learning more about her mother will she be able to live he… |
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Qutlugh Terkan Khatun of Kirman Thinking Girls Treasury of Real Princess…
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Albert Nguyen |
In what could be a tale from the Arabian Nights, a girl grows up in thirteenth century Persia to be so desirable that she is kidnapped several times for her beauty. She finds refuge at last in the ar… |
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No Friend But the Mountains
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Behrouz Boochani |
"In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refugee detention centre off the coast of Australia. He has been there ever since. This book is the result. Lab… |
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The good Daughter
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Jasmin Darznik |
The author relates a wrenching hidden story of her family's true origins in Iran: her mother's troubled history of abuse and neglect, and a daughter, Sara, whom she was forced to abandon in order to … |
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Chickpea
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Marguerite Hann Syme |
CHICKPEA© (Scholastic Australia) Shortlisted 1998 Children's Book of the Year (Younger Reader) ISBN: 1 86388 642-7 Chickpea is included in The Adelaide Collection, sent by Adelaide Library to Austin … |
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The formation of civil society in modern Iran
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Melody Mohebi |
"Drawing on in-depth elite interviews and documents, this book investigates how and why the Iranian reformists used the language and concept of civil society to enhance the reformists' positions of p… |
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Rosewater and Soda Bread
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Marsha Mehran |
"Mehran's novel delights the senses on every page. The story pulses with life as three Iranian sisters struggle to make sense of matters of the heart and the spirit." --Elizabeth Cox, author of The S… |
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Persepolis
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Marjane Satrapi,Marjane Satrapi |
From inside front cover: The story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a ... loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private and… |
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