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Twenty / by Grippando, James,1958-author.;
"A nightmarish shooting at their daughter's school finds Jack Swyteck and his law-enforcement officer wife, Andie, investigating a chief suspect's alleged ties to Al Qaeda amid growing anti-Muslim fervor"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Legal fiction (Literature); Qaida (Organization); Family secrets; Muslims; School shootings; Swyteck, Jack (Fictitious character);
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Laughing all the way to the mosque / by Nawaz, Zarqa,author.;
Subjects: Nawaz, Zarqa; Nawaz, Zarqa.; Little mosque on the prairie.; Muslim women; Muslims; Muslims; Women television producers and directors;
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More to the story / by Khan, Hena.;
As features editor of her school newspaper, thirteen-year-old Jameela Mirza wants to impress her father by writing a spectacular story about the new student, but a misunderstanding and family illness complicate matters.Ages 8-12.LSC
Subjects: Pakistani Americans; Muslims; Families; Middle schools; Student newspapers and periodicals;
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Anisa's international day / by Faruqi, Reem.; Jaleel, Aaliya.;
Inspired by preparations for her aunt's wedding, Anisa decides to introduce her third grade class to the art of mehndi for International Day. Includes recipes, activities, and author's note.LSC
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Pakistani Americans; Muslims; Elementary schools; Families; Friendship;
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Eight days / by Toten, Teresa,1955-; Parlevliet, Monique.;
In Teresa Toten's compelling new novel Eight Days, Samantha finds out that the mother she thought had died years ago has actually just passed away. Added to this charged secret is her recovering alcoholic grandfather's strange behaviour and sudden insistence that he take Sami back to Chicago to retrieve her mother's body. Luckily, Sami's beloved neighbour and surrogate mother figure, Aggie, insists on coming on the road trip, bringing along her quirky sense of humour and fantastic wig collection. The eight-day journey takes us from Toronto to Chicago and back again, as Sami, an American living with her grandfather in a Muslim-dominated apartment complex in Toronto, struggles to find out who she is and where she belongs. Infused with warmth and love, even as family struggles and secrets are torn open, Eight Days is ultimately about forgiveness and strength in community. It is truly a novel for our times.
Subjects: Road fiction.; Automobile travel; Family secrets; Mothers; Life change events; Muslims;
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The mismatch : a novel / by Jafari, Sara,author.;
"For a woman who just wants to get her first kiss out of the way, a young rugby star her parents would never approve of seems like the perfect mismatch. But she has no idea how intoxicating one kiss can be ... Soraya Nazari is ready to make her mark on the world--if only she knew what that was going to be. Caught between her strict Muslim family's expectations and her own, Soraya can't help feeling like a fish out of water as she navigates life as a new college graduate. And there is the small matter that Soraya has never been kissed at the age of twenty-one. If she can tick that off the list, surely everything else will fall into place. Enter Magnus Evans: rugby player, man-about-town, and everything Soraya's parents would disapprove of. She knows she could never fall in love with Magnus--and for that reason he is perfect for now. But as Soraya spends more time with Magnus, she wonders if she has written him off too quickly. Maybe in the process of getting to know him better, Soraya will finally start to understand herself."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Interethnic dating; Young women; Families; Adult children of immigrants; Iranians; Man-woman relationships;
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Pomegranate. by Namou, Weam,film director.; Alameen, Basim,actor.; Taher, Ismail,actor.; Babi, Lamar,actor.; Boutros, Natally,actor.; Rahmani, Sam,actor.; Shami, Zain,actor.; Freestyle Digital Media (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Basim Alameen, Ismail Taher, Lamar Babi, Natally Boutros, Sam Rahmani, Zain ShamiOriginally produced by Freestyle Digital Media in 2025.It’s the elections of Donald Trump in 2016, and a young, liberal, Iraqi Muslim refugee struggles to find her footing in a neighborhood of conservative, Iraqi Christians while battling her family’s fears and demands of loyalty to traditions.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Families.;
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Abu. by Khan, Arshad,film director.; h264 (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by h264 in 2017.An autobiographical film about a gay son's relationship with his devout Muslim father. Arshad Khan, the filmmaker and subject, examines how his father went from an open-minded man to a devout Muslim and breaks down the reasons for such a radical change in personality. Issues of psychological, sexual and physical abuse, and the pangs of rebirth through migration and through coming out, are laid bare using over 30 years of archival family footage that give a glimpse into an extraordinarily well documented family.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Enthnology.; Social sciences.; Sociology.; Documentary films.; Ethnicity.; LGBTQ.; Emigration and immigration.; Families.; Canada.;
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Rebel : my escape from Saudi Arabia to freedom / by Mohammed, Rahaf,author.; Armstrong, Sally,1943-author.;
In early 2019, after three years of careful planning, Rahaf Mohammed finally escaped her abusive family in Saudi Arabia--but made it only to Bangkok before being stripped of her passport. If forced to return home, she was sure she would be killed, like other rebel women in her country. As men pounded at the door of her barricaded hotel room, she created a Twitter account. The teenager reached out to the world, and the world answered--she gained 45,000 followers in one day, and those followers helped her seek asylum in the West. Now, Rahaf Mohammed tells her remarkable story in her own words, revealing untold truths about life in the closed kingdom, where young women are brought up in a repressive system that puts them under the legal control of a male guardian. Raised with immense financial privilege, but under the oppressive control of her male relatives--including her high-profile politician father--Rahaf endured an abusive childhood in which oppression and deceit were the norm. Moving from Rahaf's early days on the underground online network of Saudi runaways who use coded entries to learn how to flee the brutalities of their homeland, to her solo escape to Canada, Rebelis a breathtaking and life-affirming memoir about one woman's tenacious pursuit of freedom.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Mohammed, Rahaf.; Muslim women; Muslim women; Muslim women; Refugees; Refugees; Women refugees; Women refugees; Women; Women; Women;
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The proudest blue : a story of hijab and family / by Muhammad, Ibtihaj,1985-; Ali, S. K.; Aly, Hatem.;
Faizah relates how she feels on the first day her sister, sixth-grader Asiya, wears a hijab to school.LSC
Subjects: Sisters; Muslims; Hijab (Islamic clothing); First day of school; Schools; Islam;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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