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43) The night diary
Author
Language
English
Description
Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A delightful new contemporary romance by Uzma Jalaluddin, author of Ayesha at Last. Nada Syed is stuck. On the cusp of thirty, she's still living at home with her brothers and parents in the Golden Crescent neighborhood of Toronto, resolutely ignoring her mother's unsubtle pleas to get married already. And while Nada has a good job as an engineer, it's a far cry from realizing her dreams for her tech baby, Ask Apa, the app that launched with a whimper...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tareq lives with his big and loving family until the bombs strike. The city is in ruins, and in the wake of destruction, he's threatened by Daesh fighters and witnesses a public beheading. Tareq's family knows that to continue to stay alive, they must leave. As they travel as refugees from Syria to Turkey to Greece, facing danger at every turn, Tareq must find the resilience and courage to complete his harrowing journey.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 321 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bruce Bawer's While Europe Slept sounded the alarm about the dire impact of Muslim immigration on Europe. Now, in Surrender, he reveals that a combination of fear and political correctness has led politicians, intellectuals, religious leaders, and the media--both in the United States and abroad--to appease radical Islam at the cost of our most cherished values: freedom of speech and freedom of the press"--Publisher's blurb.
Author
Series
Planet Omar volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
205 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Imaginative Omar goes through the ups and downs of starting a new school and making new friends with the help of his wonderful (and silly) Muslim family"--
52) Hiss-s-s-s!
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
154 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a Muslim American boy named Omar finally convinces his family that he should have a pet snake, it escapes and Omar learns why his mother is so scared of them.
Author
Language
English
Description
On a January morning in 1938, Samir Vij first locks eyes with Firdaus Khan through the rows of perfume bottles in his family's ittar shop in Lahore. Over the years that follow, the perfumer's apprentice and calligrapher's apprentice fall in love with their ancient crafts and with each other, dreaming of the life they will one day share. But as the struggle for Indian independence gathers force, their beloved city is ravaged by Partition. Suddenly,...
Author
Series
Planet Omar volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Omar is going on his biggest adventure yet--a trip to Pakistan! But his excitement about the trip is interrupted by some shocking news: his amazing teacher is not coming back to school, and no one will say why. When Omar and his friends start investigating, the hints they overhear and clues they find lead them to an alarming conclusion--it must be aliens! Omar has a huge imagination, but saving his teacher from aliens seems far-fetched even to him....
58) Halal hot dogs
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Every Friday Musa's family takes turns picking out a Jummah treat which they use to try all different foods, but when it is Musa's turn he sticks to his favorite halal hot dogs to share.
Author
Publisher
David C Cook
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
397 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When extremists target Austia Donatelli's secret ministry to the United States Muslim community, she risks everything to share her faith and protect innocent lives, including her own.
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