Malladi, Amulya
Summary: In trendy Silicon Valley, Priya has everything she needs; a loving husband, a career, and a home. But the one thing she wants most is the child she's unable to have. In a Southern Indian village, Asha doesn't have much. She and her husband can barely keep a tin roof over their heads. But she wants a better education for her gifted son. Pressured by her family, Asha reluctantly checks into the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MALAkbar, Kaveh
Summary: Cyrus Sham's is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: The first book in an epic fantasy series set in an Arabian-inspired land with secret spice magic. Raised to protect her nation from the monsters lurking in the sands, sixteen-year-old Imani must fight to find her brother, whose betrayal is now the country's greatest threat. In the hidden desert city of Qalia, there is secret spice magic that awakens the affinities of those who drink the misra...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC IBRAlyan, Hala
Summary: The Nasr family is spread across the globe--Beirut, Brooklyn, Austin, the California desert. A Syrian mother, a Lebanese father, and three American children: all have lived a life of migration. Still, they've always had their ancestral home in Beirut--a constant touchstone--and the complicated, messy family love that binds them. But following his father's recent death, Idris, the family's new...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALYAlyan, Hala
Summary: On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is up rooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Salma is forced to leave her home in Nablus;...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALYAkhtar, Ayad
Summary: A deeply personal novel about about finding identity in a nation coming apart at the seams, an American son and his immigrant father search for belonging in post-Trump America and with each other.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AKHMiranda, Megan
Summary: A thrilling mystery about a group of former classmates who reunite to mark the tenth anniversary of a tragic accident, only to have one of the survivors disappear, casting fear and suspicion on the original tragedy.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MIRLaRocca, Rajani
Summary: "Reha feels torn between two worlds: school, where she's the only Indian American student, and home, with her family and their community. But Reha's parents don't understand. She feels disconnected from her mother, or Amma. Although their names are linked--Reha means 'star' and Punam means 'moon'--they are a universe apart. Then Reha finds out that her Amma is sick. Really sick. Reha, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "Allie Abraham has it all going for her -- shes a straight-A student with good friends and a close-knit family, and she's dating popular, sweet Wells Henderson. Theres only one problem: Wells' father is Jack Henderson, America's most famous conservative shock jock, and Allie hasn't told Wells that her family is Muslim. It's not like Allie's religion is a secret. It's just that her parents dont...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC COUPerkins, Mitali
Summary: From 1965 through the present, an Indian American family adjusts to life in New York City, alternately fending off and welcoming challenges to their own traditions.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PERBeck, Miya T.
Summary: Kai and Kishi share the same futon, the same face, and the same talent for pearl diving. But Kishi is the obedient daughter, while Kai tries to push boundaries, and sometimes they fight as fiercely as only the closest of twin sisters can. Still, when Kishi is stolen by the legendary ghost whale, nothing will stop Kai from searching deep in the ocean to bring her home. But such a rescue is...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan arrives in Isanbul. As an animal tamer in the sultan's menagerie, he looks after the exceptionally smart elephant Chota and befriends (and falls for) the sultan's beautiful daughter, Princess Mihrimah. A palace education leads Jahan to Mimar Sinan, the empire's chief architect, who takes Jahan under his wing as they construct (with Chota's help) some of the most...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHALindsey, Johanna
Summary: "Summoned back to Philadelphia from the social whirl in London, Violet Mitchell never expected to find her brothers living on the edge of financial ruin while their father seeks new wealth in Montana's gold fields. With the family's home and social standing at risk, Violet makes a drastic decision. Morgan Callahan rode away from his family's cattle ranch to make his own fortune. Now as he...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LINAdams, Sara Nisha
Summary: Bright but anxious teenager Aleisha is working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It's a list of novels that she's never heard of before. When she passes along the list to a lonely widower, a connection between two lonely souls is formed, as fiction helps them escape their grief and everyday troubles and find...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC ADAKing, Laurie R.
Summary: Using a premise pulled from the headlines--the very real vulnerability of students and teachers--King delivers a contemporary novel of psychological suspense. The various presenters at a local school career day prepare for a day in class, not knowing that someone with a thirst for revenge is in their midst.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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Summary: "When Vivien Walker left her home in the Mississippi Delta, she swore never to go back, as generations of the women in her family had. But in the spring, nine years to the day since she'd left, that's exactly what happens--Vivien returns, fleeing from a broken marriage and her lost dreams for children. What she hopes to find is solace with "Bootsie," her dear grandmother who raised her, a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHAlbertalli, Becky
Summary: YES: Jamie Goldberg is cool with volunteering for his local state senate candidate, as long as he's behind the scenes. When it comes to speaking to strangers (or, let's face it, speaking at all to almost anyone) Jamie's a choke artist. There's no way he'd ever knock on doors to ask people for their votes; until he meets Maya. NO: Maya Rehman's having the worst Ramadan ever. Her best friend is...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ALBIrving, John
Summary: In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC IRVPatterson, James
Summary: When a rich stockbroker is found dead, the police deem it suicide. Until suspicious facts start to point the finger at three women, who have all gone missing.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2020