Ahmedi, Farah.
Summary: Ahmedi was born just as the war between the mujahideen and the Soviets reaches its peak in Afghanistan. The sounds of gunfire and fighter planes were as normal to her as the sounds of traffic or children playing are to a schoolgirl in America. When she stepped on a land mine on her way to school, she began to learn--slowly--that ordinary people, often strangers, have immense power to save lives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AHMEDI, FARAH AHMLydens, Z. Z.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kregel Publications 1966
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.456 LYDAhmed, Qanta.
Summary: A female, British Muslim doctor describes her practice treating women in Saudi Arabia, where the harsh code of orthodoxy for women is contradicted by some of the private behavior of wealthy women, but imposes a harsh reality on poor women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.82 AHMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B AHMED AHMTamimi, Ahed
Summary: "What would you do if you grew up repeatedly seeing your home raided? Your parents arrested? Your mother shot? Your uncle killed? Try, if just for a moment, to imagine this was your life. How would you want the world to react?" Ahed Tamimi's father was born in 1967, the year that the Israeli occupation of the West Bank began, and every aspect of their family's life has been touched by it. One...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TAMIMI, AHED TAMJay-Z
Summary: "A collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one of the most provocative and successful artists of our time"--Front cover flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 JAYAhmed, Badeeah Hassan
Summary: "Captured by ISIS, her bravery and faith became her pathway to freedom. Badeeah Hassan was just 18 when she witnessed firsthand the horrors of the 2014 genocide of the Ezidi people by ISIS forces. Captured by ISIS, known locally as Daesh, Badeeah was among hundreds forced into a brutal human trafficking network made up of women and girls of Ezidi ethnicity, a much-persecuted minority culture of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 AHMFuchs, Arved.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sheridan House 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.89 FUCJones, Henry Z
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.Z. Jones 1985
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3747 J1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3747 Jones
Robb, Matthew Z.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lost Prairie Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROBB, DEAN ROBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROBB ROBJones, Henry Z.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picton Press 1990
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.341 JonesEpstein, Edward Z.
Summary: Frank Sinatra! Marilyn Monroe! Never before teamed in a book, yet theirs was a seven-year friendship and on-and-off intimate relationship shrouded in secrecy and fraught with danger. Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe--here is the first book to bring these two all-American icons together. Their friendship and on-and-off intimate relationship, kept secret because of powerful others in their lives,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 EPSMalkin, Peter Z.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1990
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.138 MALReid, Aimee
Summary: "Mister Rogers is one of the most beloved television personalities ever, but before he was the man who brought us "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood", he was just little Freddie Rogers. You Are My Friend tells how Fred was a sickly and lonely child. At school,he was bullied and had trouble making friends and expressing his feelings. His parents and grandparents encouraged Fred to ask for help and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2019