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Reader's circle (Random House (Firm))Rodriguez, Deborah.
Summary: Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a humanitarian aid group. Surrounded by people whose skills--as doctors, nurses, and therapists--seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother from Michigan, despaired of being of any real use. Yet she found she had a gift for befriending Afghans, and once her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4869 RODRodriguez, Deborah.
Summary: "Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a humanitarian aid group. Surrounded by people whose skills--as doctors, nurses, and therapists--seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother from Michigan, despaired of being of any real use. Yet she found she had a gift for befriending Afghans, and once her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.486 RODRodriguez, Deborah.
Summary: Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a humanitarian aid group. Surrounded by people whose skills--as doctors, nurses, and therapists--seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother from Michigan, despaired of being of any real use. Yet she found she had a gift for befriending Afghans, and once her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 305.48 RODGarcia, J. Malcolm
Summary: "Collection of literary reportage from Afghanistan: stories that go unreported, the lives of people not usually considered newsworthy or important, people who struggle just to survive"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 GARTzemach Lemmon, Gayle.
Summary: The true account of Kamila Sidiqi who, when her father and brother were forced to flee Kabul, became the sole breadwinner for her five siblings. Armed only with grit and determination, she picked up a needle and thread and created a thriving business of her own and held her family together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 958.1 SEDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 SEDIQI, KAMELA LEMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SIDIQI LEMMalkasian, Carter
Summary: If you want to understand Afghanistan, writes Carter Malkasian, you need to understand what has happened on the ground, in the villages and countryside that were on the front line. These small places are the heart of the war. Malkasian's War Comes to Garmser promises to be a landmark account of the war in Afghanistan. The author, who spent nearly two years in Garmser, a community in war-torn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 MALStewart, Rory.
Summary: In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan--surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. By day he passed through mountains covered in nine feet of snow, hamlets burned and emptied by the Taliban, and communities thriving amid the remains of medieval civilizations. By night he slept on villagers' floors, shared their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Inc. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 STEYasgur, Batya Swift.
Summary: An Afghan woman who escaped from the Communists, and her younger sister, who fled the Taliban only to be jailed by the INS, describe the changing circumstances for women in their homeland and their efforts to survive in exile.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 YASJones, Ann
Summary: "Soon after the bombing of Kabul ceased, award-winning journalist and women's rights activist Ann Jones set out for the shattered city, determined to bring help where her country had brought destruction. Here is her trenchant report from inside a city struggling to rise from the ruins. Working among the multitude of impoverished war widows, retraining Kabul's long-silenced English teachers, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 JONChesler, Phyllis.
Summary: Twenty years old and in love, Phyllis Chesler, a Jewish-American girl from Brooklyn, embarked on an adventure that has lasted for more than a half-century. In 1961, when she arrived in Kabul with her Afghan bridegroom, authorities took away her American passport. Chesler was now the property of her husband's family and had no rights of citizenship. In Afghanistan, her husband, a wealthy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHESLER, PHYLLIS CHEShah, Saira.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 SHASeierstad, Åsne
Summary: This the daily life of a middle-class family in Kabul, the family of Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul. Sultan has lived through several represive regimes, all of which burned and censored his books. Now with the Taliban gone, he is free to pursue his business and his dreams of turning his large collection into a library for Afghanistan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 SEIMazari, Najaf
Summary: "This enchanting novel of interwoven legends burns with both gentle intelligence and human warmth. This extraordinary book, derived from the long oral tradition of storytelling in Afghanistan, presents a mesmerizing portrait of a people who triumph withintelligence and humor over the oppressions of political dictators and an unforgiving landscape. A musician conjures stones to rise in the air...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013