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Kirby, Matthew J.

Summary: "Europe is in the grip of the Dark Ages, but there is a light in the dark: Baghdad. The great city has become a center of learning, populated by scholars, merchants, and explorers from all across the known world. But danger lurks in the desert ... and Dak, Sera, and Riq must act fast to save the world's greatest library from utter destruction."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC KIR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC INF

Robotham, Michael

Summary: After being robbed of his briefcase, ex-cop Vincent Ruiz tracks down the thieves, who had mistaken him for someone else, and becomes unwittingly involved in unraveling plots surrounding bank bombings in Baghdad and a missing VP at an international finance powerhouse.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROB

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROB

Colla, Elliott

Summary: After being captured by American troops and tortured at Abu Ghraib, Iraqi police inspector Muhsin al-Khafaji agrees to help rebuild the Iraqi Police Service, but ends up investigating the disappearance of young women translators working for the American occupation forces.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Consortium Book Sales & Dist 2014

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Wilkinson, Gina

Summary: At night, in Huda's fragrant garden, a breeze sweeps in from the desert encircling Baghdad, rustling the leaves of her apricot trees and carrying warning of visitors at her gate. Huda, a secretary at the Australian embassy, lives in fear of the mukhabarat--the secret police who watch and listen for any scrap of information that can be used against America and its allies. They have ordered her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print. 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC WIL

Robotham, Michael

Summary: In a story inspired by a real-life heist at the Central Bank of Iraq, millions of dollars are missing from Iraqi banks, and journalist Luca Terracini will stop at nothing to find the money. But the closer he gets to the truth, the more his actions reverberate around the world.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROB

Robotham, Michael

Summary: In a story inspired by a real-life heist at the Central Bank of Iraq, millions of dollars are missing from Iraqi banks, and journalist Luca Terracini will stop at nothing to find the money. But the closer he gets to the truth, the more his actions reverberate around the world.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ROB

Rāwī, Shahd

Summary: "Baghdad, 1991. In the midst of the first Gulf War, a young Iraqi girl huddles with her neighbours in an air raid shelter. There, she meets Nadia. The two girls quickly become best friends and together they imagine a world not torn apart by civil war, sharing their dreams, their hopes and their desires, and their first loves. But as they grow older and the bombs continue to fall, the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oneworld 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAW

Saadawi, Aḥmad

Summary: After he constructs a corpse from body parts found on the street, Hadi wants the government to prepare a proper burial, but when the corpse goes missing, a series of strange murders occur and Hadi realizes he has created a monster.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAA

Wilkinson, Gina

Summary: At night, in Huda's fragrant garden, a breeze sweeps in from the desert encircling Baghdad, rustling the leaves of her apricot trees and carrying warning of visitors at her gate. Huda, a secretary at the Australian embassy, lives in fear of the mukhabarat'the secret police who watch and listen for any scrap of information that can be used against America and its allies. They have ordered her to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WIL

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

Bunn, T. Davis

Summary: An American operative sent to rescue two vanished soldiers in Iraq finds himself in the midst of a centuries-old conflict of religion, violence, and hatred.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUN

Osborne, Mary Pope.

Summary: Guided by a magic rhyme, Jack and Annie travel to ancient Baghdad on a mission to help the Caliph disseminate wisdom to the world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005

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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC OSB

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3 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OSB

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED Osbor

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC OSB

Hossain, Saad Z.

Summary: "Welcome to Baghdad during the US invasion. A desperate American military has created a power vacuum that needs to be filled. Religious fanatics, mercenaries, occultists, and soldiers are all vying for power. So how do regular folks try to get by? If you're Dagr and Kinza, a former economics professor and a streetwise hoodlum, you turn to dealing in the black market. But everything is about to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Unnamed Press 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOS

Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith

Summary: "An award-winning journalist's powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 ABD

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