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Alai Aliu, Akim Avi Hosseini, Ali Hosseini, Khaled Hosseini, Khaled. Husseini, Suzanne Kamaly, HosseinHosseini, Ali
Summary: The Place of Stones is Ali Hosseini's newly translated first novel, his second book to appear in English. In it, he paints a vivid portrait of Sangriz, a village in the southern part of Iran where life has been disrupted by industrialization and the revolution of 1979. Haydar and Jamal are best friends, and their families have always made their living from the land in the foothills of Iran's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Curbstone Books, 2017. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOSSummary: A photographer and his young wife are stranded in a remote village after their car breaks down. The only adult inhabitant leaves with the photographer to find help, leaving the woman to teach the village children, whose parents are nowhere to be found.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DESSummary: "A group of hedonistic middle-aged friends gather eatch night on a luxurious houseboat for dancing, love-making and smoking hashish. When a young news reporter visits the houseboat to write a story on the group, she is outraged to learn the tragic depths of their social alienation"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADRSummary: "This wry, melancholic comedy from Aki Kaurismäki, a response to the ongoing global refugee crisis, follows two people searching for a place to call home. Khaled (Sherwan Haji), a displaced Syrian, lands in Helsinki as a stowaway; meanwhile, middle-aged Finnish salesman Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen) leaves his wife and his job and buys a conspicuously unprofitable restaurant. Khaled is denied...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OTHSummary: A derelict oil tanker is home to cast-off members of the Sunni-Arab minority of Iran. When the owner decides to sell it, it is up to the self-proclaimed patriarch of the ship to provide a future for the people of his floating city, no matter the cost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IRO1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF IRO
Summary: Mr. Badii, ceaselessly driving through the red-brown hills around Tehran in search of assistance in his suicide, receives from each of the men he asks for help a viewpoint on life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TASAlai
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALASummary: An airport janitor makes a big difference in the lives of the children in his poor neighborhood when they mistake him for an airplane pilot. Using his imagination to weave stories of the wonderful places he has visited around the world, a friendship develops as he brings hope to their otherwise grim home life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Terra Entertainment 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CAPHosseini, Khaled.
Summary: A "[...] story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years--from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding--that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives--the struggle to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HOSAliu, Akim
Summary: "Akim Aliu -- also known as "Dreamer" -- is a Ukrainian-Nigerian-Canadian professional hockey player whose career took him all around the world and who experienced systemic racism at every turn. Dreamer tells Akim's incredible story, from being the only Black child in his Ukrainian community, to his family struggling to make ends meet while living in Toronto, to confronting the racist violence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ALICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC ALIHosseini, Khaled.
Summary: "The spellbinding story of the unlikely and inseparable friendship between two boys caught in the tragic sweep of history-- from the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy throught the horrific rule of the Taliban"--Book flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HOSSummary: Zaman and his wife Najma have built their happy life together in a house of reeds. When Najma falls ill, the doctor tells them she needs surgery or some medicine he does not have. Zaman sets off in his boat and journeys to Baghdad for the cure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pathfinder Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ZAMHosseini, Khaled
Summary: Sea Prayer is composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son, the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin House LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOSHosseini, Khaled.
Summary: A novel about how people love, how they take care of each other, and how choices made today can resonate through future generations. Author Khaled Hosseini gives listeners a multi-generational family story revolving around siblings and how they love, betray, hurt, honor, and would do anything for one another.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HOSHosseini, Khaled.
Summary: Two women born a generation apart witness the destruction of their home and family in wartorn Kabul, losses incurred over the course of thirty years that test the limits of their strength and courage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LARGE PRINT FIC HOSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HOSHosseini, Khaled.
Summary: Two women born a generation apart witness the destruction of their home and family in wartorn Kabul, losses incurred over the course of thirty years that test the limits of their strength and courage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HosCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HosseiniHusseini, Suzanne
Summary: Husseini presents a mouthwatering collection of Arabian recipes celebrating the sumptuous cuisine of the Middle East. Authentic, simple, elegant and moder, these recipes encompass the colors, scents and flavors of Arabia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Appetite by Random House 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5956 HUSKamaly, Hossein
Summary: Beginning in seventh-century Mecca and Medina, A History of Islam in 21 Women takes us around the globe, through eleventh-century Yemen and Khorasan, and into sixteenth-century Spain, Istanbul and India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oneworld Publications 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.082 KAMHosseini, Khaled.
Summary: Presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another, and how choices resonate through subsequent generations. Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Adbullah, Pari, as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOSCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hosseini 2013Hosseini, Khaled.
Summary: Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HOSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Hosseini 2003Hosseini, Khaled.
Summary: An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOSCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HOSAvi
Summary: Patryk and Jurek are as much friends as rivals in the small Russian-occupied Polish village where they live. When, in August 1914, Patryk finds an old button on the forest floor, Jurek becomes wildly jealous. Not long after, World War I comes to Poland, bringing one invading army after another to the village. Jurek devises an exciting dare among the seven boys in their pack: whoever steals the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION AVICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Avi 2018Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC AVIAvi
Summary: In wartime Brooklyn in 1943, eleven-year-old Howie Crispers mounts a campaign to save his favorite teacher from being fired.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC AVIAvi
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Jonathan goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and discovers the real war is being fought within himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lippincott 1984