Summary: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PERIgnatius, David
Summary: When a hidden Tehran scientist sends encrypted messages to the CIA that reveal Iran's bomb-development program, agent Harry Pappas is directed to discern if the messages are true before enlisting the aid of a secret British spy team to safeguard the scientist.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IGNIgnatius, David
Summary: From a hidden enclave in the maze of Tehran, an Iranian scientist who calls himself "Dr. Ali" sends an encrypted message to the CIA. It falls to Harry Pappas to decide if it's authentic. Dr. Ali sends more secrets of the Iranian bomb program to the agency, then panics. He's being followed, but he doesn't know who's onto him, and neither does Pappas. The White House is no help at all.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC IGNCoonts, Stephen
Summary: Iran is much closer to having operational nuclear weapons than the CIA believes, and Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has a plan. Iran will become a martyr nation, and Ahmadinejad will lead the united Muslims of the world in a holy war against the non-believers. But the Americans have a secret weapon in a group of Iranian dissidents, including a pair of cousins determined to avenge the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COOCoonts, Stephen
Summary: Iran is weeks away from acquiring nuclear weapons and has every intention of using them to strike first--only Tommy Carmellini and Jake Grafton can stop a nuclear nightmare.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOForoutan, Parnaz
Summary: For all his wealth and success, Asher Malacouti -- the head of a prosperous Jewish family living in the Iranian town of Kermanshah -- cannot have the one thing he desires above all: a male son. His young wife Rakhel, trapped in an oppressive marriage at a time when a woman's worth is measured by her fertility, is made desperate by her failure to conceive, and grows jealous and vindictive.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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Summary: The Drum Tower is Farnoosh Moshiri's fourth work of fiction concerned with the deleterious effects of the Iranian Revolution of 1979. This novel, told by a mentally ill, 16-year-old girl, depicts the fall of Drum Tower, the house of a family descended from generations of War Ministers. Rich in characters--Talkhoon, who struggles to control the winds she hears inside her head and who tells the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Heron Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSSofer, Dalia
Summary: "Set in Iran and New York City, Man of My Time tells the story of Hamid Mozaffarian, who is as alienated from himself as he is from the world around him. After decades of ambivalent work as an interrogator with the Iranian regime, Hamid travels on a diplomatic mission to New York, where he encounters his estranged family and retrieves the ashes of his father, whose dying wish was to be buried...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOFKhorram, Adib
Summary: Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2018
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Summary: "Kimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future she has built for herself as well as the prospect of a new generation, Kimiâ is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors, which come to her in unstoppable, uncontainable waves. In the waiting room of a Parisian fertility...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DJANayeri, Daniel
Summary: "At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Nayeri 2020Tenney, Tommy
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TENNazemian, Abdi
Summary: "2019. Moud is an out gay teen living in Los Angeles with his distant father, Saeed. When Moud gets the news that his grandfather in Iran is dying, he accompanies his dad to Tehran, where the revelation of family secrets will force Moud into a new understanding of his history, his culture, and himself. 1978. Saeed is an engineering student with a promising future ahead of him in Tehran. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NAZAbdoh, Salar
Summary: "A sweeping, propulsive novel about the families we are born into and the families we make for ourselves, in which two brothers struggle to find their place in an Iran on the brink of combusting Amid the alleyways of the Zamzam neighborhood of Tehran, a woman lights herself on fire in a desperate act of defiance, setting off a chain reaction of violence and protest. Haunted by the woman's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC ABD1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Abdoh, Salar
Summary: Iranian ex-pat Reza Malek's quiet professorial life is upended when he returns to Tehran to help his best friend Sina Vava who is involved with Shia militants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABDGhaffari, Rabeah
Summary: The year is 1979. The Iranian Revolution is just around the corner. In the northeastern city of Naishapur, a family, including their friends and servants, ranging from young to old, reveal the personal behind the political, reminding us of the human lives that animate historical events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GHAJavaherbin, Mina
Summary: "While Mina is growing up in Iran, the center of her world is her grandmother. Whether visiting friends next door, going to the mosque for midnight prayers during Ramadan, or taking an imaginary trip around the planets, Mina and her grandma are never far apart. At once deeply personal and utterly universal, Mina Javaherbin's words make up a love letter of the rarest sort: the kind that shares a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JAVFlynn, Vince.
Summary: In the aftermath of an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, CIA director Irene Kennedy and operative Mitch Kelly are dispatched to the Middle East to diffuse Iran's sworn retaliation against the United States.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FLYKhan, Ausma Zehanat
Summary: "On leave from Canada's Community Policing department, Esa Khattak is traveling in Iran, reconnecting with his cultural heritage and seeking peace in the country's beautiful mosques and gardens. But Khattak's supposed break from work is cut short when he's approached by a Canadian government agent in Iran, asking him to look into the death of renowned Canadian-Iranian filmmaker Zahra Sobhani....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KHAHiggins, Jack
Summary: An eminent Iranian scientist has made a startling breakthrough in nuclear weapons research, but he can't stand the thought of his regime owning the bomb. If he runs, his family dies. It is up to Sean Dillon and the small band known as the Prime Minister's private army to think of a plan. Most particularly, it is up to their newest member, an intelligence captain and Afghan war hero named Sara...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HIGSolomon, Anna
Summary: "Lily is a mother and a daughter. And a second wife. And a writer, maybe? Or she was going to be, before she had children. Now, in her rented Brooklyn apartment, she's grappling with her sexual and intellectual desires while also trying to manage her roles as a mother and a wife. Vivian Barr seems to be the perfect political wife, dedicated to helping her charismatic and ambitious husband find...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLDarznik, Jasmin
Summary: "A spellbinding debut novel about the trailblazing Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who defied society's expectations to find her voice and her destiny. "Remember the flight, for the bird is mortal." All through her childhood in Tehran, Forugh Farrokhzad is told that Persian daughters should be quiet and modest. She is taught only to obey, but she always finds ways to rebel, gossiping with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DARRovin, Jeff
Summary: "In this chilling new thriller in the New York Times bestselling series, simmering tensions threaten to ignite when a silo of Cold War missiles surfaces in the Middle East. In 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union sent a convoy of nuclearmissiles to Cuba. The crisis that followed almost triggered World War III. However, while all eyes were on the Caribbean, not all of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROVRosenberg, Joel C.
Summary: With the prophecy of the Twelfth Imam seemingly fulfilled, Iran's military prepares to strike Israel and bring about the End of Days. CIA operative David Shirazi must take action to save his country and the world, but the clock is ticking.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2010