Satrapi, Marjane
Summary: "Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SATRAPI, MARJANE SATPetrosian, Melineh
Summary: Ariana’s bitter childhood battles with the outside world and her narcissistic mother threaten to consume her soul. As a Christian minority growing up in Tehran, Iran, Ariana faces harsh physical and emotional abuse from her mother and witnesses the same pain inflicted on her siblings. Her daily awakenings leave her unguarded against her mother’s wrath. Despite this, Ariana’s only true safe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Electio Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B PETROSIAN PETFitzgerald, Laura
Summary: Knowing she could never be happy in Iran, Tamila Soroush took her mother's advice and joined her sister in the United States. Now after a spur-of-the-moment wedding with her true love, Ike Hanson, Tami is eager to start her new life. But not everyone is pleased with their marriage, and Tami's happily-ever-after is no sure thing. With an interview with Immigration looming, Tami wonders if she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: D FIC FITDjavadi, Négar
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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DJACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DJAAbdoh, 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
Summary: For Shirin, being part of a perfect Persian family isn't easy. Acceptance eludes her from all sides: her family doesn't know she's bisexual, and her ex-girlfriend, Maxine, can't understand why she doesn't tell them. Following a family announcement of her brother's betrothal to a parentally approved Iranian prize catch, Shirin embarks on a private rebellion involving a series of pansexual escape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY APPLövestam, Sara
Summary: When a six-year-old girl disappears and calling the police isn't an option, her desperate mother Pernilla turns to an unlikely source for help. She finds a cryptic ad online for a private investigator: "Need help, but can't contact the police?" That's where Kouplan comes in. He's an Iranian refugee living in hiding. He was forced to leave Iran after news of his and his brother's involvement...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVKheiriyeh, Rashin
Summary: Rashin is an Iranian immigrant girl living in New York, excited by her first trip to Coney Island, and fascinated by the differences in the beach customs between her native Iran and her new home--but she misses the saffron flavored ice cream that she usedto eat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KHESummary: Aryana Farshad's quest in her native Iran to explore the religious rituals and traditions that have fascinated the Western world for centuries. Includes rare glimpses of the women's chamber at the Great Mosque, the fire rituals in Zarathustra, and the dance of the Dervishes in Kurdistan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Questar, Inc. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200 MYS1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MYS
Summary: Americans have been taken hostage in Iran, but in the seedy dying discos of 1979 Los Angeles, a naive young immigrant is hostage to his own American dream. Houshang, or "Hank" when he is pretending to be Italian to get past prejudiced doormen, sees the disco club circuit as his ticket to a better life. Houshang's ambition leads to a chaotic and desperate journey of lost identity, forbidden love...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinéma Libre Distribution 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AMEAbdoh, 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 ABDUmrigar, Thrity N.
Summary: "A young immigrant girl joins her aunt and uncle in a new country that is unfamiliar to her. She struggles with loneliness, with a fierce longing for the culture and familiarity of home, until one day, her aunt takes her on a walk. As the duo strolls through their city park, the girl's aunt begins to tell her an old myth, and a story within the story begins"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids 2020
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOFSummary: Shahrbanoo: The filmmakers capture their shared encounter of an American woman with a strictly-conservative Iranian family. Wife and husband team Melissa and Hamid, after arriving at her mother-in-law's house, are befriended by Shahrbanoo, housekeeper to the filmmaker's family, and who invites Melissa to a family gathering. Living in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Tehran, Shahrbanoo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SHAMehran, Marsha
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEHBond, Larry.
Summary: LCDR Jerry Mitchell and the four surviving Navy SEALs sent to extract two Iranian nationals with sensitive information on Iran's nuclear weapons program must make a desperate escape by sea to Mitchell's submarine, the USS Michigan to get the Iranian nationals and their proof of an Iranian plot to the U.S. and prevent a new war.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BONMehran, Marsha
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEHRajendra, Vijeya
Summary: This book describes the geography, history, economy, government, and cultures of Iran. The coauthor is Gisela Kaplan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 955 RAJSummary: Director Raouf blends the testimony of a group of Iranians with historical footage and original artwork to honour political activists from Iran.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: National Film Board of Canada 2002
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TREKhorram, Adib
Summary: "Darius Kellner has everything he thought he wanted--a new boyfriend, a new internship, and a spot on the soccer team--but growing up makes him question everything."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KHOSummary: In the Islamic Republic of Iran, battle lines are drawn between conservative clerics claiming a God-given right to rule and reformers challenging their authority. This provocative program seeks to understand what happens when a modern state is re-created based on fundamentalist Islamic principles, and whether its society should be open and democratic or oppressed and authoritarian. From Iran's...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Rezaian, Jason
Summary: In July 2014, Washington Post Tehran bureau chief Jason Rezaian was arrested by Iranian police, accused of spying for America. The charges were absurd. Rezaian's reporting was a mix of human interest stories and political analysis. He had even served as a guide for Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown. Initially, Rezaian thought the whole thing was a terrible misunderstanding, but soon realized...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B REZAIAN REZShahi, Arya
Summary: "Omid needs the right words to connect with his newly met grandfather and distant Iranian heritage, words to tell a special girl what she means to him and to show everyone that he truly belongs in Tucson, Arizona, the only home he's ever known. Neither the school play's Shakespearean English nor his parents' Farsi seems up to the task, and it's only when Omid delves into the rhymes and rhythms...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allida, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC SHATash, Sarvenaz
Summary: A freshman at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Nasrin is seemingly living her dream, except her parents think she is attending business school and it gets harder and harder to keep lying to them, especially after they surprise her in New York.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2023