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Conspiracies Pakistan Fiction Karachi (Pakistan) Fiction Korea (North) Military policy Fiction Koreans Fiction Pakistan Fiction Pakistan Social life and customs Fiction Pakistan. Air Force Fiction Presidents Pakistan Fiction Women Crimes against Fiction Zia-ul-Haq, Mohammad FictionHanif, Mohammed.
Summary: Hanif will have readers wondering what really caused a C130 aircraft carrying the Pakistani leader General Zia ul Huq to crash on August 17, 1988.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANHanif, Mohammed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HANHanif, Mohammed.
Summary: What really caused a C120 aircraft carrying the Pakistani leader General Zia ul Huq to tumble out of the sky on August 17, 1988? Was it mechanical failure? Could it possibly have been the result of human error? Was it perhaps the CIA brass taking a risky gambit? Some have said it had something to do with an old blind woman's curse, or the moral of that ancient proverb about star-crossed lovers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HANSaeed, Aisha
Summary: In Pakistan, Amal holds onto her dream of being a teacher even after becoming an indentured servant to pay off her family's debt to the wealthy and corrupt Khan family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SAEGruber, Michael
Summary: Somewhere in Pakistan, Sonia Laghari and eight fellow members of a symposium on peace are being held captive by armed terrorists. Sonia, a deeply religious woman as well as a Jungian psychologist, has become the de facto leader of the kidnapped group, while her son Theo, an ex-Delta soldier, uses his military connections to find and free the victims.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRUSaeed, Aisha
Summary: "Naila's conservative immigrant parents have always said the same thing: she may choose what to study, how to wear her hair, and what to be when she grows up--but they will choose her husband. Following their cultural tradition, they will plan an arranged marriage for her. And until then, dating--even friendship with a boy--is forbidden. When Naila breaks their rule by falling in love with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SAESmith, Roland
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to participate in an "International Peace Ascent" in the Hindu Kush, with a team made up of under-eighteen-year-old climbers from around the world--but from the first something seems wrong, so when the group is attacked, and most of the climbers are either killed or kidnapped, Peak finds himself caught up in a struggle to survive, shadowed by the Shen,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMIMohsin, Moni.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Paperbacks 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOHMueenuddin, Daniyal.
Summary: Each compelling tale revolves around the life and legacy of K.K. Harouni, a wealthy landowner in feudal, corruption-fueled Lahore. In this cutthroat society, a servant girl can immediately gain prestige by seducing a powerful married man--and then lose it just as swiftly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MUEMueenuddin, Daniyal.
Summary: A volume of linked stories describing the intertwined lives of landowners and their retainers on the Gurmani family farm in Pakistan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUEAslam, Nadeem.
Summary: Jeo and Mikal are foster brothers from a small town in Pakistan. Though they were inseparable as children, their adult lives have diverged: Jeo is a dedicated medical student, married a year; Mikal has been a vagabond since he was fifteen, in love with a woman he can't have. But when Jeo decides to sneak across the border into Afghanistan--not to fight with the Taliban against the Americans,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASLChurch, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CHUSoniah Kamal
Summary: "In this retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in modern-day Pakistan, Alys Binat has sworn never to marry--until an encounter with one Mr. Darsee at a wedding makes her reconsider. A scandal and vicious rumor in the Binat family have destroyed their fortune and prospects for desirable marriages, but Alys, the second and most practical of the five Binat daughters, has found happiness teaching...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KAMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAMChurch, James.
Summary: In a late 1990s North Korea, a younger Inspector O is working Pyongyang as the country's nuclear missile program begins to escalate and as the wife of a North Korean diplomat turns up dead in Pakistan under suspicious circumstances, but as Inspector O investigates, he discovers that the woman's death could lead to a larger conspiracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUHagberg, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAGAslam, Nadeem
Summary: "A brave, timely, searingly beautiful novel from the acclaimed author of The Blind Man's Garden: set in contemporary Pakistan, the story of a Muslim widow and her Christian neighbors whose community is consumed by violent religious intolerance When shotsring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud--a fellow architect--is caught in the cross...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASLBerry, Steve
Summary: Former government operative Cotton Malone teams with old heartthrob Cassiopeia Vitt on a dangerous mission to retrieve a priceless Chinese lamp from the third century B.C.E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERShamsie, Kamila
Summary: "Zahra and Maryam have been best friends since childhood in Karachi, even though--or maybe because--they are unlike in nearly every way. Yet they never speak of the differences in their backgrounds or their values, not even after the fateful night when a moment of adolescent impulse upends their plans for the future. Three decades later, Zahra and Maryam have grown into powerful women who have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAShamsie, Kamila
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAAlam, Nigar
Summary: "One night. Four friends. Countless secrets. 1964. Karachi, Pakistan.Rozeena is running out of time. She'll lose her home—her parents' safe haven since fleeing India and the terrors of Partition—if her medical career doesn't take off soon. But success may come with an unexpected price. Meanwhile the interwoven lives of her childhood best friends—Haaris, Aalya, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALACoes, Ben.
Summary: "Wanting only a peaceful, obscure life, Dewey Andreas has gone to rural Australia, far from turbulent forces that he once fought against. But powerful men, seeking revenge, have been scouring the earth looking for Dewey. And now, they've finally found him - forcing Dewey to abandon his home and to fight for his life against a very well armed, well trained group of assassins. Meanwhile, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COEHanif, Mohammed.
Summary: Following in her healer father's footsteps to become a junior nurse in a Karachi hospital, Alice taps inherent talents to bring relief to suffering patients but is hampered by a bureaucratic caste system, religious prejudice, and a dangerous police squad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANSaeed, Aisha
Summary: Seventh-grader Omar must contend with being treated like a second-class citizen when he gets a scholarship to an elite boarding school in Pakistan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SAEHagberg, David
Summary: Kirk McGarvey has accepted the most critical contract of his career: kill the most dangerous, heavily protected terrorist alive--a man who is about to hand over two hundred Pakistani nukes to the world's most frightening terrorists. Pakistan is torn apart by street riots, and Islamist terror groups are on the verge of toppling its shaky secular government. In the midst of the chaos, the ClA...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge Books 2016