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1) Tali girls
Author
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
This powerful and intimate look at the lives, loves, horrors and dreams of girls and women in an Afghan mountain village under Taliban rule offers a vivid picture of the endless cycle of suffering but also of resilience, hope and courage.
2) Kandahar
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An undercover CIA operative gets stuck in hostile territory in Afghanistan after his mission is exposed. Accompanied by his translator, he must fight enemy combatants as he tries to reach an extraction point in Kandahar
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by true events, this book follows a haunting, sometimes uplifting but ultimately tragic journey into war through the eyes of an Air Force officer searching for meaning as his path intersects with a mother's desperate quest to find hope after her son is killed serving with the US Marines of Afghanistan.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Inspired by generations of her family's unwavering belief in the power of education, Pashtana Durrani recognized her calling early in life: to educate Afghanistan's girls and young women, raised in a society where learning is forbidden. In a country devastated by war and violence, heeding that call seemed both impossible and dangerous. Pashtana founded the nonprofit LEARN and developed a program for getting educational materials directly into the...
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Izzy Astor gets on a plane to go home, she isn’t expecting much. It’s the usual holiday travel experience: busy, crowded, stressful. Then she spots her seatmate, who is anything but ordinary. Nate Phelan sports dark hair, blue eyes, and a deliciously rugged charm that Izzy can’t resist. Their connection is undeniable. Izzy never believed in destiny before, but she does now. Just ninety seconds after takeoff, their plane goes down in the...
Author
Series
Private novels volume 16
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When a desperate businessman asks him to find his daughter and grandchildren who have disappeared without a trace, Jack Morgan, the head of Private, finds this simple missing persons case turning into something much more deadly, forcing him to face the trauma of his past to save a family's future.
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Even though his family is safe in their new country, Ali longs to return to Afghanistan until his Nana teaches him that home is not a place, but the love that family have for each other.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
316 pages : illustrations and maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the U.S. began its withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Afghan Army instantly collapsed, Homeira Qaderi was marked for death at the hands of the Taliban. A celebrated author, academic, and champion for women's liberation, Homeira had achieved celebrity in her home country by winning custody of her son in acontentious divorce, a rarity in Afghanistan's patriarchal society. Homeira tried and failed to escape with her family through the turmoil...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
559 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A vivid narrative of a life in intelligence and special operations, from the Cold War to the war on terror. In 1984, Michael Vickers took charge of the CIA's secret campaign against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Inheriting a strategy aimed at imposing costs on Russia, Vickers transformed the campaign into an all-out effort to help the Afghans win their war. More than any other American, he was responsible for the outcome in Afghanistan that led to...
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