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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thwarting cultural expectations to accept a job for a Republican Senate candidate, unconventional Muslim girl Zainab Mir generates controversy in her community while winning the love of a neoconservative talk radio host.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Zuhour, an Omani student at a British university, is caught between the past and the present. As she attempts to form friendships and assimilate in Britain, she can't help but ruminate on the relationships that have been central to her life. Most prominent is her strong emotional bond with Bint Amir, a woman she always thought of as her grandmother, who passed away just after Zuhour left the Arabian Peninsula. As the historical narrative of Bint...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Girls from immigrant communities have been disappearing for months in the Colorado town of Blackwater Falls, but the local sheriff is slow to act and the fates of the missing girls largely ignored. At last, the calls for justice become too loud to ignore when the body of a star student and refugee--the Syrian teenager Razan Elkader--is positioned deliberately in a mosque. Detective Inaya Rahman and Lieutenant Waqas Seif of the Denver Police are recruited...
6) A burning
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a fiery attack on a train leaves 104 people dead, the fates of three people become inextricably entangled. Jivan, a bright, striving woman from the slums looking for a way out of poverty, is wrongly accused of planning the attack because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir, a slippery gym teacher from Jivan's former high school, has hitched his aspirations to a rising right wing party, and his own ascent becomes increasingly linked to...
8) Minaret
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In her Muslim hijab, with her downturned gaze, Najwa is invisible to most eyes, especially to the rich families whose houses she cleans." "Twenty years ago, Najwa then at university in Khartoum, would never have imagined that one day she would be a maid. An upper-class, westernised Sudanese, her dreams were to marry well and raise a family. But Najwa's days of innocence ended when a military coup forced the young woman and her family into political...
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, an amazing superhero who can stretch and bend in any shape she likes! Join Kamala and her allies as she battles the enemies who threaten Jersey City, New Jersey"--
10) Ayesha at last
Author
Publisher
Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Berkley trade edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Ayesha Shamsi has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been set aside for a teaching job so she can pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle. She lives with her boisterous Muslim family and is always being reminded that her flighty younger cousin, Hafsa, is close to rejecting her one hundredth marriage proposal. Though Ayesha is lonely, she doesn't want an arranged marriage. Then she meets Khalid who is just as smart and handsome as he is...
Author
Series
Publisher
A Golden Book
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When teenager Kamala Khan gains super-powers, she takes on the name Ms. Marvel after her favorite hero Captain Marvel. Now boys and girls ages 2 to 5 can join Ms. Marvel on her amazing adventures as they learn about her powers, her friends, and her foes!"--
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's always been Malak, Kees, and Jenna against the world. Since childhood, under the watchful eyes of their parents, aunties and uncles, they've learned to live their own lives alongside the expectations of being good Muslim women...With growing older and the stakes of love and life growing higher, the delicate balancing act between rebellion and religion is becoming increasingly difficult to navigate. As their lives begin to take different paths,...
Author
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Soraya Nazari is ready to make her mark on the world--if only she knew what that was going to be. Caught between her strict Muslim family's expectations and her own, Soraya can't help feeling like a fish out of water as she navigates life as a new college graduate. And there is the small matter that Soraya has never been kissed at the age of twenty-one. Enter Magnus Evans: rugby player, man-about-town, and everything Soraya's parents would disapprove...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"As strangers and seatmates Maryam Aziz and Anna Gibson fly to Toronto over the holidays--Maryam to her sister's impromptu wedding and Anna to meet her boyfriend's wealthy family for the first time--neither expect that severe turbulence will scare them into confessing their deepest hopes and fears to one another. At least they'll never see each other again. And the love of Maryam's life, Saif, wasn't sitting two rows behind them hearing it all. Oops....
15) A pure heart
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A powerful novel about two Egyptian sisters--their divergent fates and the secrets of one family. Sisters Rose and Gameela Gubran could not have been more different. Rose, an Egyptologist, married an American journalist and immigrated to New York City, where she works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gameela, a devout Muslim since her teenage years, stayed in Cairo. During the aftermath of Egypt's revolution, Gameela is killed in a suicide bombing....
Author
Series
Ms. Marvel volume 5
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"She's your new favorite. She's everyone's new favorite. And now she's joining the big leagues. Look out world, Kamala Khan is an Avenger! But is she really cut out to be one of Earth's Mightiest Heroes? Saving the world is important, but Jersey City still needs its protector--and a development company that co-opted Ms. Marvel's face for its project has more in mind for gentrification than just real estate! Can Kamala take down the evil suits destroying...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Berkley trade edition.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in bookbag
Language
English
Description
Ayesha Shamsi has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been set aside for a teaching job so she can pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle. She lives with her boisterous Muslim family and is always being reminded that her flighty younger cousin, Hafsa, is close to rejecting her one hundredth marriage proposal. Though Ayesha is lonely, she doesn't want an arranged marriage. Then she meets Khalid who is just as smart and handsome as he is...
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