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A Novel
by Ava Homa
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by Kalani Pickhart
Published May 2022
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by Margaret Coker
Published Feb 2022
Read ReviewsFrom the former New York Times bureau chief in Baghdad comes the gripping and heroic story of an elite, top-secret team of unlikely spies who triumphed over ISIS.
by Nazanine Hozar
Published Jun 2021
Read ReviewsAn extraordinary, cinematic saga of rags-to-riches-to-revolution--called a "Doctor Zhivago of Iran" by Margaret Atwood--that follows an orphan girl coming of age at a time of dramatic upheaval.
by Dalia Sofer
Published Apr 2021
Read ReviewsFrom the bestselling author of The Septembers of Shiraz, the story of an Iranian man reckoning with his capacity for love and evil.
by Aline Ohanesian
Published Jan 2016
Read ReviewsMoving between the last years of the Ottoman Empire and the 1990s, a story of passionate love, unspeakable horrors, incredible resilience, and the hidden stories that haunt a family.
Children of the Jacaranda Tree
by Sahar Delijani
Published Jun 2014
Read ReviewsA stunning debut novel set in post-Revolutionary Iran that gives voice to the men, women, and children who won a war only to find their livesand those of their descendants - imperiled by its aftermath
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsChimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafras impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria in the 1960s, and the chilling violence that followed.
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