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Breadwinner volume 2
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English
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Imagine living in a country where women and girls are not allowed to leave the house without a man. Imagine having to wear clothes that cover every part of your body, including your face, whenever you go out. This is the life of Parvana, a young girl growing up in Afghanistan under the control of an extreme religious military group. When soldiers burst into her home and drag her father off to prison, Parvana is forced to take responsibility for her...
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1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm.
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Persian
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Set in Afghanistan, The Patience Stone is a partly allegorical tales of a Muslim wife tendind her comatose husband who has been shot in the neck. As she cares for him, for the first time ever she is able to speak to him without fear of censorship and he becomes, for her, like the mythical Patience Stone wo which you tell your troubles and when the stone finally bursts, you are free from your torments.
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452 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school and rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age.
6) Afghanistan
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112 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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Explores the Afghan government, the Taliban's rule, the people, and Afghanistan's role in the world today.
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414 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Zeba's life is shattered when her husband is found brutally murdered. Zeba is arrested and jailed. With the fate of Zeba's life in his hands, Afghan-born, American-raised Yusuf discovers that, like Afghanistan itself, his client may not be at all what he imagines. A moving look at the lives of modern Afghan women, this is astonishing, frightening, and triumphant. From the author of the bestselling "The Pearl That Broke Its Shell." Print run 50,000.
Accused...
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ix, 350 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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An award-winning foreign correspondent who contributed to a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times series reveals the secret Afghan custom of disguising girls as boys to improve their prospects, discussing its political and social significance as well as the experiences of its practitioners.
10) Osama
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1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Pushto
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This meticulous inquiry into the ways that ideological evil can infect, and ultimately destroy, the intimacies and small pleasures of daily life is beautiful, thoughtful, and almost unbearably sad. A widowed grandmother, mother, and daughter are facing starvation. Since the foreign doctors have been driven away, the mother's employment at the hospital ends. Thus the young daughter, at the risk of being discovered and killed, masquerades as a boy in...
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xiii, 235 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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Eighteen years old and in Love, Phyllis Chesler, a Jewish-American girl from Brooklyn, embarked on a passionate Love affair with a glamorous foreign student--a journey that lasted for more than half a century. This voyage not only led Chesler to her destiny, but nearly to her death in Kabul. In 1961 upon arrival, Afghan authorities seized her American passport, and her husband, a wealthy, Westernized foreign college student with dreams of reforming...
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xxix, 254 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Follows the experiences of four women who fought in active combat duty in Afghanistan and also worked to gather intelligence about the Taliban from local Afghani women, with whom they were able to cultivate relationships, unlike their male counterparts.
Rivers follows the experiences of women who fought in active combat duty in Afghanistan, fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with the men. They also worked to gather intelligence about the Taliban from...
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212 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"In the days before Homeira Qaderi gave birth to her son, Siawash, the road to the hospital in Kabul would often be barricaded because of the frequent suicide explosions. With the city and the military on edge, it was not uncommon for an armed soldier to point his gun at the pregnant woman's bulging stomach, terrified that she was hiding a bomb. Frightened and in pain, she was once forced to make her way on foot. Propelled by the love she held for...
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303 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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English
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"A searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doors and fought her way to a new life. Sola Mahfouz was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1996. That same year, the Taliban took over her country for the first time. They banned television and photographs, presided over brutal public executions, and turned the clock backwards on women's rights, practically imprisoning women within their own homes and...
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271 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
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English
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"An unforgettable portrait of a place and a people shaped by centuries of art, trade, and war. In the middle of the salt-frosted Afghan desert, in a village so remote that Google can't find it, a woman squats on top of a loom, making flowers bloom in the thousand threads she knots by hand. Here, where heroin is cheaper than rice, every day is a fast day. B-52s pass overhead--a sign of America's omnipotence or its vulnerability, the villagers are unsure....
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213 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"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...
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