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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his...
3) Disoriental
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
338 pages : 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kimia Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future she has built for herself as well as the prospect of a new generation, Kimia is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors, which come to her in unstoppable, uncontainable waves. In the waiting room of a Parisian fertility clinic, generations of flamboyant Sadrs return to her, including...
4) The charmer
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Danish
Description
As the time on his immigrant visa is running out, a young Iranian man is desperately trying to find a woman that could gain him the right to stay in Denmark.
Author
Series
Mitch Rapp novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
No longer willing to wait for the international community to stop its neighboring enemy, Israel launches one of the most creative and daring espionage operations ever conceived. The attack leaves a radioactive tomb and environmental disaster in the middle of Iran's second largest city. An outraged Iranian government publicly blames both Israel and the United States for the attack and demands retribution. Privately, Iran's bombastic president wants...
6) Twelve days
Author
Series
John Wells novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
John Wells has only twelve days to stop the United States from being tricked into invading Iran. Twelve days. Wells, with his former CIA bosses Ellis Shafer and Vinnie Duto, has uncovered a staggering plot, a false-flag operation to convince the President to attack Iran. But they have no hard evidence, and no one at Langley or the White House will listen. Now the President has set a deadline for Iran to give up its nuclear program, and the mullahs...
7) Iran
Publisher
Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
375 p : color ill., maps (some color)
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Everyone has a dream -- something she fantasizes about doing and generally never gets around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream, and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, a small circle of seven young women gathered together every Thursday in secret at her home to read and discuss great books of Western literature. At first they were suspicious of one another, reticent and afraid to speak their...
9) The wolves
Author
Series
John Wells novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
John Wells has just barely managed to stop an operation designed to drive the United States and Iran into war, but the instigator himself disappeared behind an impenetrable wall of security. Now it's time for him to pay, and Wells has made it his personal mission. There are plenty of crosscurrents at work, though. The White House doesn't want anybody stirring the pot; his old CIA bosses have their own agendas; and other countries are starting to sniff...
10) The runner
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
Childhood takes on mythic dimensions in one of the defining works of postrevolutionary Iranian cinema. Inspired by director Amir Naderi's boyhood, The Runner is lit from within by Madjid Niroumand's electrifying performance as a young orphan fending for himself on the streets of a port city, determined to rise above his circumstances working odd jobs, passing time with friends, learning to read and running, always running, toward the future. Water,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become interwined after the Donaldsons, a young American couple invite the Yazdan's, Maryam, her son and his Iranian American wife to an arrival party, which becomes an annual event. Maryam, who came to this country thirty-five years earlier, feels her values threatened when she is courted by a newly widowed Donaldson. A penetrating...
12) The Queen and I
Series
Ironweed film club volume no. 47
Publisher
Ironweed Film Club
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hrs.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Queen and I: This is the moving story of two Iranian exiles -- one a queen, and one a rebel. Filmmaker Nahid Persson Sarvestani was formerly a young revolutionary in Iran that welcomed the fall of the Shah's regime but was soon forced to flee from Khomeini's violent and oppressive rule. Thirty years later, still yearning for answers, she daringly approached Queen Farah, the widow of the Shah now living in Paris, and proposed a series of filmed...
13) Persepolis
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witnesses first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study....
14) There is no evil
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
Tells four stories of Iranian men who face the difficult choice between following their conscience or risking everything they have.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
x, 272 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The grandson of an eminent ayatollah and the son of an Iranian diplomat, now an American citizen, Hooman Majd is, in a way, both 100 percent Iranian and 100 percent American, combining an insider’s knowledge of how Iran works with a remarkable ability to explain its history and its quirks to Western readers. In The Ayatollah Begs to Differ, he paints a portrait of a country that is fiercely proud of its Persian heritage, mystified by its outsider...
16) The death trade
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
An eminent Iranian scientist has made a startling breakthrough in nuclear weapons research, but he can't stand the thought of his regime owning the bomb. He would run if he could, but if he does, his family dies. He is desperate; he doesn't know what to do. It is up to Sean Dillon and the rest of the small band known as the Prime Minister's private army to think of a plan. Most particularly, it is up to their newest member, an intelligence captain...
Author
Series
Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After an intelligence failure at Op-Center results in a major terrorist attack, director Chase Williams radically transforms the agency into a ground-breaking new mobile strike force."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A novel set in 1953 Tehran against the backdrop of the Iranian Coup about a young couple in love who are separated on the eve of their marriage, and who are reunited sixty years later, after having moved on to live independent lives in America, to discover the truth about what happened on that fateful day in the town square"--
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Noor returns to her native Iran for the first time in thirty years, with her very American daughter, Lily, so much about her homeland is different. But Cafe Leila -- the restaurant Noor's family has run for three generations -- hasn't changed. A neighborhood cafe in Tehran is at the center of this powerful and transporting story of love, family, friendship, and homecoming told against the backdrop of Iran's rich, yet tragic, history.
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
DVD : It's a race against time when a rogue prince (Jake Gyllenhaal) reluctantly teams up with a rival princess (Gemma Arterton) to safeguard a magical dagger that gives its possessor the power to reverse time and rule the world.
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