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2013., Penguin Audio Call No: CD Fic Hos Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A novel about how people love, how they take care of each other, and how choices made today can resonate through future generations. Author Khaled Hosseini gives listeners a multi-generational family story revolving around siblings and how they love, betray, hurt, honor, and would do anything for one another.
![And the mountains echoed [CD] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT75622.JPG "And the mountains echoed [CD] : a novel")
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By Thor, Bradc2009., Atria Books Call No: Fic Tho Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When American doctor Julia Gallo is kidnapped in Afghanistan, the terms of her ransom leave the president with only one course of action: send covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath to free the man the kidnappers demand as ransom--al-Qaeda mastermind, Mustafa Khan.
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c2013., Adult, Bond Street Books/Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Asl Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 'Love is not consolation, it is light.' This novel is set in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the months following 9/11 - a story of war, of one family's losses, and of the simplest, most enduring human impulses. Jeo and Mikal, foster-brothers from a small Pakistani city, secretly enter Afghanistan: not to fight with the Taliban, but to help and care for wounded civilians. But it soon becomes apparent that good intentions can't keep them out of harm's way. From the wilds of Afghanistan to the heart of the family left behind - their blind father haunted for years by the death of his wife, by the mistakes he may have made in the name of Islam and nationhood, Jeo's steadfast wife and her superstitious mother - Aslam's prose takes us on an extraordinary journey, which culminates in a dazzling final third, a sustained and visionary passage of storytelling.
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2001., Pre-adolescent, Douglas & McIntyre ; Distributed in the USA by Publishers Group West Call No: LLC Fic Ell Lev. 5-6 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Lifelong learning collectionSummary Note: Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest.
![The breadwinner [LLC]](/Library/images/~imageCT67293.JPG "The breadwinner [LLC]")
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c2011., Adult, Ballantine Books Call No: Fic Rod Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Sunny is an expat in Kabul who blissfully runs a coffee shop for other Americans in the country. When Yazmina, a pregnant young woman from a nearby village, is kidnapped and later abandoned near the coffee shop, Sunny instinctively comes to her aid. Candace, a wealthy American, also pitches in, while Isabel, a journalist, chronicles Yazmina's woe. Meanwhile, Halajan, a local mother, is reeling from a forbidden love affair.
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c2012., Adult, Linda Leith Pub. Call No: QWF Fic Mih Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A Canadian soldier serving in Kandahar falls for a woman on the cover of a magazine.
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2019., Simon & Schuster Paperbacks Call No: Fic Dem Edition: Simon & Schuster Canadian export edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When Captain Kyle Mercer of the Army's elite Delta Force disappeared from his post in Afghanistan, a video released by his Taliban captors made international headlines. But circumstances were murky: Did Mercer desert before he was captured? Then a second video sent to Mercer's Army commanders leaves no doubt: the trained assassin and keeper of classified Army intelligence has willfully disappeared. When Mercer is spotted two years later in Caracas, Venezuela by an old army buddy, top military brass task Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor of the Criminal Investigation Division fly to Venezuela and bring Mercer back to America, dead or alive. Brodie knows this is a difficult mission, made more difficult by his new partner's inexperience and by his suspicion that Maggie Taylor is reporting to the CIA.
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By Bose, Rana2019., Baraka Books of Montreal Call No: QWF Fic Bos Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A small plane was blown up in an act of sabotage over Northern Quebec, Canada. The incident was quickly analyzed and termed a mechanical failure. The case was closed in a rush. A young actor from Montreal dies in Afghanistan, killed by a missile from a drone. His death opens up wounds and discussions that are not in the public domain. These two seemingly disparate events form the backbone of a compelling contemporary "ideas thriller," set in Montreal's Main district and in the blue-green mountains of Kandahar. Past values, local history, neighborhood myths and intense psychosexual vectors are suddenly on a collision course with the current international context of wars, migration, exile, and terror. In the backdrop is the cold case of the airplane sabotage that occurred over a decade ago. Was the plane crash hushed-up? Why? Three friends from Montreal's Plateau and Mile End districts manage to de-freeze the cold case, burn up the fog, and hell breaks loose, not only in their personal lives, but in their own affiliations.
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-- The school2016., Adult, House of Anansi Press Call No: Fic Bec Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Kabul--10 years after 9/11: When a car bomb explodes in a crowded part of the city, a Japanese-American journalist is shocked to discover that the vehicle's passengers were acquaintances--three fellow ex-pats who had formed an unlikely love triangle. Alexandra was a Canadian human rights lawyer for imprisoned Afghan women. Justin was a born-again Christian from Louisiana who taught at a local school. Clay was an ex-soldier who worked as a private contractor. The car's driver, Idris, one of Justin's most promising pupils, is missing. Convinced the events that led to the fatal explosion weren't random, and curious to know more about what led each of them to Afghanistan, the journalist follows a trail from Kabul to Louisiana, Maine, Québec, and Dubai, determined to uncover why they were targeted and who is responsible."--From publisher.
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-- Ken Follett unabridged CD collection.2008., Brilliance Audio Call No: CD Fic Fol Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Lie down with lions: An American man, a French physician, and a English woman are terrorized by the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.
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2003., Simon & Schuster Audio Call No: CD Fic Hos Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.
![The kite runner [CD]](/Library/images/~imageCT71928.JPG "The kite runner [CD]")
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c2008, p2007., DreamWorks Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Kite Edition: Widescreen version. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. It's a glorious afternoon in Kabul and the skies are bursting with the exhilarating joy of a kite-fighting tournament. But in the aftermath of the day's victory, one boy's fearful act of betrayal will mark their lives forever and set in motion an epic quest for redemption. Now, after twenty years of living in America, Amir returns to a perilous Afghanistan under the Taliban's iron-fisted rule to face the secrets that still haunt him and take one last daring chance to set things right.
![The kite runner [DVD] (2007). Directed by Marc Forster.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "The kite runner [DVD] (2007). Directed by Marc Forster.")
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2015., Mira Books Call No: Fic Bel Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A moving and evocative exploration of grief and guilt in the wake of one family's devastating loss. When former DC journalist Abigail Wolff attempts to rehabilitate her career, she finds herself at the heart of a US army cover-up involving the death of a soldier in Afghanistan with unspeakable emotional consequences for one family. As the story of what happened comes to light, Abigail will do anything to write it.
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c2002., Juvenile, Douglas & McIntyre ; Distributed in the USA by Publishers Group West Call No: LLC Fic Ell Lev. 5-6 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Lifelong learning collectionSummary Note: Thirteen year-old Parvana and other Afghan children search the countryside for missing parents.
![Parvana's journey [LLC]](/Library/images/~imageCT67294.JPG "Parvana's journey [LLC]")
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2014., HarperCollins Call No: Fic Has Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Adopting the custom of bacha posh in 2007 Kabul, which allows her to dress and be treated as a boy, attend school and chaperone her sisters until she is of marriageable age, Rahima, the daughter of a drug-addicted father, discovers that she is not the first in her family to adopt this unusual custom.
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c2015., Adult, Anansi Call No: Fic She Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Three men race against time to take possession of a sacred 5,000-year-old Buddhist sculpture: Khalid, a leading Pakistani antiquities dealer, arranges for the illegal importation of the statue from neighbouring Afghanistan. Ghalib, a wealthy art collector with political aspirations, has purchased the statue for his private collection. Adeel, a highly recommended ex-military officer, is hired by Khalid to transport the sculpture to its final destination. When Adeel first views the statue in a cave in Bamiyan -- known as "the place of shining light" -- he has a profound spiritual reaction and decides to steal the sculpture for himself. When Khalid and Ghalib realize their prized possession is missing, they conspire to do whatever it takes to have it returned -- before it's lost forever.
