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Author
Series
Darius the Great volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
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
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 20
Language
English
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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...
4) Iran
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Explores the history, geography, wildlife, government, economy, religion, culture, and people of Iran, including the most current facts and statistics that relate to Iran.
Author
Language
English
Description
In her first work of nonfiction, winner of the 2018 UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize Dina Nayeri--an author whose "exploration of the exile's predicament is tender and urgent" (The New Yorker)--examines what it means to be a refugee through her own story of childhood escape from Iran, and through the stories of other refugees and asylum seekers.
What is it like to be a refugee? It is a question many of us do not give much thought to, and...
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Set in Iran, this extraordinary debut novel takes readers into the everyday lives of the Kurds. Leila dreams of making films to bring the suppressed stories of her people onto the global stage, but obstacles keep piling up. Leila?s younger brother Chia, influenced by their father?s past torture, imprisonment, and his deep-seated desire for justice, begins to engage with social and political affairs. But his activism grows increasingly risky and one...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relates the true account of the 1979 rescue of six American hostages from Iran. Armed with foreign film visas, Antonio Mendez and a team of CIA agents and Hollywood insiders, directors, producers and actors traveled to Tehran under the guise of scouting locations for a fake film called Argo. While pretending to find the perfect scenery and backdrops, the team succeeded in contacting the escapees and smuggling them out of Iran without a single shot...
Series
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
c1990, [2004]
Language
Persian
Description
The story of Hamid Hamoun, an executive in a large import-export business, who also works as a part-time English instructor. He feels alienated from Iranian society, bound by its conventions yet unwilling to abide by its rigid laws. His wife wants to divorce him but is unable to do so under Islamic law. In this film, husband and wife struggle to find their own solid ground.
Author
Publisher
Curbstone Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Identical twins Ruzbeh and Behruz live in a small town in southern Iran. Their idyll is shattered by personal and geopolitical events. Both boys fall in love with Shireen, a childhood friend. Behruz goes to America to escape the pain of competing for Shireen's affections. Ruzbeh fights in the Iran-Iraq War and ends up alone and wandering the streets. When Behruz returns to Iran to help his shell-shocked brother, he finds a country devastated by revolution...
10) The disciple
Author
Series
Tommy Carmellini novels volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Iran is weeks away from acquiring nuclear weapons and has every intention of using them to strike first-- only Tommy Carmellini and Jake Grafton can stop a nuclear nightmare.
Author
Language
English
Description
"As a child living in his family's apple orchard, Ahmad Torkash-Vand treasures his great-great-great-great grandfather's every mesmerizing word. On the day of his father's death, Ahmad listens closely as the seemingly immortal elder tells him the tale of a centuries-old family curse . . . and the boy's own fated role in the story. Ahmad grows up to suspect that something unseen must be interfering with his family, as he struggles to hold them together...
12) Beast
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Elaborates on the tale of "Beauty and the Beast," told from the point of view of the beast and set in Persia.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • We all have dreams—things we fantasize about doing and generally never get 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, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had...
For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had...
15) Moon brow
Author
Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Before shrapnel severed his left arm during the Iran-Iraq war, Amir Khan lived the life of a carefree playboy. Five years later, his mother and sister Reyhaneh find him in mental hospital for shell-shocked soldiers and bring him home to Tehran. His memories decimated, Amir is haunted by the vision of a mysterious woman he believes is his fiancee. Wildly inventive and radically empathetic, steeped in Persian folklore and contemporary Middle East history,...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the style of Alan Furst, this suspenseful thriller - based on real events - places an idealistic American diplomat in a turbulent, US-hating Tehran in the days leading up to the Iranian Revolution. Backed by the CIA, and trailed by a beautiful and engaging French journalist he suspects is a spy, David Weiseman's mission is to ease the Shah of Iran out of power and find the best alternative between the military, religious extremists, and the political...
20) Mystery bottle
Author
Publisher
Crocodile Books, and imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When a boy in Brooklyn opens a mysterious bottle he received from Iran, a gust of wind suddenly blows him over the oceans and mountains, straight into the arms of his grandfather, and despite being separated by politics and geography, the boy and his Baba Bazorg share the bond of their love.
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