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Cultural Calendar Book Recommendations
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Free radicals
by Lila Riesen
Afghan American Mafi's sophomore year gets complicated as family secrets are exposed, putting her family back in Afghanistan in danger.
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Almost surely dead
by Amina Akhtar
A successful pharmacist living in New York is dealing with the death of her mother and a broken engagement when someone tries to murder her repeatedly and she unwittingly becomes the subject of a true crime podcast.
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The partition project
by Saadia Faruqi
When her grandmother comes off the airplane in Houston from Pakistan, Mahnoor knows that having Dadi move in is going to disrupt everything about her life. She doesn't have time to be Dadi's unofficial babysitter: her journalism teacher has announced that their big assignment will be to film a documentary, which feels more like storytelling than what Maha would call 'journalism.' As Dadi starts to settle into life in Houston and Maha scrambles for a subject for her documentary, the two of them start talking--about Dadi's childhood in northern India, and about the Partition that forced her to leave her home and relocate to the newly created Pakistan.
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Ramadan and Eid Al-Fitr
by Sara Khan
Children can follow Raya, her Mama and Aba as they celebrate Ramadan by enjoying Iftar, baking cookies, doing good deeds around their community and visiting the mosque, in this celebratory, inclusive and educational book that features a fun‘factivity' section. Illustrations.
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The Passover guest
by Susan Kusel
In Washington, D.C., during the Great Depression, Muriel and her family have no money to prepare the seder meal until a mysterious stranger performs a Passover miracle. Includes notes on the Passover holiday, the Great Depression, and the history of the D.C. Jewish community
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Innovation : an unofficial guide with words of wisdom from 100 TED speakers
by Neil C. Hughes
Become more innovative by applying the ideas of 100 prominent TED Conference speakers to your own life. Features words of wisdom from 100 speakers and condenses their ideas into accessible advice for becoming more innovative in how you approach and organize your life. Included in each section are URLs directing readers to the TED website so they can watch the original videos in their entirety
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