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Arab American Heritage Month April 2022
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Abbott : 1973
by Saladin Ahmed GN AHM
Elena Abbott is one of Detroit's toughest reporters, who must now exhaust all her abilities as a reporter and a supernatural savior to rescue Detroit from dark forces trying to corrupt the city's most important election--but at what cost to her own life?
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I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir
by Malaka Gharib GN GHA
At once a coming-of-age story and a reminder of the thousands of immigrants who come to America in search for a better life for themselves and their children. The daughter of parents with unfulfilled dreams themselves, Malaka navigated her childhood chasing her parents' ideals, learning to code-switch between her family's Filipino and Egyptian customs, adapting to white culture to fit in, crushing on skater boys, and trying to understand the tension between holding onto cultural values and trying to be an all-American kid.
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Ms. Marvel : destined
by Saladin Ahmed GN YA F SPI
Ms. Marvel is back - and she's magnificent! But there's no such thing as business as usual in Jersey City. Aliens are wreaking havoc in Kamala's corner of the world, and they seem weirdly interested in Ms. Marvel...and her family! Kamala is about to face a devastating loss - but with an alien invasion ravaging her neighborhood, she's not going to have much time to grieve. Even if Kamala saves her hometown, will her life ever be the same? And what's all this business about a "Chosen One"? Eisner Award-winner Saladin Ahmed (BLACK BOLT, EXILES) and rising star Minkyu Jung take the reins of one of Marvel's most beloved new characters, with the shocking start of an all-new era!
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Mike Morales : straight out of Brooklyn
by Saladin Ahmed GN YA F SPI
Balancing a normal life with his superhero activities has never been easy for Miles Morales, but when the rampaging Rhino and a cadre of mysterious criminals start plaguing Brooklyn, things take an even darker turn for the young Spider-Man.
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Fencing with the king : a novel
by Diana Abu-Jaber F ABU
Amani discovers a poem on an airmail paper that slipped out of one of her father's books, and becomes determined to learn more about its author, her grandmother, who arrived in Jordan during World War I.
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An Unnecessary Woman
by Rabih Alameddine F ALA
An obsessive introvert in Beirut, eschewed by her family and neighbors for her divorced status and lack of religious reverence, quietly translates favorite books into Arabic while struggling with her aging body until an unthinkable disaster threatens what little life remains to her.
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The wrong end of the telescope
by Rabih Alameddine F ALA
A novel from the National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woman is about an Arab American trans woman's journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island.
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Salt houses
by Hala Alyan F ALY
Foreseeing blessings and troubles in the lives of her daughter and grandchildren, Salma endures hardships stemming from the Six-Day War of 1967 in Palestine before rebuilding in Kuwait, before the family is scattered by Saddam Hussein's regime.
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Bunny
by Mona Awad F AWA
Invited to join a popular clique at her university, a misfit artist with a dark imagination is drawn into ritualistic activities that transform her perspectives on reality.
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13 ways of looking at a fat girl : A Novel
by Mona Awad F AWA
Follows Lizzie, a young woman growing up in Mississauga, as she fights her way from fat to thin, but who still, even as a married adult woman, sees herself as a fat girl.
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Sparks like stars : a novel
by Nadia Hashimi F HAS
Adopted from Afghanistan 40 years earlier by an American diplomat in the aftermath of a coup and assassination, Aryana has a chance encounter with the soldier who saved her life and killed her family.
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The thirty names of night : a novel
by Zeyn Joukhadar F JOU
Follows three generations of Syrian Americans who are linked by a mysterious species of bird and the truths they carry close to their hearts. By the author of The Map of Salt and Stars.
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The other Americans
by Laila Lalami F LAL
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of The Moor's Account--a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, all of it informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture. Nora Guerraoui, a jazz composer, returns home to a small town in the Mojave after hearing that her father, owner of a popular restaurant there, has been killed in a suspicious hit-and-run car accident. Told by multiple narrators--Nora herself, Jeremy (the Iraq war veteran with whom she develops an intimacy), widow Maryam, Efrain (an immigrant witness to the accident who refuses to get involved for fear of deportation), Coleman (the police investigator), and Driss (the dead man himself), The Other Americans deftly explores one family's secrets and hypocrisies even as it offers a portrait of Americans driven by race, class, and religion, living side by side, yet ignorant of the vicissitudes that each tribe, as it were, faces.
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The burning girl : a novel
by 1966- Messud, Claire F MES
Two lifelong friends find their relationship tested as their paths diverge during adolescence as one of the pair embarks on a dangerous journey. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor’s Children.
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The woman upstairs
by Claire Messud F MES
Relegated to the status of schoolteacher and friendly neighbor after abandoning her dreams of becoming an artist, Nora advocates on behalf of a charismatic Lebanese student and is drawn into the child's family until his artist mother's careless ambition leads to a shattering betrayal.
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The beauty of your face : a novel
by Sahar Mustafah F MUS
Enduring the harrowing minutes of a shooting attack on her school by a radicalized assailant, a school principal and daughter of Palestinian immigrants experiences flashbacks about the bigotry she faced as a child and the disappearance of an older sister.
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A woman is no man : a novel
by Etaf Rum F RUM
Three generations of Palestinian-American women in contemporary Brooklyn are torn by individual desire, educational ambitions, a devastating tragedy, and the strict mores of traditional Arab culture
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A month in Siena
by 1970- Matar, Hisham 823.92 MAT
After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always finding comfort and clarity in great art, Matar immersed himself in eight significant works from the Sienese School of painting, which flourished from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Artists whom he had admired throughout his life, such as Duccio and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, evoke earlier engagements he has had with works by Caravaggio and Poussin, and the personal experiences that surrounded those moments. Complete with gorgeous full-color reproductions of the artworks, A Month in Siena is about what occurred between Matar, those paintings, and the city. That month would be an extraordinary period in Matar's life: an exploration of how art can console and disturb in equal measure, as well as an intimate encounter with the city and its inhabitants. This is a gorgeous meditation on how centuries-old art can illuminate our own inner landscape--current relationships, long-lasting love, grief, intimacy, and solitude--and shed further light on the present world around us.
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Love is an ex-country : a memoir
by Randa Jarrar B JARRAR
A gay, Muslim, overweight, Arab-American woman describes her road trip from California to Connecticut to reclaim her autonomy and explore everything she has survived in life, schooling a rest-stop racist and destroying Confederate flags in the desert along the way.
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Everything comes next : collected and new poems
by Naomi Shihab Nye 811.54 NYE
A celebratory collection by the current Young People’s Poet Laureate complements a selection of her most popular and accessible poems from the past 40 years with several previously unpublished pieces as well as writing tips and striking interior spot art.
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Cast away : poems for our time
by Naomi Shihab Nye 811.54 NYE
The Young People’s Poet Laureate and author of Voices in the Air illuminates the impact of what is thrown away in the world, from plastic water bottles to refugees, while related back matter shares ideas for writing, recycling and reclaiming.
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