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The Wind in my hair

my fight for freedom in modern Iran
2018
"A . . . memoir from an Iranian journalist in exile about leaving her country, challenging tradition, and sparking an online movement against compulsory hijab"--Dust jacket.
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My grandma and me

2019
The author recounts special moments with her grandmother while growing up in Iran.
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Darius the Great is not okay

2019
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.
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Dragon teeth

Shadow squadron ;
2016
Lieutenant Commander Ryan Cross and his Shadow Squadron are assigned to extract a rogue CIA agent from Iran, but the agent claims he had to sever communications in order to complete his mission to create discord between two separate terrorist groups--and he wants the Shadow Squardron to help him.
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Not without my daughter

Betty Mahmoody, married to an Iranian national, is forced to stay in Iran unless she abandons her daughter.

Darius the Great is not okay

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.

Long shot

the inside story of the snipers who broke ISIS
2019
Tells the story of author Azad Cudi, a journalist from Kurdistan who volunteered as a sniper in the fight against ISIS.

Disoriental

2018
"Kimi? Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in 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, Kimi? 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 her formidable great-grandfather Montazemolmolk, with his harem of fifty-two wives, and her parents, Darius and Sara, stalwart opponents of each regime that befalls them"--Amazon.

Taking cover

one girl's story of growing up during the Iranian Revolution
"This coming-of-age memoir, set during the Iranian Revolution, tells the true story of a young girl who moves to Tehran from the U.S. and has to adjust to living in a new country, learning a new language, and starting a new school during one of the most turbulent periods in Iran's history"--Amazon.
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Taking cover

one girl's story of growing up during the Iranian Revolution
In 1979, eight-year-old Nioucha Homayoonfar moved from the United States to Tehran with her family and had to adjust to a new life and culture---during the turbulent Iranian Revolution.
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