pakistan

Presents a biography of young Malala Yousafzai, a teenage Pakistani girl who has become an activist for women's education in her country.

Eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, and must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes.

An unexpected death brings Shabanu's daughter, Mumtaz, and nephew, Jameel, both aged fifteen, to the forefront of an attempt to modernize Pakistan, but the teens must both sacrifice their own dreams if they are to meet family and tribal expectations.

Adapts for young readers Greg Mortenson's book in which he recounts the experiences he had while trying to help impoverished villages in Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya build schools for their children.

Documents the conversion of Jewish suburbanite Margaret Marcus to Maryam Jameelah, drawing on personal correspondence and the author's investigation into Maryam's adoptive father to resolve questions about the legitimacy and significance of her decision.

Autobiographical reminiscences of the Indian spy.

When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday October 9, 2012, she almost paid the ultimate price.

In the summer of 1947, a train full of dead Sikhs stirs up a battlefield in the peaceful atmosphere of love and loyalty between the Muslims and the Sikhs in a village on the frontier between India and Pakistan.

A collection of linked stories about the lives of landowners and their retainers on the Gurmani family farm in the countryside outside of Lahore, Pakistan.

Nineteen-year-old North Carolina surfer and skateboarder John Jude Parish, having been introduced to Islam and Arab literature by a young Brooklyn woman, defers his entrance into Brown University to move to New York, where he studies classical Arabic and meets a Pakistani man who convinces him to travel abroad to further understand Muslim culture, which results in John moving closer to becoming radicalized.