Shortlisted for the IODE Violet Downey Book Award and the Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, selected for the USBBY Outstanding International Book List, the CCBC Choices List, the Bank Street College of Education's Book of the Month...
Afghanistan
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Auteur:Ellis, DeborahSommaire: -
Auteur:Ellis, DeborahSommaire:The third book in the internationally-bestselling series that includes The Breadwinner, Mud City and My Name Is Parvana. Parvana’s best friend, Shauzia, has escaped the misery of her life in Kabul, only to end up in a refugee camp in...
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Auteur:Patterson, JamesSommaire:In Afghanistan, a US pilot is shot down during a covert mission. In New York, a mother is forced to flee with her two young children. Finding the connection between the two will lead the Private team right into a deadly trap. A wealthy...
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Henry Hayward is a drowning man. With a soured long-term romance finally at an end, no family, and no refuge to be had in work, he progressively spends his days in the solace of alcohol and his nights with a series of interchangeable...
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Auteur:Koofi, FawziaSommaire: -
Auteur:Ellis, DeborahSommaire:Joint winner of the South Asia Book Award, longlisted for the Children's Literature Roundtables of Canada Information Book Award, selected for the IRA Notable Books for a Global Society List, the Bankstreet College of Education's Best...
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Written under pseudonym to protect herself and her sources, McCord depicts sharing the love and truth of Christ with women living in Afghanistan. These stories are honest and true, and the harsh reality of their lives is not sugar-...
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Auteur:Fry, Ronald, Tuleja, TadSommaire:In 2003, Special Forces soldiers deployed in Afghanistan used the Afghan proverb: "I destroy my enemy by making him my friend," to become welcome guests rather than invaders. This book reveals how cultural respect was more than a match...
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Auteur:Coll, SteveSommaire:This 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning work details the secret history of the CIA's role in Afghanistan, the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of bin Laden, and America's efforts to find and assassinate him.
- Auteur:Riesen, LilaSommaire:
Afghan-American Mafi's sophomore year gets a whole lot more complicated when she accidentally exposes family secrets, putting her family back in Afghanistan in danger in this smartly written YA debut. Sixteen-year-old Mafi Shahin...
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Auteur:Ellis, DeborahSommaire:Parvana es una chica de once años que vive en Kabul, Afganistán, durante la época del gobierno de los talibanes. Cuando su padre es detenido, su familia –sin recursos para poder vivir-, buscará una solución desesperada: Parvana, que por...
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Auteur:Karle, VincentSommaire:When the new kid from Afghanistan is put in Martin’s class, Martin ridicules his clothes and nicknames him “Taliban.” But the two realize they have more in common than they thought, and unexpectedly become friends—until a brutal drug...
- Auteur:Mallet-Parent, JocelyneSommaire:
Survivant de l’enfer afghan, le journaliste Jonathan Dupuis rentre chez lui dévasté. Au terme d’une enquête intensive et d’un travail sur lui-même, il parvient à reconstituer les pans manquants de son histoire. On dit que le véritable...
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Auteur:Grossi, CraigSommaire:As part of an elite team of Marines, Craig Grossi was sent on his most dangerous assignment to the Sangin District of Afghanistan. He expected to face harsh conditions and violence from Taliban fighters. What he didn't expect was...
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Auteur:Crile, GeorgeSommaire:The untold story of the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam. Charlie Wilson, a maverick congressman from east Texas, conspired with a rogue CIA operative to launch the biggest, meanest, and most...
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Auteur:Michener, James A.Sommaire:First published in 1963, James A. Michener's gripping chronicle of the social and political landscape of Afghanistan is more relevant now than ever. Combining fact with riveting adventure and intrigue, Michener follows a military...
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Auteur:George, Isabel, Barrow, WillSommaire:Buster, an English springer spaniel who has served his comrades and his country with unstinting devotion, has saved thousands of lives. This is the story of his partnership with RAF Police Sergeant Will Barrow, told by Will himself,...
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Auteur:Shamsie, KamilaSommaire:Two years after her prospects are shattered by the bombing of Nagasaki, Hiroko Tanaka travels to Delhi in search of new beginnings and arrives in the home of her ex-fiance's half-sister, but she finds her circumstances halted by...
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Auteur:Off, CarolSommaire:Tells the story of a family's desperate attempts to escape Afghan warlords, Taliban oppression, and the persecutions of refugee life, in hopes that both their sons and their daughters could dare to dream of peace and opportunity. And...
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Auteur:Hosseini, KhaledSommaire:a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years-from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding-that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith of this country in...
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