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Author
Publisher
Salaam Reads, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This picture book introduces readers to nineteen powerhouse Muslim women who rose up and made their voices heard. Long ago, Muslim women rode into battle to defend their dreams. They opened the doors to the world's oldest library. They ruled, started movements, and spread knowledge. Today, Muslim women continue to make history. Once upon a time, they were children with dreams, just like you. Discover the true stories of nineteen unstoppable Muslim...
3) A burning
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a fiery attack on a train leaves 104 people dead, the fates of three people become inextricably entangled. Jivan, a bright, striving woman from the slums looking for a way out of poverty, is wrongly accused of planning the attack because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir, a slippery gym teacher from Jivan's former high school, has hitched his aspirations to a rising right wing party, and his own ascent becomes increasingly linked to...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"It's always been Malak, Kees, and Jenna against the world. Since childhood, under the watchful eyes of their parents, aunties and uncles, they've learned to live their own lives alongside the expectations of being good Muslim women...With growing older and the stakes of love and life growing higher, the delicate balancing act between rebellion and religion is becoming increasingly difficult to navigate. As their lives begin to take different paths,...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Bitter Orange Tree is a profound exploration of social status, wealth, desire, and female agency by Jokha Alharthi. It presents a mosaic portrait of one young woman's attempt to understand the roots she has grown from, and to envisage an adulthood in which her own power and happiness might find the freedom necessary to bear fruit and flourish. Zuhour, an Omani student at a British university, is caught between the past and the present. As she attempts...
6) Super famous
Author
Series
Ms. Marvel volume 5
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
She's your new favorite. She's everyone's new favorite. And now she's joining the big leagues. Look out world, Kamala Khan is an Avenger! But is she really cut out to be one of Earth's Mightiest Heroes? Saving the world is important, but Jersey City still needs its protector--and a development company that co-opted Ms. Marvel's face for its project has more in mind for gentrification than just real estate! Can Kamala take down the evil suits destroying...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Afia Satar is studious, modest, and devout. The young daughter of a landholding family in northern Pakistan, Afia has enrolled in an American college with the dream of returning to her country as a doctor. But when a photo surfaces online of Afia holding hands with an American boy, she is suddenly no longer safe --even from the family that cherishes her. Rising sports star Shahid Satar has been entrusted by his family to watch over Afia in this strange...
Author
Publisher
Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Ayesha Shamsi has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been set aside for a teaching job so she can pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle. She lives with her boisterous Muslim family and is always being reminded that her flighty younger cousin, Hafsa, is close to rejecting her one hundredth marriage proposal. Though Ayesha is lonely, she doesn't want an arranged marriage. Then she meets Khalid who is just as smart and handsome as he is...
Author
Series
Ms. Marvel volume 2
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The life of Kamala Khan and Ms. Marvel begin to bleed together when she teams up with Wolverine, meets the royal dog, Lockjaw, while battling the Inhumanity, and finds some unlikely allies while preparing to battle the Inventor.
10) No normal
Author
Series
Ms. Marvel volume 1
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Kamala Khan is an ordinary girl from Jersey City - until she's suddenly empowered with extraordinary gifts. But who truly is the new Ms. Marvel? Teenager? Muslim? Inhuman? Find out as she takes the Marvel Universe by storm!
11) Crushed
Author
Series
Ms. Marvel volume 3
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Kamala faces a new, terrifying threat: excessive feelings.
12) Last days
Author
Series
Ms. Marvel volume 4
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The guest appearance you've been waiting for: Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel face the end of the world side-by-side.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"When shot sring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud--a fellow architect--is caught in the cross fire and dies before she can confess her greatest secret to him. Now under threat from a powerful military intelligence officer, who demands that she pardon her husband's American killer, Nargis fears that the truth about her past will soon be exposed. For weeks someone has been broadcasting people's...
15) Shoreline
Author
Series
Nora Khalil volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Shoreline is the second suspense novel featuring FBI agent Nora Khalil by Carolyn Baugh, acclaimed author of The View from Garden City. "Compelling, important, and completely engrossing--it will change the way you look at the world."--Hank Phillippi Ryan, Mary Higgins Clark Award Winning author Officer Nora Khalil is a strong independent woman used to navigating different terrains. As an American-born Muslim, she loves her country and tries to honor...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Fatima al-Fihri loved to learn. She wanted to know everything, like how birds flew, why the sky was blue, and how flowers grew. But more than anything, she wanted a school for all, where anyone could study and become whatever they wanted, like teachers, scientists, and doctors. As she grew older, Fatima carried her one wish inside her, through good times and bad. Fueled by her faith and her determination, she worked hard to make her one wish come...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
To Leila Abid's traditional Indian parents, finding a husband is as easy as match, meet, marry. Yes, Leila wants to marry, but after 26 years of singledom her parents are panicking, the neighbors are talking, and she's wondering if her expectations are too high. She's looking for a Bollywood romance, where real love happens before marriage, not the other way around. After a series of speed dates, blind dates, online dates and even ambush dates, the...
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