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- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Biography, Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Turn of 21st Century
Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She dreamed of one day of becoming a journalist, she was interested in fashion, movies and friends. Her father was in the import/export business and her...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): N/A
She heard the woman’s boots walk away down the hall. She stood and waited, listening hard to see if the boots would come back. When she was sure she was alone, the girl finally spoke. ‘ Yes,’ she...
Pashtun Tales: From the Pakistan-Afghan Border
- Location(s): Afghanistan, Pakistan
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various centuries
These oral tales were collected in the tribal areas on the Pakistan-Afghan frontier, a region described as the last free place on earth. It was here that the caravan routes from Persia, India and China once converged. With their...
Robert Baden-Powell: A Biography – foreword by Bear Grylls OBE
- Location(s): Africa, Afghanistan, India, London
- Genre(s): Historical, Biography
- Era(s): 1857 to present day
Robert Baden-Powell was Britain’s first celebrity. A conflicted character – militarist and pacifist, macho man and drag artist, elitist and socialist – he was one of the 20th century’s most influential and, latterly, controversial Englishmen, finding fame not once,...
Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2006
**Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award 2021** **Winner of the Tata Literature Live First Book Award for Non-Fiction 2020** One of the first things I was told when I arrived in Kabul was never...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2001
In the summer of 2001, twelve year old Fadi’s parents make the difficult decision to illegally leave Afghanistan and move the family to the United States. When their underground transport arrives at the rendezvous point, chaos ensues, and Fadi...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1986 onwards
This is the new FOURTH EDITION of SIKANDER. Winner of the Grand Prizes in each of the 2010 Los Angeles Book Festival and the 2011 Paris Book Festival, SIKANDER is the tale of the son of a Pakistani middle-class...
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2001
In 2001, Kabul is a place of possibility as people fling off years of repressive Taliban rule. This hopeful chaos brings together American aid worker Liv Stoellner and Farida Basra, an educated Pakistani woman still adjusting to her arranged...
Silent Heroes: When Love and Values Are Worth Fighting for
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Political, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
How far would you go to save strangers in need? A platoon of Marines and their military working dogs, MWD, are about to find out. An educated woman makes the ultimate sacrifice to teach girls to read. She leaves...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1978
It’s the winter of 1978 in Kabul and all seems quiet. Habib Dhil is a member of the privileged elite of Afghanistan. As the head of a powerful manufacturing concern, he has wealth, education, opportunities to travel, and a...
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