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1) Amal unbound
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Pakistan, Amal holds onto her dream of being a teacher even after becoming an indentured servant to pay off her family's debt to the wealthy and corrupt Khan family.
Author
Series
Cotton Malone volume Book 6
Language
English
Description
Former government operative Cotton Malone teams with old heartthrob Cassiopeia Vitt on a dangerous mission to retrieve a priceless Chinese lamp from the third century B.C.E.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Someone in Pakistan is killing the members of a new CIA intelligence unit that is trying to buy peace with America's enemies. It falls to Sophie Marx, a young CIA officer with a big chip on her shoulder, to figure out who's doing the killing and why.
5) The edge
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to participate in an "International Peace Ascent" in the Hindu Kush, with a team made up of under-eighteen-year-old climbers from around the world--but from the first something seems wrong, so when the group is attacked, and most of the climbers are either killed or kidnapped, Peak finds himself caught up in a struggle to survive, shadowed by the Shen, a mysterious snow leopard.
Author
Series
Dewey Andreas volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Wanting only a peaceful, obscure life, Dewey Andreas has gone to rural Australia, far from turbulent forces that he once fought against. But powerful men, seeking revenge, have been scouring the earth looking for Dewey. And now, they've finally found him -- forcing Dewey to abandon his home and to fight for his life against a very well-armed, well-trained group of assassins. Meanwhile, a radical cleric has been elected president of Pakistan and,...
7) Tomb of sand
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life. Her determination to fly in the face of convention, including striking up a friendship with a hijra (trans) woman, confuses her bohemian daughter, who is used to thinking of herself as the more "modern" of the two. At the older woman's insistence they travel back to Pakistan, simultaneously confronting the unresolved trauma...
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