Jeed Saddy
1) Grounded
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Arab American Heritage Month (WPLD)
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The Power of Friendship!
OBD Arab American Heritage Month (April) - YOUTH
The Power of Friendship!
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Told in alternating points of view, at Hurston Airport, four unlikely kids' lives are changed forever when their flight is grounded by weather following a Muslim convention.
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Diversity Awareness Month - Teen
Disability Pride (kids and teens)
OBD Celebrate Deaf Culture & Inclusion - YOUTH
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Disability Pride (kids and teens)
OBD Celebrate Deaf Culture & Inclusion - YOUTH
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"When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural. Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up with a one-way ticket to a "mainstream" school in the suburbs, where she's treated like an outcast as the only deaf student. The last thing she has left is her art, and not even Banksy...
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The haunting story of a family of dreamers and tale-tellers looking for home in an unwelcoming world. Traces one girl's migration from war to peace, loss to loss, home to home. Firuzeh and her brother Nour are children of fire, born in an Afghanistan fractured by war. When their parents, their Atay and Abay, decide to leave, they spin fairy tales of their destination, the mythical land and opportunities of Australia. As the family journeys from Pakistan...
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Adult - Arab American Heritage Month
HPL Arab American Heritage Month 2026
OBD Love is in the Air - Adult
OBD Patron Picks Summer Reading 2025 - Adult
HPL Arab American Heritage Month 2026
OBD Love is in the Air - Adult
OBD Patron Picks Summer Reading 2025 - Adult
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"A candid, heartfelt love story set in contemporary California that challenges the idea of what it means to be American, liberated, and in love"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Ida, a Palestinian-American girl, eats a magic olive that takes her to the life she might have had in her parents' village near Jerusalem. An important coming of age story that explores identity, place, voice, and belonging."-- Page 1.
"Every time violence erupts in the Middle East, Ida knows what's coming next. Some of her classmates treat her like it's all her fault -- just for being Palestinian! In eighth grade, Ida is forced to move to a different...
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"A lucid exploration of amnesia, selfhood, and who is left behind when the past is obliterated. Tara Sidhoo Fraser is thirty-one years old when a rare mutation in her brain causes a stroke. Awakening after surgery with no memory of her previous life, she attempts to piece it all back together through a haze of amnesia. Yet, as memories do begin to surface, they are seen through someone else's eyes - the person whose body she stole, whom she calls...
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All of Mumbai's possessions and memories come to die at the Deonar garbage mountains. Towering at the outskirts of the city, the mountains are covered in a faint smog from trash fires. Over time, as wealth brought Bollywood knock offs, fast food and plastics to Mumbaikars, a small, forgotten community of migrants and rag-pickers came to live at the mountains' edge, making a living by re-using, recycling and re-selling. Among them is Farzana Ali Shaikh,...
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"Disillusioned by narrow theology and constricted dogma, people are leaving Christianity in droves. But Jesus describes the reign of God as a house with many rooms. What if there are nooks and crannies of faith we have yet to explore? In A Faith of Many Rooms, Debie Thomas claims that the space where God dwells is expansive and full of belonging"-- Provided by publisher.
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Wrath of Ambar volume 2
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"Gul and Cavas must unite their magical forces--and hold onto their growing romance--to save their kingdom from tyranny"-- Provided by publisher.
In the concluding installment to the Wrath of Ambar duology from masterful author Tanaz Bhathena, Gul and Cavas must unite their magical forces-and hold onto their growing romance-to save their kingdom from tyranny. With King Lohar dead and a usurper queen in power, Gul and Cavas face a new tyrannical government...
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When a woman--known only as Mother--moves her family from Atlanta to its wealthy suburbs, she discovers that neither the times nor the people have changed since her childhood in a small Southern town. Despite the intervening decades, Mother is met with the same questions: Where are you from? No, where are you really from? The American-born daughter of Bengali immigrants, she finds that her answer-- Here --is never enough. Mother's simmering anger...
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"The Partition of India in 1947 promised its people both political and religious freedom - through the liberation of India from British rule and the creation of the Muslim state of Pakistan. Instead, the geographical divide brought displacement and death, and benefited the few at the expense of the very many." "Yasmin Khan examines the context, execution and aftermath of Partition, weaving together local politics and ordinary lives with the largo...
15) Control freaks
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"The kids at Benjamin Banneker College Prep are a little... competitive. Okay. They're a LOT competitive. The minute Principal Yee announces an epic competition for the golden B-B trophy, seventh-grader Frederick Douglass Zezzmer knows he has to win. But it won't be easy. The competition doesn't just include science, technology, engineering and math. It also has arts and sports. Not Doug's best subjects... With only a week to go, Doug launches a quest...
16) Two Christmases
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"When city meets country, finding the perfect Christmas will mean finding common ground. Don't miss this charming opposites-attract holiday romance! There's no place like New York City for the holidays...At least, according to Sonia Gupta. If only she could get South Carolina farmer Beau Abbot to agree. Convincing him to use her family's art auction house to outfit his new business is turning out to be a hard sell -- and keeping things professional...
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In the rural town in Pakistan where Baadal grows up, children are named like talismans to sustain life and ward off unhappiness. At seventeen, Baadal has come to understand why his parents gave him that name, with hopes that their Big River will one day flow wide again, and their thirst will be quenched after years of drought. But in the final year of his schooling, abundance seems impossibly far away. As his parents' marriage--full of rage, despair,...
18) Two houses
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"If there's one thing Priya Gupta wants, it's to land the collection of the year for her family's NYC auction house and gain the approval of her father in the process. Running an extremely close second? For a very small sinkhole to open up under the feet of Gavin Carlyle, her childhood rival turned auction house competitor, so she never has to see his smug, irritatingly handsome face again. Neither of those options seems likely, especially since Gavin...
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Three years into her arranged marriage, Tara moves from India to Atlanta to live with her husband, Sanjay. As she begins to establish herself in the American south, Sanjay becomes violent. She has no support from her family so she must choose to be a silent, battered wife for the sake of appearances or to define and liberate herself.
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"A comprehensive guide to understanding and accessing the Akasha and exploring how ancient wisdom can be integrated into modern life to awaken inner potential as well as foster spiritual growth, self-improvement, and an expansion of your understanding of the world. The Akasha is essentially the energetic field that contains everything-every thought, action, emotion, memory, and experience. Imagine it as the universe's hard drive, where every bit of...








