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• Detective Aunty

  a Novel

  Jalaluddin, Uzma,

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  When her grown daughter is suspected of murder, a charming and tenacious widow digs into the case to unmask the real killer.

• Nothing Good Happens in Wazirabad on Wednesday

  a Novel

  Aram, Jamaluddin

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  To find peace in a time of war seems utterly impossible, but the citizens in Wazirabad somehow make it work. A bunch of break-and-enters, a stolen dog, stolen ammunition, horrible violence surrounding a widow, along with colourful rumours, put the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brown Boy

  a Memoir

  Aziz, Omer,

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  The story of a Pakistani Canadian who rose from one of the most dangerous neighbourhoods in Toronto to become a foreign policy adviser for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

• The Red One

  Fazlul, Safia,

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  A novel that explores the topics of marriage, sexual abuse, and gender expectations in the setting of a tight-knit South Asian community in Canada.

• Praying to the West

  How Muslims Shaped the Americas

  Mouallem, Omar, 1985-

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  Journalist Omar Mouallem travels to thirteen remarkable mosques and discovers the surprising history of their communities. But what he finds also challenges his own long-held personal beliefs, and even his sense of identity.

• Love From Mecca to Medina

  Ali, S. K.,

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  Adam and Zayneb embark on the Umrah, a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, in Saudi Arabia, but as one wedge after another drives them apart while they perform the rites in the holy city, Adam and Zayneb start to wonder if their meeting was just an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Road of the Lost

  Azad, Nafiza

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  Enchanted to forget her true heritage, Croi, a brownie who has been glamoured to be invisible to humans, is summoned to the Otherworld, where she travels a perilous path to find out who she really is and where she belongs.

• We Have Always Been Here

  a Queer Muslim Memoir

  Habib, Samar,

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  As an Ahmadi Muslim growing up in Pakistan, she faced regular threats from Islamic extremists who believed the small, dynamic sect to be blasphemous. When her family came to Canada as refugees, Samra encountered a whole new host of challenges:…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

  Katouh, Zoulfa

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  Eighteen-year-old Salama Kassab, a pharmacy student volunteering at the hospital in Homs, is desperate to find passage on a refugee boat for herself and her pregnant best friend, but first she must learn to see the events around her for what they…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Muslimah Who Fell to Earth

  Personal Stories by Canadian Muslim Women

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  A collection of twenty-one personal stories by Muslim Canadian women on what it means to them to be Muslim women and Canadian.

• What Strange Paradise

  El Akkad, Omar, 1982-

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  Looking at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child, this dramatic story follows Vanna, who comes to the rescue of a 9-year-old Syrian boy who has washed up on the shores of her small island and is determined to do whatever it takes to…Read moreRead more of this annotation