Nowruz/Persian New Year

Darius the Great Deserves Better By Adib Khorram Cover Image
$10.99
ISBN: 9780593108253
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Published: Dial Books - August 24th, 2021

In this companion to the award-winning Darius the Great Is Not Okay, Darius suddenly has it all: a boyfriend, an internship, a spot on the soccer team. It's everything he's ever wanted--but what if he deserves better?


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Gold By Rumi, Haleh Liza Gafori (Translated by), Haleh Liza Gafori (Editor) Cover Image
By Rumi, Haleh Liza Gafori (Translated by), Haleh Liza Gafori (Editor)
$14.95
ISBN: 9781681375335
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Published: NYRB Classics - March 8th, 2022

A vibrant selection of poems by the great Persian mystic with groundbreaking translations by an American poet of Persian descent.


Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems By Forough Farrokhzad, Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr (Translated by) Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9780811231657
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Published: New Directions - April 5th, 2022

A ravishing new translation of Iran’s trailblazing, feminist poet in an indispensable collection


Baba's Gift: A Persian Father's Love of Family By Ariana Shaheen Amini, Christina Maheen Amini, Elaheh Taherian (Illustrator) Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781632173232
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Published: Little Bigfoot - February 7th, 2023

Baba's Gift is a radiant celebration of a Persian father's love of family, from his boyhood in Iran to his new life in America.


In the Time of Our History: A Novel of Riveting and Evocative Fiction By Susanne Pari Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781496739261
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Published: A John Scognamiglio Book - January 3rd, 2023

“Beautifully written. . . . I’m still thinking about the women who inhabited these pages, the choices they made, and the love between them.” –Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women


Girl, Serpent, Thorn By Melissa Bashardoust Cover Image
$12.99
ISBN: 9781250196163
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Published: Flatiron Books - January 10th, 2023

Melissa Bashardoust's Girl, Serpent, Thorn is “an alluring feminist fairy tale” (Kirkus) about a girl cursed to be poisonous to the touch and who discovers what power might lie in such a curse.


Jasmine Zumideh Needs a Win: A Novel By Susan Azim Boyer Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781250833686
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Published: Wednesday Books - November 1st, 2022

Most Anticipated YA by Buzzfeed, BookRiot, Epic Reads, Publishers Weekly, and more!

A fresh spin on the cult-classic Election meets Darius the Great Is Not Okay in Jasmine Zumideh Needs a Win when an international incident crashes into a high school election, and Jasmine is caught between doing the right thing and chasing her dream.


Persiana Everyday By Sabrina Ghayour Cover Image
$34.99
ISBN: 9781783255146
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Published: Aster - October 4th, 2022

The long-awaited follow-up to the award-winning international bestseller Persiana

The all-new collection of more than 100 fuss-free, crowd-pleasing recipes for everyday eating from the author of the award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling cookbook Persiana.


Bottom of the Pot: Persian Recipes and Stories By Naz Deravian Cover Image
$37.50
ISBN: 9781250134417
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Published: Flatiron Books - September 18th, 2018

Winner of the IACP 2019 First Book Award presented by The Julia Child Foundation


The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree By Shokoofeh Azar Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781609455651
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Published: Europa Editions - January 7th, 2020

LONGLISTED for the 2021 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE
LONGLISTED for the 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for Translated Literature
FINALIST for the 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE


Call Me Zebra By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi Cover Image
$14.99
ISBN: 9781328505866
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Published: Mariner Books - February 5th, 2019

Widely praised and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction among other mentions, Call Me Zebra follows a feisty heroine's idiosyncratic quest to reclaim her past by mining the wisdom of her literary icons — even as she navigates the murkier myseteries of love.

Named a Best Book by: Entertainment Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, Boston Globe, Fodor's, Fast Company, Refine


Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card By Sara Saedi Cover Image
$10.99
ISBN: 9781524717827
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Published: Ember - March 26th, 2019

In development as a television series from Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine production company and ABC Studios!


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Calling a Wolf a Wolf By Kaveh Akbar Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781938584671
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Published: Alice James Books - September 12th, 2017

The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rarely recorded with such sustained eloquence and passion as you will find in this collection. --Fanny Howe


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Customs: Poems By Solmaz Sharif Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781644450796
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Published: Graywolf Press - March 1st, 2022

Finalist for the 2023 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Finalist for the 2022 L.A. Times Book Prize for Poetry
Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award