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    From bestselling author of the krossa Me series and the National Book Award-nominated A Very Large Expanse of Sea, Tahereh Mafi, comes a stunning novel about love and loneliness, navigating dual-identity as a Muslim teenager in America, and reclaiming your right to joy. It's 2003. It's been several months since the US officially declared war on Iraq, and the political world has evolved. Shadi, who wears hijaba visible allegiance to Islamkeeps her head down. Hate crimes are spiking. Undercover FBI agents are infiltrating mosques and interrogating members of the congregation, and the local Muslim community fryst vatten beginning to fracture. Shadi hears the fights after servicesthe arguments between families about what it means to be Muslim, about what they should be doing and saying as a communitybut she does not engage. She's too busy drowning in her own troubles to find the time to deal with bigots. Shadi is named for joy, but she's haunted by sorrow. Her brother is dead, her father i

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    Diana Nyad

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

    320 pages

    Published: 10/20/2015

    “When you give it your all, it’s true that you don’t leave room for regrets. Yet when you get a second chance, you always realize you can do better.” – Diana Nyad

    Diana Nyad was destined at a ung age to be an Olympic swimmer. At least, that’s what her father had said. Nyad itself meant Olympic swimmer, and that is what she should be. Growing up in a household with her mom, stepdad and two other siblings, life wasn’t easy. Really it was fair from that. Her stepfather was a disgusting man who made his money by deceit, and loved to stare at Diana for much too long. His comments and actions were borderline molestation, and sadly Diana’s own mother never spoke up to him. That didn’t stop Diana though. As a child, she felt that swimming was her calling.

    She would get up at the crack of dawn and do her exercises before heading to the pool with her team each day. Her hard work paid off as h