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[2013]., Riverhead Books Call No: Historical FIC Hosseini Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1950s Afghanistan, Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their poor father, Saboor, in a small village. Saboor sells Pari to a wealthy childless couple with the help of his brother-in-law Nabi who works for them. These actions impact the lives of everyone involved for years to come as a grieving Abdullah immigrates to America and names his daughter Pari, Pari grows up alone in Paris, and Nabi feels guilty until his death when he tries to tell the truth.
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2013., Riverhead Books Call No: Class Set FIC HOS Availability:50 of 50 At Location(s) Summary Note: Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Adbullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was named, is everything.
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-- & the mountains echoed2013., Riverhead Books Call No: 813 .6 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In 1952 Afghanistan, Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters"--Provided by OCLC.
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-- & the mountains echoed2013., Riverhead Books Call No: YOUNG ADULT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In 1952 Afghanistan, Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters"--Provided by OCLC.
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2013., Salamandra Call No: Young adult FIC Hosseini Edition: 19a edición. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Obsesionado por demostrarle a su padre que ya es todo un hombre, Amir se propone ganar la competición anual de cometas. Amir se aprovecha de la fidelidad sin lÃmites de su amigo, Hassan, y comete una traición que los separará de forma definitiva.
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2010, c2003., Salamandra Call No: [Fic] Edition: 12a. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Amir, the son of a wealthy businessman, and Hassan, the son of a servant in Amir's household, grow up in Kabul on the eve of the Soviet invasion; however, ethnic, religious, and political tensions tear the country as well as the boys' relationship apart.
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2008., General, DreamWorks Call No: DVD FIC KIT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. It's a glorious afternoon in Kabul and the skies are bursting with the exhilarating joy of a kite-fighting tournament. But in the aftermath of the day's victory, one boy's fearful act of betrayal will mark their lives forever and set in motion an epic quest for redemption. Now, after twenty years of living in America, Amir returns to a perilous Afghanistan under the Taliban's iron-fisted rule to face the secrets that still haunt him and take one last daring chance to set things right.
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2003., Riverhead Books Call No: 813 .6 Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Amir, haunted by his betrayal of Hassan, the son of his father's servant and a childhood friend, returns to Kabul as an adult after he learns Hassan has been killed, in an attempt to redeem himself by rescuing Hassan's son from a life of slavery to a Taliban official.
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2003, Riverhead Books Call No: 813 .6 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Amir, haunted by his betrayal of Hassan, the son of his father's servant and a childhood friend, returns to Kabul as an adult after he learns Hassan has been killed, in an attempt to redeem himself by rescuing Hassan's son from a life of slavery to a Taliban official.
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2003., Riverhead Books Call No: Young adult FIC HOSSEINI Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: Amir, haunted by his betrayal of Hassan, the son of his father's servant and a childhood friend, returns to Kabul as an adult after he learns Hassan has been killed, in an attempt to redeem himself by rescuing Hassan's son from a life of slavery to a Taliban official.
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p2004., Recorded Books Call No: PA FIC HOSSEINI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Hosseini's debut novel opens in Kabul in the mid-1970s. Amir is the son of a wealthy man, but his best friend is Hassan, the son of one of his father's servants. His father encourages the friendship and dotes on Hassan, who worships the ground Amir walks on. But Amir is envious of Hassan and his own father's apparent affection for the boy. Amir is not nearly as loyal to Hassan, and one day, when he comes across a group of local bullies raping Hassan, he does nothing. Shamed by his own inaction, Amir pushes Hassan away, even going so far as to accuse him of stealing. Eventually, Hassan and his father are forced to leave. Years later, Amir, now living in America, receives a visit from an old family friend who gives him an opportunity to make amends for his treatment of Hassan.
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p2003., 120000, Simon & Schuster Audio Call No: RB FIC HOSSEINI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, "The Kite Runner" is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan nonetheless grow up in different worlds: Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant, is a Hazara - a shunned ethnic minority. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him.
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2004, c2003., Riverhead Books Call No: YOUNG ADULT Edition: 1st Riverhead trade Availability:1 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Amir, haunted by his betrayal of Hassan, the son of his father's servant and a childhood friend, returns to Kabul as an adult after he learns Hassan has been killed, in an attempt to redeem himself by rescuing Hassan's son from a life of slavery to a Taliban official.
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2003., Riverhead Books Call No: Class Set FIC HOS Availability:109 of 109 At Location(s)Click here to view Click here to view
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2004, c2003., Riverhead Books Call No: Realistic FIC Hosseini Edition: 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Rating: (2 Ratings) Summary Note: Amir, haunted by his betrayal of Hassan, the son of his father's servant and a childhood friend, returns to Kabul as an adult after he learns Hassan has been killed, in an attempt to redeem himself by rescuing Hassan's son from a life of slavery to a Taliban official.
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2004, c2003., Riverhead Books Call No: TEEN FIC HOS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption, and it is also about the power of fathers over sons--their love, their sacrifices, their lies.
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2011., Riverhead Books Call No: 741.5 HOS Edition: 1st Riverhead trade Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A graphic novel adaptation of the author's novel about Amir, a forty-year-old novelist living in the U.S., who returns to his native Afghanistan to right a terrible wrong that ended his boyhood friendship with Hassan, a member of the persecuted Hazara people.
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2003., Center Point Call No: 813 .6 Edition: Center Point large print ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Riverhead Books Call No: Historical fiction FIC HOSSEINI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A short . . . illustrated book written . . . in response to the current refugee crisis . . composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son, the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone"--Publisher.