Staff Picks

Kids: Arab American Experiences

April Staff Picks List

  • Nour’s Secret Library


  • Farah Rocks Fifth Grade


  • Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine


  • Eleven Words for Love: A Journey through Arabic Expressions of Love


  • Banana Dream


  • Shad Hadid and the Alchemists of Alexandria


  • Salma the Syrian Chef


  • Arab Arab All Year Long!


  • Escape from Aleppo


  • Other Words for Home


  • Amazing Women of the Middle East: 25 Stories from Ancient Times to Present Day


  • The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story


  • Sadiq and the Newspaper Problem


  • Daughters of the Lamp


  • Amira’s Picture Day


  • Tagging Freedom


  • The Magical Reality of Nadia


Teens: YA Arab American Heritage Month

April Staff Picks List

  • The Buried and the Bound


  • Bright Red Fruit


  • The Next New Syrian Girl


  • Ida in the Middle


  • We Hunt the Flame


  • It Won't Always Be Like This: A Graphic Memoir


  • Kareem Between


  • A Guide to the Dark


  • The Shape of Thunder


  • All-American Muslim Girl


  • Squire


  • As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow


  • Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners


  • Hail Mariam


  • Mirage


  • Thunderbird


  • Huda F Are You?


  • Nayra and the Djinn


  • Something More


  • Travelers Along the Way


Adults: Resetting with Financial Literacy

April Staff Picks List

  • Do More in Four: Why It's Time for a Shorter Work Week


  • Rethinking Investing: A Very Short Guide to Very Long-Term Investing


  • Make Money Easy


  • You Don't Need a Budget: Stop Worrying About Debt, Spend Without Shame, and Manage Money with Ease


  • The Money School: 12 Simple Lessons to Master Financial Markets and Investing


  • Budgeting 101


  • The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: How Risk Taking Transforms Us, Body and Mind


  • Playing with FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early): How Far Would You Go for Financial Freedom?


  • The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin