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  • Winner of both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize, this is the story of a "Don Juan" lover of women during the e...

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  • In this unique self-portrait that includes rare interviews, the filmmaker takes us behind the scenes and onto the sets of all his film...

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  • The author presents a timeline and notes on his experiences of the atrocities and horror committed on civilians by warring clan m...

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  • A modern-day printing of the original text of Antoine Galland's first European translation of One Thousand and One Nights. The story o...

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  • Previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is a fun, entertaining story about a mysterious stranger who shows up at a famil...

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  • H.G. Wells' classic study in the progress and history of civilization from the origins of life on Earth up to historic developments in...

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  • The story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ulitmately consumed, by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student...

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  • George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Ova...

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  • A delightful story collection by the beloved, award-winning Chinese children's author, Zheng Chunhua. These stories center around a li...

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  • Diaries
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    Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...

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  • The definitive biography of the 45th President of the United States presents the life of Donald Trump from his boyhood to his time in ...

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  • By the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, this is the haunting novella, based on the true story of a Jewish teenager in WWI...

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  • A 20th century classic by the great William Kelley Wright.  Known for its presentation of philosophers and their theories in easy...

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  • It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner p...

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  • Culture
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    Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil socie...

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  • Sophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth.  Originally published in the 19th century, Segur'...

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Books, movies, and music in all of Sawa's world languages

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Short Stories
    Author:  Edgar Wallace

    A collection of mystery stories by a classic British author well-known for his exciting thrillers spiced with tales of treacherous crooks and hard-boiled detectives.

    $19.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  George Orwell

    The classic novella of political satire by George Orwell was banned in Eastern Bloc countries until 1989, and in the West, is considered one of the best novels of the 20th century. This profound novel examines the dangers of totalitarian rule.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Culture, Social Science
    Author:  Bertrand Russell

    Iconoclastic philosopher Bertrand Russell lays out a rationalist prescription for living a happy life, including the importance of cultivating interests outside oneself and the dangers of passive pleasure.

    $19.95
  • Language:  Somali
    Subject:  Politics
    Author:  Harold Laski

    A Somali translation of "Liberty in the Modern State" by Harold Laski.  The book takes into account the post-war political landscape to discuss the meaning and place of liberty and freedom in the global context and includes some undelivered lectures by economist and political theorist, Harold Laski.

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  • Language:  Somali
    Subject:  Politics, Social Science
    Author:  Dambisa Moyo

    Somali translation of "Dead Aid," by the pre-eminent Zambian economist and author known for her analysis of macroeconomics and global affairs.   Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Dambisa Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world's...

    $36.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Robert Louis Stevenson

    The classic tale of buccaneers and buried gold for teen and adult readers.  Read it again or for the first time.

    $26.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Honore de Balzac

    Number 22 in Balzac's collective works known as The Human Comedy.  This tragic, yet brilliant novel tells the story of thirty-year-old Julie, an intelligent, sensitive woman who is married to a man not worthy of her. Balzac draws a portrait of a miserable marriage and life brought about by incorrect choices and inequalities of the day.

    $22.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Marc Lévy

    An unexpected love story from the international bestselling and extremely popular French author.  Chloe lives with her father in a Manhattan apartment building.  Sanji is the new Mumbai-born, Oxford educated elevator operator.  They are intrigued with each other and have a lot in common.  There is much to discover between them.

    $29.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Margaret Atwood

    Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2000, the novel features the elderly Iris Chase Griffen reviewing her life and, in particular, her relationship with her sister Laura, whose premature death in the 1940s affords her iconic status as the author of a scandalous novel. This is Atwood's tenth novel and beat five other authors on that year's shortlist...

    $52.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Short Stories
    Author:  Mansoura Ez-Eldin

    This collection of short stories was shortlisted for the Al-Multaqa Prize for Arabic Fiction 2018 and the Sheikh Zayed Prize for Literature in 2020.  The author is an award-winning Egyptian novelist and journalist whose works have been translated into more than ten languages.

    $24.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Alice Walker

    The Arabic translation of Alice Walker's 1976 novel that has been described as a meditation on the modern civil rights movement.  This novel tells the story of Meridian Hill, a young black woman in the late 1960s who attends college at a time when the civil rights movement becomes violent. She soon discovers the limits beyond which she will...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Biography, History, Politics
    Author:  Ibrahim al-Khafif

    A biography of Abraham Lincoln who grew from his simple childhood in Kentucky to become the second president of the United States.  He would change the course of history.

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