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  • This collection of 85 essays and articles is considered to be among the most important historical collections of all time, and we...

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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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  • Two friends, Serafin and Plum, and a hamster named Hercules, find themselves in a strange town where they are not welcome because they...

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place ...

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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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  • Brief biographies and illustrations of famous painters from Michelangelo to Van Gogh and Rembrandt to Picasso. Features fully vow...

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  • 21 grams
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    In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...

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  • A biography of Abraham Lincoln who grew from his simple childhood in Kentucky to become the second president of the United States.&nbs...

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  • Nietzsche's masterful philosophical narrative about Zarathustra, who after years of meditation comes down from a mountain to offer his...

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    Ever since the National University strike broke out, Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) and Santos (Leonard0 Ortizgris) have been living in angst-...

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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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    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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  • Available in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its plac...

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Historical fiction
      Author:  Janet Skeslien Charles

      Paris, 1939. Young, ambitious, and tempestuous, Odile Souchet has it all: Paul, her handsome police officer beau; Margaret, her best friend from England; her adored twin brother Remy; and a dream job at the American Library in Paris, working alongside the library's legendary director, Dorothy Reeder. But when World War II breaks out, Odile...

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Novels
      Author:  Khawlah Hamdi

      I was in love with him from the moment he was born. I would gaze at him all day long, as if he were my first child. He was a little angel, completely white. His pure whiteness was astonishing, like a snowflake in a hot country, and he would nurse and sleep peacefully, and he didn't cry like other babies. His presence beside me filled me with...

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Health
      Author:  Lee Janogly

      You know you're old when your adult children talk to each other in front of you and spell out certain words. Reaching the milestone of 80, Lee Janogly was continually irritated at the notion that older people are slower, frailer and generally out of touch with modern living. Even if we do sometimes put the remote control in the fridge, we know...

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Biography
      Author:  Nouf Dahyan Ruwaysan

      Delves into astonishing facts and unique stories of key figures in the Victorian and Andalusian periods.

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Novels
      Author:  Tariq Bakari

      One of two things could have brought him back to Sanhaja, his Amazigh village: the death of the mother who had scarred his childhood, or the return of Najma—the wife of  Bernard, his first love, his forbidden passion, and his surrogate mother—who had disappeared under mysterious circumstances. And now, after a quarter of a...

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Spirituality
      Author:  Mona Ghadban

      What do you know about your past life? Have you ever wondered who you are? Do you believe that this is not your first life? And how many times will you live? The evidence is abundant, and the signs are numerous, so has it ever crossed your mind that you have lived before? If so, you are not alone. Since ancient times,...

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Novels
      Author:  Shelby Van Pelt

      After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly...

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Novels
      Author:  Fariba Vafi

      Tells the story of women confined within four walls, immersed in imposed isolation, not isolation chosen of their own free will. They endure the cold and dull lives of their husbands, and have learned to suppress everything within themselves and to live without a bird soaring high above. The author reveals to us the inner worlds of thousands of...

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Children Books:  Ages 6-10
      Author:  Katrina Roe

      Zaroufa has a new camera! She is visiting the mountains and wants to get the perfect photo. But at the top of the lookout, Zaroufa gets the jitters. Will she let her fear of heights stop her from achieving her dream? 

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Novels
      Author:  Julian Barnes

      It's a hilariously revisionist account of Noah's ark, narrated by a passenger who doesn't appear in Genesis. It's a sneak preview of heaven. It encompasses the stories of a cruise ship hijacked by terrorists and of woodworms tried for blasphemy in sixteenth-century France. It explores the relationship of fact to fabulation and the antagonism...

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Biography
      Author:  Dhia Janabi

      An overview of authors and writings that interweaves personal expression with written artistry.

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Novels
      Author:  Maria Semple

      When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the Earth to find her.

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    • Language:  Arabic, English
      Subject:  Novels
      Author:  John Steinbeck

      Originally published in 1937, this novel tells the story of two displaced migrant farm workers who move around California searching for work during the Great Depression. It has been banned or challenged numerous times for offensive and racist language and appears on the American Library Association's list of the Most Challenged Books of the...

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Children Books:  Teen/YA
      Author:  John Green

      The critically-acclaimed and ever popular YA novel by John Green is here in Arabic.  It is the moving, and at times humorous, story of 16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster, who has cancer.  Her parents force her to attend a support group where she meets and falls in love with a 17-year-old ex-basketball player and amputee.

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Children Books:  Ages 11-13
      Author:  Jeff Kinney

      When Greg's mom is successful in petitioning the town to turn off the electricity for 48 hours, poor Greg has to learn how to cope without modern conveniences and be "old school."

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    • Full MARC RDA records are available in all languages for your convenience. These can be customized to your needs.  If you would like a sample, please send us an email. To add MARC records to your order, add MARC record to cart.  In the shopping cart summary, set the quantity of records to match the number of titles in your order...

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Novels
      Author:  Hoda Barakat

      Winner of the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, this novel tells the stories of people in exile through their letters. Author Hoda Barakat is known for exploring the psychological effects of conflict and trauma in her works.

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Novels
      Author:  Mohammed Hasan Alwan

      Winner of the 2017 International Prize for Arabic fiction, this novel, by Saudi author, Mohammed Hasan Alwan, is the fictionalized telling of the life of a Sufi saint, Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi. Ibn Arabi was born in 12th century Muslim Spain and became a Sufi mystic who traveled the Middle East and wrote about his experiences.

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Children Books:  Ages 11-13
      Author:  Jeff Kinney

      Translated into 35 languages, the ever popular series for middle school readers is back with Greg and his buddy Rowley trying to find dates for the Valentine's Day dance. Who will get a date first and who will be the third wheel?

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Children Books:  Ages 11-13
      Author:  R. J. Palacio

      Now a major motion picture, this is the story of 10-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with severe facial abnormalities. Though not expected to survive, he does, and goes from being home-schooled to finally entering fifth grade at a private school.  There he learns to endure the taunts, bullying and fear of his classmates.

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Novels
      Author:  Jukhah al-Harithi

      The winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2019 is available here in its original Arabic. It tells the story of Oman's evolution from a traditional society to the modern crossroads where it finds itself today.  Told from the viewpoint of three sisters from one family, we meet Mayya who has married on the rebound; Asma who has married...

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Novels
      Author:  F. Scott Fitzgerald

      The classic novel of 1920s American prosperity and idealism tells the story of the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his passion and obsession for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan.  Considered a "Great American Novel", it provides a critical social histroy of America during the Roaring Twenties, and is a long-standing regular on...

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Novels
      Author:  Jhumpa Lahiri

      The award-winning author of "The Interpreter of Maladies" continues the theme of the immigrant experience fraught with the problems of assimilation and the conflicted path between old and new generations. The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their vexing transformation into...

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Novels
      Author:  Harper Lee

      Considered one of the best novels of the 20th century, yet consistently banned and challenged since it was first published in 1962, Harper Lee's novel of race relations in the 1930s American South has been translated into 40 languages with 40 million copies sold.  It is available here in a new Arabic 2016 edition. 

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Children Books:  Ages 3-5
      Author:  Reza Haydari

      "Heavenly Stories" is a delightful series of books from Iraq that offers short, colorfully illustrated parables to promote peace and harmony in the world as God the Creator intended.

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Novels
      Author:  Zelda Fitzgerald

      The semi-autographical novel by the beautiful and high-spirited American writer, socialite, and painter. It was written in just six weeks while the author was a patient in a sanatorium, and is considered a classic novel of the woman's expeirence in American society during the golden Jazz Age.

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Self-help, Business
      Author:  Donald Trump

      Co-authored with entrepreneur Bill Zanker, Donald Trump shares his think BIG formula for success in business and in life. Learn about the "Big Mo" -- momentum and how to make the most of it; the real definition of revenge and why and how to get it; the importance of contracts; and real-life stories from people who have applied think big...

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    • Language:  French
      Children Books:  Ages 6-10
      Author:  Gwendoline Raisson

      The teacher has assigned the kids a long poem to memorize and recite for the end of the year show.  Classmates Paul, Jeanne and Lea try to find a quick and easy way to learn the dreadful poem.  Then they discover a mysterious magic potion that seems to be the perfect solution.  It works great, except for one weird side effect --...

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Novels
      Author:  Brooke Davis

      The delightful debut novel by Brooke Davis is now available in Arabic.  It is the story of a little red-haired girl who has lost her mom, and an 82-year-old widow and an 87-year-old widower who are also lost.  The unlikely trio discover there is wisdom in the young, that being old doesn't mean you're dead, and that life is worth living...

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Self-help
      Author:  Mark Manson

      Learn to take a grounded, realistic approach to your life with this first Arabic edition of the wildly popular, New York Times bestselling self-help guide by superstar blogger, Mark Manson.

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    • Language:  Spanish, English
      Subject:  Self-help
      Author:  Linda Kita-Bradley

      Ideal for adult English language learners.  Adult-themed dual language reader for new literates in Spanish and English.  Eva is a busy mom with too many responsibilities.  To make matters worse, she can never get a good night's sleep because once the light goes off, her mind turns on.  She tosses and turns and thinks and worries.  What can she do?

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    • Language:  French
      Children Books:  Ages 11-13, Teen/YA
      Author:  Antoine Galland

      A modern-day printing of the original text of Antoine Galland's first European translation of One Thousand and One Nights. The tales of Sindbad first appeared in a Turkish collection of "Nights" in 1637.  Presented here in French, Sindbad's fantastic seafaring adventures of magical places, monsters, and supernatural phenomena are...

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Biography
      Author:  Robert Slater

      Here is an opportunity to go back and read about Donald Trump before he became the Republican presidential nominee.  Author Robert Slater was granted more than 100 hours of private conversations with the billionaire icon and his employees and colleagues, as well as access to private meetings and secret deals. Here is Trump, the man revealed...

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    • Language:  French
      Children Books:  Ages 6-10, Ages 11-13
      Author:  Comtesse de Segur

      Sophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth.  Originally published in the 19th century, Segur's books are well-known, well-loved French classics.  She is best known today for this children's book, "Sophie's misfortunes," about an intrepid little French girl with an often destructive curiosity who...

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Children Books:  Teen/YA
      Author:  John Green

      The critically-acclaimed and ever popular YA novel by John Green is here in Arabic.  It is the moving, and at times humorous, story of 16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster, who has cancer.  Her parents force her to attend a support group where she meets and falls in love with a 17-year-old ex-basketball player and amputee.

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Biography
      Author:  Muhammad Asad

      A fascinating and beautifully written autobiography by Muhammad Asad, formerly known as Leopold Weiss.  Born into a Jewish family and a descendant of a long line of Jewish rabbis, Weiss converted to Islam and became one of the most influential European Muslims of the 20th century.  

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    • Language:  Spanish
      Genre:  Comedy
      Cast:  Robert Lorie, Paul Chamberlain, Ashly Burch
      Director :  Kenny Riches

      A funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban construction worker and his Korean friend Conan (Paul Chamberlain), as their lives get bumped off track the moment they agree to attend a spiritual meditation class.

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    • Language:  Arabic, Hebrew
      Genre:  Animation, Documentary
      Director :  Amer Shomali, Paul Cowan

      Through a clever mix of stop-motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story: the Israeli army's pursuit of 18 cows, whose independent milk production on a Palestinian collective farm was declared "a threat to the national security of the state of Israel."

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    • Language:  Persian
      Genre:  Romance, Thriller
      Cast:  Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi
      Director :  Ana Lily Amirpour

      Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place that reeks of death and hopelessness, where a lonely vampire is stalking the town's most unsavory inhabitants. But when boy meets girl, an unusual love story begins to blossom . . . blood red. B&W

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    • Language:  Persian
      Genre:  Comedy, Drama
      Director :  Jafar Panahi

      Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010.  In a courageous act of artistic and political defiance he has made three features since then including Jafar Panahi's Taxi.  In Taxi he drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up...

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    • Language:  German
      Genre:  Drama, Thriller
      Cast:  Laia Costa, Frederick Lau
      Director :  Sebastian Schipper

      This film is not a movie; it's not about a bank robbery. It is a bank robbery. Victoria was shot in one single take. Two hours and eighteen minutes. No cuts. No CGI. No cheap tickets. No expensive ones, either. Just one shot.

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    • Language:  Spanish
      Genre:  Documentary
      Director :  Patricio Guzman

      Masterfully explores the significance of water in Chile's vast history and culture, examining the indigenous tribes of the Western Patagonian waterways and the tragic journey of Jemmy Button, who in 1830 was bought by the English Navy for the price of a mother-of-pearl button.

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    • Language:  German
      Genre:  Drama
      Cast:  Jonas Nay
      Director :  Edward Berger, Samira Radsi

      A coming-of-age story within a suspenseful thriller, set against the real events, culture wars and political realities of Germany in the 1980s.

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    • Language:  Spanish
      Genre:  Comedy, Drama
      Cast:  Tenoch Huerta, Leonardo Ortizgris, Sebastian Aguirre
      Director :  Alonso Ruizpalacios

      Ever since the National University strike broke out, Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) and Santos (Leonard0 Ortizgris) have been living in angst-ridden limbo. Education-less, motionless, purposeless, and unsure of what the strike will bring. They begin to look for strange ways to kill time. But their routine is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of...

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    • Language:  Hebrew
      Genre:  Drama
      Cast:  Sarit Larry, Avi Schnaidman
      Director :  Nadav Lapid

      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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    • Language:  German
      Genre:  Documentary
      Director :  Vanessa Lapa

      On May 6th, 1945, soldiers of the US Army occupied the Heinrich Himmler family home in Gmund, Germany where they discovered hundreds of private letters, documents, diaries, and photographs. The Decent One makes use of these materials to sketch the biography and expose the inner mind, ideals, plans and secrets of SS commander and...

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Genre:  Documentary
      Director :  Andrea Kalin, Oliver Lukacs

      Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict, taking us from the trenches to geopolitical jockeying and becoming, a long the way, a searing expose of an ongoing humanitarian crisis.

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Education, History
      Author:  Jonathan R. Cole

      American universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the author presents the American university as a national resource that should be supported and protected as a catalyst for economic growth and a source for solutions to the myriad of complex problems dotting the...

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    • 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:  Arabic
      Subject:  Biography
      Author:  George Orwell

      Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books throughout his career, the eleven surviving diaries collected here record Orwell's youthful travels among miners and itinerant laborers, the fearsome rise of totalitarianism, the horrific drama of World War...

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Reference, Social Science
      Author:  William Kelley Wright

      A 20th century classic by the great William Kelley Wright.  Known for its presentation of philosophers and their theories in easy to understand layman's terms, this book will take the reader on a jaunt through history from Francis Bacon to Locke to Kant to William James.  

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    • Language:  Somali
      Subject:  History
      Author:  Siciid Cismaan Keenadiid

      The author presents a timeline and notes on his experiences of the atrocities and horror committed on civilians by warring clan militias during this horrendous time in Somali history.  An estimated 350,000 Somalis die of disease, famine, and civil war.

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Biography, Politics
      Author:  Michael Kranish

      The definitive biography of the 45th President of the United States presents the life of Donald Trump from his boyhood to his time in military school to his ventures in real estate and eventually his celebrity status.  It discusses his successes and failures in business, conflicts with jouranlists and sexual misconduct accusations; and...

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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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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  History, Natural Science
      Author:  Fred Spier

      Available in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its place in the overarching history of life, the Earth, and the Universe.  Author, scholar, researcher and lecturer, Fred Spier, offers new theories into the future of humanity with a sweeping view of the past....

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Children Books:  Ages 6-10, Ages 11-13
      Author:  Sair Basma Ji

      Brief biographies and illustrations of famous painters from Michelangelo to Van Gogh and Rembrandt to Picasso. Features fully vowelled text for easier pronunciation. A great introduction to art history for young readers.

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Biography
      Author:  George W. Bush

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

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Novels
      Author:  Philip Roth

      The Arabic translation of Philip Roth's novel about Coleman Silk, the dean of faculty at a small liberal arts college who is accused of racism and forced to resign. The story twists and turns with subtly complex characters against the backdrop of America in the 1940s. 

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Biography
      Author:  Woody Allen

      In this unique self-portrait that includes rare interviews, the filmmaker takes us behind the scenes and onto the sets of all his films, and also reveals his thoughts on his childhood, his work, and his relationships.

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