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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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  • Bird Box
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    In an apocalyptic near-future world, a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choi...

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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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  • Elling
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    Translated from the Norwegian and with a movie by the same name that was nominated for an Oscar, this is an eccentric and truly funny ...

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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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  • The Arabic translation of Philip Roth's novel about Coleman Silk, the dean of faculty at a small liberal arts college who is accused o...

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  • An interesting journey back in time to see how our modern ways of living, and the tools we use, actually originated in primitive cultu...

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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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  • When it was first published in 1937 Poland, Witold Gombrowicz's novel was considered to be subversive by the Communist regime and was ...

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  • Terry Eagleton, a renowned literary theorist, critic and prolific writer, in this book explores the rise of religious fundamentalism a...

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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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  • When cholera breaks out in the village, Sandra and Pato learn about treatment and prevention.

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  • Genaro Reyes is a student who falls in with the wrong crowd.  He goes on a drinking binge with his "friends" and ends up in a com...

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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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  • 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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  • An exploration and critique of the Somali criminal justice system.

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Biography
      Author:  Lutfiyah Dulaymi

      The Iraqi writer, journalist, and women's rights activist received death threats after the 2003 invasion of Iraq and was forced to flee her country. She lived in various countries before settling in London. This book recounts her time spent living in Paris.

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Novels
      Author:  Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin

      Sakin is a Sudanese fiction writer with roots in Darfur.  His literary works have been banned in Sudan and he now lives in exile in Austria.  In this novel, a poor man lives with his wife and children in a small village where they struggle to live raising chickens and selling the eggs.  One day the man discovers a differeng kind...

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Novels
      Author:  Khalil Nassif

       The novel draws parallels between the experiences of its characters during their childhood and upbringing, revealing post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from childhood traumas. Shortlisted for the Katara Prize for Arabic Fiction 2023.

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Culture
      Author:  Warida Kaloush

      Pieces together the unknown history of the Amazigh.

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Novels
      Author:  Hanan al-Shaykh

      Yasmine left Beirut for the South of France years ago. An optimist by nature, she manages to find joy in her days in a suburban housing project in the Var region, but worries about the idleness and addictions of Naji, her only child. The young man dreams of becoming a rapper and fuels his creativity with drugs. Mother and son no longer know how...

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Novels
      Author:  Shayma Hisham Saad

      A mother of five children with diverse personalities faces a unique confrontation with two thieves who have long awaited her demise. Everyone is talking about a woman named "Habbahan," whose husband claims she returned home six hours after being buried to resume her normal life. Is death merely a formality, while life continues? A tale born of...

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Short Stories
      Author:  Dr. Ahmad al-Zallu'i

      A collection of folk and mythological tales dating back to the pre-Islamic period in the Arabian Peninsula.

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Culture
      Author:  Rami Hamdi

      A series of engaging, interconnected literary essays. In each chapter, the author encounters a famous figure—writers, artists, musicians, architects, doctors, and others, both living and deceased—at a restaurant he designed in real life.

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Novels
      Author:  Sharon Dodua Otoo

      A kaleidoscopic novel spanning generations and continents, that reveals the connections between four women in their struggle for survival. A woman in 15th century West Africa named Ada buries her child and confronts a Portuguese enslaver. A woman in Victorian England named Ada Lovelace, a mathematical genius and computer programming pioneer,...

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Novels
      Author:  Graham Greene

      It's 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it's not just a political tangle that's kept him tethered to the country. There's also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman who clings to Fowler for protection. Then comes Alden Pyle, an idealistic...

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Reference
      Author:  Henrik Fexeus

      Teaches you everything you need to know in order to become an expert at mind-reading. Using psychology-based skills such as non-verbal communication, reading body language, and using psychological influence, Fexeus explains how readers can find out what another person thinks and feels– and consequently control that person’s thoughts...

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Biography
      Author:  Anne Weber

      The extraordinary true story of Annette Beaumanoir: brilliant and fierce, she was a medical student living in a world at war who, at nineteen years old, joined the French Resistance and saved the lives of two Jewish children in Paris on the eve of their deportation to the camps. As a doctor and mother devoted to justice and equality, Annette was...

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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
      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:  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, 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
      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
      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
      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
      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
      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
      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:  German
      Children Books:  Ages 6-10
      Author:  Judith Kerr

      A heartwarming story about Mr. Albert who finds an abandoned seal pup on a rock in the middle of the sea. Naturally, Albert brings the seal home with him, but little does he realize how complicated it is to have a seal for a roommate!

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Novels
      Author:  Maxim Gorky

      The best known novel by Maxim Gorky is based on true events during the Russian revolutionary movement.

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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:  French
      Children Books:  Ages 11-13
      Author:  Lenia Major

      Antoine, Leon, Clemence and Lily are four friends who find a small fawn in the forest that has lost its mother. They know it won't survive on its own so they decide to keep it, but of course, they can't tell their parents. They decide to hide the fawn, which they name Sneezy, in the shed in Leon's backyard. Will they be able to care for the fawn...

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Literature
      Author:  Tawfiq al-Hakim

      Originally published in 1933, this play was hailed in literary circles as a landmark in Egyptian drama.  Based on the legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, it tells the story of three men and a dog, all of whom sleep for 300 years, in a cave, after fleeing religious persecution and seeking refuge there from a tyrant. They wake up and...

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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:  Novels
      Author:  Laszlo Krasznahorkai

      The first novel by the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize has been translated into Arabic.  Satantango, considered a classic of Hungarian literature, is an other-worldly novel that takes place in a rain-soaked, dying hamlet inhabited by people rife with malaise.  Is the man they are waiting for really resurrected from...

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    • Language:  Chinese
      Children Books:  Ages 3-5, Ages 6-10
      Author:  Mark Kelly

      A small mouse dreams of traveling to outer space.  He trains just as hard as the bigger mice and is chosen for the mission!  While in space, disaster strikes and only the smallest member of the crew can save the day.

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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:  Herman Koch

      How far would you go to protect your children?  This question is answered when two couples meet for dinner in a high-class restaurant. Their sons are responsible for a horrific crime. This dark, critically-acclaimed novel was made into a major motion picture by the Dutch (2013), the Italians (2014), and now the American version will be...

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    • Language:  Spanish, English
      Subject:  Self-help
      Author:  Moira Kovats

      Ideal for adult English language learners.  Adult-themed dual language reader for new literates in Spanish and English.  Tony works as a plumber to support his wife and two kids, but money is always tight and they need a bigger place to live.  And then Tony is offered a deal . . .

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    • Language:  Arabic
      Subject:  Social Science
      Author:  Wolfgang Bauer

      German reporter for Der Zeit, Wolfgang Bauer chronicles the treacherous and often deadly journey of Syrian refugees as they cross the Mediterranean Sea in search of life and safety. As the Syrian civil war continues to rage, millions of refugees are on the run. Bauer captures their dramatic stories with a passionate appeal for a more...

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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:  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:  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:  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:  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:  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:  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:  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:  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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