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  • Outwitting the devil
    Outwitting the devil

    Originally written in 1938 but never published due to its controversial nature, this...

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  • Long poem
    Long poem

    The teacher has assigned the kids a long poem to memorize and recite for the end of the year...

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  • Naqshabandi
    Naqshabandi

    A biographical novel of the famous Sufi singer, Sheikh Sayyid Naqshabandi. Born in Egypt, he was...

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    Gueros

    Ever since the National University strike broke out, Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) and Santos (Leonard0...

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

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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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    This film is not a movie; it's not about a bank robbery. It is a bank robbery. Victoria was shot in one sin...

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  • The New York Times Bestseller by musician and artist George Watsky is available here in German.  This is his debut memoir, writte...

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  • The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and mother...

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Historical fiction

Historical fiction

For adults in all of Sawa's world languages.

Historical fiction  

  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels, 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, Historical fiction
    Author:  Suad Amiry

    Based on the true story of two Jaffa teenagers, this novel follows the daily lives of Subhi, a fifteen-year-old mechanic, and Shams, the thirteen-year-old student he hopes to marry one day. In this prosperous and cosmopolitan port city, with its bustling markets, cinemas, and cafés on the hills overlooking the Mediter­ranean Sea, we...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Aisha Ibrahim

    It is 1911 and Sandro Compartini has just graduated from the Journalism Institute in Milan. He boards a steamer as a soldier in the 84th Corps, sent from Italy to war in Libya. While stationed in a trench in the desert, he falls in love with a milk seller from Tripoli, but she and her younger brother are arrested and sent to the Italian penal...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Reem Bassiouney

    A novel set between the era of the Sufi Al-Mursi Abu Al-Abbas and the era of the Italian architect Mario Rossi. Despite the long time gap between the two characters and the events that accompanied them, the writer presents their lives and how the Italian architect, who built several mosques for the Egyptian Ministry of Endowments, met Al-Mursi...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Margaret Atwood

    Grace Marks, the convicted murderess, has been hired out from prison to serve as a domestic servant in the home of the Governor of the penitentiary. A committee of gentlemen and ladies from the Methodist church, led by the minister, hopes to have her pardoned and released. Grace cannot remember what happened on the day of the murders, and she...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Alexandre Dumas

    The tulip craze of 17th century Holland has a dark side when Cornelius van Baerle, a wealthy but naìˆve tulip grower, finds himself entangled in the deadly politics of his time. Cornelius' one desire is to grow the perfect black tulip. But, after his godfather is murdered, he finds himself in prison, facing a death sentence. His jailer's lovely...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Stacey Halls

    Rich and compelling, set against the frenzy of the real Pendle Hill Witch Trials, this novel explores the rights of 17th-century women and raises the question: Was witch-hunting really women-hunting? Fleetwood Shuttleworth, Alice Grey and the other characters are actual historical figures. King James I was obsessed with asserting power over the...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Kristin Harmel

    Inspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, a young librarian with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis in this sweeping historical novel.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Louisa May Alcott

    The beloved coming-of-age novel was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. In keeping with the original, this Arabic translation is available in two volumes. The story follows the lives of the four March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy as they grow to adulthood. 

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Amira Ghenim

    Relates an important, untold story from Tunisia’s contemporary history. Its hero is the historical figure, the reformer El-Taher El-Haddad. Although historical references do not mention anything about his relationship with women, except for his desperate defence of them, the author adds an imaginary love affair with a woman called Lella...

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  • Language:  Arabic, English
    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Elizabeth Kaye

    Reveals the extraordinary, little-known story behind one of the first lifeboats to leave the doomed ship. Told in real time and in the actual voices of survivors, this poignant, pulse-pounding narrative includes the story of the Countess of Rothes, the wealthiest woman on the ship, bound for California, where she and her husband...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Naguib Mahfouz

    This classic novel by the beloved Naguib Mahfouz in which the woes of a petit bourgeois family thrust into poverty in World War II Cairo are relayed in engrossing detail and represent a microcosm of Egypt's birth pangs in gaining independence. It is a powerful portrayal of a middle-class Egyptian family contronted by material, moral, and...

    $38.95
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