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Stories of the G..
arabicProvides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciat...
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Culture
arabicTerry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil socie...
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History of moder..
arabicA 20th century classic by the great William Kelley Wright. Known for its presentation of philosophers and their theories in easy...
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Big history and ..
arabicAvailable in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its plac...
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One thousand and..
frenchA 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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Woody Allen on W..
arabicIn 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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Caballero
frenchGenaro 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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Accidental
arabicPreviously 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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Trump Revealed: ..
arabicThe 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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Dora Bruder
arabicBy 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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Stories of Famou..
arabicBrief biographies and illustrations of famous painters from Michelangelo to Van Gogh and Rembrandt to Picasso. Features fully vow...
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The Cholera Scare
somaliWhen cholera breaks out in the village, Sandra and Pato learn about treatment and prevention.
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One thousand and..
frenchA modern-day printing of the original text of Antoine Galland's first European translation of One Thousand and One Nights. The tales&n...
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How to ruin ever..
germanThe 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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Where is my frie..
arabicA little girl walks angrily through the park dragging an old purse. Every now and then she stops and yells "Is this how it is?" ...
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Together: the ri..
arabicThis thought-provoking book, now available in Arabic, identifies cooperation as the most important challenge faced by civil socie...
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Historical fiction
For adults in all of Sawa's world languages.
Historical fiction
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The Wonder
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Emma DonoghueIn 1862, a nurse haunted by her past travels from England to a remote Irish village to investigate allegations about a young girl whose religious family claimed she had lived without food for four months.
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie...
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Mary Ann ShafferIt's January, 1946, and writer Juliet Ashton sits at her desk, vainly seeking a subject for her next book. Out of the blue, she receives a letter from one Dawsey Adams of Guernsey - by chance, he's acquired a secondhand book that once belonged to Juliet - and, spurred on by their mutual love of Charles Lamb, they begin a correspondence.
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The Paris library
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Janet Skeslien CharlesParis, 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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Mother of strangers
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Suad AmiryBased 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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Alias Grace
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Margaret AtwoodGrace 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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The Black tulip
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Alexandre DumasThe 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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The Familiars
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Stacey HallsRich 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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The Book of lost names
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Kristin HarmelInspired 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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Little Women (2 Volumes)
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Louisa May AlcottThe 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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Lifeboat No. 8 : an untold story of love,...
Language: Arabic, EnglishSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Elizabeth KayeReveals 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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The Foundling: a story of a child and two...
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Stacey HallsTwo women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything. In London, the year is 1754 and six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known. Dreading the worst, that Clara has died in care, Bess is astonished to be told that Clara has...
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Warlight
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Michael OndaatjeJust after World War II, 14-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men...
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