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

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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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Adult fiction and nonfiction in all of Sawa's world languages

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Literature, Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Gustave Flaubert

    The classic tale of Emma Bovary, a woman who yearns for romance and luxury, but is instead married to a man with a second-rate medical degree and little ambition.  Madame Bovary's attempts to escape the banality of her married life through adulterous affairs and voracious spending sprees with devastating consequences.

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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:  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.

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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.

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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:  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...

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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...

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  • 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.

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  • 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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