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  • Samy is very shy and doesn't like to talk to other people because it's scary and he doesn't know what to say. Now his little dog is lo...

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  • Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciat...

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  • A 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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  • A Somali translation of "Liberty in the Modern State" by Harold Laski.  The book takes into account the post-war political landsc...

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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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  • Victoria
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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 final book written by the great philosopher at the end of his life is a mix of autobiographical anecdotes, descriptions of sights ...

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  • Taxi
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    Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010.  In a courageous a...

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  • In 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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  • 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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  • Mandrake
    arabic

    The five-act satirical play by Niccolo Machiavelli was first published in 1524.  Now in Arabic, it tells the story of a beau...

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  • Culture
    arabic

    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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  • Diaries
    arabic

    Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...

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  • A 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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  • Winner of both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize, this is the story of a "Don Juan" lover of women during the e...

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

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Stefan Brijs

    A chilling novel about a doctor's macabre ambition to create immortal life.  Dr. Hoppe returns to his home village after a long absence. With him are three identical infant boys -- all bearing the same disfigurement.  Soon the villagers become suspicious and Dr. Hoppe's past begins to unfold.  By international bestselling...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Biography, Literature, Reference
    Author:  Shawky Mohamed Abboud

    A guide to writers, poets, playwrights, and novelists from 5th Century BC to the modern era.  Includes index and illustrations.

    $22.95
  • 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:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Ingvar Ambjornsen

    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 novel about two roommates with extreme social anxiety who are trying to live like normal average people.  It has also been translated into English under the title, "Beyond the Great Indoors."

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  • Language:  German
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Jilliane Hoffman

    A new thriller by bestselling American author and former Florida state prosecuting attorney is a hard-hitting crime novel that will keep you awake at night.  A serial killer is kidnapping and torturing teenage girls to death, but one somehow escapes the "Hammerman".  Her story is full of inconsistencies and FBI Agent Bobby Dees needs...

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  • Language:  German
    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Amelie Breton

    A sweeping historical romance set during WWII in Normandy.  It is 1942 and the journalist Valentine is on assigment in Honfleur where she meets and falls in love with Yves, a member of the Resistance against the German occupiers.  After a brief time of bliss, Yves must flee his love and his country.  Is he dead?  Will the lovers ever be reunited?

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  • Language:  German
    Subject:  Literature
    Author:  Stephenie Meyer

    The gripping new thriller by Stephenie Meyer is now available in German.  An ex-agent, a chemist with a very special set of skills, is on the run from her former employer -- the government.  This taut, page-turner will keep you reading until the very end.

    $36.95
  • 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:  German
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Lori Nelson Spielman

    The third novel by international bestselling Michigan author, Lori Nelson Spielman. An emotional novel about mothers, sisters, daughters. When her sister dies in a train accident, Annie struggles with survivor guilt (she was supposed to be on that train, too), and tries to find comfort in their mother, Erika, who has withdrawn into her work. Can...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Agatha Christie

    First published in 1967, Christie completed this novel in six weeks while in her 70s. It tells the story of Michael Rogers, whose visit to Gypsy's Acre stirs within him a childlike fantasy.  In this beautiful place with views of the sea, he wants to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after. However, Gypsy's Acre is a...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Agatha Christie

    First published in 1932, this seventh book featuring Hercule Poirot was judged by the New York Times Book Review to be "diabolically clever".  In the story, Nick Buckley, a pretty young woman, has had too many close calls with death.  So many, in fact, that Poirot decides she needs his protection. Thus he begins to solve a murder that...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Agatha Christie

    First published in 1934, book reviews from Chicago and New York, circa 1935, stated this novel was "light-hearted" with a pair of amateur detectives "you are sure to like." The classic death-on-the-green story when two friends are golfing and a ball goes astray.  In searching for the lost ball, what is found is a dying man whose last words...

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