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  • A 20th century classic by the great William Kelley Wright.  Known for its presentation of philosophers and their theories in easy...

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

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  • A collection of heartfelt thoughts and bits of wisdom from the Dalai Lama on a variety of subjects and suitable for everyone regardles...

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  • Nietzsche's masterful philosophical narrative about Zarathustra, who after years of meditation comes down from a mountain to offer his...

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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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  • 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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  • Mandrake
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    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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  • 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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  • Brief biographies and illustrations of famous painters from Michelangelo to Van Gogh and Rembrandt to Picasso. Features fully vow...

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Adult

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

Adult  

  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Self-help, Health
    Author:  Lee Janogly

    You know you're old when your adult children talk to each other in front of you and spell out certain words. Reaching the milestone of 80, Lee Janogly was continually irritated at the notion that older people are slower, frailer and generally out of touch with modern living. Even if we do sometimes put the remote control in the fridge, we know...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Biography, History
    Author:  Nouf Dahyan Ruwaysan

    Delves into astonishing facts and unique stories of key figures in the Victorian and Andalusian periods.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Tariq Bakari

    One of two things could have brought him back to Sanhaja, his Amazigh village: the death of the mother who had scarred his childhood, or the return of Najma—the wife of  Bernard, his first love, his forbidden passion, and his surrogate mother—who had disappeared under mysterious circumstances. And now, after a quarter of a...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Reference, Spirituality
    Author:  Mona Ghadban

    What do you know about your past life? Have you ever wondered who you are? Do you believe that this is not your first life? And how many times will you live? The evidence is abundant, and the signs are numerous, so has it ever crossed your mind that you have lived before? If so, you are not alone. Since ancient times,...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Shelby Van Pelt

    After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Fariba Vafi

    Tells the story of women confined within four walls, immersed in imposed isolation, not isolation chosen of their own free will. They endure the cold and dull lives of their husbands, and have learned to suppress everything within themselves and to live without a bird soaring high above. The author reveals to us the inner worlds of thousands of...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Julian Barnes

    It's a hilariously revisionist account of Noah's ark, narrated by a passenger who doesn't appear in Genesis. It's a sneak preview of heaven. It encompasses the stories of a cruise ship hijacked by terrorists and of woodworms tried for blasphemy in sixteenth-century France. It explores the relationship of fact to fabulation and the antagonism...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Biography, Literature
    Author:  Dhia Janabi

    An overview of authors and writings that interweaves personal expression with written artistry.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Maria Semple

    When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the Earth to find her.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  History, Politics
    Author:  Gertrude Lowthian Bell

    A collection of once confidential briefing papers that Bell helped to produce for British army officers new to the Mesopotamian theater, published in Basra by a military printer.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Family, Self-help
    Author:  Glenn R. Schiraldi

    Childhood trauma can harm children's developing brains, change how they respond to stress, and damage their immune systems so profoundly that the effects show up decades later. From trauma specialist Glenn Schiraldi, this innovative workbook provides adult readers with practical, evidence-based skills to help them heal from adverse childhood...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Mahmoud Abd al-Ghani

    The novel chronicles the lives of American writers for whom Tangier was a major stop on their creative journeys, including the American playwright Tennessee Williams, who lived in Tangier for a long period, Paul Bowles and his wife Jane Bowles, Gertrude Stein, and William Burroughs. The novel also features a large number of Moroccan writers.

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