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Decision points:..
arabicGeorge W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Ova...
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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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Strongest man
spanishA funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...
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Abraham Lincoln
arabicA 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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Ferdydurke
arabicWhen it was first published in 1937 Poland, Witold Gombrowicz's novel was considered to be subversive by the Communist regime and was ...
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The Federalist P..
arabicThis collection of 85 essays and articles is considered to be among the most important historical collections of all time, and we...
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Cilmiga Ciqaabta
somaliAn exploration and critique of the Somali criminal justice system.
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Gueros
spanishEver since the National University strike broke out, Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) and Santos (Leonard0 Ortizgris) have been living in angst-...
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Pearl Button
spanishMasterfully explores the significance of water in Chile's vast history and culture, examining the indigenous tribes of the Western Pat...
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Bird Box
arabicIn an apocalyptic near-future world, a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choi...
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The Kindergarten..
hebrewThe story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ulitmately consumed, by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student...
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G : a novel
arabicWinner 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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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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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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Serafin: reading..
germanTwo 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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Mandrake
arabicThe 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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Adult fiction including novels, short stories, and science fiction in all of Sawa's world languages
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House of ornamentation: Ibn Rushd's mistress
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Ibrahim FarghaliThis novel forges imaginative connections between two love stories: one between a teacher and his student set in Al-Andalus during the eleventh century, and its counterpart taking place in the twenty-first century. Why, then, does the plight of Ibn Rushd, which led to his exile to the village of Lucena and the burning of his books on science,...
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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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Hind or the most beautiful woman in the world
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Huda BarakatThe mother was bereft of her firstborn, Hind—a child of extraordinary beauty. Then, when her second daughter, Hanadi, was afflicted with acromegaly, the resemblance that had once promised the mother a resurrection of her lost child vanished completely. Acromegaly transformed Hanadi into a grotesque figure; the mirror’s game was...
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One half from the East
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Nadia HashimiObayda's family is in need of some good fortune. Her father lost one of his legs in a bomb explosion, forcing the family to move from their home city of Kabul to a small village, where life is very different and Obayda's father almost never leaves his room. One day, Obayda's aunt has an idea to bring the family luck -- dress Obayda, the youngest...
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Hakim : the madness of Ibn al-Haytham
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Yusuf ZaydanThis novel transports the reader from our contemporary era to the Fatimid age of a thousand years ago. Through this rich and evocative journey, it unveils extraordinary events and the peculiarities of reality, where the present meets the past. The narrative unfolds around a cast of figures including the Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah; his...
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Fragments of horror
Language: ArabicSubject: Short StoriesAuthor: Junji ItoA collection of delightfully macabre tales from a master of horror manga. An old wooden mansion that turns on its inhabitants. A dissection class with a most unusual subject. A funeral where the dead are definitely not laid to rest. Ranging from the terrifying to the comedic, from the erotic to the loathsome, these stories showcase the...
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A Mask the color of the sky
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Basim KhandaqjiNur, an archaeologist living in a refugee camp in Ramallah, finds a blue identity card belonging to an Israeli in the pocket of an old coat. He adopts the mask of the occupier in an attempt to understand the Zionist mindset. Winner: 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF).
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The American roommate experiment
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Elena ArmasRosie Graham has a problem. A few, actually. She just quit her well-paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. She hasn't told her family and now has terrible writer's block. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. Luckily she has her best friend Lina's spare key while she's out of town. But Rosie...
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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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Days of Miri the Circassian : chronicle of...
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Nouran KhalidAfter Miri the Circassian's family migrated from Russia to Bulgaria during the era of the Ottoman Empire, circumstances compelled them to migrate once again—this time to Alexandria—where they embarked upon a new life in Egypt. Here, set against that specific era, we observe the succession of generations within Sheikh...
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Gray death
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Karim Soliman"Please! Don't take this personally... How about I stay with you while you spend your final hours? Consider it a small gesture of gratitude on my part for the time I spent inside your mind." Jalal wished this were all just a nightmare, yet he was acutely aware that this conversation—despite the bizarre nature of their...
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Victoria: a novel
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Karoline KamilVictoria grew up in a world divided by appearances. She had to contend not only with the struggles faced by any ordinary middle-class Egyptian girl—the daily grind of making ends meet, educational hurdles, and the fear bred by the ever-deteriorating atmosphere of the Egyptian street—but also with a distinct triad of challenges:...
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