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Victoria
germanThis 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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Xorriyadda iyo D..
somaliA 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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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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TED Talks : offi..
germanChris Anderson, the head of TED, presents an insider's guide to crafting the perfect talk. Discover the power of the spoken word to ch...
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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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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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I Don't Know Wha..
arabicSamy 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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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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Human Stain
arabicThe 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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Bailey finds a h..
germanBy the author of the bestselling novel, A Dog's Purpose, which is now a major motion picture, this illustrated novel for young readers...
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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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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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Thus Spoke Zarat..
arabicNietzsche's masterful philosophical narrative about Zarathustra, who after years of meditation comes down from a mountain to offer his...
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Meditations of a..
arabicThe 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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Strongest man
spanishA funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...
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Adult fiction including novels, short stories, and science fiction in all of Sawa's world languages
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Alexandre DumasThe literary classic by Alexandre Dumas was completed in 1844. It is one of the author's most popular works. The historical novel, set in the mid-1800s, tells the story of a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from prison, acquires wealth, and sets out seeking revenge on those who imprisoned him.
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Of mice and men
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: John SteinbeckOriginally published in 1937, this novel tells the story of two displaced migrant farm workers who move around California searching for work during the Great Depression. It has been banned or challenged numerous times for offensive and racist language and appears on the American Library Association's list of the Most Challenged Books of the...
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Water with Ashes
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Abdelaziz Baraka SakinThe complete works of this Sudanese author include novels that tell the stories of civil war and strife in his home country. This novel takes us on a journey to Sudan before its separation, informs us of its mysteries, and makes us hear the groaning of its people and its land. A land where peace is the corpse of war.
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The Testaments
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Margaret AtwoodThis sequel to The Handmaid's Tale picks up the story fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead. Winner of the Booker Prize 2019.
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Bird Box
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Josh MalermanIn an apocalyptic near-future world, a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choice and they will die. And something is following them--but is it man, animal, or monster?
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Stone of Happiness
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Azher JirjeesThe story take place in Mosul and Baghdad between 1962 and 2018. After his younger brother drowns in the river Tigris in Mosul, young Kamal Touma runs away, terrified of his father's brutal reaction, and hides in a fearsome place known as the 'garden of spirits.' Just before boarding a lorry heading south to the capital city, he picks up a...
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Orchards of Basra
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Mansoura Ez EldinSet in two different time periods. In present-day Minya, Egypt, Hisham Khatab is a young manuscripts dealer who is passionate about old books. This leads him to interpret a dream in The Great Book of Interpretation of Dreams, ascribed to Ibn Sirin, and believe he was someone called Yazid bin Abihi, who lived in the 2nd hijri century (8th century...
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The Admiral Doesn't Like Tea
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Nizar Abdul SattarIn early 1850, the steamer 'Clive', coming from Bombay, abandoned five chests of tea in the port of Basra, where Admiral Lancaster was serving his sentence of exile. The policy of promoting tea begins in parallel with a series of assassinations of Dutch coffee dealers, until tea became the number one drink in southern Iraq. This novel is...
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The Antikkhana
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Nasser IraqThe novel transports us to nineteenth-century Cairo and the Antikkhana, the first museum founded in Egypt in the time of the Khedive Ismail (1863-1879). The narrative unfolds through the eyes of four main characters. One is Ramadan al-Mahmadi, an Egyptian carpenter who lures housemaids with promises of marriage into stealing artefacts...
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The Harafish
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Maguib MahfouzAn epic novel that chronicles the dramatic history of the al-Nagi family -- a family that moves, over many generations, from the height of power and glory to the depths of decadence and decay. This new edition with re-designed cover is part of a special project to embrace, celebrate, and honor the...
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Days of the Shining Sun
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Miral al-TahawyThe events of this novel are sandwiched between the suicide of Jamal, a young man torn between different identities, in the opening pages, and the suicide of Mimi, an African girl who has survived a massacre in her country, at the end of the novel. They take place in an imagined small town called Shining Sun on the southwestern border...
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Khan al-Khalili
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Naguib MahfouzThe time is 1942, World War II is at its height, and the Africa Campaign is raging along the northern coast of Egypt. Against this backdrop, Mahfouz’s novel tells the story of the Akifs, a middle-class family that has taken refuge in Cairo’s colorful and bustling Khan al-Khalili neighborhood. Believing that the German forces will...
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