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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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  • The 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The definitive biography of the 45th President of the United States presents the life of Donald Trump from his boyhood to his time in ...

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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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  • The author presents a timeline and notes on his experiences of the atrocities and horror committed on civilians by warring clan m...

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  • On May 6th, 1945, soldiers of the US Army occupied the Heinrich Himmler family home in Gmund, Germany where they discovered hundreds o...

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  • Bird Box
    arabic

    In 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 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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  • 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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  • By 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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  • Previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is a fun, entertaining story about a mysterious stranger who shows up at a famil...

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  • This 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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  • This thought-provoking book, now available in Arabic, identifies cooperation as the most important challenge faced by civil socie...

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  • Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict,...

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Fiction

Fiction

Adult fiction including novels, short stories, and science fiction in all of Sawa's world languages

Fiction  

  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Ali Smith

    It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner party one evening, a guest named Miles goes upstairs between dinner and dessert and locks himself in the spare bedroom and refuses to leave or communicate for months.  What happens next, according to the reviews, is nothing...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Short Stories
    Author:  Tahar Ben Jelloun

    Winner of the Dublin Prize, this is undoubtedly one of the most enchanted books by the award-winning Moroccan author. Ben Jelloun takes the ten tales of Perrault (Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, etc.), masterfully reworks them in an Arab and Muslim context, and presents them in the manner of the Thousand and One Nights.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Jean-Paul Sartre

    An Arabic translation of "La Mort Dans L'Ame" by French philosopher, playwright, and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre. This novel, part of the Roads to Freedom series, offers a moving portrayal of the fall of France in 1940 and the tormented response of the French people to German occupation.

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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:  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...

    $36.95
  • 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:  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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