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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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Culture and the ..
arabicTerry Eagleton, a renowned literary theorist, critic and prolific writer, in this book explores the rise of religious fundamentalism a...
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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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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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Deutschland 83
germanA coming-of-age story within a suspenseful thriller, set against the real events, culture wars and political realities of Germany in t...
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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 story o...
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Cilmiga Ciqaabta
somaliAn exploration and critique of the Somali criminal justice system.
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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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Sophie's misfort..
frenchSophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth. Originally published in the 19th century, Segur'...
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Big history and ..
arabicAvailable in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its plac...
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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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Elling
arabicTranslated from the Norwegian and with a movie by the same name that was nominated for an Oscar, this is an eccentric and truly funny ...
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Diaries
arabicIntroduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...
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Decent one
germanOn 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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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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Trump Revealed: ..
arabicThe 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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Beginning and the end
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Naguib MahfouzThis classic novel by the beloved Naguib Mahfouz in which the woes of a petit bourgeois family thrust into poverty in World War II Cairo are relayed in engrossing detail and represent a microcosm of Egypt's birth pangs in gaining independence. It is a powerful portrayal of a middle-class Egyptian family contronted by material, moral, and...
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Sorry, I can't anymore
Language: ArabicSubject: Short StoriesAuthor: Ihsan Abdel QuddousA collection of short stories by beloved Egyptian writer, Ihsan Abdel Quddous. Written in the early Sixties, it begins with a letter written by Abdel Quddous to President Gamal Abdel Nasser that details the extreme, heavy, and violent censorship to which newspapers are subjected. The press had not yet been nationalized and Abdel Quddous was the...
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Life above the fog
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Ihsan Abdel QuddousShe is a daughter of the upper class and extravagant luxury. He is a son of the lower middle class. Can he rise above his station to be with her? Will she lower herself to be with him? A love story set against the backdrop of an earlier Egyptian society with all its social, political and economic issues by the beloved and...
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The Archer
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Paulo CoelhoA man once famous for his prodigious gift with a bow and arrow but who has since retired from public life, is sought by a boy with many questions. In answering them, the Archer illustrates the way of the bow and the tenets of a meaningful life.
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Orlando
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Virginia WoolfInspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's lover and close friend, it is arguably one of her most popular novels. It is a history of English literature in satiric form. The book describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries,...
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The President is missing
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Bill ClintonIt's a threat so huge it jeopardizes not just Pennsylvania Avenue and Wall Street but all of America. The ramifications could affect the entire world. Uncertainty and fear grip the nation. There are whispers of cyberterror, espionage, and a traitor in the cabinet. Even the president himself becomes a suspect, until he disappears from public view...
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The Queen's gambit
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Walter TevisEight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as Beth hones...
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The Foundling: a story of a child and two...
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Stacey HallsTwo women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything. In London, the year is 1754 and six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known. Dreading the worst, that Clara has died in care, Bess is astonished to be told that Clara has...
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Naqshabandi
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Rahma DiyaA biographical novel of the famous Sufi singer, Sheikh Sayyid Naqshabandi. Born in Egypt, he was well-known and beloved "with a voice that transcends worlds and soulful techniques that touch the heart." Winner of the Khairy Shalabi Award for a first novel 2021.
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Warlight
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Michael OndaatjeJust after World War II, 14-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men...
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The Pearl that broke its shell
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Nadia HashimiIn Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and can rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age. As a son, she can attend school, go to the...
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Heart on the banks of the Danube
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Mohamed AdamThis historical novel takes place Ottoman Egypt in the 16th century during the reigh of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and describes the social and political life at the time.
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