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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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  • Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciat...

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

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

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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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  • Victoria
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    This 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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  • A 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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  • H.G. Wells' classic study in the progress and history of civilization from the origins of life on Earth up to historic developments in...

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  • Through a clever mix of stop-motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story:...

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  • Sophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth.  Originally published in the 19th century, Segur'...

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • A 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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Novels

Novels

In all of Sawa's world languages

Novels  

  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Ibrahim Farghali

    This 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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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Malek al-Mubarak

    This book is not about ports or ships; rather, it is about the author’s own soul—lost somewhere between departure and return—and about that young boy who once stood upon a harbor quay, dreaming that the world was far vaster than his small village, never realizing that the waves would carry him away into a life devoid of...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Emma Donoghue

    In 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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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Huda Barakat

    The 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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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Nadia Hashimi

    Obayda'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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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Yan Mo

    In China, the tragic romance of farmer Gao Ma and Fang Jijnu, the pregnant woman who elopes with him. It is told against the background of the 1988 garlic farmers' revolt, protesting corrupt officialdom in Paradise County.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Yusuf Zaydan

    This 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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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Walid Makki

    A novel that is at once profoundly realistic and deeply mythical. It offers a keen observation of customs and traditions, alongside a continuous narrative chronicling the coexistence of *Jinn* and humans—beings who appear to form a single, interwoven fabric within this quintessentially tribal society.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Hasan Kamal

    Salma, a conservative Egyptian woman nearing the age of forty, makes the alarming and hurtful discovery that her husband is a serial cheat. Her favourite preacher then recants on his beliefs, causing her to radically reevaluate her life and try to fulfil her old dream of becoming a writer. Desperate to find inspiration for her work, she begins...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Basim Khandaqji

    Nur, 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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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Elena Armas

    Rosie 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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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Mary Ann Shaffer

    It'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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