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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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  • American universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the&n...

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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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  • The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and mother...

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  • Gueros
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    Ever since the National University strike broke out, Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) and Santos (Leonard0 Ortizgris) have been living in angst-...

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  • A 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Chris 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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  • 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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  • A collection of heartfelt thoughts and bits of wisdom from the Dalai Lama on a variety of subjects and suitable for everyone regardles...

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  • Bird Box
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    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 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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  • Brief biographies and illustrations of famous painters from Michelangelo to Van Gogh and Rembrandt to Picasso. Features fully vow...

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  • 21 grams
    arabic

    In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...

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  • An interesting journey back in time to see how our modern ways of living, and the tools we use, actually originated in primitive cultu...

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Novels

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Novels  

  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Carol Mason

    A woman reeling from the sudden abandonment of her new husband while on their honeymoon tries to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. She returns to work at an art gallery and soon becomes friends with an elderly visitor whose life has haunting parallels to her own.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Erica Jong

    Another funny and daring novel by the author of "Fear of Flying."  In this hilarious, yet poignant novel, a former actress grapples with aging and end of life issues through youthful fantasies fulfilled on a website created by her best friend.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Philip Roth

    Roth's candidly intimate yet universal story of loss and regret, aging and mortaility.  This is Roth's third novel to receive the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

    $16.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Lauren Oliver

    Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and Publishers Weekly, this bestselling debut novel is now available in Arabic.  It tells the story of a popular high school senior who dies in a terrible accident on February 12 "Cupid Day."  The story doesn't end there, however.  The student, by some miracle, relives the last day of her life...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Alice Walker

    The story of Tashi, a minor character from Walker's "The Color Purple." In Walker's words, Tashi "left Africa but had taken her wound with her to America." 

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Stefan Zweig

    This is the final work of the Austrian master, Stefan Zweig.  This psychological novella reflects on Nazism through the game of chess.  When shipmates on their way from New York to Buenos Aires discover that the world champion of chess is also on board, they take him on, game after game, and are soundly defeated.  That is until a...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Muṣṭafá Naṣr

    This novel tells the story of John, the Jewish barber of Alexandria, who is falsely accused of a crime and murdered.  He would later be exonerated and a shrine built in his memory that is celebrated by Jews every year.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Patrick Süskind

    An illustrated novella for adults by the internationally acclaimed author of Perfume.  The narrator reflects on his childhood and the appearance of the bizarre Mr. Sommer who serves as a background to the narrator's inner life and feelings. 

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Philip Roth

    The Arabic translation of Philip Roth's novel about Coleman Silk, the dean of faculty at a small liberal arts college who is accused of racism and forced to resign. The story twists and turns with subtly complex characters against the backdrop of America in the 1940s. 

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Hoda Barakat

    Winner of the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, this novel tells the stories of people in exile through their letters. Author Hoda Barakat is known for exploring the psychological effects of conflict and trauma in her works.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Iman Yehia

    Set in the early 1950s, this is a complex love story between an Egyptian man, Yehia and a Mexican girl named Ruth, who is the daughter of Diego Rivera, the famous mural painter. Longlisted for the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Mohammed Al-Maazuz

    Raheel, even though she is divorced, is determined to remain hopeful.  She resists depression through music, uses her new found freedom to play and sing as a way of sowing seeds of hope. Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2019.

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