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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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  • When cholera breaks out in the village, Sandra and Pato learn about treatment and prevention.

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

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Genaro 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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  • It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner p...

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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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    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 ...

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  • Winner of both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize, this is the story of a "Don Juan" lover of women during the e...

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Novels

Novels

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Novels  

  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Abi Daré

    A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to get an education so that she can escape and choose her own future. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Heddi Goodrich

    An American student falls in love with an Italian geology student in Naples' Spanish Quarter, where their different backgrounds collide in a passionate romance.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Duna Ghali

    South is a comprehensive and evocative title for that part of the Iraqi map encompassing Zubair, Tanuma, Ashar, Abu al-Khasib, and other areas, collectively known as Basra. It is also the social backdrop for the characters and events in Dana Ghali's book, which comprises two narratives: the first, "Steps," in two parts, and the second, "The...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Toni Morrison

    Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As the author follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Ahmad Dahiya

    This novel, unprecedented in its themes within Sudanese narrative, presents a captivating narrative exploration of rural life in South Sudan. Through the densely populated and eventful setting of the village of Reth Banaw, and the passage of the official army through towns and villages, a rich African cultural consciousness emerges, imbued with...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Eman al-Alili

    Grave nightmares . . inescapable fears . .  a house full of memories and one woman who holds the key to the answer.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Loranne Vella

    A journey begins with a glance through a camera lens, a photograph, a box full of pictures. A journey to Malta . . . a Malta of the future.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Leila Aboulela

    When Salma, Moni, and Iman-friends and active members of their local Muslim Women's group-decide to take a road trip together to the Scottish Highlands, they leave behind lives often dominated by obligation, frustrated desire, and dull predictability. Each wants something more out of life, but fears the cost of taking it. When the women are...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Ahmad 'Ali Zayn

    To be alive means that you have survived, and that the cause of your existence has survived before, a chain of survivals that extends back to the beginning of creation, to the descendants of Noah's sons, whose ark landed on a mountaintop to engage in procreation, war, and killing. It's a mathematical equation that appears simple on the surface,...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Alain de Botton

    A novel that explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain love, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence. You experience, along with protagonists, Rabih and Kirsten, the first flush of infatuation, the effortlessness of falling into romantic love, and the course of life...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Hassouna Mosbahi

    Arab intellectuals gather in the cafes of exile, sharing their bitter tears of despair and sip cups of wandering and homelessness in a country they once considered a warmer embrace than the cemetery of their East. Driven by a desire to avenge their ambitions against the corruption of its regimes and politicians, they discover that they are...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Joan Didion

    A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, this novel captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. 

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