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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 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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  • Available in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its plac...

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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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  • 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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  • Diaries
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    Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...

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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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  • 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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  • Masterfully explores the significance of water in Chile's vast history and culture, examining the indigenous tribes of the Western Pat...

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  • The Arabic translation of Philip Roth's novel about Coleman Silk, the dean of faculty at a small liberal arts college who is accused o...

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

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  • A funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...

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

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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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  • Samy is very shy and doesn't like to talk to other people because it's scary and he doesn't know what to say. Now his little dog is lo...

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Novels

Novels

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Novels  

  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Khalil Nassif

     The novel draws parallels between the experiences of its characters during their childhood and upbringing, revealing post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from childhood traumas. Shortlisted for the Katara Prize for Arabic Fiction 2023.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Hanan al-Shaykh

    Yasmine left Beirut for the South of France years ago. An optimist by nature, she manages to find joy in her days in a suburban housing project in the Var region, but worries about the idleness and addictions of Naji, her only child. The young man dreams of becoming a rapper and fuels his creativity with drugs. Mother and son no longer know how...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Sharon Dodua Otoo

    A kaleidoscopic novel spanning generations and continents, that reveals the connections between four women in their struggle for survival. A woman in 15th century West Africa named Ada buries her child and confronts a Portuguese enslaver. A woman in Victorian England named Ada Lovelace, a mathematical genius and computer programming pioneer,...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Graham Greene

    It's 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it's not just a political tangle that's kept him tethered to the country. There's also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman who clings to Fowler for protection. Then comes Alden Pyle, an idealistic...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  John Green

    Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Khawlah Hamdi

    I was in love with him from the moment he was born. I would gaze at him all day long, as if he were my first child. He was a little angel, completely white. His pure whiteness was astonishing, like a snowflake in a hot country, and he would nurse and sleep peacefully, and he didn't cry like other babies. His presence beside me filled me with...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Tariq Bakari

    One of two things could have brought him back to Sanhaja, his Amazigh village: the death of the mother who had scarred his childhood, or the return of Najma—the wife of  Bernard, his first love, his forbidden passion, and his surrogate mother—who had disappeared under mysterious circumstances. And now, after a quarter of a...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Shelby Van Pelt

    After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Fariba Vafi

    Tells the story of women confined within four walls, immersed in imposed isolation, not isolation chosen of their own free will. They endure the cold and dull lives of their husbands, and have learned to suppress everything within themselves and to live without a bird soaring high above. The author reveals to us the inner worlds of thousands of...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Julian Barnes

    It's a hilariously revisionist account of Noah's ark, narrated by a passenger who doesn't appear in Genesis. It's a sneak preview of heaven. It encompasses the stories of a cruise ship hijacked by terrorists and of woodworms tried for blasphemy in sixteenth-century France. It explores the relationship of fact to fabulation and the antagonism...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Maria Semple

    When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the Earth to find her.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Mahmoud Abd al-Ghani

    The novel chronicles the lives of American writers for whom Tangier was a major stop on their creative journeys, including the American playwright Tennessee Williams, who lived in Tangier for a long period, Paul Bowles and his wife Jane Bowles, Gertrude Stein, and William Burroughs. The novel also features a large number of Moroccan writers.

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