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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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  • 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 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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  • Taxi
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    Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010.  In a courageous a...

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

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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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  • 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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  • Elling
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Mohammed Hasan Alwan

    Winner of the 2017 International Prize for Arabic fiction, this novel, by Saudi author, Mohammed Hasan Alwan, is the fictionalized telling of the life of a Sufi saint, Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi. Ibn Arabi was born in 12th century Muslim Spain and became a Sufi mystic who traveled the Middle East and wrote about his experiences.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Robert Galbraith

    The first novel in the crime fiction series by Robert Galbraith, aka, J.K. Rowling, introduces detective Cormoran Strike, a down-on-his-luck private investigator with no clients who sleeps in his office.  Then a new case shows up, and Strike enters the world of the rich and famous to investigate the death of famous supermodel,...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Laszlo Krasznahorkai

    The first novel by the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize has been translated into Arabic.  Satantango, considered a classic of Hungarian literature, is an other-worldly novel that takes place in a rain-soaked, dying hamlet inhabited by people rife with malaise.  Is the man they are waiting for really resurrected from...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Elias Khoury

    Shortlisted for the 2017 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, this novel by Lebanese author, Elias Khoury, tells the story of Adam Danun, a Palestinian immigrant to New York City. Adam decides to write his autobiography and the novel is his life story growing up in a ghetto surrounded by barbed-wire in 1948 Palestine.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Self-help
    Author:  Linda Kita-Bradley

    Ideal for adult English language learners.  Adult-themed dual language reader for new literates in Arabic and English. Al is an adult man who wants to lose weight fast so he tries a fad diet.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Saad Mohammed Raheem

    Shortlisted for the 2017 International Prize for Arabic fiction, this novel by award-winning Iraqi author, Saad Mohammed Raheem, tells the story of journalist Magid Baghdadi.  Baghdadi has been commissioned by an anonymous wealthy donor to investigate the life and death of Mahmoud al-Marzouq, a 70-year-old bookseller and artist who died...

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  • Language:  Arabic, English
    Subject:  Education
    Author:  Linda Kita-Bradley

    Ideal for adult English language learners.  Adult-themed dual language reader for new literates in Arabic and English.  Sami, a refugee, volunteers at a local thrift store.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Ingvar Ambjornsen

    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 novel about two roommates with extreme social anxiety who are trying to live like normal average people.  It has also been translated into English under the title, "Beyond the Great Indoors."

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Agatha Christie

    Not only is Agatha Christie the best-selling author of all time, but "Murder on the Orient Express" ranks number three on the Guardian's list of Top Ten Christie novels. Just as popular with Arabic readers, in this mystery, the dapper Hercule Poirot must solve the murder of an American tycoon on the Orient Express.

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  • Language:  German
    Children Books:  Ages 3-5
    Author:  Marie Norin

    Translated from the Swedish.  This is the story of Lyra and Rally -- two little girls who are best friends who play and play and play all day, but sometimes, just like in all friendships, little jealousies erupt. And secrets, too.  Like the time Rally forgot her favorite teddy and Lyra doesn't tell her friend where the teddy is . . .

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  • Language:  German
    Children Books:  Ages 1-2, Ages 3-5
    Author:  Chris Haughton

    A new book by beloved children's author, Chris Haughton.  Night has fallen and it is time to say goodnight.  All the animals are so tired and settle into their warm houses for cozy sleep.  As they slumber, the bright moon keeps watch in the sky above.

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  • Language:  German
    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  JoJo Moyes

    A novel based on true events. In July 1946 the British aircraft carrier HSM Victorious travels from Australia to England.  Among the passengers are 655 war brides -- women who had married British serviceman serving in Australia during the War. Now the war was over and it was time to go meet their husbands in a new home.  Four women who...

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