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

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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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  • By the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, this is the haunting novella, based on the true story of a Jewish teenager in WWI...

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  • Culture
    arabic

    Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil socie...

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

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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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  • Elling
    arabic

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

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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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  • Gueros
    spanish

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

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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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  • Language:  Arabic
    Children Books:  Ages 6-10
    Author:  Fatima Sharaf al-Din

    A little girl asks her mother if there is a watermelon in her tummy. Her mother says, "no, honey, it is a baby brother for you." The mother then tells her daughter all about her when she was inside mama's tummy. A book about pregnancy and siblings.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Children Books:  Ages 6-10
    Author:  Oumayma Ezzedine

    School starts in just two days and Layla wants a new backback, but all she has is her old one from last year.  How happy she would be if she could only have a new backpack!

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Children Books:  Ages 6-10, Ages 11-13
    Author:  Huda al-Shawa Qaddumi

    An elephant is commissioned to carry the Caliph on a perilous and epic journey across three continents from Baghdad in Iraq to Kairouan in Tunisia, across the sea to the coast of Italy, through the Alps, until finally reaching the royal city of Aachen.  From Saqi Kids.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Alberto Manguel

    A merchant returns to his native Buenos Aires and discovers nothing is as he remembered. The military has begun a campaign of terror and his friends are ghosts.  It is the Dark Era in Argentina's history. 

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Habib al-Sa'ih

    A woman becomes intrigued with her grandfather's diary when she sees the negative effect that reading it has on her father.  Her grandfather was a freedom fighter in the resistance that fought for Algerian independence from France and the diary reveals the daily life and deeds of the freedom soldiers.  Hailed as heroes by the public,...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Kamal al-Riyahi

    The destinies of villains with evil ambitions intersect as they wreak havoc on each other.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Nawal al-Saadawi

    A woman finds an old paper she wrote as a schoolgirl. It was called "Memoirs of a girl named Suad" and her teacher gave her a zero, ending both her life and Suad's. She quit writing after that and became a physician instead. She decides to publish the paper now as an ode to children everywhere who have a desire to write. By the great Egyptian...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Amir Tag Elsir

    An epic novel that blends reality with superstition and magic to describe the role of power in Third World countries and its impact on the individual. This Sudanese author was shortlisted for the 2011 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF).

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Atiq Rahimi

    If there is no body and if there are no witnesses, was there really a crime? Oh the absurdity of murder when the country is immersed in civil war!

    $23.95
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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Hana Hijazi

    Two friends, women from different backgrounds - one tribal, one modern - pursue their passions within a society that does not forgive those who are tempted to commit the sin of love.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Haifa Bitar

    Novel by Syrian writer Haifa Bitar.  A well-educated female journalist finds herself abused and abandoned humiliated  by a sadistic husband.  Not willing to accept defeat, the 50-year-old woman finds her voice and becomes a champion for women's rights.  An uplifting and empowering novel.  

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Social Science
    Author:  Rod Judkins

    Judkins reveals the 57 habits of some of the world's most creative people. From the Beatles to Einstein, Charles Dickens to Damien Hirst, you will learn how to unlock the creativity lurking within. 

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