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  • Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place ...

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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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    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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  • Language:  Arabic
    Children Books:  Ages 3-5
    Author:  Shaykha al-Ziyarah

    Owl has a lot of books at her house, but they are messy.  She asks her friends to help her organize them by color.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Children Books:  Ages 3-5
    Author:  Sana' Shabbani

    A story to help young readers learn the concept of time.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Children Books:  Ages 3-5
    Author:  Muhammad Kazim Jawad

    When I go to school in the morning, the sun is behind me and I see my shadow. At lunchtime, my shadow is very short.  In the afternoon, when the sun is in front of me, I don't see my shadow. Where is my shadow?

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Children Books:  Ages 3-5
    Author:  Fatima Sharaf al-Din

    On a warm day the mom and dad animals wake up from an afternoon nap and can't find all the babies, but the babies have a big surprise.  This book helps children learn the sounds that animals make.

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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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