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Have you noticed the artistry of the sky? Cloud Maker covers the sky with white fluffy clouds. Star Maker hangs the stars one by one in the sky. There is also Sky Painter. His job is to paint the night sky in the most beautiful shades of blue. But in the dark he thinks now on sees him and sometimes he feels lonely. Then one day...
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A colorful story based on a proverb from Saudi oral tradition. The proverb says "cut off my nose for I am in a hurry", and refers to a story about a meeting of birds in which the end result is expected to be the cutting off of beaks of all birds for some reason. However, the owl is in a hurry and doesn't want to wait until the matter is decided....
Munira is called on by the teacher but she doesn't want to answer. She feels ashamed because some of her teeth are missing and her speech sounds funny. Munira and her classmates learn that this is a natural occurrence and there is no need to feel embarrassed.
Tagging along with his brother Rodrick's band, Löded Diper, Greg gets more than he bargained for when he gets a backstage pass to the rock 'n' roll lifestyle and wonders if he can help them become the legends they think they are.
After a disastrous field day competition at school, Greg decides that when it comes to his athletic career, he's officially retired. But after his mom urges him to give sports one more chance, he reluctantly agrees to sign up for basketball. Tryouts are a mess, and Greg is sure he won't make the cut. But he unexpectedly lands a spot on the worst...
In early 1850, the steamer 'Clive', coming from Bombay, abandoned five chests of tea in the port of Basra, where Admiral Lancaster was serving his sentence of exile. The policy of promoting tea begins in parallel with a series of assassinations of Dutch coffee dealers, until tea became the number one drink in southern Iraq. This novel is...
The novel transports us to nineteenth-century Cairo and the Antikkhana, the first museum founded in Egypt in the time of the Khedive Ismail (1863-1879). The narrative unfolds through the eyes of four main characters. One is Ramadan al-Mahmadi, an Egyptian carpenter who lures housemaids with promises of marriage into stealing artefacts...
This novel tackles a new subject in the Arabic novel: the fate of the Tuareg, who fled their lands after the 1973 drought which hit the Sahara in the north of Mali, and headed towards southern Algeria and Libya, settling in refugee camps there. From 1980, they were used by Gaddafi in wars in Chad and Lebanon in exchange for a promise of an...
An epic novel that chronicles the dramatic history of the al-Nagi family -- a family that moves, over many generations, from the height of power and glory to the depths of decadence and decay. This new edition with re-designed cover is part of a special project to embrace, celebrate, and honor the...
The heroine of the novel, Khatun Al-Maghouliya, is one of the last female practitioners of magic and divination in Syria. Her daughter, now a young woman, disapproved of her mother’s profession and left her home to study philosophy in Damascus, far from the influence and reputation of her mother. When Khatun disappears, the daughter tries...