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

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  • When it was first published in 1937 Poland, Witold Gombrowicz's novel was considered to be subversive by the Communist regime and was ...

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  • An exploration and critique of the Somali criminal justice system.

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  • Previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is a fun, entertaining story about a mysterious stranger who shows up at a famil...

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  • It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner p...

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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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  • 21 grams
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    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 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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  • The definitive biography of the 45th President of the United States presents the life of Donald Trump from his boyhood to his time in ...

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Language:  Arabic
    Children Books:  Ages 1-2, Ages 3-5
    Author:  Stella Blackstone

    A little cat discovers colors in the world around her.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Mohammed Eissa al-Mu'adab

    Longlisted for the 2020 IPAF (Hammam Dhahab). When members of the Jewish minority in Tunis flee to France to avoid the Germans, they hide their historical documents in the ground below the Turkish bath (hammam). Years later, one of these Jewish descendents embarks on a journey to discover her roots and returns to Tunis. As she begins her...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Jabbour Douaihy

    Shortlisted for the 2020 IPAF, this is the story of the murder of Zakaria Mubarak who has just returned to his village after a long exile abroad. In his possession is a painting by Marc Chagall that was a gift from his French girlfriend.  Cousins are the suspected murderers in this absorbing novel about murder, rumors of buried treasure,...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Khaled Khalifa

    Longlisted for the 2020 IPAF, this novel by award-winning Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa tells the story of two survivors of a flood that sweeps through the environs of Aleppo in 1907.  Hanna and Zakaria must find a way to go on with their lives despite their losses.  Their small simple lives are set against the wider backdrop of the...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Abdelouahab Aissaoui

    Winner of the 2020 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, this is the second novel by this Algerian author.  It follows the lives of five interconnected characters in Algiers from 1815 to 1833, the era of the French colonial campaign.  As the city of Algiers is transformed, it becomes clear to each of these characters that you either...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Reem Bassiouney

    A sweeping historical novel from the era when the Mamluks ruled Egypt. Mamluks were a warrior class of slave soldiers that rose to power and ruled Egypt and Syria from 1250 to 1517. They are known for having defeated the western European Christian Crusaders and formally ending the era of the Crusades in 1302.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Georges Duhamel

    A new Arabic translation of the French novel about a man with strange fetishes who wanders aimlessly around the streets of Paris after he loses his job.

    $18.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Literature, Social Science
    Author:  Ali Hussein

    The concept and meaning of love is explored through the writings of various philosophers from Sartre to Heidegger and Tolstoy to Einstein.

    $22.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Dean Koontz

    A new dark psychological thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author, Dean Koontz.  When a young woman is told by her doctor that she has one year to live, she responds with by making an astonishing recovery.  She is told she escaped death to save someone else.  Someone named Ashley Bell.  But who is Ashley Bell? From...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  History, Politics, Travel
    Author:  Hermann F. Eilts

    The author, Hermann Frederick Eilts was a U.S. foreign service officer, diplomat, and former American ambassador to Saudia Arabia, Bangladesh, and Egypt.  This book, originally published in 1980, tells the story of Ahmad bin Na'aman's mission to the United States in 1840 on the ship Al-Sultanah. Na'aman, sent by the Sultan of Oman, was the...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Children Books:  Ages 3-5
    Author:  Eric Carle

    A little chameleon visits the zoo and wishes he could be a different animal.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Children Books:  Ages 3-5, Ages 6-10
    Author:  Tim Hopgood

    A funny story about telling the truth by award-winning author Tim Hopgood.

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