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Kalma Chocolate Author's name: Laura Esquivel Tita is the youngest daughter in the De La Garza family. Mexican tradition forbids her from marrying so she can care for her mother. However, Tita falls in love with Pedro, who is enamored with her and the...

Al-Jazirah Al-Hamra crime Author's name: Mohamed Esmat - Basem El-Khashen Al Jazirah Al Hamra is about 45 minutes from Dubai, specifically on the outskirts of Ras Al Khaimah. You'll surely find comfort there; your balcony will overlook the golf courses or the sea, as...

Black Babylon Author's name: Amal Al-Ali This black one is stuffed with the dead in every pore of the book... but in a different way... very different! So be careful that it doesn't kill you too! This is the only help you will get...

Black fantasy Author's name: Aya Al-Hamoud When she entered that world, she discovered unexpected secrets and lived an extremely strange experience that threw her into the depths of the supernatural, shrouded in mystery. She wondered: Are we living in a real world? Or an...

This is a different kind of revenge. Author's name: Muhammad Al-Waiz I walked through the corridor, rushed... confused... heavy-footed, not pausing for a moment, facing the crowd of visitors that had grown larger than before. I passed through the crowd, and everyone I encountered...

Nights after the thousand Author's name: Ahoud Al Naqbi Like a thousand and one nights, as smart as Scheherazade; She had enough stories if King Shahryar refused to marry her. These stories did not end after the Thousand and One Nights. There was more....

The most controversial Author's name: Iman Tufan A novel with violent waves... and reaching the port of peace in completing its reading. The heroes of the novel set off from the land of Al-Barfay, which you will not find on the map, about a...

Death Conference Author's name: Muhammad Saeed Al-Dubous What happened at the death conference?! How could a conference with this name end?! What is the role of the game of roulette in exploring the secrets of the children’s cemetery! A strange group of terrifying crimes...

Death on a comfortable couch Author Name: Paul Tyler We are old bodies in a modern world, and things are not going well. It's true that life has become more comfortable and less demanding, but we have also become more obese, depressed, and addicted...

The limits of knowledge Author Name: A.C. Grayling An Epic Journey to the Frontiers of Human Knowledge. A.C. Grayling, the renowned British philosopher, takes you on an unprecedented intellectual adventure across the worlds of science, history, and psychology. In this book, which combines profound...

Mind wanderings Author's name: Rafael Gaillard The stereotype of the mad, unconventional creative person has been entrenched throughout the ages. Is madness the origin of art and creativity? Or is it an obstacle to its manifestation? Is there a scientific basis for the deeply...

Departure theories and factors affecting it Author's name: Muhammad Hassan Alwan There are more than two hundred million migrants in the world today. If they were to gather in one independent country, it would be the fifth most populous. Adding those who are temporarily...

Marry a Saudi woman Author's name: Badriya Al-Bishr From a law prohibiting women from driving to what people do when they stop at a red light, there's a host of important social topics, sometimes with a political undertone, that the author addresses in simple,...

Islam as we explain it to our children Author's name: Tahar Ben Jelloun Narrating the story of a man destined to be a prophet, and the story of a religion and civilization that have made many contributions to humanity, Tahar Ben Jelloun speaks about...

Racism as I explain it to my daughter Author's name: Tahar Ben Jelloun Children are curious. They ask a lot of questions, expecting precise and convincing answers. Their questions cannot be dealt with equivocally. This book was born when ten-year-old Miriam asked her father,...

imaginary life Author's name: Alberto Manguel Like a river overflowing with words, Manguel flows as soon as his interlocutor touches on the subject of reading. In this book, Manguel talks about his childhood, his intellectual formation, his work as a reader at the age...

Reading memory Author's name: Alberto Manguel In June 2015, Manguel prepared to leave his old country house in France's Loire Valley for a small apartment in Manhattan. While moving his extensive personal library and choosing which books to keep, store, or discard, Manguel found...

Reading diary Author's name: Alberto Manguel Alberto Manguel, reading Goethe's *Eclectic Affinities* while traveling in Calgary, was struck by how much the novel reflected the social chaos of the world in which he lived. A passage in the novel could suddenly illuminate a daily...

Sofia Author's name: Muhammad Hassan Alwan Moataz is a young man in his thirties who doesn't attract attention or raise questions. He suffers from a deep condition inside him, he doesn't know what it is: a defect in the optic nerve, a rebellious memory...

The swing Author's name: Badriya Al-Bishr Maryam heads to Geneva in search of her husband, who left her in Riyadh with her two children. Salwa follows her ex-husband after her family forced her to divorce him. Anab decides to live her life in Geneva...

Fahrenheit 451 Author's name: Ray Bradbury Pulitzer Prize 2007 Guy Montag is a firefighter. His job is to burn banned books, which the rulers consider the source of all evil and tragedy. Yet Montag is miserable. Influenced by his neighbor Clarisse, he begins stealing...

French prisoner Author's name: Jean Dost The French envoy, Pierre, is captured in Bayezid and imprisoned by order of its ruler, Mahmud Pasha. This happened during his journey from France to Iran to meet the Shah on an official mission entrusted to him by...

insomnia Author's name: Tahar Ben Jelloun A little sleep, please... a little of this sweet, pleasant absence... a walk among the stars in the absolute darkness. A screenwriter from Tangier suffers from debilitating insomnia. He discovers that killing someone allows him to sleep. His...

The white line of the night Author's name: Khaled Al-Nasrallah After a childhood spent turning the pages of his favorite books, and a youth spent working as a proofreader, he is pained when a book is banned and annoyed by having to reject some...

They are waiting for dawn Author's name: Jean Dost Seventy-nine days have passed since the trench warfare that the state started against the party, and the party started against itself! Only a madman would choose the battlefield to write his novel: “Salma’s Madman.” Between...

Honey and bitterness Author's name: Tahar Ben Jelloun Tangier, early 21st century. She was among his victims. He is a pervert who lures teenage girls by tempting them to publish their poems in his newspaper. She is a sixteen-year-old teenager. Samia did not confide...

cocoa Author's name: Jorge Amado After his father's death, Sergipano is forced to leave his land and become a laborer on a cocoa plantation. There, he is surprised by the slavery to which the plantation workers are subjected. Sergipano finds a respite when Maria,...

The Translator's Lover Author's name: Jean Dost Seven days and nights were spent by the translator's lover, delving into his ancient memories in search of the beginning of his journey to the "Land of the Crosses." A dream project that his father never fulfilled,...

News from foreign countries Author's name: Alberto Manguel "McKitterick Prize" 1992 A journey into darkness, but also a love story, with a sensitivity that explores the known, the unknown, and the unknowable between man and woman, between father and daughter. The novel tells the...

Three steps to the gallows Author's name: Jean Dost Sheikh Saeed was forced to lead the Kurdish revolution against Turkey before the conditions and preparations were ripe, and it ended with the fading of the Kurdish dream of independence. He was the leader, but...