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English
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This winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize and national bestseller is “an innovative reimagining of the family saga . . . Celestial Bodies is itself a treasure house: an intricately calibrated chaos of familial orbits and conjunctions, of the gravitational pull of secrets" (The New York Times Book Review).
In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after...
In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after...
2) Minor detail
Author
Language
English
Description
"Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba-the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people-and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Negev desert, and among their victims they capture a Palestinian teenager and they rape her, kill her, and bury her in the sand. Many years later, in...
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Language
English
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"Rima, a young girl from Damascus, longs to walk, to be free to follow the will of her feet, but instead is perpetually constrained. She finds refuge in a fantasy world full of colored crayons, secret planets, and The Little Prince, reciting passages of the Qur'an like a mantra as everything and everyone around her is blown to bits. Since Rima hardly ever speaks, people think she's crazy, but she is no fool--the madness is in the battered city around...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"On a December morning in 1907, two close friends, Hanna and Zakariya, return to their village near Aleppo after a night of drunken carousing in the city, only to discover that there has been a massive flood. Their neighbors, families, children--nearly all of them are dead. Their homes, shops, and places of worship are leveled. Their lives will never be the same. Hanna was once a wealthy libertine, a landowner who built a famed citadel devoted to...
Publisher
Eros International
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hindi
Description
Raftaar, the apple of his mother's eye, is also the biggest irritant for his father. He is always looking to have fun. This displeases his father to no end. One day, fed up of his dalliances, his father orders Raftaar to go to Goa and work for his friend there, and learn to take on responsibility. Once in Goa, he impresses his new boss with his enthusiasm and out of the box thinking. Soon he gets an important assignment from his boss which gets him...
8) The idol
Publisher
Adopt Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Arabic
Description
A bother and sister called a place home and their playground where others consider it a place of conflict, destruction and despair.
9) Omar
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Arabic
Description
Omar is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets to cross the separation wall to visit his secret love Nadia. But occupied Palestine knows neither simple love nor clear-cut war. When Omar is captured after a deadly act of resistance, he falls into a cat-and-mouse game with the military police. Suspicion and betrayal jeopardize his longtime trust with his childhood friends, but it's soon evident that everything he does is for his love of Nadia.
10) The dark tower
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Industries
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the best-selling book series by highly-acclaimed author Stephen King. The last Gunslinger, Roland has been locked in an eternal battle with the Man in Black, determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the epic battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.--From container.
11) 200 meters
Author
Series
Language
Arabic
Formats
Description
A Palestinian construction worker living in the West Bank, 200 meters from his family on the other side of the Israeli border wall, tries to smuggle himself into Israel after his young son is seriously injured and taken to an Israeli hospital.
Publisher
Reliance Home Video & Games, a division of Reliance Big Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hindi
Description
Sona is a lovely girl from a small village, who has been lovingly brought up by her brother Raghu, who has worked night and day to make sure that Sona gets a good life. They are not very rich, but their love for each other is priceless. Ram, is the only child of Australia based billionaire, Siddharth and Ashvini. Ram and his mother come to India to attend his cousin Riya's wedding. Here he meets Sona, who is Riya's childhood friend. Ram, gets drawn...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 248
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
xliii, 1313 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
15) Theeb
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Arabic
Description
1916. While war rages in the Ottoman Empire, Hussein raises his younger brother Theeb in a traditional Bedouin community that is isolated by the vast, unforgiving desert. The brothers' quiet existence is suddenly interrupted when a British Army officer and his guide ask Hussein to escort them to a water well located along the old pilgrimage route to Mecca. So as not to dishonor his recently deceased father, Hussein agrees to lead them on the long...
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