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![ಆವರಣ [Aavarana] by S.L. Bhyrappa, ಎಸ್.ಎಲ್. ಭೈರಪ್ಪ](https://48f-1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/books/small/64165d2093d16ed524c12504.jpg)
ಆವರಣ [Aavarana] by S.L. Bhyrappa, ಎಸ್.ಎಲ್. ಭೈರಪ್ಪ
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAavarana (Kannada: ಆವರಣ) is a 2007 Kannada novel by one of the eminent novelists S.L. Bhyrappa. Aavarana means enveloping or covering something. This novel deals with the historical period in Indian history when the Mogul Emperor Aurangzeb ruled most part of India. Aavarana was sold out even before its release in February 2007... -
![ڕازی بیلال by أحمد خيري العمري]()
ڕازی بیلال by أحمد خيري العمري
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsئەوەی کە بە چیرۆکی بیلالی کوڕی ڕەباح کاریگەربێ شتێکەو، ئەوەش کە هەموو ژیانت بەهۆی ئەوەوە بگۆڕێ بە تەواوی شتێکی دیکەیە...هەروەها ئەوە ئەگەر لە کۆمەڵگایەکی عەرەبی موسڵماندا ڕووبدات شتێکە، بەڵام ئەی ئەگەر لە نیۆرکدا ڕووبدات؟سەرەڕای نامۆییەکەی بەڵام ئەوە ڕوویدا.. -
![Fortunata and Jacinta by Benito Pérez Galdós, Agnes Moncy Gullón]()
Fortunata and Jacinta by Benito Pérez Galdós, Agnes Moncy Gullón
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCapturing a ninteenth-century Spanish world of political tumult and personal obsession, Benito Pérez Galdós's Fortunata and Jacinta tells of two women who love the same man unfailingly—one as his mistress, the other as his wife... -
![Life is Beautiful/La Vita è Bella: A Screenplay by Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami]()
Life is Beautiful/La Vita è Bella: A Screenplay by Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis romantic, hilarious, and astonishingly moving story, winner of the Grand Jury prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, explores the power of the imagination, set against the stark reality of World War II Europe. The companion screenplay to the Miramax film presents the profound yet tender story that has touched the hearts of so many... -
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![Democracy, Shaken & Stirred: A Novel by วินทร์ เลียววาริณ]()
Democracy, Shaken & Stirred: A Novel by วินทร์ เลียววาริณ
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDemocracy in Thailand was born in Paris, a lofty ideal hatched by a handful of intellectuals. When the People's Party propelled Thailand into a democracy in 1932, most Thai people were not ready for it. They saw it only as a power game that diminished their most revered king and gave carte blanche to bottomless corruption by people in power... -
![The Rock of Tanios by Amin Maalouf]()
The Rock of Tanios by Amin Maalouf
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTanios was a child of the mountains of Lebanon in the 1880s when the Egyptian Pashas were struggling against Ottoman domination and the British and French plotted with and against each other. Amin Maalouf's novel, The Rock of Tanios, begins with a recollection of the rock on which Tanios was last seen sitting and weaves together the strands of the fascinating legend of his disappearance... -
![The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni]()
The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes... -
![The Mountain Wreath by Petar II Petrović Njegoš, Prince-Bishop of Montenegro Peter II]()
The Mountain Wreath by Petar II Petrović Njegoš, Prince-Bishop of Montenegro Peter II
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Mountain Wreath (Serbian: Gorski vijenac) is a poem and a play, a masterpiece of Serbian literature, written by Montenegrin Prince-Bishop and poet Petar II Petrovic-Njegos.Njegos wrote The Mountain Wreath during 1846 in Cetinje and published it the following year after the printing in an Armenian monastery in Vienna... -
![Statky-zmätky by Jozef Gregor Tajovský, Milan Rúfus]()
Statky-zmätky by Jozef Gregor Tajovský, Milan Rúfus
Rated: 2.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJ. G. Tajovského poznáme predovšetkým vďaka jeho krátkym prózam Mamka Pôstková a Maco Mlieč. Málokto však vie, že začiatky písania jeho divadelných hier sa spájajú s neuhasiteľnou láskou k rodnému jazyku, v ktorom vyučoval slovenské deti napriek silnej maďarizácii... -
![The Sealed Nectar: Biography of the Noble Prophet: Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum (The Sealed Nectar): Biography of the Prophet by Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri]()
The Sealed Nectar: Biography of the Noble Prophet: Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum (The Sealed Nectar): Biography of the Prophet by Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA complete authoritative book on the life of Prophet Muhammad (S) by Sheikh Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarkpuri. It was honored by the World Muslim League as first prize winner book. Whoever wants to know the whole life style of the Prophet in detail must read this book. Muhammad (S) is the Messenger of Allah, and those who are with him, are severe against the disbelievers, and merciful among themselves... -
![The Arab of the Future 4: A Graphic Memoir of a Childhood in the Middle East, 1987-1992 by Riad Sattouf]()
The Arab of the Future 4: A Graphic Memoir of a Childhood in the Middle East, 1987-1992 by Riad Sattouf
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe penultimate installment in the bestselling French graphic memoir series—hailed as “exquisitely illustrated” and “irresistible”—covering the years of Riad Sattouf’s adolescence, from 1987-1992.In the fourth volume of The Arab of the Future, little Riad has grown into a teenager... -
![King: A Life by Jonathan Eig]()
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times. Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.―and the first to include recently declassified FBI files...Categorized as:
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![Stories of the Prophets by Hafiz Ibn Kathir]()
Stories of the Prophets by Hafiz Ibn Kathir
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn this book, the stories of the prophets have been compiled from 'Al-Bidayah wan-Nihayah' (The Beginning and the End) which is a great work of the famous Muslim exegete and historian Ibn Kathir and has a prominent place in the Islamic literature. The stories of the prophets and all the events in their lives have been supported by the Qur'anic Verses and the Sunnah (traditions) of the Prophet (S)... -
![India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha, Edakochi Salimkumar]()
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha, Edakochi Salimkumar
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA magisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi is a breathtaking chronicle of the brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation and the extraordinary factors that have held it together... -
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![No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes by Anand Gopal]()
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes by Anand Gopal
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAs U.S. troops prepare to withdraw, the shocking tale of how the American military had triumph in sight in Afghanistan—and then brought the Taliban back from the deadIn the popular imagination, Afghanistan is often regarded as the site of intractable conflict, the American war against the Taliban a perpetually hopeless quagmire... -
![Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris]()
Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA National Book Critics Circle finalist • One of People 's top 10 books of 2021 • An instant New York Times bestseller • Named a best book of the year by NPR and TimeA magnificent biography of one of the most protean creative forces in American entertainment history, a life of dazzling highs and vertiginous plunges — some of the worst largely unknown until now — by the acclaimed author of... -
![L'Arabe du futur 5 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1992-1994 by Riad Sattouf]()
L'Arabe du futur 5 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1992-1994 by Riad Sattouf
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsRiad a 14 ans, ses cheveux blonds ont disparu, et il a un physique difficile. À la fin du tome précédent, son père s’est enfui en Syrie avec son plus jeune frère, Fadi. Tandis que sa mère utilise tous les recours légaux pour récupérer son fils, Riad poursuit son exploration de cet âge pénible qu’est l’adolescence et se réfugie dans le paranormal... -
![El abismo del olvido by Paco Roca, Rodrigo Terrasa]()
El abismo del olvido by Paco Roca, Rodrigo Terrasa
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPaco Roca viaja a nuestro pasado con El abismo del olvido para recuperar junto al periodista Rodrigo Terrasa la historia real de Leoncio Badía —joven republicano obligado a trabajar de sepulturero—; de José Celda —fusilado y enterrado en una fosa común, ejemplo de las decenas de miles de españoles que fueron represaliados de forma salvaje por el régimen franquista—; y de Pepica Celda —hija de... -
![Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past by Firas Alkhateeb]()
Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past by Firas Alkhateeb
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIslam has been one of the most powerful religious, social and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and later empires expanded to control territories and peoples that ultimately stretched from southern France to East Africa and South East Asia... -
![Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas]()
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“[A] sweeping and authoritative history" (The New York Times Book Review), Black Wave is an electrifying and audacious narrative examination of how the modern Middle East unraveled and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979... -
![Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth by Noa Tishby]()
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth by Noa Tishby
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAUDIO INCLUDES THE SONG “ELATION STATION” BY INFECTED MUSHROOM!A “fascinating and very moving” (Aaron Sorkin, award-winning screenwriter of The West Wing and The Social Network ) chronological timeline spanning from Biblical times to today that explores one of the most interesting countries in the world—Israel.Israel... -
![Like Dreamers: The Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem in the Six-Day War, and the Divided Israel They Created by Yossi Klein Halevi]()
Like Dreamers: The Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem in the Six-Day War, and the Divided Israel They Created by Yossi Klein Halevi
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLike Dreamers by Yossi K. Halevi has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher... -
![Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé]()
Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe myths and reality behind the state of Israel and Israeli-Palestinian conflict—from “the most eloquent writer on Palestinian history” ( New Statesman )In this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of... -
![The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution by Peter Hessler]()
The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution by Peter Hessler
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the acclaimed author of River Town and Oracle Bones, an intimate excavation of life in one of the world's oldest civilizations at a time of convulsive changeDrawn by a fascination with Egypt's rich history and culture, Peter Hessler moved with his wife and twin daughters to Cairo in 2011... -
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![Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama]()
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern stateWriting in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition...Categorized as:
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![The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne, Tamara Payne]()
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne, Tamara Payne
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn epic, award-winning biography of Malcolm X that draws on hundreds of hours of personal interviews and rewrites much of the known narrative. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to create an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X, one that would separate fact from fiction... -
![David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism by Gregory A. Prince, Wm Robert Wright]()
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism by Gregory A. Prince, Wm Robert Wright
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOrdained as an apostle in 1906, David O. McKay served as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1951 until his death in 1970. Under his leadership, the church experienced unparalleled growth—nearly tripling in total membership—and becoming a significant presence throughout the world.The first book to draw upon the David O. McKay Papers at the J... -
![Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil]()
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocideOne by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale... -
![Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran by Shirin Ebadi]()
Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran by Shirin Ebadi
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi has inspired millions around the globe through her work as a human rights lawyer defending women and children against a brutal regime in Iran. Now Ebadi tells her story of courage and defiance in the face of a government out to destroy her, her family, and her mission: to bring justice to the people and the country she loves... -
![King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero by David Remnick]()
King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero by David Remnick
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThere were mythic sports figures before him--Jack Johnson, Babe Ruth, Joe Louis, Joe DiMaggio--but when Cassius Clay burst onto the sports scene from his native Louisville in the 1950s, he broke the mold. He changed the world of sports and went on to change the world itself. As Muhammad Ali, he would become the most recognized face on the planet...
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