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  • Samahani

    by Abdelazziz Baraka Sakin ...
    Translated by Mayada Ibrahim, Adil Babikir ...
    Samahani, the latest work by Sudanese author Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin, winner of the 2020 Prix de la Littérture Arabe, means 'forgive me' in Swahili, two words that stand in stark contrast to everything that happens in this novel.Set in 19th century Zanzibar, this is a dark story of slavery, cruelty and vengeance, that depict the agonies of the native Zanzibaris at the hands of both Europeans and ... Read more

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  • Gates of Anubis

    by Kylie Quillinan ...
    Series Book 4 - The Amarna Age
    The Eye of Horus is almost within Ankhesenamun's grasp. But when she reaches her destination, what awaits her is nothing like she had expected.She was warned the gods wouldn't allow the Eye to be easily found. She was told she might crave its power for herself. She didn't take either warning seriously enough.Ankhesenamun will be tested until she breaks and only then will the gods decide whether ... Read more

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  • Travels with a Tangerine

    A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah

    by Tim Mackintosh-Smith ...
    Ibn Battutah set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on the pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned twenty-nine years later, he had visited most of the known world, travelling three times the distance Marco Polo covered. Spiritual backpacker, social climber, temporary hermit and failed ambassador, he braved brigands, blisters and his own prejudices. The outcome was a monumental travel classic ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Stealing Fire

    by Jo Graham ...
    Alexander the Great's soldier, Lydias of Miletus, has survived the final campaigns of the king's life. He now has to deal with the chaos surrounding his death. Lydias throws his lot in with Ptolemy, one of Alexander's generals who has grabbed Egypt as his personal territory. Aided by the eunuch Bagoas, the Persian archer Artashir, and the Athenian courtesan Thais, Ptolemy and Lydias must take on ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Book of Contemplation

    Islam and the Crusades

    by Usama ibn Munqidh ...
    The volume comprises lightly annotated translation of a key medieval Arabic text that bears directly on the Crusades and Crusader society and the Muslim experience of them. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Akbar birbal Stories

    by Praveen kumar ...
    Akbar Birbal stories have always been an integral part of India's heritage. The witty stories of Akbar and Birbal have always made us laugh and also taught us valuable life lessons. Now read these witty stories from our collection below and have fun!During the reign of Akbar and close to the end of it, local folk tales of his interaction with his advisor Birbal became popular. The stories ... Read more

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  • The Timbuktu School for Nomads

    Across the Sahara in the Shadow of Jihad

    by Nicholas Jubber ...
    "A passionate paean to the Sahara." -- New York Times, Season's Best Travel BooksThe Sahara: a dream-like, far away landscape of Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, The English Patient and Star Wars, and home to nomadic communities whose ways of life stretch back millennia. Today it's a teeth-janglingly dangerous destination, where the threat of jihadists lurks just over the horizon. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • African Myths of Origin

    by Stephen Belcher ...
    Gathering a wide range of traditional African myths, this compelling new collection offers tales of heroes battling mighty serpents and monstrous birds, brutal family conflict and vengeance, and desperate migrations across vast and alien lands. From impassioned descriptions of animal-creators to dramatic stories of communities forced to flee monstrous crocodiles, all the narratives found here ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Landfalls

    On the Edge of Islam from Zanzibar to the Alhambra

    by Tim Mackintosh-Smith ...
    For Ibn Batuttah of Tangier, being medieval didn't mean sitting at home waiting for renaissances, enlightenments and easyJet. It meant travelling the known world to its limits.Seven centuries on, Tim Mackintosh-Smith's passionate pursuit of the fourteenth-century traveller takes him to landfalls in remote tropical islands, torrid Indian Ocean ports and dusty towns on the shores of the Saharan sand ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Last Pomegranate Tree

    Translated by Kareem Abdulrahman ...
    by Bachtyar Ali ...
    An extraordinary chronicle of war and an occult story of love between a father and his son from one of Iraq’s most celebrated contemporary writers“Whenever he told lies, the birds would fly away. It had been that way since he was a child. Whenever he told a lie, something strange would happen.”So begins Bachtyar Ali’s The Last Pomegranate, a phantasmagoric warren of fact, fabrication, and mystical ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali

    by D.T. Niane ...
    Translated by G.D. Pickett ...
    Part history, part legend, this is the story of Sundiata Keita: the heroic figure who founded the empire of Mali. A thirteenth-century oral epic, Sundiata sees the full-length tale captured in print for the first time.This is Sundiata, the epic tale of a man 'great among kings' who, through his legendary deeds and exploits, came to father an empire. For over 800 years, this story has been passed ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sons of the Rumour

    by David Foster ...
    Sons of the Rumour is nothing short of a dazzling and genre-defying work of genius. Foster retells the tale of the legendary eighth-century King Shahrban of Persia who, furious at his wife's infidelity, has decided to marry and then behead a fresh virgin every day. But then the king meets Scheherazade, a beauty of such wiles and storytelling gifts she manages to entertain the him for 1001 nights, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD