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About Cyprus / [edited by Polly Lyssiotis, Vasiliki Kotoki].

Ahl-i bayt pah QurJ<aLn ksLÐhe / liLk, Anwar ShaLhiLn KhaLnkhel.

Akkadian literature of the late period / Benjamin R. Foster.

Early caliphate / by MaulaLnaL MuhLÐammad J;AliL.

Embracing Islam : the journey begins / Waqas Ahmed.

Estudio arqueoloLgico del proceso coevolutivo entre las poblaciones humanas y las poblaciones de guanaco en Patagonia meridional y norte de Tierra del Fuego / Gabriela Lorena L'Heureux.

Europe and Islam / Bernard Lewis.

First Liberian civil war : the crises of underdevelopment / George Klay Kieh, Jr.

Flowers of perhaps = PirhLÐe ulai / Ra'hel ; translated by Robert Friend with Shimon Sandbank.

Gems from the Holy Quran / Burhanuddin Hassan.

Hatschepsut : eine Frau als KoLnig von ALgypten / Marianne Schnittger.

Islam beLninois aL la croiseLe des chemins : histoire, politique et deLveloppement / Galilou Abdoulaye.

J;Agunot : MaJ;asLeh rav me-e.ha.kLÐ. / [Shai J;Agnon].

Jinnah, creator of Pakistan / by Hector Bolitho.

Juifs de France sous la monarchie de juillet / Gilbert Roos.

Kashmir's ordeal-- a revolutionary way out / Lal Khan.

Lycia et Pamphylia : eine roLmische Provinz im SuLdwesten Kleinasiens / Hartwin Brandt, Frank Kolb.

Margarita, how beautiful the sea : a novel / by Sergio RamiLrez ; translated by Michael B. Miller.

Migdol : ricerche su modelli di architettura militare di etaL ramesside (Medinet Habu) / Giacomo Cavillier.

Motionless journey : from a hermitage in the Himalayas / Matthieu Ricard.

Much too promised land : America's elusive search for Arab-Israeli peace / Aaron David Miller.

Muslim malaise and the road to resurgence / Saiyid Hamid ; translated and edited by Raihana A. Hasan.

Reconocimiento arqueoloLgico en el sureste del estado de Campeche, MeLxico : 1996-2005 / editor Ivan SLprajc.

Sindh, past, present & future : research papers / editor, Fahmida Hussain.

Space, memory and Jewish national identity / M. H. Ilias.

Witness : the 40th anniversary of the Six-Day War : a look at the drama, miracle and aftermath of the Six-Day War through the lens of the Algemeiner Journal.

1857 in the Muslim historiography / compiled & edited by M. Ikram Chaghatai.

Alidhani kapata na hadithi nyingine / P.I. Iribemwangi (mhariri).

Codex 632 : the secret identity of Christopher Columbus : a novel / JoseL Rodrigues Dos Santos ; translated from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin.

Deadly embrace : religion, politics, and violence in India and Pakistan, 1947-2002 / edited by Ian Talbot.

Dictature de Pinochet en perspective : sociologie d'une reLvolution capitaliste et neLoconservatrice / Rodrigo Contreras Osorio ; preLface de Alain Touraine.

Divided cities : Partition and its aftermath in Lahore and Amritsar, 1947-1957 / Ian Talbot.

HLÐuquLq da AhLÐaLdiLsLøo pah palwasho ke / muLJ<allif, MuhLÐammad GulaLb BashaLr. Da MusLÐtLÞalahLÐ al-HLÐadiLsLø J;ilm / liLkuLnkay, MusLÐtLÞafaL al-J;AdawiL ; mutarjim, MuhLÐammad J;Umar BashaLr.

Ha-UniversitLÐah ha-J;Ivrit bi-Yerushalayim, ha-FakLÐultLÐah le-madaJ;e ha-ruahLÐ, ha-Makhon le-madaJ;e ha-Yahadut, ha-Makhon le-madJ;e ha-ruahLÐ ha-kelaliyim, be-shituf J;im Shorashim, Yahadut, tarbut, madaJ;, Minhelet hLÐagigot ha-3000 li-Yerushalayim m

Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy : a biography / Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah.

Islam and inter-faith relations : the Gerald Weisfeld lectures 2006 / edited by Lloyd Ridgeon and Perry Schmidt-Leukel.

Islamic financial instruments / Habib-ur-Rahman.

Israel since 1980 / Guy Ben-Porat ... [et al].

Jacquinot Safe Zone: wartime refugees in Shanghai / Marcia R. Ristaino.

Kalmyt8 s8!kai8 a8! proza o deportat8 s8!ii : nekotorye aspekty kont8 s8!ept8 s8!ii cheloveka / N.T8 S8!. Mandzhiev.

Khyber Pass : a history of empire and invasion / Paddy Docherty.

Korea / Christoph Bluth.

Madrassah challenge : militancy and religious education in Pakistan / C. Christine Fair.

Malcolm X : a historical reader / edited by James L. Conyers, Jr. and Andrew P. Smallwood.

NaL. PaLrttacaLrati cirLøukataikalLÐ / NaL. PaLrttacaLrati ; tokuppu, AkilanLø KanLÐnLÐanLø.

NafhLÐat al-J;anbar fiL hLÐLÐayaLt ImaLm al-J;AsLÐr al-Shaykh Anwar / taJ<liLf MuhLÐammad YuLsuf ibn MuhLÐammad ZakariLyaL al-BannuLriL ; taqdiLm wa-ishraLf AnzLÐar ShaLh al-KashmiLriL.

No strength to forget : survival in the Ukraine, 1941-1944 / Laizer Blitt.

Obras completas / Franklin Mieses Burgos.

Of all those years / M.A.K. Chaudhry.

On insomnia and midnight : a tale to frighten chambermaids / Edgar Chias ; translated by David Johnston.

Parwan wind dust motes / B.K. Zahrah Nasir ; introduction by Muneeza Shamsie.

Ricchezza nel vicino Oriente antico : atti del convegno internazionale, Milano, 20 gennaio 2007.

To return or to remain : the dilemma of second-generation Afghans in Pakistan / Mamiko Saito and Pamela Hunte.

To this day / Shmuel Yosef Agnon ; translated and with an introduction by Hillel Halkin.

Tragedy of Karbala / Israr Ahmad ; translated into English by Muhammad Tufail.

Translator : a tribesman's memoir of Darfur / Daoud Hari.

TurkiL aur UrduL zubaLn ke mushtarak alfaLzLÐ = TuLrkcL´e ve Urduca' daki ortak kelimeler / AsLÐgLøhLøar HLÐamiLd.

Wolf totem / Jiang Rong ; translated by Howard Goldblatt.

"Socialism is great!" : a worker's memoir of the new China / Lijia Zhang.

"Spain, take this chalice from me" : and other poems / Cesar Vallejo ; translated by Margaret Sayers Peden ; edited with an introduction by Ilan Stavans.

Ancient Egypt / [text and photographs] Farid Atiya.

Asi sonLaron nuestros padres : pensamientos de los ancianos kunas / compilador, Atilio MartiLnez.

Bluestockings of Japan : new woman essays and fiction from SeitoL, 1911-16 / Jan Bardsley.

Catalogue of the National Museum of Afghanistan, 1931-1985 / Francine Tissot.

Chuvashsko-russkiiL slovarJ£. Pod red. M. I8 A8!. Sirotkina. Okolo 25 000 slov. S prilozheniem kratkogo grammaticheskogo ocherka chuvashskogo i8 a8!zyka, sostavlennogo N.A. Andreevym.

God's middle finger : into the lawless heart of the Sierra Madre / Richard Grant.

Gold der Horusfalken : auf den Spuren altaLgyptischer GrabraLuber / Michael HoLveler-MuLller.

KratkiiL russko-buri8 a8!tskiiL slovarJ£ : okolo 13 500 slov / sostavili, T8 S8!.B. T8 S8!ydendambaev i M.N. Imekhenov.

Our only hope : Eddie's Holocaust story and the Weisz family correspondence / Keith H. Pickus.

Palestine in late antiquity / Hagith Sivan.

Persian Gulf : its past and present / Svat Soucek.

Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi for the twenty-first century / edited by Douglas Allen.

PosledniiL politicheskiiL prot8 s8!ess Stalina, ili, Nesostoi8 a8!vshiiLsi8 a8! I8 U8!dot8 s8!id / Fedor Li8 a8!ss.

SamLsaLra [videorecording] / a film by Ellen Bruno ; written and edited by Ellen Bruno ; produced at the Department of Communication, Stanford University.

Sasanian era / edited by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis and Sarah Stewart.

Sefer KLÐrakLÐov : toldot ha-Yehudim bi-KLÐrakLÐov.

Sonido del agua y la arena : historias, cuentos y leyendas de Xalapa / Alberto Espejo ... [et al.] ; ilustraciones de Eva Pineda.

Tradition, treaties, and trade : Qing imperialism and ChosoLn Korea, 1850-1910 / Kirk W. Larsen.

Tree of liberty : cultural legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic world / edited by Doris L. Garraway.

Algo semejante a los monstruos antediluvianos : poesiLas escogidas, 1949-2003 / Roberto FernaLndez Retamar.

Basse danse / Alicia Kozameh.

Chronicle of the Maya kings and queens : deciphering the dynasties of the ancient Maya / Simon Martin and Nikolai Grube.

Cruz DuraLn / Juan Simoni Rocha.

Cuarta espada : la historia de Abimael GuzmaLn y Sendero Luminoso / Santiago Roncagliolo.

Cuatro elementos : microrrelatos / David Lagmanovich.

Cultura e ideologiLa en cuatro novelas de Manuel Puig / Peter Tupawuni Imoro.

De la urbe para el orbe : nueva narrativa urbana / Adriana Villanueva ... [et al.] ; seleccioLn y compilacioLn, Ana Teresa Torres, HeLctor Torres ; proLlogo, Luis Barrera Linares.

Desperdicio / Matilde SaLnchez.

DespueLs de ti no hay nada / Gonzalo Lema.

Diccionario de la obra de Juan Rulfo / Sergio LoLpez Mena.

En el reveLs del cielo : diaLlogo entre dos orillas : antologiLa poeLtica / compiladora, Concha GarciLa.

Encyclopaedia of indian events and dates / S. B. Bhattacherje.

Ensayos sobre cultura boliviana / Armando Soriano Badani.

Fragmento repetido : escritos en estado de excepcioLn / Willy Thayer.

Frase negra / AgustiLn Goenaga.

God willing : my wild ride with the new Iraqi Army / Eric Navarro.

Govind Narayan's Mumbai : an urban biography from 1863 / edited and translated by Murali Ranganathan ; with a foreword by Gyan Prakash.

Guitarra diLmelo tuL : la poesiLa de Atahualpa Yupanqui / Eliana E. Abdala.

Hacia un nuevo canon de la vanguardia en AmeLrica Central : urdimbre de textos acromegaLlicos, invisibilizados por los discursos criLticos / Francisco Alejandro MeLndez.

India / Louise Nicholson.

Lydia Cabrera y la bantuidad linguLiLstica / JesuLs Fuentes Guerra.

MaLs allaL de las islas / Alicia YaLnez CossiLo.

MasJ;ot Binyamin ha-shelishi / Mendeli Mokher Sefarim.

Meira Delmar : poesiLa y prosa / MariLa Mercedes Jaramillo, Betty Osorio, Ariel Castillo Mier (editores).

Mejores cuentos mexicanos : edicioLn 2006 / seleccioLn e introduccioLn de Rosa BeltraLn ; con la colaboracioLn de Alberto Arriaga.

Mejores poemas mexicanos : edicioLn 2006 / seleccioLn y proLlogo de Elsa Cross ; con la colaboracioLn de Mario BojoLrquez.

Mi corazoLn tiembla en la sombra : novela / Ligia Minaya.

Mi vida en JuaLrez : voces de mujeres : certamen literario 2006 / [seleccioLn de textos, coordinacioLn y cuidado de la edicioLn, Claudia Loeffler].

Nofretete und das Geheimnis von Amarna / Carola Wedel.

Norte : Museo Nacional de AntropologiLa, MeLxico / Eduardo Cabrera Castro.

Objects for eternity : Egyptian antiquities from the W. Arnold Meijer Collection / edited by Carol A.R. Andrews and Jacobus van Dijk ; with contributions by Carol A.R. Andrews ... [et al.].

PaiLs / Yolanda Pantin.

Penalti maLs largo del mundo [videorecording] / Alta Classics presenta Tornasol Films, EnsuenLo Films con la participacioLn de Antena 3 ... [et al.] presentan ; producida por Gerardo Herrero, Tedy Villalba, Mariela Besuievsky ; escrita y dirigida por R

Precio del estanLo : una tragedia boliviana / NeLstor Taboada TeraLn.

Qu'est-ce que le sionisme? / Denis Charbit.

RazoLn de los amantes / Pablo Simonetti.

ReLflexions nouvelles sur des questions juives : du singulier aL l'universel / Claude-RaphaeLl Samama.

Resistencia y cimarronaje : teatro de Gerardo Fulleda LeoLn / seleccioLn, IneLs M. Martiatu.

SeguLn la noche / Hugo Luis SaLnchez.

Short history of the Donghak peasant revolution / Soonchul Shin & Jinyoung Lee ; trans. by Rohini Singh & Chongmin Lee.

Southern Africa / Jonathan Farley.

Swahili-Lesebuch / aus Pressetexten ausgewaLhlt und kommentiert von Arne A. Ambros.

TeotihuacaLn : Museo Nacional de AntropologiLa, MeLxico / RubeLn Cabrera Castro.

Tiempo de amar, tiempo de morir / Marcos Yauri Montero.

Zookeeper's wife / Diane Ackerman.

Actas referenciales / Alberto Dallal.

Afghan journey / Roger Willemsen ; translated by Stefan Tobler ; photographs by Christian Irrgang.

Afro AmeLrica I : la ruta del esclavo / Luz MariLa MartiLnez Montiel.

AnatomiLa de un simulacro / Marcelo Vallejos.

AntologiLa de cuentos uruguayos contemporaLneos / Eduardo Alvariza ... [et al.] ; [proLlogo, Luis Marcelo PeLrez].

Apuntes autistas / Alberto Fuguet.

BerliLn es un cuento / Esther Andradi.

Buenos tiempos / Javier Bayly.

Caprichos literarios / Pablo Subieta ; con un ensayo adicional del Dr. Edgar Oblitas FernaLndez.

Choc de religions : la longue guerre de l'islam et de la chreLtienteL, 622-2007 / Jean-Paul Roux.

CorazoLn de mierda : vida criminal de Ricardo Olmedo RiLos, emperador de Lecumberri, contada por el Candingas, se falaz escudero / Gonzalo Lizardo.

De fronteras / Claudia HernaLndez.

Debido recuerdo de agradecimiento leal / Jose LoLpez AvileLs ; estudio, edicioLn y notas, Martha Lilia Tenorio.

Decorated elite mastaba and rock-cut tomb in the Eastern and GIS cemeteries at Giza and their relationship to the development of art during the Fourth Dynasty / by Laurel Ann Flentye.

EleaLzaLr ben JaLkob HaLbaLvli / iLrta FoLldvaLri Tibor.

Empalador / Glauconar Yue.

Ensayo[s] de narradores / Ana Cecilia Olmos y Marcelo CasariLn, coordinadores.

Erotismo perverso de Juan GarciLa Ponce : lenguaje y silencio / Magda DiLaz y Morales.

Hellenistic settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa / Getzel M. Cohen.

Highclowd : memorias de arena y agua, de roca y viento / Gabriel Trujillo MunLoz.

HueLrfano de besos / Alberto Dallal.

Humor como principio organizador de las obras de Augusto Monterroso / Rony Enrique Garrido Prado.

Indicio Verlaine / Jorge Luis Requena.

Ingenuos / VeroLnica Ormachea GutieLrrez.

Lost years / Ghalib H. Abu Al-Faraj ; translated by Maha H. Malhas.

Magia de la risa / textos, Octavio Paz y Alfonso MedelliLn ; fotos, Francisco Beverido.

Mundo puto : novela / Roberto Cuevas RamiLrez.

Obras infames de Pancho Marambio / Alfredo Bryce Echenique.

Orbe negro en la poesia : Cuba, Hispanoamerica y Estados Unidos / Hortensia Ruiz del Vizo ; con la colaboracion de JoseL SaLnchez-Boudy.

Pendejos / Patricia Turnes.

Pura realidad / Hugo R. Correa Luna.

Road story : una novela graLfica de Gonzalo MartiLnez / [Alberto Fuguet].

Ronda de los jinetes muertos / Vlady Kociancich.

Rostro de Prometeo resistente : cine e iconografiLa del Che Guevara / Alejandro Bruzual. Dramaturgias del mal : Conrad y Coppola / Elena Cardona.

Sir Abdul Razack Mohamed : his life and times : a political biography / Moomtaz Emrith ; foreword by Navinchandra Ramgoolam.

Sobre la escritura : conversaciones en el taller literario / Jorge Luis Borges ; edicioLn de FeLlix della Paolera y Esther Cross.

Stumbling between 46 stars : essays on CeLsar Vallejo / Stephen M. Hart.

Tan solo en su agoniLa : novela / Georgette Canedo de Camacho.

Teatro completo / Marco Antonio Flores.

Tepiteada / Armando RamiLrez.

Tren nocturno : una historia de amor, ambicioLn y escaLndalo / MariLa Luisa Medina.

Viento de primavera : antologiLa poeLtica, 1945-1979 / AlaiLde Foppa.

Villa Diamante / Boris Izaguirre.

Visita de la infanta / Reinaldo Montero.

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