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Baerli und der Rotnasige
Bärli und der Rotnasige ist liebevoll illustriert von Michael Stefer und witzig getextet von Helga Kleisny: Ein Flugzeugkapitän und eine Luftfahrtjournalistin, die in Corona-Zeiten in einem Buch den Charme von Janosch-Zeichungen, die illustre Welt einer Alice im Wunderland und die Lebensweisheiten des Kleinen Prinzen vereinen.
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FictionWHY I CAN'T WRITE
How to survive in a world where you can’t pay rent, can’t afford to focus, be healthy or to remain principled. Dijana Matković tells a powerful story of searching for a room of her own in the late stages of capitalism.
by DIJANA MATKOVIĆ
It is a coming-of-age story for Generation Z. How to grow up or even live in a world where no steady jobs are available, you can’t pay your rent and can’t afford medical or living expenses. Moreover, it touches on how to be a socially engaged artist in such a world, and more so, a woman in a post-me too world? Dijana, a daughter of working-class immigrants, tells the story of her difficult childhood and adolescence, how should became a journalist and later a writer in a society full of prejudices, glass ceilings and obstacles. How she gradually became a stereotypical ‘success story’, even though she still struggles with writing, because she can’t afford a ‘room of her own’. Dijana is a daughter of working-class immigrants, who came to Slovenia in the eighties in search of a better future. The family is building a house but is made redundant from the local factory when Yugoslavia is in the midst of an economic crisis. When her parents get divorced, Dijana, her older sister and mother struggle with basic needs. She is ashamed of their poverty, her classmates bully her because of her immigrant status, but mostly because of her being ‘white trash’. In the local school she meets teachers with prejudices against immigrants, but is helped by a librarian who spots her talent. When Dijana goes to secondary school, she moves in with her older sister who lives in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. Her sister is into rave culture and Dijana starts to explore experimenting with drugs, music and dance. At the secondary school, she is again considered ‘the weird kid’, as she isn’t enough of a foreigner for other immigrant kids because she is from the country, yet she isn’t Slovenian enough for other native kids. She falls even deeper into drug addiction, fails the first year of school and has to move back to live with her mother. She takes on odd jobs to make ends meet. Whilst working as a waitress she encounters sexism and sexual violence from customers and abuse from the boss. She finishes night school and graduates. She meets many ‘lost’ people of her generation along the way, who tell her their stories about precarious, minimum wage jobs, lack of opportunities, expensive rent, etc. Dijana writes for numerous newspapers but loses or quits her job, because she isn’t allowed to write the stories she wants or because of the bad working conditions or the blatant sexual harassment. Due to the high rent in the capital, Dijana has to move to the countryside to live with her mother. She feels lonely there, struggles with anxiety and cannot write a second book, because she is constantly under pressure to make a living. She realises that she must persevere regardless of the obstacles, she must follow her inner truth and by writing about it, try to create a community of like-minded people, a community of people who support each other – all literature/art is social.
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Humanities & Social SciencesWomen Are a Man-made Problem
by Dr. Nabil Farouk
Women are a man-made problem D. Nabil Farouk The Egyptian writer D.Nabil Farouk is a pioneer of Writing about spy secrets and nature in the Arab world, and one of the most important authors of science fiction novels, thriller, crime, mystery and suspense. He has the most unique novels series called "Man of Impossible", which was written in one hundred and sixty parts and received with great feedback and positive criticism among readers of different ages and tastes. He also has A number of influential books in Arab thought that discussed various issues of interest to the individual and society in their past, present and future as well. This book discussed an issue that has long preoccupied Arab and international public opinion which is the relationship between men and women or we can say the highest topic that does not fade with changing times, ideas and desires, Because their relationship affects the whole course of life and the evolution of man and society and hence the book addresses an important collection of articles discussing the relationship between men and women in multiple frameworks, including the main cause of gender disagreement, Differing thinking and dealing in different situations, discussing everything that affects their minds from education to different life conditions. This book has a great impact on societal awareness about the gender relationship, giving us special ways to achieve compatibility and complementarity between men and women, how to support feelings and love between them so that they persist and become stronger than we think. It also lays out solutions for discussion, exchange of views and acceptance of the other in a way that makes us more aware and better able to manage differences and differences above all else. .
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ABSOLVO TE
by Georgi Bardarov
EUROPEAN LITERATURE PRIZE FOR 2021! https://www.euprizeliterature.eu/authors/georgi-bardarov The novel “Absolvo te” is based on two true stories – one about World War II and the Holocaust, and the other about the Arab-Israeli conflict. The main characters are a Palestinian, a Jewish man and a Nazis officer. Each of them must forgive and look past each other’s sins. They’re all in need of “Absolve te”, which translated from Latin means ‘’forgiveness of all sins’’.
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July 2020My Father’s City
by Kafa Al Zoghbi
It is the city where Nabil came to bury his father. It is the city that his father abandoned after he failed it, and he kept longing for it. In it Nabil met Sana, and went with her on a path whose horizon in the distance seems narrow, but it expands as they progress. And there he met the ghost of a man who could have been his father: This man did not fail the city, did not desert it, and held fast in its prisons; a tormented ghost wanders in a dark city shackled by the constancy of time, reason and language. Kafa Al Zoghbi: A Jordanian novelist who has published several novels.
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Classic fiction (Children's/YA)Not Your Baby
by Seluah Alsaati
My ex used to give me catty looks from the field and I imagined what his calves looked like underneath his socks. His name was Ahmed, but everybody called him Ahmed the Foot because he was so fast with the football. He could get the ball right from half a field’s distance, but he couldn’t get me right a centimeter away. So I asked him: ”Do you even know what a clitoris is?” ”Is it some kind of animal?” Samira is looking for three things in a guy. He has to be able to behave, be intelligent, and to pleasure a girl. But finding someone who meets all requirements seems more difficult than keeping a pair of white sneakers white. Then she meets Nabil and everything seems perfect. He encourages her to write rap lyrics and is interested in her football playing. Maybe too interested even? Soon he wants to control everything she does, and her existence becomes more and more narrow. At the same time, Samira’s friend is being shamed on social media by a guy she broke up with. But revenge is sweet, and luckily there are nice guys as well.
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The ArtsAugust 2019SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES AS CULTURAL ARENAS
by Fernanda Arêas Peixoto and Adrián Gorelik (editors)
Organized by Fernanda Arêas Peixoto, professor at the Department of Anthropology of the University of São Paulo, and Adrián Gorelik, professor at the University of Quilmes, this book is the result of a collective research project about the cultural urban history in South America, which was developed by a group of South American researchers. Using as a compass the notion of “cultural arena”, this work performs a reflection on the city as a place of cultural germination, experimentation and resistance. Some cities – Buenos Aires, Santiago, Lima, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Salvador, Montevideo, among others – are studied in order to capture the intimate and inextricable relations between city and culture.
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Children's & YAMY NAME IS DAMIJAN
by SUZANA TRATNIK
MY NAME IS DAMIANWritten by Suzana Tratnik Damian’s world is one of family quarrels, drugs, alcohol and fights, which the nineteenyear-old uses to rebel against his family’s stereotypical expectations. Through Damian’s first-person narration, the reader gains an insight into the torn-up soul of a teenager who turns in vain to his parents, sister, girlfriend and friends for help. It reveals the loneliness of a young man who has to fight against the prejudices and prescribed gender roles that he encounters while trying to find his identity and his own path in life. Format: 14 x 20 cm174 pages | Age: 15+
