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Books

We have books for adults and for children in more than 30 languages:

Arabic Arabic Korean Korean
Bengali Bengali Panjabi Panjabi
Chinese Chinese Persian Persian
Cook Island Maori Reo Kuki Airani Portuguese Português
Dutch Nederlands Russian Russia
Filipino/Tagalog Pilipino Samoan Samoa
French Français Sinhalese Sinhalese
German Deutsch Somali Soomaaliya
Gujrarati Gujarati Spanish Español
Hindi Hindi Swahili Kiswahili
Indonesian Bahasa Indonesian Tamil Tamil
Irish Gaeilge Thai Thai
Italian Italiano Tongan Tonga
Japanese Japanese Urdu Urdu
Khmer Khmer Vietnamese Vietnamese

Magazines

We also have a selection of magazines in other languages:

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Korean

Chinese

Français

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Chinese

Español

Chinese

     

News

Read news in other languages or find out what some language communities are doing.

Comments and questions

We are always grateful for donations to the Community Languages collection.

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We welcome suggestions for books and authors you would like to read in your language.

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If you have any questions or comments about Community Languages please contact the Multicultural Services Librarian.

What's new in Community Languages this month?
Thai Literature

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Na tee pay far ja rod puen num by Li pe Kan.

Love 1
Love 2
New French Fiction and Non Fiction
Les enfants du sabbat by Anne Hébert
French Canadian

A French Canadian novel.

Les désaxés by Christine Angot..

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A tale of living together.  

Bonjour tristesse by Francoise Sagan.

Sagon

Sagan's classic tale of the ennui of youth.

Moi qui n'ai pas connu les hommes by Jacqueline Harpman.

Harpman

This is a disturbing tale of capativity.  

S'aimer tel que l'on est by Chantal Calatayud.

Calatayud

This book is about falling in love.

Désert by J.M.G. Le Clézio.

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A tale of North Africans living urban setting remembering the beauty of the desert. This book won the Grand Priz su Paul Mrand awarded by the Académie françatse.

 Le petit futé Nouvelle-Zélande : 2007-2008 by Dominique Auzias and Jean-Paul Labourdette.

Neouvelle Zelande

 L'art du bonheur / Sa Sainteté le dalaï-lama et Howard Cutler Translated by Adrien Calmevent.

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New Hindi Fiction and Non Fiction

Premchand ki durlabh Kahaniyan by Munshi Premchand.

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Abhigyan Shakuntalam by Ashok Kaushik.

love story

Aaadhi sadi ka Safarnama / Swayam Prakash

Reflections

Varjit baagh ki ghatha by Amrita Pritam.

Romance

Awadheshwari / Shankar Mokashi Punekar 

Translated into Hindi by C. Anjaneya.

classical tales

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