Samy is very shy and doesn't like to talk to other people because it's scary and he doesn't know what to say. Now his little dog is lo...

Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010.  In a courageous a...

An exploration and critique of the Somali criminal justice system.

A delightful story collection by the beloved, award-winning Chinese children's author, Zheng Chunhua. These stories center around a li...

When cholera breaks out in the village, Sandra and Pato learn about treatment and prevention.

It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner p...

By the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, this is the haunting novella, based on the true story of a Jewish teenager in WWI...

A little girl walks angrily through the park dragging an old purse. Every now and then she stops and yells "Is this how it is?"  ...

This collection of 85 essays and articles is considered to be among the most important historical collections of all time, and we...

Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...

Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciat...

The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and mother...

Translated from the Norwegian and with a movie by the same name that was nominated for an Oscar, this is an eccentric and truly funny ...

A funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...

A modern-day printing of the original text of Antoine Galland's first European translation of One Thousand and One Nights. The tales&n...