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Terry Eagleton, a renowned literary theorist, critic and prolific writer, in this book explores the rise of religious fundamentalism a...
-15%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...
-10%Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict,...
-20%Chris Anderson, the head of TED, presents an insider's guide to crafting the perfect talk. Discover the power of the spoken word to ch...
-15%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?" ...
-17%On May 6th, 1945, soldiers of the US Army occupied the Heinrich Himmler family home in Gmund, Germany where they discovered hundreds o...
-20%Genaro Reyes is a student who falls in with the wrong crowd. He goes on a drinking binge with his "friends" and ends up in a com...
-15%A collection of heartfelt thoughts and bits of wisdom from the Dalai Lama on a variety of subjects and suitable for everyone regardles...
-20%A funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...
-20%The author presents a timeline and notes on his experiences of the atrocities and horror committed on civilians by warring clan m...
-15%Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...
-20%When it was first published in 1937 Poland, Witold Gombrowicz's novel was considered to be subversive by the Communist regime and was ...
-17%A coming-of-age story within a suspenseful thriller, set against the real events, culture wars and political realities of Germany in t...
-20%American universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the&n...
-20%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...
-15%The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and mother...
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Many of us spend our lives pursuing an idea of success that was created for us by someone else. In order to find purpose, and carve your own path, you need to define success in your own terms, ignore the rules that created your limits, and do work that really matters so that you can live your best life.
Why does a seagull wear a mask? Why does a stork carry a finishing net? Why does a turtle carry an umbrella? Why does a shark wear false teeth? Why do elephants flee from their safe forests to valleys? You will find all answers in this fun book of stories.
Yahya Haqqi, an award-winning writer and novelist who published four collections of short stories, a novel, and many articles. He is known for experimentation with various literary forms.
No one knows the recipe for happiness—and yet Héctor Abad offers us a whole volume. His recipes, at times bizarre, at times wise, appear able to cure almost anything. With ingenuity and subtle humor, Abad proffers practical advice on how to fight sadness, attract joy, and retain delight. It's not a novel and it's not a cookbook. It...
The unforgettable story of a boy attempting to find grace, written by the only writer in history to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Pen/Faulkner Award for a single novel. After his parents are arrested and imprisoned for robbing a bank, fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons is taken in by Arthur Remlinger who, unbeknownst to Dell, is hiding a...
Ubuhle and her puppy dog, Uthando, are daydreaming in the sun when they meet a wise butterfly who teaches them the true meaning of beauty. A story that teaches children the meaning of self-love, healthy confidence and the power of positive affirmations
When Nils makes the mistake of teasing an elf, he is bewitched and shrunk to a thumb size. He takes off on the back of a young goosey-gander for a wonderful journey among the wild geese
Sultan Marjan loves the color red. He loves it so much that he ordered that red be the color of the houses and walls and that tomatoes be planted in all the fields. The tomato crop overflowed and the island was filled with them. So what did the people of Tomato Island do with all the tomatoes?
Adam is a journalist who writes the stories of the world with transparency and realism. He is a seeker of justice with a grudge against society. He sculpts the face of the world with accurate detail and asks the hard questions.
Originally published in 1937, this novel tells the story of two displaced migrant farm workers who move around California searching for work during the Great Depression. It has been banned or challenged numerous times for offensive and racist language and appears on the American Library Association's list of the Most Challenged Books of the...
Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. The word Siddhartha is made up of two words in Sanskrit language, siddha (achieved) + artha (what was searched for), which together means "he who has found meaning (of...
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend. He is a scholar who is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, so he makes a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.