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A modern-day printing of the original text of Antoine Galland's first European translation of One Thousand and One Nights. The story o...
-15%The final book written by the great philosopher at the end of his life is a mix of autobiographical anecdotes, descriptions of sights ...
-15%Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010. In a courageous a...
-20%Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...
-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...
-15%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 ...
-17%A collection of heartfelt thoughts and bits of wisdom from the Dalai Lama on a variety of subjects and suitable for everyone regardles...
-20%An interesting journey back in time to see how our modern ways of living, and the tools we use, actually originated in primitive cultu...
-12%Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil socie...
-15%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%In an apocalyptic near-future world, a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choi...
-15%Through a clever mix of stop-motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story:...
-20%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%The author presents a timeline and notes on his experiences of the atrocities and horror committed on civilians by warring clan m...
-15%This film is not a movie; it's not about a bank robbery. It is a bank robbery. Victoria was shot in one sin...
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One of two things could have brought him back to Sanhaja, his Amazigh village: the death of the mother who had scarred his childhood, or the return of Najma—the wife of Bernard, his first love, his forbidden passion, and his surrogate mother—who had disappeared under mysterious circumstances. And now, after a quarter of a...
What do you know about your past life? Have you ever wondered who you are? Do you believe that this is not your first life? And how many times will you live? The evidence is abundant, and the signs are numerous, so has it ever crossed your mind that you have lived before? If so, you are not alone. Since ancient times,...
After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly...
Tells the story of women confined within four walls, immersed in imposed isolation, not isolation chosen of their own free will. They endure the cold and dull lives of their husbands, and have learned to suppress everything within themselves and to live without a bird soaring high above. The author reveals to us the inner worlds of thousands of...
Zaroufa has a new camera! She is visiting the mountains and wants to get the perfect photo. But at the top of the lookout, Zaroufa gets the jitters. Will she let her fear of heights stop her from achieving her dream?
It's a hilariously revisionist account of Noah's ark, narrated by a passenger who doesn't appear in Genesis. It's a sneak preview of heaven. It encompasses the stories of a cruise ship hijacked by terrorists and of woodworms tried for blasphemy in sixteenth-century France. It explores the relationship of fact to fabulation and the antagonism...
An overview of authors and writings that interweaves personal expression with written artistry.
When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the Earth to find her.
A collection of once confidential briefing papers that Bell helped to produce for British army officers new to the Mesopotamian theater, published in Basra by a military printer.
Childhood trauma can harm children's developing brains, change how they respond to stress, and damage their immune systems so profoundly that the effects show up decades later. From trauma specialist Glenn Schiraldi, this innovative workbook provides adult readers with practical, evidence-based skills to help them heal from adverse childhood...
The novel chronicles the lives of American writers for whom Tangier was a major stop on their creative journeys, including the American playwright Tennessee Williams, who lived in Tangier for a long period, Paul Bowles and his wife Jane Bowles, Gertrude Stein, and William Burroughs. The novel also features a large number of Moroccan writers.
Mona and her twin brother Murad meet a friendly ant who takes them on a tour of the ant colony where they marvel at its organization, cleanliness, and strict system where every ant has its assigned role.