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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%The author presents a timeline and notes on his experiences of the atrocities and horror committed on civilians by warring clan m...
-15%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 definitive biography of the 45th President of the United States presents the life of Donald Trump from his boyhood to his time in ...
-20%The story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ulitmately consumed, by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student...
-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%In this unique self-portrait that includes rare interviews, the filmmaker takes us behind the scenes and onto the sets of all his film...
-35%Two friends, Serafin and Plum, and a hamster named Hercules, find themselves in a strange town where they are not welcome because they...
-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%Nietzsche's masterful philosophical narrative about Zarathustra, who after years of meditation comes down from a mountain to offer his...
-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%On May 6th, 1945, soldiers of the US Army occupied the Heinrich Himmler family home in Gmund, Germany where they discovered hundreds o...
-20%It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner p...
-15%A biography of Abraham Lincoln who grew from his simple childhood in Kentucky to become the second president of the United States.&nbs...
-20%Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place ...
-20%Brief biographies and illustrations of famous painters from Michelangelo to Van Gogh and Rembrandt to Picasso. Features fully vow...
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Anis Mansour was an Egyptian journalist, author and philosopher who held many editorial posts at newspapers and magazines throughout Egypt. He could speak seven languages and throughout his career, interviewed many famous people from around the Middle East -- from presidents to generals to actors to singers to dissident writers. This...
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, writer, and film director, translated and adapted Sophocles story of Oedipus into a major motion picture. Pasolini add a modern-day prologue and epilogue to the famous myth as well as emphasizing the innocence of Oedipus. Pasolini was inspired by Sophocles contrast between total innocence and the obligation to...
A woman reeling from the sudden abandonment of her new husband while on their honeymoon tries to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. She returns to work at an art gallery and soon becomes friends with an elderly visitor whose life has haunting parallels to her own.
An illustrated encyclopedia of the history of ancient Syria from the agricultural revolution to the end of the Bronze Age.
Another funny and daring novel by the author of "Fear of Flying." In this hilarious, yet poignant novel, a former actress grapples with aging and end of life issues through youthful fantasies fulfilled on a website created by her best friend.
When the Heffleys decide to escape the holidays and cold weather, they soon discover that an island paradise isn't as restful as they hoped.
Rabab has a brother with special needs and sometimes she wishes he lived someplace else -- like Mars! This is a heartwarming story, based on real family experiences, about growing up with a special needs sibling. It offers great ideas for dealing with special needs while still having real friends and other fun childhood experiences.
A beautifully illustrated biography of the great Persian Muslim polymath who is considered one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, and writers of the Islamic Golden Age. He is known in the West as Avicenna and is most famous for his Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine, the basis of modern medicine.
By the Pulitzer Prize winning author, Viet Thanh Nguyen, this is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family.
Roth's candidly intimate yet universal story of loss and regret, aging and mortaility. This is Roth's third novel to receive the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
A valuable cultural and political study of the history of Kuwait from its early beginnings through the 20th century written by Dr. Fayhan Mohammed Al-Otaibi, a professor at the University of Kuwait.
In this unique self-portrait that includes rare interviews, the filmmaker takes us behind the scenes and onto the sets of all his films, and also reveals his thoughts on his childhood, his work, and his relationships.