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Two friends, Serafin and Plum, and a hamster named Hercules, find themselves in a strange town where they are not welcome because they...
-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%When it was first published in 1937 Poland, Witold Gombrowicz's novel was considered to be subversive by the Communist regime and was ...
-17%It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner p...
-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%Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciat...
-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%The five-act satirical play by Niccolo Machiavelli was first published in 1524. Now in Arabic, it tells the story of a beau...
-10%In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
-12%This collection of 85 essays and articles is considered to be among the most important historical collections of all time, and we...
-25%The author presents a timeline and notes on his experiences of the atrocities and horror committed on civilians by warring clan m...
-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%A funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...
-20%On May 6th, 1945, soldiers of the US Army occupied the Heinrich Himmler family home in Gmund, Germany where they discovered hundreds o...
-20%Brief biographies and illustrations of famous painters from Michelangelo to Van Gogh and Rembrandt to Picasso. Features fully vow...
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Paris, 1939. Young, ambitious, and tempestuous, Odile Souchet has it all: Paul, her handsome police officer beau; Margaret, her best friend from England; her adored twin brother Remy; and a dream job at the American Library in Paris, working alongside the library's legendary director, Dorothy Reeder. But when World War II breaks out, Odile...
I was in love with him from the moment he was born. I would gaze at him all day long, as if he were my first child. He was a little angel, completely white. His pure whiteness was astonishing, like a snowflake in a hot country, and he would nurse and sleep peacefully, and he didn't cry like other babies. His presence beside me filled me with...
You know you're old when your adult children talk to each other in front of you and spell out certain words. Reaching the milestone of 80, Lee Janogly was continually irritated at the notion that older people are slower, frailer and generally out of touch with modern living. Even if we do sometimes put the remote control in the fridge, we know...
Delves into astonishing facts and unique stories of key figures in the Victorian and Andalusian periods.
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.