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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%Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict,...
-20%Winner of both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize, this is the story of a "Don Juan" lover of women during the e...
-17%Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...
-20%A 20th century classic by the great William Kelley Wright. Known for its presentation of philosophers and their theories in easy...
-20%George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Ova...
-17%The Arabic translation of Philip Roth's novel about Coleman Silk, the dean of faculty at a small liberal arts college who is accused o...
-17%The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and mother...
-15%Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010. In a courageous a...
-20%A coming-of-age story within a suspenseful thriller, set against the real events, culture wars and political realities of Germany in t...
-20%Sophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth. Originally published in the 19th century, Segur'...
-15%In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
-12%A collection of heartfelt thoughts and bits of wisdom from the Dalai Lama on a variety of subjects and suitable for everyone regardles...
-20%Masterfully explores the significance of water in Chile's vast history and culture, examining the indigenous tribes of the Western Pat...
-20%Terry Eagleton, a renowned literary theorist, critic and prolific writer, in this book explores the rise of religious fundamentalism a...
-15%The five-act satirical play by Niccolo Machiavelli was first published in 1524. Now in Arabic, it tells the story of a beau...
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Considered as equal to Dickens, Balzac, and Tolstoy, the author, Benito Perez Galdos was a prolific Spanish writer who published 31 novels. This novel tells the story of Marianela (sometimes referred to as "Nela"), a poor orphan girl with an ugly face, and her love for Pablo, a blind boy, who also has romantic feelings towards Nela....
Austrian writer Stefan Zweig's final work, posted to his publisher the day before his tragic death by suicide, brings the destruction of a war-torn Europe vividly to rise. He feels the need to bear witness to the next generation of what his age has gone through. He realizes that his past is "out of reach". Zweig makes it clear that...
Billed as the Korean "Charlotte's Web," this is an anthem for freedom and individuality when a spirited hen rebels against the tradition-bound world of the barnyard. No longer content to lay eggs on command only to have them carted off to the market, a hen glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam...
The original children's novela about the little princess before the story became The Little Princess. Sara Crewe is a bright 8-year-old who is brought from India by her captain father to attend Miss Minchin's boarding shool. She has everything that a princess could desire until a dramatic change takes place in her life.
The classic tale of Emma Bovary, a woman who yearns for romance and luxury, but is instead married to a man with a second-rate medical degree and little ambition. Madame Bovary's attempts to escape the banality of her married life through adulterous affairs and voracious spending sprees with devastating consequences.
Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books throughout his career, the eleven surviving diaries collected here record Orwell's youthful travels among miners and itinerant laborers, the fearsome rise of totalitarianism, the horrific drama of World War...
A collection of mystery stories by a classic British author well-known for his exciting thrillers spiced with tales of treacherous crooks and hard-boiled detectives.
Iconoclastic philosopher Bertrand Russell lays out a rationalist prescription for living a happy life, including the importance of cultivating interests outside oneself and the dangers of passive pleasure.
A Somali translation of "Liberty in the Modern State" by Harold Laski. The book takes into account the post-war political landscape to discuss the meaning and place of liberty and freedom in the global context and includes some undelivered lectures by economist and political theorist, Harold Laski.
Somali translation of "Dead Aid," by the pre-eminent Zambian economist and author known for her analysis of macroeconomics and global affairs. Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Dambisa Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world's...
The classic tale of buccaneers and buried gold for teen and adult readers. Read it again or for the first time.
Number 22 in Balzac's collective works known as The Human Comedy. This tragic, yet brilliant novel tells the story of thirty-year-old Julie, an intelligent, sensitive woman who is married to a man not worthy of her. Balzac draws a portrait of a miserable marriage and life brought about by incorrect choices and inequalities of the day.