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H.G. Wells' classic study in the progress and history of civilization from the origins of life on Earth up to historic developments in...
-15%When cholera breaks out in the village, Sandra and Pato learn about treatment and prevention.
-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%Masterfully explores the significance of water in Chile's vast history and culture, examining the indigenous tribes of the Western Pat...
-20%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%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%Through a clever mix of stop-motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story:...
-20%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 biography of Abraham Lincoln who grew from his simple childhood in Kentucky to become the second president of the United States.&nbs...
-20%American universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the&n...
-20%By the author of the bestselling novel, A Dog's Purpose, which is now a major motion picture, this illustrated novel for young readers...
-15%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%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%In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
-12%A delightful story collection by the beloved, award-winning Chinese children's author, Zheng Chunhua. These stories center around a li...
-10%A 20th century classic by the great William Kelley Wright. Known for its presentation of philosophers and their theories in easy...
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An Arabic translation of "La Mort Dans L'Ame" by French philosopher, playwright, and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre. This novel, part of the Roads to Freedom series, offers a moving portrayal of the fall of France in 1940 and the tormented response of the French people to German occupation.
An anthology of original columns that appeared in the New York Observer about the sometimes shocking and more often than not, hilarious mating customs and rituals of the privileged and the beautiful living in the Big Apple.
A chilling novel about a doctor's macabre ambition to create immortal life. Dr. Hoppe returns to his home village after a long absence. With him are three identical infant boys -- all bearing the same disfigurement. Soon the villagers become suspicious and Dr. Hoppe's past begins to unfold. By international bestselling...
A guide to writers, poets, playwrights, and novelists from 5th Century BC to the modern era. Includes index and illustrations.
The first novel by the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize has been translated into Arabic. Satantango, considered a classic of Hungarian literature, is an other-worldly novel that takes place in a rain-soaked, dying hamlet inhabited by people rife with malaise. Is the man they are waiting for really resurrected from...
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 novel about two roommates with extreme social anxiety who are trying to live like normal average people. It has also been translated into English under the title, "Beyond the Great Indoors."
A new thriller by bestselling American author and former Florida state prosecuting attorney is a hard-hitting crime novel that will keep you awake at night. A serial killer is kidnapping and torturing teenage girls to death, but one somehow escapes the "Hammerman". Her story is full of inconsistencies and FBI Agent Bobby Dees needs...
A sweeping historical romance set during WWII in Normandy. It is 1942 and the journalist Valentine is on assigment in Honfleur where she meets and falls in love with Yves, a member of the Resistance against the German occupiers. After a brief time of bliss, Yves must flee his love and his country. Is he dead? Will the lovers ever be reunited?
The gripping new thriller by Stephenie Meyer is now available in German. An ex-agent, a chemist with a very special set of skills, is on the run from her former employer -- the government. This taut, page-turner will keep you reading until the very end.
Available in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its place in the overarching history of life, the Earth, and the Universe. Author, scholar, researcher and lecturer, Fred Spier, offers new theories into the future of humanity with a sweeping view of the past....
The third novel by international bestselling Michigan author, Lori Nelson Spielman. An emotional novel about mothers, sisters, daughters. When her sister dies in a train accident, Annie struggles with survivor guilt (she was supposed to be on that train, too), and tries to find comfort in their mother, Erika, who has withdrawn into her work. Can...
First published in 1967, Christie completed this novel in six weeks while in her 70s. It tells the story of Michael Rogers, whose visit to Gypsy's Acre stirs within him a childlike fantasy. In this beautiful place with views of the sea, he wants to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after. However, Gypsy's Acre is a...