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The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and mother...
-15%Previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is a fun, entertaining story about a mysterious stranger who shows up at a famil...
-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%Sophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth. Originally published in the 19th century, Segur'...
-15%Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...
-20%The five-act satirical play by Niccolo Machiavelli was first published in 1524. Now in Arabic, it tells the story of a beau...
-10%Masterfully explores the significance of water in Chile's vast history and culture, examining the indigenous tribes of the Western Pat...
-20%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%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%When cholera breaks out in the village, Sandra and Pato learn about treatment and prevention.
-15%A modern-day printing of the original text of Antoine Galland's first European translation of One Thousand and One Nights. The tales&n...
-15%A coming-of-age story within a suspenseful thriller, set against the real events, culture wars and political realities of Germany in t...
-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%Through a clever mix of stop-motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story:...
-20%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%Terry Eagleton, a renowned literary theorist, critic and prolific writer, in this book explores the rise of religious fundamentalism a...
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In 1945, George Orwell, called “the conscience of his generation,” created an enduring, devastating story of new tyranny replacing old, and power corrupting even the noblest of causes that is still fiercely relevant today -- in any language.
Drawing on works of literature, philosophy, art, and science from the writings of Plato and Darwin to the paintings of Picasso to modern medical journals, this book unearths the multiple meanings and uses of tears.
This book contains true stories that actually happened to real but abnormal people—serial killers, the most brutal in the history of crime in the United States. Under the influence of psychological disorders, they committed numerous crimes that defy reason, logic, and humanity.
Redefines collaboration for the twenty-first century with a radical new workplace operating system in which leadership no longer demands an official title. By helping others to be better at what they do, we create a level of trust, candor, mutual accountability, and purpose that exceeds what could have been accomplished under the status quo.
A licensed clinical psychologist and parenting expert offers practical, evidence-based parenting strategies to help kids foster satisfying relationships, develop competence, and make choices that fit who they are and want to become.
Five people: four are living; three are strangers; two are sisters; one, a teenage hotel chambermaid, has fallen to her death in a dumbwaiter. But her spirit lingers in the world, straining to recall things she never knew. And one night all five women find themselves in the smooth plush environs of the Global Hotel, where the intersection of...
A clear-eyed view of what neuroscience can tell us about breaking habits and introduces evidence-based strategies that give us the best possible chance to break cycles of bad behavior.
By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1981), this novel is a dark and disorienting tale of the self-destructive character of totalitarian thinking.
Based on the true story of two Jaffa teenagers, this novel follows the daily lives of Subhi, a fifteen-year-old mechanic, and Shams, the thirteen-year-old student he hopes to marry one day. In this prosperous and cosmopolitan port city, with its bustling markets, cinemas, and cafés on the hills overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, we...
Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 21 times, and called the "Dean of Arabic Literature", Taha Hussein is one of the most influential 20th century Egyptian writers. This is the complete collection of his novels in one sturdy volume.
Few westerners will ever be able to understand Muslim or Afghan society unless they are part of a Muslim family. Twenty years old and in love, Phyllis Chesler, a Jewish-American girl from Brooklyn, embarked on an adventure that has lasted for more than a half-century. In 1961, when she arrived in Kabul with her Afghan bridegroom, authorities...
As for Nour, he sat across from her in the hall, gazing at her admiringly, his eyes fixed on her, completely oblivious to the ongoing rituals. He was seeing her for the first time in her green dress, radiant and happy, swaying her slender body gently and gracefully to the music. With every sway, his heart swayed with her, until she swayed once...