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Sophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth. Originally published in the 19th century, Segur'...
-15%Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place ...
-20%A biography of Abraham Lincoln who grew from his simple childhood in Kentucky to become the second president of the United States.&nbs...
-20%Available in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its plac...
-17%In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
-12%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 tales&n...
-15%It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner p...
-15%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%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%The final book written by the great philosopher at the end of his life is a mix of autobiographical anecdotes, descriptions of sights ...
-15%This thought-provoking book, now available in Arabic, identifies cooperation as the most important challenge faced by civil socie...
-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%Two friends, Serafin and Plum, and a hamster named Hercules, find themselves in a strange town where they are not welcome because they...
-15%Terry Eagleton, a renowned literary theorist, critic and prolific writer, in this book explores the rise of religious fundamentalism a...
-15%An exploration and critique of the Somali criminal justice system.
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The writings presented in this volume shed tremendous light, both on the character of T. E. Lawrence and the current situation in the Middle East. Despite being written several decades ago, the thoughts of Lawrence of Arabia remain remarkably pertinent. This collection includes Lawrence's wartime reports from the desert, along with later...
Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and started taking antidepressants when he was a teenager. He was told—like his entire generation—that his problem was caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain. As an adult, trained in the social sciences, he began to investigate this...
A novel that explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain love, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence. You experience, along with protagonists, Rabih and Kirsten, the first flush of infatuation, the effortlessness of falling into romantic love, and the course of life...
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, this novel captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader.
A readable and practical guide to communicating boundaries to very young children and solving early discipline problems to set children up for success.
A human African journey of fear that Moise and her children take in search of their existence. They ask for nothing more than the simplest things: to have faces in this world. Far from the world of organized offices and perfect homes, there is the wilderness and its people. With them, we tour the countries of southern Africa on the back of a...
Everything has a price, and the price of summoning a group of jinn to fulfill a human's will is very high.
The Wall Street Journal best-selling author reveals the steps to getting unstuck and back onto the path of being awesome. There are only two paths in life: average and awesome. The average path is easy because all you have to do is nothing. The awesome path is more challenging because things like fear only bother you when you do work that matters.
A family experiences a role reversal: The father, twice widowed, has become a child again. He needs care and will have to leave home because he forgets what just happened. He repeatedly recounts his love stories, and sometimes he fantasizes. This tender novel about the almost imperceptible progression of dementia is deeply touching and...
The story centers around a character named Sacha who leaves Paris for a small town in the south of France, where he reconnects with a childhood friend who is now settled down with a family. The arrival of Sacha disrupts the established family dynamic, particularly between Sacha and the friend's wife, Marie. The narrative delves into...
A gripping exploration of family dynamics, betrayal, and the path to forgiveness.
Poems by Egyptian poet Farouk Juweideh.