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When cholera breaks out in the village, Sandra and Pato learn about treatment and prevention.
-15%Nietzsche's masterful philosophical narrative about Zarathustra, who after years of meditation comes down from a mountain to offer his...
-15%This thought-provoking book, now available in Arabic, identifies cooperation as the most important challenge faced by civil socie...
-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%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%Brief biographies and illustrations of famous painters from Michelangelo to Van Gogh and Rembrandt to Picasso. Features fully vow...
-15%The story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ulitmately consumed, by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student...
-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%The author presents a timeline and notes on his experiences of the atrocities and horror committed on civilians by warring clan m...
-15%The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and mother...
-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%A coming-of-age story within a suspenseful thriller, set against the real events, culture wars and political realities of Germany in t...
-20%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%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%Available in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its plac...
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A love story across the ages—and for the ages—about a man lost in time, the woman who could save him, and the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live. It is a bighearted, wildly original novel about losing and finding yourself, the inevitability of change, and how with enough time to learn, we just might find happiness.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel tells the story of Seymour "Swede" Levov, a former athletic star, devoted family man, and owner of a thriving glove factory who finds his life coming apart during the social disorder of the 1960s, when his beloved daughter turns revolutionary terrorist out to destroy her father's world.
Sylvestre Bonnard, an elderly and highly esteemed scholar, encounters unexpected problems when he embarks upon a search for an ancient ecclesiastical literary document that takes him from Paris to Sicily and then into his own life history. For the sake of justice and love, he ends up committing acts that at best are of doubtful legality.
A gripping detective story and devastating tale of love and insanity by the award-winning Colombian author, Laura Restrepo.
The classic novel by Nobel Prize laureate William Faulkner delves into American history at the end of the Civil War. It portrays the decay of Mississippi aristocrats, the wealthy Sartoris family that lies under the shadow if its dead patriarch, Colonel John Sartoris. This novel introduces many characters that appear in Faulkner's later works.
The historic humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome about a two-week boating holiday on the Thames River. Based on the author and two real-life friends, the book is part travel guide, part local history, and lots of humor. The book opens with the three friends spending an evening in Jerome's room, smoking and discussing...
An Arabic translation of Goethe's classic "The Sorrows of Young Werther." This is the story of the sensitive and passionate Werther and his extreme response to unrequited love presented in a collection of letters written by Werther to his friend Wilhelm. Not so much a tale of love and romance, it is believed to be a chronicle mental health...
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....
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.
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.
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.