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Previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is a fun, entertaining story about a mysterious stranger who shows up at a famil...
-15%When cholera breaks out in the village, Sandra and Pato learn about treatment and prevention.
-15%This film is not a movie; it's not about a bank robbery. It is a bank robbery. Victoria was shot in one sin...
-20%An exploration and critique of the Somali criminal justice system.
-10%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%This collection of 85 essays and articles is considered to be among the most important historical collections of all time, and we...
-25%In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
-12%The New York Times Bestseller by musician and artist George Watsky is available here in German. This is his debut memoir, writte...
-15%American universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the&n...
-20%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%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%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%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%Available in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its plac...
-17%When it was first published in 1937 Poland, Witold Gombrowicz's novel was considered to be subversive by the Communist regime and was ...
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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...
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.
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...
First published in 1932, this seventh book featuring Hercule Poirot was judged by the New York Times Book Review to be "diabolically clever". In the story, Nick Buckley, a pretty young woman, has had too many close calls with death. So many, in fact, that Poirot decides she needs his protection. Thus he begins to solve a murder that...
First published in 1934, book reviews from Chicago and New York, circa 1935, stated this novel was "light-hearted" with a pair of amateur detectives "you are sure to like." The classic death-on-the-green story when two friends are golfing and a ball goes astray. In searching for the lost ball, what is found is a dying man whose last words...
How far would you go to protect your children? This question is answered when two couples meet for dinner in a high-class restaurant. Their sons are responsible for a horrific crime. This dark, critically-acclaimed novel was made into a major motion picture by the Dutch (2013), the Italians (2014), and now the American version will be...
Drugs, greed, corruption, blackmail and body-snatching make for a terrific page-turner set in the lowlands of Brazil. Written by one of Brazil's celebrated crime novelists, this story will be finished in one sitting because you can't put it down.