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Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict,...
-20%When cholera breaks out in the village, Sandra and Pato learn about treatment and prevention.
-15%Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...
-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 collection of heartfelt thoughts and bits of wisdom from the Dalai Lama on a variety of subjects and suitable for everyone regardles...
-20%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%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%Sophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth. Originally published in the 19th century, Segur'...
-15%Ever since the National University strike broke out, Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) and Santos (Leonard0 Ortizgris) have been living in angst-...
-20%A delightful story collection by the beloved, award-winning Chinese children's author, Zheng Chunhua. These stories center around a li...
-10%A funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...
-20%It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner p...
-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%A coming-of-age story within a suspenseful thriller, set against the real events, culture wars and political realities of Germany in t...
-20%In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
-12%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 collection of short stories by some of America's most celebrated writers provides a comprehensive survey of the origin and growth of this literary form. The selections in this volume represent each author working at the very height of his or her powers, producing memorable, brilliant fiction. Each story, too, is illustrative of the growth...
Tells the story of an Egyptian family that lived in the Garden City neighborhood in Cairo many years before the July Revolution and suffered for many years after it, strange events and complex characters whose fates were intertwined until the end, and between truth and fiction, Al-Ashmawy narrates the threads of the story and weaves its chapters...
Reveals the extraordinary, little-known story behind one of the first lifeboats to leave the doomed ship. Told in real time and in the actual voices of survivors, this poignant, pulse-pounding narrative includes the story of the Countess of Rothes, the wealthiest woman on the ship, bound for California, where she and her husband...
Modern or old-fashioned, cafés are an essential element of Parisian decor. They are also theaters where scenes from daily life are played out at all times: chance or planned encounters, reunions or separations, in solitude or in a crowd… Sitting at a café table, French writer Didier Blonde observes and writes about...
A new novel by the Syrian author who now resides in Germany. He has won several awards including the Kurdish Cultural Institute Award in Austria 2021, the Mam and Zain Cultural Festival Award in Iraq 2021, and the Short Story Award in Syria in 1993.
A collection of stories featuring the gentleman thief and detective Arsene Lupin who has been described as the French counterpart to Sherlock Holmes. Arsène Lupin is charming, clever and bold. A master of disguise, he steals from the rich, he always outsmarts the police and he's generous to those in need. And above all, he never takes...
A collection of stories featuring the gentleman thief and detective Arsene Lupin who has been described as the French counterpart to Sherlock Holmes. Arsène Lupin is charming, clever and bold. A master of disguise, he steals from the rich, he always outsmarts the police and he's generous to those in need. And above all, he never takes...
Against the turmoil of the Second World War, the fates of two men from different backgrounds collide: Gino Matyoush, a piano player from a town in the Hungarian countryside, and Masoud, a flute player from a small town in Algeria, fleeing from forced conscription by the colonial powers. Longlisted for 2022 IPAF.
Just before turning 40, Fouad decides to get rid of 30 years’ worth of diaries in an effort to free himself of the past and start a new life. However, in browsing through the journals, he instead embarks upon a final writing project. Years go by and the project is uncompleted, until a group of ghosts arrive to lend their assistance,...
Portrays the loving relationship between two brothers. The younger brother, Humaymid, fiercely defends his older sibling Mahdi, a fragile young man who is assassinated in mysterious circumstances by an Islamic terrorist group in Algiers University. A religious charity working with the terrorist group moves his body by night to the “city of...
Two narrative voices: Ishtar, a young girl who lost her parents in an accident and documents her thoughts in a diary; and her maternal aunt Aida, a journalist, who has a love affair with her boss, Abbas. Through their eyes, the atmosphere of 1980s Iraq is brought to life, spanning the turbulent years of the Iran-Iraq war to the harmonious...