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The definitive biography of the 45th President of the United States presents the life of Donald Trump from his boyhood to his time in ...
-20%Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciat...
-15%This collection of 85 essays and articles is considered to be among the most important historical collections of all time, and we...
-25%A coming-of-age story within a suspenseful thriller, set against the real events, culture wars and political realities of Germany in t...
-20%A funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...
-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%American universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the&n...
-20%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%An exploration and critique of the Somali criminal justice system.
-10%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%Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place ...
-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%The delightful debut novel by Brooke Davis is now available in Arabic. It is the story of a little red-haired girl who has lost ...
-12%An interesting journey back in time to see how our modern ways of living, and the tools we use, actually originated in primitive cultu...
-12%A little girl walks angrily through the park dragging an old purse. Every now and then she stops and yells "Is this how it is?" ...
-17%It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner p...
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A woman is dying but chooses to live frivolously as long as possible. A man with no illusions about chance is powerfully drawn this woman who can look death in the eye and laugh. Together they make an unusual pair, living only in the moment without regard for the future. It's perfect -- until one of them begins to fall in love.
A collection of short stories by beloved Egyptian writer, Ihsan Abdel Quddous. Written in the early Sixties, it begins with a letter written by Abdel Quddous to President Gamal Abdel Nasser that details the extreme, heavy, and violent censorship to which newspapers are subjected. The press had not yet been nationalized and Abdel Quddous was the...
She is a daughter of the upper class and extravagant luxury. He is a son of the lower middle class. Can he rise above his station to be with her? Will she lower herself to be with him? A love story set against the backdrop of an earlier Egyptian society with all its social, political and economic issues by the beloved and...
A collection of social, philosophical, and satirical stories centered around young men and women during adolescence by the beloved and award-winning Egyptian author, Ihsan Abdel Quddous. He wrote more than 60 novels and short story collections in his life. Of his novels, 49 had film adaptations. Abdel Quddous considered women as...
A man once famous for his prodigious gift with a bow and arrow but who has since retired from public life, is sought by a boy with many questions. In answering them, the Archer illustrates the way of the bow and the tenets of a meaningful life.
Inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's lover and close friend, it is arguably one of her most popular novels. It is a history of English literature in satiric form. The book describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries,...
It's a threat so huge it jeopardizes not just Pennsylvania Avenue and Wall Street but all of America. The ramifications could affect the entire world. Uncertainty and fear grip the nation. There are whispers of cyberterror, espionage, and a traitor in the cabinet. Even the president himself becomes a suspect, until he disappears from public view...
Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as Beth hones...
Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything. In London, the year is 1754 and six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known. Dreading the worst, that Clara has died in care, Bess is astonished to be told that Clara has...
Just after World War II, 14-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men...
In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and can rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age. As a son, she can attend school, go to the...
This historical novel takes place Ottoman Egypt in the 16th century during the reigh of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and describes the social and political life at the time.