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Two friends, Serafin and Plum, and a hamster named Hercules, find themselves in a strange town where they are not welcome because they...
-15%In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
-12%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 five-act satirical play by Niccolo Machiavelli was first published in 1524. Now in Arabic, it tells the story of a beau...
-10%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%Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict,...
-20%George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Ova...
-17%Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciat...
-15%Masterfully explores the significance of water in Chile's vast history and culture, examining the indigenous tribes of the Western Pat...
-20%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 ...
-17%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%A collection of heartfelt thoughts and bits of wisdom from the Dalai Lama on a variety of subjects and suitable for everyone regardles...
-20%Ever since the National University strike broke out, Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) and Santos (Leonard0 Ortizgris) have been living in angst-...
-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%Sophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth. Originally published in the 19th century, Segur'...
-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...
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Mo Yan's dramatic novel about the conflict among the Chinese government's one child policy, prospective parents, and Gugu, an abortionist and aunt of the story's narrator. Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012.
American author, Jack London's novel about a wannabe writer and his frustrations with the publishing industry. Originally published in 1909, it is believed to have been the inspiration for a whole generation of young writers who would attain their objectives through great struggle without aid or encouragement.
Winner of the Fintro Prize for Literature 2016, the critically-acclaimed debut novel by Dutch poet, Hagar Peeters, is now available in Arabic. Reviewed as written in "lush, lyrical prose" it tells the story of Malva, the only child of Pablo Neruda who died at the age of 8 and is now a ghost in search for her father in the afterlife.
A new Arabic translation of Voltaire's satirical "magnum opus" about the human condition as seen through the eyes of Candide, a sheltered young man who becomes disillusioned with the world after he experiences many hardships.
Haruki Murakami's novel about an unnamed protagonist, a freelance writer, who is divorced, bereaved, abandoned and lonely. He returns to an old haunt from his past, the Dolphin Hotel, where he experiences visions that lead him to two mysteries: one metaphysical and one physical. This story features all the hallmarks of Murakami's...
Virginia Woolf's unconventional third novel tells the story of Jacob through the perceptions of the people, primarily women, around him.
Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, this is the first novel by Irish author, Kevin Barry. Set in the 2053, it shows a world without technology. There are trams, but no cars; people write letters instead of phone; and music is broadcast on hand crank radios. Warring factions fight for control of Bohane in a "demented...
Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize, this novel tells the story of an organ transplant and of what went on in the life before. Of a patient’s countless days and nights in the hospital and the never-ending string of patients he shares his room with, of their stories and confessions. And lying on his bed as he travels through the...
A new Arabic translation of Dostoevsky's novella about a government clerk and his journey into madness when a doppelganger appears and begins to take over his life.
The newest novel by award-winning French author, Gilbert Sinoue, takes the reader on a fabulous journey, between legend and truth, to one of the oldest civilizations in the world: the country of Dilmoun. Dilmoun, the "country where the sun rises", was, according to Sumerian tradition, the place where the only survivor of the Flood resided. ...
This historical novel by the Peruvian Nobel Prize in Literature laureate is considered by some to be a masterpiece of Latin American literature. It masterfully weaves together fact and fiction to narrate an actual event: the assassination and its aftermath of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo.
This gripping second novel by award-winning author, Gerbrand Bakker, tells the story of a Dutch woman named Emilie (not her real name) who severs all ties with her former life, including a husband who his alive and well, and moves to an isolated cottage on the coast of Wales. Bakker was awarded the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2014 for...