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On May 6th, 1945, soldiers of the US Army occupied the Heinrich Himmler family home in Gmund, Germany where they discovered hundreds o...
-20%Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict,...
-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%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%Brief biographies and illustrations of famous painters from Michelangelo to Van Gogh and Rembrandt to Picasso. Features fully vow...
-15%Chris Anderson, the head of TED, presents an insider's guide to crafting the perfect talk. Discover the power of the spoken word to ch...
-15%In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
-12%This thought-provoking book, now available in Arabic, identifies cooperation as the most important challenge faced by civil socie...
-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%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 funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...
-20%Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...
-20%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%The author presents a timeline and notes on his experiences of the atrocities and horror committed on civilians by warring clan m...
-15%A 20th century classic by the great William Kelley Wright. Known for its presentation of philosophers and their theories in easy...
-20%Ever since the National University strike broke out, Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) and Santos (Leonard0 Ortizgris) have been living in angst-...
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It's 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it's not just a political tangle that's kept him tethered to the country. There's also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman who clings to Fowler for protection. Then comes Alden Pyle, an idealistic...
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.
I was in love with him from the moment he was born. I would gaze at him all day long, as if he were my first child. He was a little angel, completely white. His pure whiteness was astonishing, like a snowflake in a hot country, and he would nurse and sleep peacefully, and he didn't cry like other babies. His presence beside me filled me with...
One of two things could have brought him back to Sanhaja, his Amazigh village: the death of the mother who had scarred his childhood, or the return of Najma—the wife of Bernard, his first love, his forbidden passion, and his surrogate mother—who had disappeared under mysterious circumstances. And now, after a quarter of a...
After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly...
Tells the story of women confined within four walls, immersed in imposed isolation, not isolation chosen of their own free will. They endure the cold and dull lives of their husbands, and have learned to suppress everything within themselves and to live without a bird soaring high above. The author reveals to us the inner worlds of thousands of...
It's a hilariously revisionist account of Noah's ark, narrated by a passenger who doesn't appear in Genesis. It's a sneak preview of heaven. It encompasses the stories of a cruise ship hijacked by terrorists and of woodworms tried for blasphemy in sixteenth-century France. It explores the relationship of fact to fabulation and the antagonism...
When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the Earth to find her.
The novel chronicles the lives of American writers for whom Tangier was a major stop on their creative journeys, including the American playwright Tennessee Williams, who lived in Tangier for a long period, Paul Bowles and his wife Jane Bowles, Gertrude Stein, and William Burroughs. The novel also features a large number of Moroccan writers.
Five people: four are living; three are strangers; two are sisters; one, a teenage hotel chambermaid, has fallen to her death in a dumbwaiter. But her spirit lingers in the world, straining to recall things she never knew. And one night all five women find themselves in the smooth plush environs of the Global Hotel, where the intersection of...
By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1981), this novel is a dark and disorienting tale of the self-destructive character of totalitarian thinking.
Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 21 times, and called the "Dean of Arabic Literature", Taha Hussein is one of the most influential 20th century Egyptian writers. This is the complete collection of his novels in one sturdy volume.