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American universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the&n...
-20%In an apocalyptic near-future world, a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choi...
-15%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 iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and mother...
-15%Brief biographies and illustrations of famous painters from Michelangelo to Van Gogh and Rembrandt to Picasso. Features fully vow...
-15%Sophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth. Originally published in the 19th century, Segur'...
-15%By the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, this is the haunting novella, based on the true story of a Jewish teenager in WWI...
-10%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%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 this unique self-portrait that includes rare interviews, the filmmaker takes us behind the scenes and onto the sets of all his film...
-35%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%Terry Eagleton, a renowned literary theorist, critic and prolific writer, in this book explores the rise of religious fundamentalism a...
-15%A Somali translation of "Liberty in the Modern State" by Harold Laski. The book takes into account the post-war political landsc...
-10%Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict,...
-20%Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...
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A family experiences a role reversal: The father, twice widowed, has become a child again. He needs care and will have to leave home because he forgets what just happened. He repeatedly recounts his love stories, and sometimes he fantasizes. This tender novel about the almost imperceptible progression of dementia is deeply touching and...
The story centers around a character named Sacha who leaves Paris for a small town in the south of France, where he reconnects with a childhood friend who is now settled down with a family. The arrival of Sacha disrupts the established family dynamic, particularly between Sacha and the friend's wife, Marie. The narrative delves into...
A gripping exploration of family dynamics, betrayal, and the path to forgiveness.
When her happy middle-class life in Afghanistan is shattered by the rise of the Taliban and her husband's murder by fundamentalists, former schoolteacher Fereiba embarks on a high-risk effort to escape to England with her three children.
Lonely librarian June Jones has never left the sleepy English village where she grew up. Shy and reclusive, the twenty-eight-year-old would rather spend her time buried in books than venture out into the world. But when her library is threatened with closure, June is forced to emerge from behind the shelves to save the heart of her community and...
She is Anne Frank, author of "The Diary of a Young Girl," and the writer is Maha Hassan, author of this book. In this novel, they follow two lines that intertwine, almost to the point of convergence, immersing us in confusion and magic as the young girl regains her voice in a shared narrative that takes us from the struggle of identity and the...
Nabil is a famous divorced writer on the verge of sixty. His apartment catches fire while he is alone at home. Fear of loneliness drives him to marry "Nisma"; she is forty years old, a virgin, selfish, and addicted to tranquilizers. How can two different worlds intersect in a relationship that began with a marriage proposal on...
Catalina Martín desperately needs a date to her sister's wedding. Especially since her little white lie about her American boyfriend has spiralled out of control. Now everyone she knows--including her ex and his fiancée--will be there and eager to meet him. She only has four weeks to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic and aid in her...
An inspiring trilogy of novels that opens the door to a narrative that shakes many assumptions and leaves entire cities gripped by the fear of history repeating itself. This is three novels in one volume: Coming Home in the Evening , Two Ways to Escape, and Because There are Women in the World. Whatever we flee from, we find right in front of...
Rich and compelling, set against the frenzy of the real Pendle Hill Witch Trials, this novel explores the rights of 17th-century women and raises the question: Was witch-hunting really women-hunting? Fleetwood Shuttleworth, Alice Grey and the other characters are actual historical figures. King James I was obsessed with asserting power over the...
A Russian artist living in Sudan, who gathers a group of young Sudanese men around him and teaches them art at university. The human relationships between them are analyzed in the novel. The artist leaves Sudan, leaving his students to live their own story as they struggle with their environment and authority.
The psychological thriller about two men whose lives become entangled after one of them proposes they "trade" murders. Originally published in 1950, it was adapted as a film in 1951 by Alfred Hitchcock.