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The final book written by the great philosopher at the end of his life is a mix of autobiographical anecdotes, descriptions of sights ...
-15%An exploration and critique of the Somali criminal justice system.
-10%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 story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ulitmately consumed, by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student...
-20%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%Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil socie...
-15%Available in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its plac...
-17%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%Terry Eagleton, a renowned literary theorist, critic and prolific writer, in this book explores the rise of religious fundamentalism a...
-15%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%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%Sophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth. Originally published in the 19th century, Segur'...
-15%Two friends, Serafin and Plum, and a hamster named Hercules, find themselves in a strange town where they are not welcome because they...
-15%Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010. In a courageous a...
-20%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%This collection of 85 essays and articles is considered to be among the most important historical collections of all time, and we...
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After being touched by a cloud, the Queen suddenly becomes pregnant. The King has not been near her since he married her, and now the prophecy he once saw in a dream is being fulfilled: she will give birth to a boy who is not fathered by the king, who will one day inherit the throne. The Queen flees, wandering aimlessly in the steppes and...
In the world of the supernatural there is a battle raging between purveyors of Black Magic and the doers of good.
Inspired by the art of the mosaic, this novel is set in the Moroccan town of Oualili, site of the ancient Roman city of Volubilis. It is a novel conceived as three manuscripts: two novels, and a memoir. The three manuscripts connect the distant past with the present and, like mosaic pieces, fit together to create a novel that is...
Leila’s passion for reading leads her to Tanners’ Alley in Tunis, famed for selling of old books. There she encounters an eccentric man who dreams of founding an association for ghostwriters. She becomes unwittingly embroiled in his fantastical schemes, and one day stumbles across an unusual novel alternately written by a male and a...
A rare detective story by one of the greatest English writers. A mysterious man named Julius Slinkton enters the life of Mr. Sampson, the manager of a life assurance office. Remarkably well-spoken and with insinuating manners, Slinkton initially seems to be the consummate gentleman. But as Sampson soon learns, appearances can be deceiving.
In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people.
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.
This classic novel by the beloved Naguib Mahfouz in which the woes of a petit bourgeois family thrust into poverty in World War II Cairo are relayed in engrossing detail and represent a microcosm of Egypt's birth pangs in gaining independence. It is a powerful portrayal of a middle-class Egyptian family contronted by material, moral, and...
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 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...