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This collection of 85 essays and articles is considered to be among the most important historical collections of all time, and wer..
-25%When it was first published in 1937 Poland, Witold Gombrowicz's novel was considered to be subversive by the Communist regime and was p..
-17%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 n..
-17%Terry Eagleton, a renowned literary theorist, critic and prolific writer, in this book explores the rise of religious fundamentalism an..
-15%American universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the&nb..
-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?" F..
-17%Eritrea is under Ethopian occupation and there's to be a revolution. The enslaved and followers who dream of freedom will rise up under..
-12%The definitive biography of the 45th President of the United States presents the life of Donald Trump from his boyhood to his time in m..
-20%The five-act satirical play by Niccolo Machiavelli was first published in 1524. Now in Arabic, it tells the story of a beaut..
-10%The final book written by the great philosopher at the end of his life is a mix of autobiographical anecdotes, descriptions of sights f..
-15%In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what a..
-12%It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner pa..
-15%The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and motherh..
-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 WWII..
-10%Winner of both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize, this is the story of a "Don Juan" lover of women during the ea..
-17%Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil societ..
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When you have to stay home, you can be happy or unhappy. The choice is yours. When Mido was asked if he was happy, he cried and said no, he was so bored. Then he stormed off to his room, but as he sat there thinking about boredom, he suddenly got an idea! and then another and another!
Yahya Haqqi, an award-winning writer and novelist who published four collections of short stories, a novel, and many articles. He is known for experimentation with various literary forms.
No one knows the recipe for happiness—and yet Héctor Abad offers us a whole volume. His recipes, at times bizarre, at times wise, appear able to cure almost anything. With ingenuity and subtle humor, Abad proffers practical advice on how to fight sadness, attract joy, and retain delight. It's not a novel and it's not a cookbook. It...
The unforgettable story of a boy attempting to find grace, written by the only writer in history to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Pen/Faulkner Award for a single novel. After his parents are arrested and imprisoned for robbing a bank, fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons is taken in by Arthur Remlinger who, unbeknownst to Dell, is hiding a...
Ubuhle and her puppy dog, Uthando, are daydreaming in the sun when they meet a wise butterfly who teaches them the true meaning of beauty. A story that teaches children the meaning of self-love, healthy confidence and the power of positive affirmations
When Nils makes the mistake of teasing an elf, he is bewitched and shrunk to a thumb size. He takes off on the back of a young goosey-gander for a wonderful journey among the wild geese
Sultan Marjan loves the color red. He loves it so much that he ordered that red be the color of the houses and walls and that tomatoes be planted in all the fields. The tomato crop overflowed and the island was filled with them. So what did the people of Tomato Island do with all the tomatoes?
Adam is a journalist who writes the stories of the world with transparency and realism. He is a seeker of justice with a grudge against society. He sculpts the face of the world with accurate detail and asks the hard questions.
Stefan Zweig's longest work of fiction and a loose inspiration for Wes Anderson's film The Grand Budapest Hotel. This novel uncovers the seed of selfishness within even the finest of feelings. While serving in war-torn, turn-of-the-century Yugoslavia, a chance encounter brings a cavalry officer face to face with the woman of his dreams, a...
Originally published in 1937, this novel tells the story of two displaced migrant farm workers who move around California searching for work during the Great Depression. It has been banned or challenged numerous times for offensive and racist language and appears on the American Library Association's list of the Most Challenged Books of the...
Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. The word Siddhartha is made up of two words in Sanskrit language, siddha (achieved) + artha (what was searched for), which together means "he who has found meaning (of...
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend. He is a scholar who is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, so he makes a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.