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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%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 iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and motherh..
-15%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%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%It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner pa..
-15%Samy is very shy and doesn't like to talk to other people because it's scary and he doesn't know what to say. Now his little dog is los..
-15%An interesting journey back in time to see how our modern ways of living, and the tools we use, actually originated in primitive cultur..
-12%Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciati..
-15%Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict, ..
-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 n..
-17%Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books ..
-20%The Arabic translation of Philip Roth's novel about Coleman Silk, the dean of faculty at a small liberal arts college who is accused of..
-17%The five-act satirical play by Niccolo Machiavelli was first published in 1524. Now in Arabic, it tells the story of a beaut..
-10%Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil societ..
-15%George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Oval..
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From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great...
The story take place in Mosul and Baghdad between 1962 and 2018. After his younger brother drowns in the river Tigris in Mosul, young Kamal Touma runs away, terrified of his father's brutal reaction, and hides in a fearsome place known as the 'garden of spirits.' Just before boarding a lorry heading south to the capital city, he picks up a...
An autobiographical portrait of the author's efforts to deal with the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, shortly after their daughter Quintana was placed into an induced coma to help her survive complications after pneumonia.
Set in two different time periods. In present-day Minya, Egypt, Hisham Khatab is a young manuscripts dealer who is passionate about old books. This leads him to interpret a dream in The Great Book of Interpretation of Dreams, ascribed to Ibn Sirin, and believe he was someone called Yazid bin Abihi, who lived in the 2nd hijri century (8th century...
Everyone’s afraid of the Evil Knight. Everyone? Not quite. Fadi has had enough of slaving away for the rich knight and one day he runs away. But what bad luck! Deep in the woods, he is captured by a gang of thieves. And they are naturally delighted with their catch. After all, robbers love a good kidnapping, but even more so, they...
Hedgehog is sad because he is little. He is not tall, or fast like other animals and he cannot fly like the birds. A story about accepting yourself for who you are.
Have you noticed the artistry of the sky? Cloud Maker covers the sky with white fluffy clouds. Star Maker hangs the stars one by one in the sky. There is also Sky Painter. His job is to paint the night sky in the most beautiful shades of blue. But in the dark he thinks now on sees him and sometimes he feels lonely. Then one day...
Viruses are everywhere: from the tip of your nose to the bottom of the ocean, and despite their bad reputation, most don't make people sick. At a time when everyone is talking about viruses, it's time to know everything about them!
Munira is called on by the teacher but she doesn't want to answer. She feels ashamed because some of her teeth are missing and her speech sounds funny. Munira and her classmates learn that this is a natural occurrence and there is no need to feel embarrassed.
Tagging along with his brother Rodrick's band, Löded Diper, Greg gets more than he bargained for when he gets a backstage pass to the rock 'n' roll lifestyle and wonders if he can help them become the legends they think they are.
After a disastrous field day competition at school, Greg decides that when it comes to his athletic career, he's officially retired. But after his mom urges him to give sports one more chance, he reluctantly agrees to sign up for basketball. Tryouts are a mess, and Greg is sure he won't make the cut. But he unexpectedly lands a spot on the worst...
In early 1850, the steamer 'Clive', coming from Bombay, abandoned five chests of tea in the port of Basra, where Admiral Lancaster was serving his sentence of exile. The policy of promoting tea begins in parallel with a series of assassinations of Dutch coffee dealers, until tea became the number one drink in southern Iraq. This novel is...