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It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner pa..
-15%In an apocalyptic near-future world, a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choic..
-15%Nietzsche's masterful philosophical narrative about Zarathustra, who after years of meditation comes down from a mountain to offer his ..
-15%George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Oval..
-17%The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and motherh..
-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%A biography of Abraham Lincoln who grew from his simple childhood in Kentucky to become the second president of the United States. ..
-20%Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciati..
-15%The five-act satirical play by Niccolo Machiavelli was first published in 1524. Now in Arabic, it tells the story of a beaut..
-10%Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict, ..
-20%In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what a..
-12%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%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%This collection of 85 essays and articles is considered to be among the most important historical collections of all time, and wer..
-25%In this unique self-portrait that includes rare interviews, the filmmaker takes us behind the scenes and onto the sets of all his films..
-35%The final book written by the great philosopher at the end of his life is a mix of autobiographical anecdotes, descriptions of sights f..
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A young boy has a grand adventure in the land of tales.
Sami loves to talk on the phone to his grandpa and grandma, but the thing Sami loves the most is when his grandpa asks him about the weather. Sami rushes to his mother to see what kind of shoes she will be wearing, and tnen presents his grandpa with an detailed weather forecast.
Ruby's morning walk to school is far from ordinary. With a tiger on the prowl and mighty beasts that loom and lurk, getting to school seems an impossible task. Will Ruby find the courage to reach her classroom?
This colorful board book has little ones mimicking animal movements for fun. Can you stretch like a cat or squat like a frog?
For some time, Sari has been feeling sad, his mood has changed, and he doesn't want to go to school anymore. His mom and dad are worried and learn there is a boy who is an annoying boy who is bullying Sari. What can they do?
Middle-school drama queen Nikki Maxwell worries about asking a boy to her school's "sweetheart dance."
Jet the cat likes to swim. When the other animals tell her that cats actually hate water, she goes in search of her true identity. After failing to fit the description of a variety of animals, Jet finally learns to embrace her unique brand of catness. A timely tale that humorously challenges labels and celebrates defining one's own unique identity.
Paris, 1939. Young, ambitious, and tempestuous, Odile Souchet has it all: Paul, her handsome police officer beau; Margaret, her best friend from England; her adored twin brother Remy; and a dream job at the American Library in Paris, working alongside the library's legendary director, Dorothy Reeder. But when World War II breaks out, Odile...
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...
You know you're old when your adult children talk to each other in front of you and spell out certain words. Reaching the milestone of 80, Lee Janogly was continually irritated at the notion that older people are slower, frailer and generally out of touch with modern living. Even if we do sometimes put the remote control in the fridge, we know...
Delves into astonishing facts and unique stories of key figures in the Victorian and Andalusian periods.
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...