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The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and motherh..
-15%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%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%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%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%Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil societ..
-15%Terry Eagleton, a renowned literary theorist, critic and prolific writer, in this book explores the rise of religious fundamentalism an..
-15%This thought-provoking book, now available in Arabic, identifies cooperation as the most important challenge faced by civil societ..
-15%Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict, ..
-20%Nietzsche's masterful philosophical narrative about Zarathustra, who after years of meditation comes down from a mountain to offer his ..
-15%Previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is a fun, entertaining story about a mysterious stranger who shows up at a family..
-15%Brief biographies and illustrations of famous painters from Michelangelo to Van Gogh and Rembrandt to Picasso. Features fully vowe..
-15%Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciati..
-15%It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner pa..
-15%A 20th century classic by the great William Kelley Wright. Known for its presentation of philosophers and their theories in easy ..
-20%The five-act satirical play by Niccolo Machiavelli was first published in 1524. Now in Arabic, it tells the story of a beaut..
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First published in 1967, Christie completed this novel in six weeks while in her 70s. It tells the story of Michael Rogers, whose visit to Gypsy's Acre stirs within him a childlike fantasy. In this beautiful place with views of the sea, he wants to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after. However, Gypsy's Acre is a...
First published in 1932, this seventh book featuring Hercule Poirot was judged by the New York Times Book Review to be "diabolically clever". In the story, Nick Buckley, a pretty young woman, has had too many close calls with death. So many, in fact, that Poirot decides she needs his protection. Thus he begins to solve a murder that...
First published in 1934, book reviews from Chicago and New York, circa 1935, stated this novel was "light-hearted" with a pair of amateur detectives "you are sure to like." The classic death-on-the-green story when two friends are golfing and a ball goes astray. In searching for the lost ball, what is found is a dying man whose last words...
Translated into 35 languages, the ever popular series for middle school readers is back with Greg and his buddy Rowley trying to find dates for the Valentine's Day dance. Who will get a date first and who will be the third wheel?
American universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the author presents the American university as a national resource that should be supported and protected as a catalyst for economic growth and a source for solutions to the myriad of complex problems dotting the...
How far would you go to protect your children? This question is answered when two couples meet for dinner in a high-class restaurant. Their sons are responsible for a horrific crime. This dark, critically-acclaimed novel was made into a major motion picture by the Dutch (2013), the Italians (2014), and now the American version will be...
German reporter for Der Zeit, Wolfgang Bauer chronicles the treacherous and often deadly journey of Syrian refugees as they cross the Mediterranean Sea in search of life and safety. As the Syrian civil war continues to rage, millions of refugees are on the run. Bauer captures their dramatic stories with a passionate appeal for a more...
Drugs, greed, corruption, blackmail and body-snatching make for a terrific page-turner set in the lowlands of Brazil. Written by one of Brazil's celebrated crime novelists, this story will be finished in one sitting because you can't put it down.
Venture beyond butter and salt with this cookbook where popcorn is the star of creative and yummy recipes -- caramel corn, kettle corn, spiced popcorn, even popcorn cookies, and popcorn nachos. A must have for popcorn lovers everywhere.
Feel the punch and the warm trickle of blood as boxing comes to life in this intense novel about a successful advertising executive who leaves his illustrious career behind to pursue his love of boxing.
Dr. Wayne Dyer delves into fiction with this moving story of a university professor and loving family man whose past seeps into his life and begins to affect his marriage and relationship with his son. What transpires is a journey to find understanding and reconciliation with the father who abandoned him as a baby.