H.G. Wells' classic study in the progress and history of civilization from the origins of life on Earth up to historic developments in...

A modern-day printing of the original text of Antoine Galland's first European translation of One Thousand and One Nights. The story o...

By the author of the bestselling novel, A Dog's Purpose, which is now a major motion picture, this illustrated novel for young readers...

The story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ulitmately consumed, by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student...

George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Ova...

Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place ...

Two friends, Serafin and Plum, and a hamster named Hercules, find themselves in a strange town where they are not welcome because they...

Previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is a fun, entertaining story about a mysterious stranger who shows up at a famil...

Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...

The Dickens 1859 classic historical novel.

Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil socie...

The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and mother...

Genaro Reyes is a student who falls in with the wrong crowd.  He goes on a drinking binge with his "friends" and ends up in a com...

An exploration and critique of the Somali criminal justice system.

This thought-provoking book, now available in Arabic, identifies cooperation as the most important challenge faced by civil socie...