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 ...

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

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 lo...

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

Brief biographies and illustrations of famous painters from Michelangelo to Van Gogh and Rembrandt to Picasso. Features fully vow...

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

In an apocalyptic near-future world, a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choi...

An interesting journey back in time to see how our modern ways of living, and the tools we use, actually originated in primitive cultu...

The definitive biography of the 45th President of the United States presents the life of Donald Trump from his boyhood to his time in ...

In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...

It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner p...

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

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

When cholera breaks out in the village, Sandra and Pato learn about treatment and prevention.

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