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

Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict,...

A delightful story collection by the beloved, award-winning Chinese children's author, Zheng Chunhua. These stories center around a li...

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

On May 6th, 1945, soldiers of the US Army occupied the Heinrich Himmler family home in Gmund, Germany where they discovered hundreds o...

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

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 e...

Through a clever mix of stop-motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story:...

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

American universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the&n...

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

A coming-of-age story within a suspenseful thriller, set against the real events, culture wars and political realities of Germany in t...

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 biography of Abraham Lincoln who grew from his simple childhood in Kentucky to become the second president of the United States.&nbs...

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