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

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

The author presents a timeline and notes on his experiences of the atrocities and horror committed on civilians by warring clan m...

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

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 ...

A funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...

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

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

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

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

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...

Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciat...

An exploration and critique of the Somali criminal justice system.

This film is not a movie; it's not about a bank robbery. It is a bank robbery. Victoria was shot in one sin...

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 WWI...