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-10%A biography of Abraham Lincoln who grew from his simple childhood in Kentucky to become the second president of the United States.&nbs...
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-15%Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010. In a courageous a...
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-20%In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
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A biography for young readers tells the life story of Harriet Tubman, including her childhood in slavery and her later work in helping other slaves escape north to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
The best known novel by Maxim Gorky is based on true events during the Russian revolutionary movement.
The author writes of his childhood and youth in Baghdad when the city was home to a flourishing Jewish community. From 1920 to the early 1950s more than a third of the city's population were Jews whose customs had an influence on Baghdad's cultural and commercial life.
The semi-autographical novel by the beautiful and high-spirited American writer, socialite, and painter. It was written in just six weeks while the author was a patient in a sanatorium, and is considered a classic novel of the woman's expeirence in American society during the golden Jazz Age.
In this book, Osho, who was considered one of the most provocative and inspiring spiritual teachers in the 20th century, explores the differences between intellect and intelligence and posits that intelligence is the only way we can respond creatively to the challenges we face in the world today.
The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and motherhood.
The Arabic translation of the famously controversial novel by Erica Jong that was originally published in 1973. It tells the story of a bold, young female author of erotic poetry who is trying to find her place, as a woman, in the world. The English language version has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.
Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad was a an Egyptian poet, writer and literary critic who authored more than 100 books and several thousand articles. He is most famous for his Abqariyat (Genius) series which consists of seven books covering the lives of the the seven most important companions of, and including, the Prophet Muhammad. Those seven...
A picture book based on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the 1989 document written by the UN. Each page is based on a different article from the Convention. Topics include food and water, housing, gender, race, poverty and war.
Explores the life cycle of "stuff": materials are harvested, the stuff is made and distributed, it's consumed and then it gets trashed or recycled. Using the typical contents of a child's school backpack (defined as water, food, clothing, paper, plastic, metals, electronics), this book explores those stages in detail, including lots of ways...
An illustrated encyclopedia of the history of ancient Syria from the agricultural revolution to the end of the Bronze Age.
By the Pulitzer Prize winning author, Viet Thanh Nguyen, this is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family.