Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciat...
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-17%The New York Times Bestseller by musician and artist George Watsky is available here in German. This is his debut memoir, writte...
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-17%George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Ova...
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-35%A modern-day printing of the original text of Antoine Galland's first European translation of One Thousand and One Nights. The tales&n...
-15%On May 6th, 1945, soldiers of the US Army occupied the Heinrich Himmler family home in Gmund, Germany where they discovered hundreds o...
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Sarah wants to play soccer with the boys, but they won't let her because they don't think she can control the ball. She joins an all-girls team, but even they aren't too happy about her because they think she's a klutz. One of the boys feels sorry for her and teaches her a few tricks. When the girls team goes up against an...
National Bestseller and previously named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, here is an inside look at the FBI by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. This is the story of the FBI and how it has become the most powerful intelligence service of the United States.
Winner of the Dublin Prize, this is undoubtedly one of the most enchanted books by the award-winning Moroccan author. Ben Jelloun takes the ten tales of Perrault (Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, etc.), masterfully reworks them in an Arab and Muslim context, and presents them in the manner of the Thousand and One Nights.
Now in Arabic! Considered a pioneer in her field on female sexual satisfaction, Dr. Barbach's books have sold more than 4 million copies in the U.S. alone. This title was ranked the #1 self-help book by the National Register of Health Care Providers in Psychology. Clear facts, advice, and effective exercises guide women past barriers to...
A heartwarming story about Mr. Albert who finds an abandoned seal pup on a rock in the middle of the sea. Naturally, Albert brings the seal home with him, but little does he realize how complicated it is to have a seal for a roommate!
An anthology of original columns that appeared in the New York Observer about the sometimes shocking and more often than not, hilarious mating customs and rituals of the privileged and the beautiful living in the Big Apple.
The first novel by the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize has been translated into Arabic. Satantango, considered a classic of Hungarian literature, is an other-worldly novel that takes place in a rain-soaked, dying hamlet inhabited by people rife with malaise. Is the man they are waiting for really resurrected from...
A new thriller by bestselling American author and former Florida state prosecuting attorney is a hard-hitting crime novel that will keep you awake at night. A serial killer is kidnapping and torturing teenage girls to death, but one somehow escapes the "Hammerman". Her story is full of inconsistencies and FBI Agent Bobby Dees needs...
The third novel by international bestselling Michigan author, Lori Nelson Spielman. An emotional novel about mothers, sisters, daughters. When her sister dies in a train accident, Annie struggles with survivor guilt (she was supposed to be on that train, too), and tries to find comfort in their mother, Erika, who has withdrawn into her work. Can...
First published in 1932, this seventh book featuring Hercule Poirot was judged by the New York Times Book Review to be "diabolically clever". In the story, Nick Buckley, a pretty young woman, has had too many close calls with death. So many, in fact, that Poirot decides she needs his protection. Thus he begins to solve a murder that...
Translated into 35 languages, the ever popular series for middle school readers is back with Greg and his buddy Rowley trying to find dates for the Valentine's Day dance. Who will get a date first and who will be the third wheel?
Ideal for adult English language learners. Adult-themed dual language reader for new literates in Spanish and English. Eva is a busy mom with too many responsibilities. To make matters worse, she can never get a good night's sleep because once the light goes off, her mind turns on. She tosses and turns and thinks and worries. What can she do?