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The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and mother...
-15%In an apocalyptic near-future world, a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choi...
-15%In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
-12%A modern-day printing of the original text of Antoine Galland's first European translation of One Thousand and One Nights. The story o...
-15%The New York Times Bestseller by musician and artist George Watsky is available here in German. This is his debut memoir, writte...
-15%H.G. Wells' classic study in the progress and history of civilization from the origins of life on Earth up to historic developments in...
-15%Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciat...
-15%Through a clever mix of stop-motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story:...
-20%A coming-of-age story within a suspenseful thriller, set against the real events, culture wars and political realities of Germany in t...
-20%Chris Anderson, the head of TED, presents an insider's guide to crafting the perfect talk. Discover the power of the spoken word to ch...
-15%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...
-17%Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...
-20%The delightful debut novel by Brooke Davis is now available in Arabic. It is the story of a little red-haired girl who has lost ...
-12%A funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...
-20%This film is not a movie; it's not about a bank robbery. It is a bank robbery. Victoria was shot in one sin...
-20%An exploration and critique of the Somali criminal justice system.
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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 early years of the 20th century. Author John Berger was an English art critic, painter, novelist and poet. He was also a well-known Marxist who supported liberation movements around the world.
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 WWII Paris who runs away from the Catholic boarding school that had been her hiding place.
Winner of the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, this novel tells the stories of people in exile through their letters. Author Hoda Barakat is known for exploring the psychological effects of conflict and trauma in her works.
Winner of the 2018 Caldecott Medal, this is the story of a girl and a wolf that get lost in a snowstorm. A wonderful book of friendship and trust.
When it was first published in 1937 Poland, Witold Gombrowicz's novel was considered to be subversive by the Communist regime and was promptly banned. It has been translated into more than 20 languages, and the English translation won the 2001 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators Association. ...
Winner of the Fintro Prize for Literature 2016, the critically-acclaimed debut novel by Dutch poet, Hagar Peeters, is now available in Arabic. Reviewed as written in "lush, lyrical prose" it tells the story of Malva, the only child of Pablo Neruda who died at the age of 8 and is now a ghost in search for her father in the afterlife.
Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, this is the first novel by Irish author, Kevin Barry. Set in the 2053, it shows a world without technology. There are trams, but no cars; people write letters instead of phone; and music is broadcast on hand crank radios. Warring factions fight for control of Bohane in a "demented...
Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize, this novel tells the story of an organ transplant and of what went on in the life before. Of a patient’s countless days and nights in the hospital and the never-ending string of patients he shares his room with, of their stories and confessions. And lying on his bed as he travels through the...
Gustave Le Bon was a 19th century French polymath whose travels and research in the emerging field of anthropology would result in a number of influential books as well as the Godard Prize from the French Academy of Sciences. In this highly respected work, Le Bon writes about early Arab peoples and culture and their valuable contributions to...
This autobiographical novel by Belgian author Amelie Nothomb was awarded the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Academie Francaise the same year it was published. It tells the story of a young woman who takes a job on a one-year contract as a translator at a prestigious Japanese company. What follows is a comical and perplexing dance through...
Now available in Arabic! A Storm of Swords, book three of George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire". An epic masterpiece of lords and ladies, assassins and bastards, soldiers and witchcraft, with a dragon or two or three thrown in for good measure. This product is one book in two volumes. The English language novel won both...
A masterpiece by one of the great modern French writers, the story is told in the form of a confessional letter. A bitter, aging lawyer, Monsier Louis, writes a letter to his estranged family explaining why his heart is like a knot of vipers. The novel presents a gripping look at the effects of pride, hatred, and greed upon a man's...