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It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner p...
-15%The story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ulitmately consumed, by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student...
-20%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%An interesting journey back in time to see how our modern ways of living, and the tools we use, actually originated in primitive cultu...
-12%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%George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Ova...
-17%The definitive biography of the 45th President of the United States presents the life of Donald Trump from his boyhood to his time in ...
-20%On May 6th, 1945, soldiers of the US Army occupied the Heinrich Himmler family home in Gmund, Germany where they discovered hundreds o...
-20%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%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%A Somali translation of "Liberty in the Modern State" by Harold Laski. The book takes into account the post-war political landsc...
-10%In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
-12%Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...
-20%The Arabic translation of Philip Roth's novel about Coleman Silk, the dean of faculty at a small liberal arts college who is accused o...
-17%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 ...
-17%When it was first published in 1937 Poland, Witold Gombrowicz's novel was considered to be subversive by the Communist regime and was ...
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A provocative first novel and New York Times Bestseller about Kitty Miller, a single woman and bookshop owner in 1960s Denver. When Kitty begins having longer and and longer dreams about Katharayn Andersson and her wonderful life with the man of her dreams and beautiful family, Kitty must decide which reality she wants to reside in.
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.
Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciation.
Thornton Burgess was an American conservationist and children's author. He shared his great love of nature and animals through the more than 170 books he wrote in his lifetime. In this story, the reckless Reddy Fox decides to steal a hen in broad daylight from Farmer Brown. The farmer's son gives chase with a loaded gun. Will Reddy...
Mark Twain's classic novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. Tom Sawyer and his buddy Huckleberry Finn have many wonderful adventures together. This Arabic translation features fully vowelled text for easy Arabic pronunciation for young readers.
Thornton Burgess was an American conservationist and children's author. He shared his great love of nature and animals through the more than 170 books he wrote in his lifetime. In this story, winter has arrived and Granny Fox and Reddy are having trouble finding food. Reddy is known for his reckless ideas, but Granny's ageless...
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...
A delightful story collection by the beloved, award-winning Chinese children's author, Zheng Chunhua. These stories center around a little girl and her adventures with her fun-loving family. The text is fully vowelled for easier Arabic pronunciation by young readers.
An interesting journey back in time to see how our modern ways of living, and the tools we use, actually originated in primitive cultures from around the world. Expertly researched by Julius Lips, a well-known anthropologist, this book reveals the foundations of tools, habits, traditions, fire, food, the use of cosmetics and jewelry,...
The controversial lecture, first published in 1896, defends the right to believe in something without proof or evidence of its truth. William James was an influential American philosopher and psychologist who was a leading thinker in the late nineteenth century. He is considered by many to be the "Father of American psychology."
A finalist for the Book of the Year Award in Spain, this is a gripping novel that tells the cat-and-mouse game that Stalin played with Trotksy from the time he was expelled from the Communist Party until his assassination in Mexico City. The "man" in the title who loved dogs is Ramon Mercader, Trotsky's killer. This novel has been...
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, writer, and film director, translated and adapted Sophocles story of Oedipus into a major motion picture. Pasolini add a modern-day prologue and epilogue to the famous myth as well as emphasizing the innocence of Oedipus. Pasolini was inspired by Sophocles contrast between total innocence and the obligation to...