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A biography of Abraham Lincoln who grew from his simple childhood in Kentucky to become the second president of the United States.&nbs...
-20%In this unique self-portrait that includes rare interviews, the filmmaker takes us behind the scenes and onto the sets of all his film...
-35%The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and mother...
-15%Sophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth. Originally published in the 19th century, Segur'...
-15%In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
-12%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%Genaro Reyes is a student who falls in with the wrong crowd. He goes on a drinking binge with his "friends" and ends up in a com...
-15%A Somali translation of "Liberty in the Modern State" by Harold Laski. The book takes into account the post-war political landsc...
-10%A little girl walks angrily through the park dragging an old purse. Every now and then she stops and yells "Is this how it is?" ...
-17%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%Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict,...
-20%Two friends, Serafin and Plum, and a hamster named Hercules, find themselves in a strange town where they are not welcome because they...
-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%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...
-10%This film is not a movie; it's not about a bank robbery. It is a bank robbery. Victoria was shot in one sin...
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A chilling novel about a doctor's macabre ambition to create immortal life. Dr. Hoppe returns to his home village after a long absence. With him are three identical infant boys -- all bearing the same disfigurement. Soon the villagers become suspicious and Dr. Hoppe's past begins to unfold. By international bestselling...
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...
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 novel about two roommates with extreme social anxiety who are trying to live like normal average people. It has also been translated into English under the title, "Beyond the Great Indoors."
The gripping new thriller by Stephenie Meyer is now available in German. An ex-agent, a chemist with a very special set of skills, is on the run from her former employer -- the government. This taut, page-turner will keep you reading until the very end.
Available in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its place in the overarching history of life, the Earth, and the Universe. Author, scholar, researcher and lecturer, Fred Spier, offers new theories into the future of humanity with a sweeping view of the past....
First published in 1967, Christie completed this novel in six weeks while in her 70s. It tells the story of Michael Rogers, whose visit to Gypsy's Acre stirs within him a childlike fantasy. In this beautiful place with views of the sea, he wants to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after. However, Gypsy's Acre is a...
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...
First published in 1934, book reviews from Chicago and New York, circa 1935, stated this novel was "light-hearted" with a pair of amateur detectives "you are sure to like." The classic death-on-the-green story when two friends are golfing and a ball goes astray. In searching for the lost ball, what is found is a dying man whose last words...
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?
American universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the author presents the American university as a national resource that should be supported and protected as a catalyst for economic growth and a source for solutions to the myriad of complex problems dotting the...
How far would you go to protect your children? This question is answered when two couples meet for dinner in a high-class restaurant. Their sons are responsible for a horrific crime. This dark, critically-acclaimed novel was made into a major motion picture by the Dutch (2013), the Italians (2014), and now the American version will be...