Why does it rain?

Previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is a fun, entertaining story about a mysterious stranger who shows up at a family..

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 h..

This collection of 85 essays and articles is considered to be among the most important historical collections of all time, and wer..

H.G. Wells' classic study in the progress and history of civilization from the origins of life on Earth up to historic developments in ..

Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict, ..

Samy is very shy and doesn't like to talk to other people because it's scary and he doesn't know what to say. Now his little dog is los..

It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner pa..

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 ea..

A biography of Abraham Lincoln who grew from his simple childhood in Kentucky to become the second president of the United States. ..

The final book written by the great philosopher at the end of his life is a mix of autobiographical anecdotes, descriptions of sights f..

Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books ..

In an apocalyptic near-future world, a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choic..

Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil societ..

When it was first published in 1937 Poland, Witold Gombrowicz's novel was considered to be subversive by the Communist regime and was p..

An interesting journey back in time to see how our modern ways of living, and the tools we use, actually originated in primitive cultur..

In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what a..