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%George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Ova...
-17%A Somali translation of "Liberty in the Modern State" by Harold Laski. The book takes into account the post-war political landsc...
-10%When cholera breaks out in the village, Sandra and Pato learn about treatment and prevention.
-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%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%The final book written by the great philosopher at the end of his life is a mix of autobiographical anecdotes, descriptions of sights ...
-15%Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place ...
-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%This thought-provoking book, now available in Arabic, identifies cooperation as the most important challenge faced by civil socie...
-15%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%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%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%A funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...
-20%Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciat...
-15%The award-winning book by German medical doctor, Giulia Enders, has been published in 40 countries and sold more than 4 million copies. Dr. Enders reveals the secrets and wonders of our digestive system and explains our gut is at the core of who we are. From acid reflux to lactose intolerance to obesity and our moods, she explains...
The popular, and enlightening, book about the characteristics of crowd psychology and its impact on the individual.
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. ...
Mo Yan's dramatic novel about the conflict among the Chinese government's one child policy, prospective parents, and Gugu, an abortionist and aunt of the story's narrator. Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012.
American author, Jack London's novel about a wannabe writer and his frustrations with the publishing industry. Originally published in 1909, it is believed to have been the inspiration for a whole generation of young writers who would attain their objectives through great struggle without aid or encouragement.
A new novel by the author of "Autumn of Innocence" that won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2017. This is a poetic, partly biographical, novel about the meaning of life when one is facing the end of it.
A new novel by the award-winning Saudi author, Maqbul al-Alawi, spins a fictional tale of the fate of the painting "Poppy Flowers" by Van Gogh that was actually stolen from a Cairo museum in 2010 and has yet to be found. In the novel, Hamid buys a cheap painting from a scrap market in Mecca, and then his friend Faisal says it looks just...
The historical narrative by the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature has never been translated into English, but here it is in Arabic. According to reviewers, it is a real "page-turner" that takes place in post-Revolutionary France, the Algerian war and the 1968 student massacres in Mexico City.
Six exciting adventures of Sinbad the sailor with unforgettable illustrations.
A little boy has a hard time keeping his dinosaur a secret . . . especially when it is only nonsense!
Examines the different places that animals live, from household pets to bird nests and rabbit burrows to hermit crab shells.
Iraqi oral tradition is rich with proverbs and stories passed on from generation to generation. This is book 5 in this series featuring a collection of simple, humorous proverbs that are delightfully illustrated with entertaining historical accuracy.