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%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%A coming-of-age story within a suspenseful thriller, set against the real events, culture wars and political realities of Germany in t...
-20%Through a clever mix of stop-motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story:...
-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%Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict,...
-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%Two friends, Serafin and Plum, and a hamster named Hercules, find themselves in a strange town where they are not welcome because they...
-15%George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Ova...
-17%When it was first published in 1937 Poland, Witold Gombrowicz's novel was considered to be subversive by the Communist regime and was ...
-17%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 lo...
-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%The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and mother...
-15%It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner p...
-15%When cholera breaks out in the village, Sandra and Pato learn about treatment and prevention.
-15%A collection of heartfelt thoughts and bits of wisdom from the Dalai Lama on a variety of subjects and suitable for everyone regardles...
-20%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.
A heartwarming story about a little girl and her friend who has cancer.