Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010. In a courageous a...
-20%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%The final book written by the great philosopher at the end of his life is a mix of autobiographical anecdotes, descriptions of sights ...
-15%The five-act satirical play by Niccolo Machiavelli was first published in 1524. Now in Arabic, it tells the story of a beau...
-10%H.G. Wells' classic study in the progress and history of civilization from the origins of life on Earth up to historic developments in...
-15%On May 6th, 1945, soldiers of the US Army occupied the Heinrich Himmler family home in Gmund, Germany where they discovered hundreds o...
-20%In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
-12%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%This film is not a movie; it's not about a bank robbery. It is a bank robbery. Victoria was shot in one sin...
-20%Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciat...
-15%Two friends, Serafin and Plum, and a hamster named Hercules, find themselves in a strange town where they are not welcome because they...
-15%Nietzsche's masterful philosophical narrative about Zarathustra, who after years of meditation comes down from a mountain to offer his...
-15%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%A collection of heartfelt thoughts and bits of wisdom from the Dalai Lama on a variety of subjects and suitable for everyone regardles...
-20%A modern-day printing of the original text of Antoine Galland's first European translation of One Thousand and One Nights. The tales&n...
-15%Previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is a fun, entertaining story about a mysterious stranger who shows up at a famil...
-15%In this picture-book puzzle, the ever-changing illustrations create a story about a bird that is born without wings. The bird's desire to fly is emphasized through various geometric forms and colours. There are only a few words and sentences in the book, but the subtle language of art and overlapping layers of illustrations give the story an...
Maher realizes one day he is an only child with no siblings. He starts to feel a bit lonely, and wishes he had siblings - like his friends and cousins. Luckily, his toys are here and now it’s time to show Maher what it means to be surrounded with brothers and sisters. It’s a heartwarming story that shows how rich and powerful...
Little ones learn the Arabic alphabet and common animal names in this colorful board book.
Ilhami hates writing and hates homework. When he answers a ringing phone in a phone booth, he hears a voice telling strange stories. Then, a cunning idea comes to mind: he plans to use these stories for his homework. To convince his teacher and classmates that such a book exists, he invents the name of a Chinese author. For every story he...
The Sultan is hosting the annual cooking competition in the gardens of Bab al-Thahab Palace in Baghdad. Five chefs compete to prepare a delicious feast for a large audience. Who will win?
'Business' means making and selling things or skills to anyone who wants them. But how do you come up with a business idea? And how do you make an idea work in real life? This books explores the practical world of making money, as well as explaining how businesses shape the world we live in and the way we live.
Tom lands in the hospital with a nasty bump on the head after a gym class accident. And things only get worse when he meets the hospital staff, including the wicked matron of the children’s ward.. But luckily, Tom’s time in the hospital will be anything but boring when he discovers that his fellow patients turn the awful ward into...
A family experiences a role reversal: The father, twice widowed, has become a child again. He needs care and will have to leave home because he forgets what just happened. He repeatedly recounts his love stories, and sometimes he fantasizes. This tender novel about the almost imperceptible progression of dementia is deeply touching and...
It is 1911 and Sandro Compartini has just graduated from the Journalism Institute in Milan. He boards a steamer as a soldier in the 84th Corps, sent from Italy to war in Libya. While stationed in a trench in the desert, he falls in love with a milk seller from Tripoli, but she and her younger brother are arrested and sent to the Italian penal...
Told over the course of six years and one weekend, this New York Times Bestseller is a big, sweeping nostalgic look at love and the people and choices that mark us forever.
The story centers around a character named Sacha who leaves Paris for a small town in the south of France, where he reconnects with a childhood friend who is now settled down with a family. The arrival of Sacha disrupts the established family dynamic, particularly between Sacha and the friend's wife, Marie. The narrative delves into...
The events take place between the United States and Iraq. Its protagonists are two ghost writers who exchange dialogue, one of whom carries a memory burdened by what he left behind in the country. He is an Iraqi immigrant deeply immersed in America and its cultures, adept at exploring the paths of its marginalized people. Winner of the...