On May 6th, 1945, soldiers of the US Army occupied the Heinrich Himmler family home in Gmund, Germany where they discovered hundreds o...
-20%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%A Somali translation of "Liberty in the Modern State" by Harold Laski. The book takes into account the post-war political landsc...
-10%Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...
-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%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%Available in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its plac...
-17%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%The New York Times Bestseller by musician and artist George Watsky is available here in German. This is his debut memoir, writte...
-15%Ever since the National University strike broke out, Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) and Santos (Leonard0 Ortizgris) have been living in angst-...
-20%A collection of heartfelt thoughts and bits of wisdom from the Dalai Lama on a variety of subjects and suitable for everyone regardles...
-20%Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010. In a courageous a...
-20%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%Previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is a fun, entertaining story about a mysterious stranger who shows up at a famil...
-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%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%This bilingual Somali/English children's book introduces young readers to wild and domestic animals found in Somalia.
An intimate novel about life, love, and revolution in Somalia.
This collection of beautifully illustrated short stories takes young readers on a journey through Islamic history.
Even though they happily munch on grass and play together in the fields, Uncle Khalfan's sheep are far from ordinary. They regularly visit the dentist for check-ups and cleanings!
A boy entrepreneur sells used shoes to make money for the family. He appreciates the shoes and has conversations with them, and even develops friendship with some of them so that he is sorry to see them go. But when he inherits his father's shoes, even though they are too big for him, he vows to never, ever sell them because they are to valuable.
Hillary Rodham Clinton details her role as Secretary of State during the Obama administration offering a candid look at the choices, challenges, and sometimes entertaining interactions with the world's foreign leaders.
George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Oval Office.
Yacine is an Algerian sculptor haunted by the fear of being murdered and his sculptures destroyed. When he is invited to Amsterdam to take part in an art exhibition, he decides to leave Algiers permanently. It was in Amsterdam, twenty years earlier, that he met the only woman he has ever loved. Fitna however disappeared in the mists...
The wildly popular Iranian novel has sold millions of copies, and when it was banned by the Islamic Republic in 1979, the novel, along with its counterpart television series, continued to thrive underground. The tension between reality and imagination comes to a head when a pathetic little man, because of his real-life failures, turns...
By award-winning Iraqi journalist and novelist, Ali Bader, this novel centers on a musician in Baghdad whose body is discovered floating in the Tigris River. The narrator of the story, a journalist, is sent to cover the story and discovers that the dead man is not Kamal Medhat, but actually a Jewish violinist Yousef Sami Saleh. The quest to...
Previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is a fun, entertaining story about a mysterious stranger who shows up at a family's summer vacation. Her startling appearance in their lives transforms each member of the family allowing them to see themselves in fresh new light.
A young woman is crossing a bridge one night and sees a man ready to jump and take his own life. In desperation, she talks him down and into a deal: give her two weeks and she will prove that life is worth living. They embark on a poignant journey to discover the true meaning of life.