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%Terry Eagleton, a renowned literary theorist, critic and prolific writer, in this book explores the rise of religious fundamentalism a...
-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%The New York Times Bestseller by musician and artist George Watsky is available here in German. This is his debut memoir, writte...
-15%In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
-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%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 iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and mother...
-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%Brief biographies and illustrations of famous painters from Michelangelo to Van Gogh and Rembrandt to Picasso. Features fully vow...
-15%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%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%Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place ...
-20%Ever since the National University strike broke out, Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) and Santos (Leonard0 Ortizgris) have been living in angst-...
-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 coming-of-age story within a suspenseful thriller, set against the real events, culture wars and political realities of Germany in t...
-20%I love my doll more than anything else. I dress her in pretty dresses and she is my best friend, but when I go out to play with my other friends, she gets into all kinds of trouble. She writes on the furniture and gets in mama's makeup! What can I do? I still love her so!
Take a trip through world history with colorfully illustrated short biographies of famous people and their main contributions to humankind. The Wright brothers, Alexander Graham Bell, Florence Nightingale, Helen Keller, and Benjamin Franklin -- just to name a few.
Fur, feathers, scales and gills! Real color photographs and fully vowelled text make it easy and fun to learn about animal babies in the air, on the land, and in the sea.
A new novel by the acclaimed author of "Frankenstein in Baghdad." Ali thought he was dead when he saw an old man using chalk to draw a series of doors on the wall. The old man invited Ali to come and open one of the doors (if he could) because on the other side of the door was a better world.
Abdel Aziz al-Maqaleh is Yemen's best known poet, past president and current professor emeritus at Sanaa University, and the director of the Yemeni Center for Studies and Research. Dr. Maqaleh is widely recognized inside Yemen as a leader in Sanaa's top cultural arts and literary circles. This new book of poems strikes a delicate...
Winner of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Literature. In this novel, Palestinian novelist, Usama al-'Issa narrates the history of Bethlehem and Palestine through the stories of patients in a mental hospital near the Dheisheh refugee camp.
A compilation of the writings and teachings on health and nutrition for the body and finding peace for the spirit by the great Indian leader, Mahatma Gandhi.
A 20th century classic by the great William Kelley Wright. Known for its presentation of philosophers and their theories in easy to understand layman's terms, this book will take the reader on a jaunt through history from Francis Bacon to Locke to Kant to William James.
Juha is a folk character from around the 8th century. His stories number in the hundreds, originated in the oral tradition, and are a mainstay of Arab humor, wit and wisdom. Juha, with his entertaining logic, is widely known throughout the Middle East and is well loved. This delightful book of Arab folktales is a must-have for your...
This third book of Shadi's adventures takes him and his family to the mountains for lots of winter fun in the snow. This beginning reader features fully vowelled text and is perfect for early Arabic learners ages 6 and older.
Three engaging stories with magical illustrations fill this lovely hardcover book for kids. In the first story with the cover title, mom loves and cannot live without her radio -- that is, until she gets her first computer! In the second story, a beggar finds a magic lamp and gets his own personal genie; and in the third story, we read about the...
Jad creates paintings in art class that don't look like much -- like the paper that is completely red except for a few black dots in the center -- that is until he tells you the story about what is happening in the picture! His imagination and stories are so creative, the teacher takes him to the library to tell his stories to the children.