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%In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
-12%Through a clever mix of stop-motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story:...
-20%Previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is a fun, entertaining story about a mysterious stranger who shows up at a famil...
-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%George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Ova...
-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 story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ulitmately consumed, by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student...
-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%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%A funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...
-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%Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...
-20%Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place ...
-20%Sophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth. Originally published in the 19th century, Segur'...
-15%A collection of 63 short stories -- satirical, serious, positive, negative, funny, tragic -- by Iraqi novelist, Alsoudani, about life in Baghdad. The cover illustration was designed by Iraqi artist, Batoul al-Faqiqi.
A collection of uplifting and motivational thoughts, meditations, and excerpts of lectures by author, teacher, healer and artist, Louise Hay.
A new novel by Youssef Ziedan, the award-winning Egyptian author of Azazeel that won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction award in 2009. Noor is the quintessential novel of what it really means to be a woman. Despite the obstacles of class, culture, religion, and sex, Noor, like women everywhere, digs deep to find the strength...
What is love without obstacles? Georges, a Christian, is in love with Amira, a Muslim. Despite their deep feelings of love and devotion, Georges marries Matilda, also a Christian. As Amira and Georges meet again and again throughout their lives, they find that their love has not changed.
Venture beyond butter and salt with this cookbook where popcorn is the star of creative and yummy recipes -- caramel corn, kettle corn, spiced popcorn, even popcorn cookies, and popcorn nachos. A must have for popcorn lovers everywhere.
Louise Hay and Cheryl Richardson have come together to share their wisdom and offer guidance to help the reader live their best lives at home, at work, at play, and everywhere in between.
The fictionalized true story of three generations of women -- Grandmother Hilda, Mother Ingrid, and the author herself who share their first-hand experiences of life in Cairo and the social and cultural events unique to their particular generation. A fascinating look at Egypt's cultural and social history with all its political upheavals as...
Scientist David Hamilton offers 27 exercises to help you learn to really love yourself and increase your own level of self-worth; connect truthfully with your authentic self; achieve greater happiness; and build stronger relationships with others.
A collection of short stories by award-winning Egyptian author, Mustafa al-Shimi. These twelve illustrated stories use magical realism to take the reader on an exploration of love and lust, men and women, immorality and purity.
Feel the punch and the warm trickle of blood as boxing comes to life in this intense novel about a successful advertising executive who leaves his illustrious career behind to pursue his love of boxing.
The infamous alley of this rich, intricate and formerly banned novel (first published in Arabic in 1959) is inhabited by a modern Egyptian family, but is also the setting of a second, hidden, and more daring story: the spiritual history of mankind. The inhabitants of the Cairene neighborood unwittingly reenact the lives of their holy ancestors.