Previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is a fun, entertaining story about a mysterious stranger who shows up at a famil...
-15%By the author of the bestselling novel, A Dog's Purpose, which is now a major motion picture, this illustrated novel for young readers...
-15%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%Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil socie...
-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%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%A funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...
-20%In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
-12%A biography of Abraham Lincoln who grew from his simple childhood in Kentucky to become the second president of the United States.&nbs...
-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%American universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the&n...
-20%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%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%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 Somali translation of "Liberty in the Modern State" by Harold Laski. The book takes into account the post-war political landsc...
-10%This thought-provoking book, now available in Arabic, identifies cooperation as the most important challenge faced by civil socie...
-15%The inspiring true story of a young German backpacker who has a life-changing experience with an "untouchable" -- a leper in India. This contact ignites her passion and so begins her courageous struggle for the rights and dignity of untouchables and their families.
Dreamers, gamblers, and fortune-seekers break into a German colony in Africa with the intention of reforesting the African plains and building a city. The cast of characters includes an architect with a false identity, an opium-addicted doctor, a failed timber merchant, and a very enthusiastic woman. A fantastic story of a mad German society.
An idyllic spa town. A former juror for the Nobel Prize for Medicine. A missing wife. A body found in a wood chipper. Accident or murder? And what of the missing hand? An Alps thriller by bestselling German author Jörg Maurer.
Two couples go on holiday in a resort area where a gruesome murderer is on the loose. He kidnaps a couple and buries the wife in the sand up to her neck at low tide. The husband is restrained nearby to watch his wife drown when the tide comes in. Who is this evil man? Will he be caught?
When Jasmine loses her job, she finds herself milling about her home and her garden, and getting to know her neighbors, including the distasteful Matt who lives next door. As the year progresses, she learns more about herself than she ever thought possible and discovers that friendship can be found in the most unlikely of places....
At reading of her late mother's will, Brett is surprised to learn that before she can take over as the CEO of her mother's company, she must first complete all the goals on the "life list" she wrote when she was a teenager. As she sets out to fulfill the list of childhood dreams, she finds herself led down a path she least expects....
Hannah Farr, a popular talk show host in New Orleans, is intensely private with a dark past. She has also kept her pouch of Forgiveness Stones hidden for two years. When the creator of the Forgiveness Stones phenomenon appears on her talk show, Hannah must find the courage to right the wrongs from past. By #1 international...
Don and Rosie are a happily married couple who live in New York City. They find out, quite unexpectedly, that they are expecting their first child. Superdad Don wants to learn how to exactly how to become a dad, but his methods of research are rather unusual and he gets into some trouble. Translated from the English.
Through a clever mix of stop-motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story: the Israeli army's pursuit of 18 cows, whose independent milk production on a Palestinian collective farm was declared "a threat to the national security of the state of Israel."
In 1954, a reclusive ex-soldier (Viggo Mortensen) is thrown into the woes of rebellion when he's ordered to escort a village (Reda Kateb) accused of murder to prison during the Algerian War.
Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict, taking us from the trenches to geopolitical jockeying and becoming, a long the way, a searing expose of an ongoing humanitarian crisis.
A coming-of-age story within a suspenseful thriller, set against the real events, culture wars and political realities of Germany in the 1980s.