Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciat...
-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%Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place ...
-20%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 five-act satirical play by Niccolo Machiavelli was first published in 1524. Now in Arabic, it tells the story of a beau...
-10%Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...
-20%The delightful debut novel by Brooke Davis is now available in Arabic. It is the story of a little red-haired girl who has lost ...
-12%The final book written by the great philosopher at the end of his life is a mix of autobiographical anecdotes, descriptions of sights ...
-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%This collection of 85 essays and articles is considered to be among the most important historical collections of all time, and we...
-25%Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010. In a courageous a...
-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%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%A Somali translation of "Liberty in the Modern State" by Harold Laski. The book takes into account the post-war political landsc...
-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%Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict,...
-20%Author Ryuho Okawa is a renowned spiritual thinker and leader in Japan. His books have sold over 100 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 27 languages. This book presents his breakthrough philosophy for success, not only as a leader, but also in your daily life.
The hilarious debut children's story by Joseph Theobald has munched its way into Arabic. Marvin, or Filfil as he is called in Arabic, is unhappy with his looks and can't keep up with the other sheep so he starts to eat. And eat. Everything in sight, even the Empire State Building! Huge and lonely, he eventually learns self-acceptance.
Is it really true that bigger is best? Why is the biggest always the winner? What happens when the all the little fish band together to fight a bully? They learn that even though they are little, together they are strong!
Sheep Molly does not know how to say baa; she can only say moo. The whole flock of sheep try and try to teach her, but it doesn't work. She loves saying moo too much. Then one day a lost little calf wanders into the pasture looking for his mother. Molly saves the day because she speaks a foreign language!
Do you have Hempels? Those bits of fluff and crumbs under your furniture are really Hempels. Move the furniture and you will see blue-clad little beings. Jacob discovers Hempels at this aunt's house and learns that they love cucumbers more than anything. They also cannot be out in the light too long or they will slowly dissolve....
The Caped Crusader is back! Catwoman, the Mad Hatter, and Hugo Strange are wreaking havoc on the poor citizens of Gotham. Never fear, Gothamites, Batman is here.
A wonderful, colorful collection of 60 read-aloud stories about the adventures of best friends, Bear and Bee.
Elliot is a little elephant who has a wonderful life in the big, noisy city. Even with all the people around, Elliot gets homesick and lonely, until he meets a new friend. The award-winning picture book by Mike Curato is now in German.
Today is Lieselotte's birthday, but no one seems to notice. There is no cake, no decorations, no balloons. Poor Lieselotte puts on her party hat from last year, steals a cookie from the kitchen, and sadly walks down to the creek. But when she gets to the creek, she gets a wonderful surprise!
By award-winning Syrian author, Khaled Khalifa. A father has died in a Damascus hospital. His last request was to be buried in his hometown, which is controlled by one faction of fighters. Driving from one area to another with his father's body in the car is a journey of insurmountable odds.
Originally published in English by Oxford University Press, the editors present a different perspective of the Great War by examining, not only the war years (1914-18), but also the violent years immediately preceding and following, thus presenting World War I as a war between empires, not simply a European war between nation-states.
By award-winning author, Jan Dost, this historical novel tells the story of a man from Syria who travels to Rome to study languages and learn the art of translation. He falls in love with a Christian girl, marries her, converts to Christianity, and becomes a wine dealer. Winner of the Damascus Prize for Thought and Creativity.