Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciat...
-15%A little girl walks angrily through the park dragging an old purse. Every now and then she stops and yells "Is this how it is?" ...
-17%Ever since the National University strike broke out, Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) and Santos (Leonard0 Ortizgris) have been living in angst-...
-20%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 coming-of-age story within a suspenseful thriller, set against the real events, culture wars and political realities of Germany in t...
-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%The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and mother...
-15%This collection of 85 essays and articles is considered to be among the most important historical collections of all time, and we...
-25%Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil socie...
-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%It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner p...
-15%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%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%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%Terry Eagleton, a renowned literary theorist, critic and prolific writer, in this book explores the rise of religious fundamentalism a...
-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%The witch and her cat are happily flying through the sky on a broomstick when the wind picks up and blows away the witch's hat, then her bow, and then her wand! Luckily, three helpful animals find the missing items, and all they want in return is a ride on the broom. But is there room on the broom for so many friends?
George is a dog with the best intentions to be a "good dog." His owner, Harry, hopes that George will behave when he is left alone during the day, and George tries really hard, but loves cake. And he loves to chase cats. And he loves to dig up flowers. Oh no, George! Translated from English.
The many adventures of Pippi, the girl with upside-down braids and no parents to tell her what to do. Translated from Swedish.
Princess Magnolia is no ordinary princess sitting have tea and scones. No, she is also the Princess in Black and she transforms into her alter ego whenever the monster alarm rings. But can she defeat the monster before the nosy duchess discovers the true identity of the Princess in Black? Translated from English.
Now available in Arabic! Game of Thrones, book one of George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire". An epic masterpiece of lords and ladies, assassins and bastards, soldiers and witchcraft, with a dragon or two or three thrown in for good measure. This product is one book in two volumes.
This is the story told by a mother to her daughter. When fundamentalists sweep through Raqqa, Sara is forced, as a Christian married to a Muslim, to flee. Through the story of her journey we gain an insight into the fear experienced by those forced to leave their country. Longlisted for the 2016 IPAF.
A spotlight on the inhabitants of the palm groves and marshlands of Basra, Iraq. As Basra reels with destruction and death, the terrified Ramzi and Ahlam cut a path through the devastated city, fleeing from soldiers. Their story is just one amongst a collection of disparate tales about characters from Basra's underworld. Longlisted for the 2016...
A dark fantasy which imagines “the counter revolution" in Egypt as a reality in a nightmarish future. The eponymous hero of this fantasy novel is an officer who witnessed the defeat of the police in Cairo on the 28 January 2011. Over a decade later, Egypt is occupied by a mysterious power and the remnants of the old police force are...
Aabir is a hospital undertaker who works in the morgue by day and the operating theatre by night, where he plucks out and sells the gold teeth he finds in the corpses’ mouths. However, he lives in a state of constant dread because of his past. One day, Aabir is kidnapped from the morgue with no idea about where he is, who has taken him or...
This is the true story of Yasmeena, a young Lebanese woman who was imprisoned in Kuwait during the first Gulf War. Yasmeena's shocking journey is a tale of the madness of war, of the sexual brutality unleashed by chaos, and of one woman’s courage to stand in danger’s way to aid her fellow sufferers. This is an explicit, graphic, and...
A manuscript is abandoned at sea by its author. The manuscript relates what happens as it tries to reunite with its author. Weaved together with this are the adventures contained within the manuscript’s pages: a story of copyists fleeing a city called the City of Injustice, which is dominated by extremists ruled by the head of a censorship...