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%Two friends, Serafin and Plum, and a hamster named Hercules, find themselves in a strange town where they are not welcome because they...
-15%A funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...
-20%Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010. In a courageous a...
-20%American universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the&n...
-20%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%The author presents a timeline and notes on his experiences of the atrocities and horror committed on civilians by warring clan m...
-15%An exploration and critique of the Somali criminal justice system.
-10%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 definitive biography of the 45th President of the United States presents the life of Donald Trump from his boyhood to his time in ...
-20%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%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%In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
-12%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%A biography of Abraham Lincoln who grew from his simple childhood in Kentucky to become the second president of the United States.&nbs...
-20%Inspired by the art of the mosaic, this novel is set in the Moroccan town of Oualili, site of the ancient Roman city of Volubilis. It is a novel conceived as three manuscripts: two novels, and a memoir. The three manuscripts connect the distant past with the present and, like mosaic pieces, fit together to create a novel that is...
Leila’s passion for reading leads her to Tanners’ Alley in Tunis, famed for selling of old books. There she encounters an eccentric man who dreams of founding an association for ghostwriters. She becomes unwittingly embroiled in his fantastical schemes, and one day stumbles across an unusual novel alternately written by a male and a...
Jamila dreams of meeting a bear, but how can she encourage a bear to approach? With honey? With berries? Imagine her surprise when, not only does she meet a bear, but she meets a bear that loves to read - just like her!
Greece, Japan, Australia and more -- journey around the world to discover the homes where children.
"He's Mrs. Hanan's son" and because I'm Mrs. Hanan's son, everybody keeps watching me like I'm supposed to be a copy of my mother! How can I tell them that my name is Hani and I like skiing and soccer?
Every day, many hands reach out to me to shake my hand. Hands I know, hands I don’t know, good hands, and bad hands. Hands that I feel safe when I shake, and hands that I feel afraid when I shake. Should I shake all the hands that reach out to me to shake hands?
The biography of Kuwaiti artist Ayoub Hussein al-Ayoub who was well-known for his depictions of Kuwaiti historical life and customs. He helped establish the Kuwait Museum and participatedin numerous art exhibitions. He was the first Kuwaiti artist to have his paintings printed on a Kuwaiti banknote.
Ramadan -- it's meaning and traditions -- is explored in this book for young people.
A rare detective story by one of the greatest English writers. A mysterious man named Julius Slinkton enters the life of Mr. Sampson, the manager of a life assurance office. Remarkably well-spoken and with insinuating manners, Slinkton initially seems to be the consummate gentleman. But as Sampson soon learns, appearances can be deceiving.
Charts one woman's journey through grief and uncertainty to a road that leads to self-discovery, redemption and love.
A collection of twelve stories about the tension between Nigerians and Nigerian-Americans, and what it means to be middle-class in each country.
Part novel, part biography - this is a narrative of Palestine. It is the narrative of diaspora and the narrative of a man and his ability to hold himself together in a difficult, deadly, besieged reality. Over a period of sixty years it is a biography of a people and of an absent place.