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%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%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 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%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%American universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the&n...
-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%Sophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth. Originally published in the 19th century, Segur'...
-15%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%Available in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its plac...
-17%Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciat...
-15%Nietzsche's masterful philosophical narrative about Zarathustra, who after years of meditation comes down from a mountain to offer his...
-15%The author presents a timeline and notes on his experiences of the atrocities and horror committed on civilians by warring clan m...
-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%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 biography of Abraham Lincoln who grew from his simple childhood in Kentucky to become the second president of the United States.&nbs...
-20%The farmer's wife and how she retrieves an apple from a hole in the ground is one of the many Sufi tales for children. For over a thousand years it has entertained young people who join in the chant of the cumulative tale and, at the same time, learn its valuable lessons about the nature of problem solving and discovery.
A small boy seeks and eventually finds his own name and is able to discard an old dream for a new and wonderful one.
A modern retelling of a Palestinian folktale about a girl named Jubainah, who at the age of 10 gets lost in the wilderness and must learn to survive on her own.
Teaches the Arabic alphabet to little learners by introducing the concept sun and moon letters.
A new country is an alternate shadow of one's homeland and does not offer the same comfort and security. This novel tells the story of a refugee family through the eyes and experiences of a girl named Taraf.
In this experimental work, the lives of three related families are told through short character sketches from the arrival of Napoleon to the 1980s and arranged in alphabetical order. It is a kind of biographical dictionary where the individual entries come together to paint a vivid portrait of life in Cairo from a range of perspectives. As the...
The complete works of this Sudanese author include novels that tell the stories of civil war and strife in his home country. This novel tells of the seasonal workers, the Jingo, who leave their poor villages in search of a living with hopes to return with a small fortune that changes their lives. After long daily hours of backbreaking work, they...
This novel tells the story of the war in Syria from the two sides involved: the regime and the opposition.
Christine Macmillan, a successful American novelist, and Rasheed Benaser, a young Moroccan researcher and doctoral student, embark on an investigation to find the unknown author of a forgotten Moroccan novel from 1989, in which Christine’s father, Steve, appears as one of the characters. Meanwhile, a delinquent Moroccan teenager...
Detective Harry Hole wakes up with a hangover and his hands and clothes covered in blood -- blood that isn't his. This will become more a nightmare than he could ever imagine.
A collection of poems by the renowned and beloved Nizar Qabbani.
An NPR Science Desk correspondent challenges the misleading child-rearing practices commonly recommended to parents, outlining alternatives grounded in international ancestral traditions that are being used effectively throughout the modern world.