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 funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...
-20%The New York Times Bestseller by musician and artist George Watsky is available here in German. This is his debut memoir, writte...
-15%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%Previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is a fun, entertaining story about a mysterious stranger who shows up at a famil...
-15%Available in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its plac...
-17%A 20th century classic by the great William Kelley Wright. Known for its presentation of philosophers and their theories in easy...
-20%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%Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil socie...
-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%The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and mother...
-15%A Somali translation of "Liberty in the Modern State" by Harold Laski. The book takes into account the post-war political landsc...
-10%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%Through a clever mix of stop-motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story:...
-20%Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciat...
-15%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%Jiang still remembers the details of the most important day of his life. That day, he experienced both joy and sadness at school within just a few hours. Before the school day began, his teacher informed him that he had been selected for the final round of the Innovation Cup competition and would be traveling to a distant city for the...
The Iraqi writer, journalist, and women's rights activist received death threats after the 2003 invasion of Iraq and was forced to flee her country. She lived in various countries before settling in London. This book recounts her time spent living in Paris.
Sakin is a Sudanese fiction writer with roots in Darfur. His literary works have been banned in Sudan and he now lives in exile in Austria. In this novel, a poor man lives with his wife and children in a small village where they struggle to live raising chickens and selling the eggs. One day the man discovers a differeng kind...
The novel draws parallels between the experiences of its characters during their childhood and upbringing, revealing post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from childhood traumas. Shortlisted for the Katara Prize for Arabic Fiction 2023.
Pieces together the unknown history of the Amazigh.
Yasmine left Beirut for the South of France years ago. An optimist by nature, she manages to find joy in her days in a suburban housing project in the Var region, but worries about the idleness and addictions of Naji, her only child. The young man dreams of becoming a rapper and fuels his creativity with drugs. Mother and son no longer know how...
A mother of five children with diverse personalities faces a unique confrontation with two thieves who have long awaited her demise. Everyone is talking about a woman named "Habbahan," whose husband claims she returned home six hours after being buried to resume her normal life. Is death merely a formality, while life continues? A tale born of...
A collection of folk and mythological tales dating back to the pre-Islamic period in the Arabian Peninsula.
A series of engaging, interconnected literary essays. In each chapter, the author encounters a famous figure—writers, artists, musicians, architects, doctors, and others, both living and deceased—at a restaurant he designed in real life.
A kaleidoscopic novel spanning generations and continents, that reveals the connections between four women in their struggle for survival. A woman in 15th century West Africa named Ada buries her child and confronts a Portuguese enslaver. A woman in Victorian England named Ada Lovelace, a mathematical genius and computer programming pioneer,...
It's 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it's not just a political tangle that's kept him tethered to the country. There's also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman who clings to Fowler for protection. Then comes Alden Pyle, an idealistic...
Teaches you everything you need to know in order to become an expert at mind-reading. Using psychology-based skills such as non-verbal communication, reading body language, and using psychological influence, Fexeus explains how readers can find out what another person thinks and feels– and consequently control that person’s thoughts...