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%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%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%The Arabic translation of Philip Roth's novel about Coleman Silk, the dean of faculty at a small liberal arts college who is accused o...
-17%Sophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth. Originally published in the 19th century, Segur'...
-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%Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict,...
-20%It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner p...
-15%Brief biographies and illustrations of famous painters from Michelangelo to Van Gogh and Rembrandt to Picasso. Features fully vow...
-15%A Somali translation of "Liberty in the Modern State" by Harold Laski. The book takes into account the post-war political landsc...
-10%This collection of 85 essays and articles is considered to be among the most important historical collections of all time, and we...
-25%When cholera breaks out in the village, Sandra and Pato learn about treatment and prevention.
-15%Available in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its plac...
-17%When it was first published in 1937 Poland, Witold Gombrowicz's novel was considered to be subversive by the Communist regime and was ...
-17%A collection of heartfelt thoughts and bits of wisdom from the Dalai Lama on a variety of subjects and suitable for everyone regardles...
-20%George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Ova...
-17%Adam is a journalist who writes the stories of the world with transparency and realism. He is a seeker of justice with a grudge against society. He sculpts the face of the world with accurate detail and asks the hard questions.
In downtown Oran, north-west Algeria, on the morning of the anniversary of the country’s independence, a former fighter in the struggle for freedom is found murdered. Kerim Sultani, head of the anti-terrorism unit, cuts short his holiday to take charge of the case. Three questions are on his mind: who killed Miloud Sabri? Why on this day...
Discusses why down syndrome occurs, how it is diagnosed, how it affects people, and how it is managed.
An antiquarian bookseller takes a wrong turning and stumbles across the derelict old white house. Compelled by curiosity, he approaches the door, and, standing before the entrance feels the unmistakable sensation of a small hand creeping into his own, 'as if a child had taken hold of it'. Intrigued by the encounter, he determines to learn more,...
The classic dystopian novel set in a futuristic world inhabited by genetically modified citizens. This is a world with huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology and psychological manipulation that is challenged on a single individual.
Stefan Zweig's longest work of fiction and a loose inspiration for Wes Anderson's film The Grand Budapest Hotel. This novel uncovers the seed of selfishness within even the finest of feelings. While serving in war-torn, turn-of-the-century Yugoslavia, a chance encounter brings a cavalry officer face to face with the woman of his dreams, a...
The novel opens with the interrogation of a man in a military encampment after he fled from the angry inhabitants of Douar Sidi Majdoub. This district in the town of Mostaganem, Algeria, is named after a Muslim saint whose tomb he and his German friend raided for ancient artefacts. He now faces serious charges, from conspiracy with foreign...
Originally published in 1937, this novel tells the story of two displaced migrant farm workers who move around California searching for work during the Great Depression. It has been banned or challenged numerous times for offensive and racist language and appears on the American Library Association's list of the Most Challenged Books of the...
Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. The word Siddhartha is made up of two words in Sanskrit language, siddha (achieved) + artha (what was searched for), which together means "he who has found meaning (of...
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend. He is a scholar who is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, so he makes a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.
Hemingway's classic novel tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer attached to a Republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War.
Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises. His life changes dramatically when he meets a woman who is his opposite, the carefree and elusive Hermine....