On May 6th, 1945, soldiers of the US Army occupied the Heinrich Himmler family home in Gmund, Germany where they discovered hundreds o...
-20%A funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...
-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%Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010. In a courageous a...
-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%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%Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil socie...
-15%George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Ova...
-17%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 collection of heartfelt thoughts and bits of wisdom from the Dalai Lama on a variety of subjects and suitable for everyone regardles...
-20%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%When cholera breaks out in the village, Sandra and Pato learn about treatment and prevention.
-15%The delightful debut novel by Brooke Davis is now available in Arabic. It is the story of a little red-haired girl who has lost ...
-12%Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciat...
-15%In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
-12%A Somali translation of "Liberty in the Modern State" by Harold Laski. The book takes into account the post-war political landsc...
-10%The Oxford-educated historian wrote this well-researched book to correct any misunderstanding about the Arab invasion of Egypt. In this work he refutes the unfounded claims that the Egyptians (the Copts) welcomed and assisted the Arabs at the conquest; that the Arabs treated the Egyptians well at the invasion; and that the Arabs were...
The story unfolds between the 1982 massacre at Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon and life in the city of New York in 2000. Majd is a young Palestinian man who bears a scar from the massacre. In present day New York, he falls in love with Hilda, a dancer, whose wealthy family from Mount Lebanon thrived on the power of the Christian right wing during...
Chronicles the hundred years of a Circassian family. Between the fear that urges us to flee and the nostalgia that brings us back to the resistance, a story of generations that begins with Nursan the Circassian girl who lived under the Ottoman rule's conflict with Europe, passing through stories of love, war and history, to find it is...
Sylvestre Bonnard, an elderly and highly esteemed scholar, encounters unexpected problems when he embarks upon a search for an ancient ecclesiastical literary document that takes him from Paris to Sicily and then into his own life history. For the sake of justice and love, he ends up committing acts that at best are of doubtful legality.
The world is messing with our minds. What if there was something we could do about it? Looking at sleep, news, social media, addiction, work and play, the author invites us to feel calmer, happier and to question the habits of the digital age. This book might even change the way you spend your precious time on earth.
Khaled is a distinguished young man and his father's favorite. They are a respected Kuwaiti family and then in 1990 Iraq invades Kuwait driving the family to flee to Saudi Arabia where they become refugees in a camp. What does it mean to be truly educated? What role does this play in society? The concept of authority and authoritarianism is...
A collection of short stories that explore the African American woman's experience in contemporary America.
A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories by the two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks. The stories are linked by one thing: in each of them, a typewriter plays a part, sometimes minor, sometimes central.
Written in a tone of astonished wonder, this is the author's streamlined story of Magellan's first circumnavigation of the world. The tale of one of the most daring adventurers from the Age of Discovery comes to life.
The writer takes you on a journey into the hidden world of women -- their ways of thinking, their language, and what they want to hear from men. An essential guide for men who want to learn what makes a woman tick.
Travel to 1920s China, a time when the last emperor still ruled and the sweeping changes of the twentieth century were distant rumblings, with this timeless, evocative classic tale of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his family as they struggle to survive in the midst of vast political and social upheavals. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
A little boy learns that true happiness comes from being generous and loving others.