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%The New York Times Bestseller by musician and artist George Watsky is available here in German. This is his debut memoir, writte...
-15%Nietzsche's masterful philosophical narrative about Zarathustra, who after years of meditation comes down from a mountain to offer his...
-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%A funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...
-20%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%Samy is very shy and doesn't like to talk to other people because it's scary and he doesn't know what to say. Now his little dog is lo...
-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%This collection of 85 essays and articles is considered to be among the most important historical collections of all time, and we...
-25%The author presents a timeline and notes on his experiences of the atrocities and horror committed on civilians by warring clan m...
-15%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%Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place ...
-20%A 20th century classic by the great William Kelley Wright. Known for its presentation of philosophers and their theories in easy...
-20%Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...
-20%Sophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth. Originally published in the 19th century, Segur'...
-15%Available in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its plac...
-17%A collection of Somali proverbs. The proverbs and their means are discussed in alphabetical order.
A new Arabic translation of essays by William James, the "father of American psychology." Topics include pragmatism, the will to believe doctrine, philosophy of religion, and more.
Longlisted for the 2020 IPAF. This is the sixth novel by Moroccan author, Hassan Aourid. This novel tells a mystical story about the great classical poet Al-Mutanabbi who comes to Rabat, Morocco after the Arab Spring and visits the protagonist in his apartment. Al-Mutanabbi slips out of the apartment into the modern world and is...
Longlisted for the 2020 IPAF. This is a dark novel about a young Algerian man from a miserable, poverty-stricken childhood. After killing a cat, he believes there is a secret power driving him to enjoy killing. He joins the killing brigade of the national guard and happily executes nightly operations. What is the meaning...
Longlisted for the 2020 IPAF. This is the second novel by Rasha Adly to be longlisted for the IPAF award. It follows the journey of Hasan al-Barbari, who is commissioned to be the guardian of a giraffe as it makes its way to the King of France as a gift from the ruling Pasha of Egypt. This same Pasha who may or may not have died under...
Ismail Ghazali is a Moroccan author of several novels and six short story collections. Two of his novels were previously shortlisted for literary prizes. This novel provides an insider's view of life in the bustling metropolis of Casablanca, called Casa by locals and visitors alike. Lives cross and destinies are forever altered.
Longlisted for the 2020 IPAF, this is an historical novel that takes place during the "seferberlik," which was the forced conscription of Arabs by the Ottomans to fight during World War I. This resulted in the deportation of thousands of Arab families to Anatolia. In this novel, we follow the life and conscription of Dheeb, a former...
Shortlisted for the 2020 IPAF, this novel compares the bloody history of Algeria and Bosnia as people are torn apart by religion and ethnicity. The story is told through the lives of Salim and Ivana, who have each fled their war-torn home country to build a new life in Slovenia.
Dr. Frances E. Jensen, a well known researcher and expert in neurology, offers insights into the brains of teenagers to explain why they behave the way they do, and gives practical advice for parents and teens on how to best navigate this tumultuous time.
An exciting detective story in which the little twins Felix and Frida and their grandfather Sherlock Fink follow a thieving gang of magpies who stole a red gem from the world famous cathedral treasure. The authentic locations in the story are all popular sites of the medieval UNESCO World Heritage City of Quedlinburg.
A dead man hangs from the portal of St Paul Chapel in Damascus. He was a Muslim officer and he was murdered. But when Detective Barudi sets out to interrogate the man’s mysterious widow, the Secret Service takes the case away from him. Barudi continues to investigate clandestinely and discovers the murderer’s motive: it is a blood...
An Arabic translation of Whitman's poetry collection originally self-published by the poet in 1855. He spent most of his professional writing and rewriting Leaves of Grass with the final version containing more than 400 poems.