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As human beings, it is our nature that as we mellow in age, we also mellow in our life's pursuits. From chasing dreams and ambitions, we move to seeking the purpose and meaning of life. What is life...

Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2016 by the New York Times, a spirited account of a major intellectual movement of the twentieth century and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it, by the...

From the Booker Prize?winning author of The Famished Road, a classic story of doomed love in a country trying to come to terms with its violent past. An epic of daily life, Dangerous Love is one of...

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year ?An excellent social history of Egypt?s persistent pathologies, as well as a universal story about the difficulties of changing deeply ingrained societal...

Author: Richard PolskyPublisher: Other PressPublication Date: Apr 26, 2011Number of Pages: 288 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1590514564ISBN-13: 9781590514566

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY HARPER?S BAZAAR BOSTON GLOBE SUMMER READING PICK NAMED A MOST-ANTICIPATED READ OF THE YEAR BY MS. MAGAZINE Drawing on real accounts of the Ebola outbreak that...

New York Times Book Review: Editor?s Choice Philadelphia Inquirer: Best Book of the Month World Literature Today: Notable Translation of the Year CrimeReads: Best International Crime Novel of the...

Available in English for the first time, this best-selling Turkish classic of love and alienation in a changing world captures the vibrancy of interwar Berlin. A shy young man leaves his home in...

Drawing from everyday life in Mexico and abroad, these subtle, unsettling stories probe the boundaries between sanity and madness, life and death, safety and danger. The first story collection from...

Now in paperback, a collection of the legendary filmmaker's short fiction and nonfiction from 1950 to 1966, in which we see the machinations of the creative mind in post-World War II Rome. In a...

?A moving and deeply felt tribute to a love that dared to speak its name." ?André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name A new edition of the beloved novel most similar thematically to the author?s...

The Anomaly : A NovelAuthor: Hervé Le TellierPublisher: Other PressPublication Date: Nov 23, 2021Number of Pages: 400 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635421691ISBN-13: 9781635421699

A fresh, comprehensive biography of the pioneering educator and activist who changed the way we look at children?s minds, from the author of Oriana Fallaci. Born in 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy, Maria...

THE BASIS FOR THE NETFLIX FILM STARRING CAREY MULLIGAN, RALPH FIENNES, AND LILY JAMES A literary adventure that tells the story of a priceless buried treasure discovered in England on the eve of...

Named a Best Book of the Year for the Know-It-All by The Globe and Mail In this richly illustrated volume, a leading neurobiologist presents fascinating stories of plant migration that reveal...

The Last One: A NovelAuthor: Fatima DaasPublisher: Other PressPublication Date: Nov 23, 2021Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635421845ISBN-13: 9781635421842

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS A gripping literary mystery in the vein of Bola?o?s Savage Detectives, this coming-of-age novel unravels the fascinating life of a maligned Black author, based...

In this playful yet informative manifesto, a leading plant neurobiologist presents the eight fundamental pillars on which the life of plants?and by extension, humans?rests. Even if they behave as...

The little-known story of screenwriter Salka Viertel, whose salons in 1930s and 40s Hollywood created a refuge for a multitude of famous figures who had escaped the horrors of World War ll. Hollywood...

Named a Best Book of the Year by PopMatters A literary sensation in France, this poetic, thrilling debut charts the all-consuming passion between two women and the ruin it leaves in its wake. A...

A powerful, intimate portrait of grief and radicalization that grapples with the conundrum of having loved ones we no longer recognize. After the death of his wife, a father raises his two sons alone...

I never thought a book about anxious Swedish intellectuals engaged in a philosophical back and forth would grip me like an airport read, but here we are. Jenni recommended this book as 'perfect, just...