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Wild Thorns (Interlink World Fiction)

by Sahar Khalifeh

Published: 2003-09-01

Paperback: 208 pages

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Wild Thorns is a chronicle of life in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. It is the first Arab novel to give a true picture of social and personal relations under occupation.

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Buy the Change You Want to See: Use Your Purchasing Power to Make the World a Better Place

by Jane Mosbacher Morris, Wendy Paris

Published: 2019-01-29

Paperback: 272 pages

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Eager to change the world? Learn how you can have a greater social impact through your everyday purchases.The money we routinely spend on food, clothes, gifts, and even indulgences is an untapped superpower. What would happen if we slowed down to make more thoughtful decisions about what w...

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Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics

by Stephen Greenblatt

Published: 2018-05-08

Hardcover: 224 pages

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World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright’s insight into bad (and often mad) rulers.As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny. In ...

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The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

by Thomas Morris

Published: 2018-11-20

Hardcover: 368 pages

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"Delightfully horrifying."--Popular ScienceOne of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of a bygone era in all its jaw-dropping weirdne...

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The Creature of the Pines (The Unicorn Rescue Society)

by Adam Gidwitz

Published: 2018-04-10

Hardcover: 192 pages

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Unicorns are real. (At least we think they are.)   Are you ready to protect the creatures of myth and legend? Then you belong in The Unicorn Rescue Society. HURRY–THE CREATURES NEED YOU!   Elliot Eisner isn't exactly thrilled with the first day at his new school. His class is going on ...

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We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time

by Jose Andres

Published: 2018-09-11

Hardcover: 288 pages

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FOREWORD BY LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA AND LUIS A. MIRANDA, JR. The true story of how a group of chefs fed hundreds of thousands of hungry Americans after Hurricane Maria and touched the hearts of many more Chef José Andrés arrived in Puerto Rico four days after Hurricane Maria ripped through th...

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Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz

by Eva Mozes Kor, Lisa Rojany Buccieri

Published: 2012-03-13

Paperback: 175 pages

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Eva Mozes Kor was just ten years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers, she and her twin, Miriam, were herded into the care of the man known as the Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. Subjected to sadistic medical experimen...

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Dancing with a Ghost: Exploring Aboriginal Reality

by Rupert Ross

Published: 2006-01-31

Paperback: 248 pages

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As a Crown Attorney working with First Nations in remote northwestern Ontario, Rupert Ross learned that he was routinely misinterpreting the behaviour of Aboriginal victims, witnesses, and offenders, both in and out of court. He discovered that he regularly drew wrong conclusions when he e...

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The Girl Before: A Novel

by JP Delaney

Published: 2018-01-02

Paperback: 368 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the tradition of The Girl on the Train, The Woman in Cabin 10, and Gone Girl comes an enthralling psychological thriller that spins one woman’s seemingly good fortune, and another woman’s mysterious fate, through a kaleidoscope of duplicity, death, and ...

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The General in His Labyrinth

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Published: 2003-10-07

Paperback: 304 pages

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General Simon Bolivar, “the Liberator” of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena River, revisiting cities along its shores, and reliving the triumphs, passions, and betrayals of his life. Infinitely charming, prodigiously successful in love, war and politics,...