A new title from the author of The Flea Palace, shortlisted for the Independent Prize for Foreign Fiction and chosen for Waterstone’s 2005 Summer Reading promotion.In her prize-wining novel, The Gaze,
Shafak explores the subject of body image and desirability. An
overweight woman and her lover, ..
For more than four decades, Robin Sharma has crossed the globe helping people lead lives that inspire the world. Now, in The 5 AM Club,
he shares his original insights and the battle-tested tools he has
developed by working with the most successful people on the planet.
Based on the key insigh..
1907. Maxim Gorky,
pseudonym of Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov, Soviet novelist, playwright and
essayist, who was a founder of social realism. Although known
principally as a writer, he was closely associated with the tumultuous
revolutionary period of his own country. The Mother, one of his
b..
Orphaned as a child,
Jane has felt an outcast her whole young life. Her courage is tested
once again when she arrives at Thornfield Hall, where she has been hired
by the brooding, proud Edward Rochester to care for his ward Adèle.
Jane finds herself drawn to his troubled yet kind spirit. She..
Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi’s great poem, the Mathnawi, is one of the best known and most influential works of Muslim mysticism. The Mathnawi was begun around 1258 at the suggestion of a disciple, Husam al-Din, who acted as amanuensis, and though the final story is incomplete, composition probably cea..
In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today's most pressing issues.How
do computers and robots change the meaning of being human? How do we
deal with the epidemic of fa..
Dear Heart - The collection of letters that Alys Faiz wrote to her husband, the poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz when he was in jail from 1951-1955. A must have for not only someone who wants to know more about Faiz and his life, but also about the country during that time...
The Ministry of Utmost
Happiness takes us on a journey of many years – the story spooling
outwards from the cramped neighbourhoods of Old Delhi into the
burgeoning new metropolis and beyond, to the Valley of Kashmir and the
forests of Central India, where war is peace and peace is war, and
..
An American pilot crash lands in the desert and finds himself on the
outskirts of the very camp he was supposed to bomb. After days spent
wandering and hallucinating from dehydration, Major Ellie is rescued by
one of the camp's residents, a teenager named Momo, whose
entrepreneurial money-ma..
From the author of
the international mega-bestseller The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck
comes a counterintuitive guide to the problems of hope. We
live in an interesting time. Materially, everything is the best it’s
ever been—we are freer, healthier and wealthier than any people in human
..
In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts
through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the
time so that we can truly become better, happier people.For
decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy,
rich life. "F**k po..
No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework
for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading
experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach
you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the
tiny behaviors that lea..
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still.By
her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a
single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's
Handbook, left behind there by accide..
In a sprawling mansion
filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself.
As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from
the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely
ignored, and utterly out of place.Then she finds a strange..
Two teenagers, a Greek
Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both
call home. The taverna is the only place that Kostas and Defne can meet
in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands
of garlic and chilli peppers, creeping honeysuckle, a..
From one of Turkey’s most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of two families.In
her second novel written in English, Elif Shafak confronts her
country’s violent past in a vivid and colorful tale set in both Turkey
and the United States. At its center is the “b..
Witness to Blunder is
Colonel (retd) Ashfaq Hussain's account of the Kargil war, but it goes
farther than merely dissecting the Kargil crisis. Published in September
2008, it coincides with the passing of a decade since the military
operation was initiated on snow-tipped mountains in the win..
Revive Your Heart
is a call for spiritual renewal and an invitation to have a
conversation with one of the world’s most recognizable voices on Islam,
Nouman Ali Khan.This collection of essays is disarmingly
simple, yet it challenges us to change. To revise our actions, our
assumptions and ..
Internationally
bestselling Turkish author Elif Shafak’s new novel is a dramatic tale of
families, love, and misunderstandings that follows the destinies of
twin sisters born in a Kurdish village. While Jamila stays to become a
midwife, Pembe follows her Turkish husband, Adem, to London, whe..
Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four
is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory
becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist
George Orwell's nightmarish vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic
world and one poor..
Islam has been one of
the most powerful religious, social and political forces in history.
Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim
polities and later empires expanded to control territories and peoples
that ultimately stretched from southern France to East Af..
"Compulsions of Power" By Col. Ashfaq Hussain.Biography of General Mirza Aslam Beg, Former Chief of Army Staff.It is not the biography of an individual only, but encompasses many important events of our national life and lays bare many facts of national and international issues, shrouded in mystery ..
When
it comes to morality and ethics, people are used to thinking in terms
of black and white. Conversely, "The 48 Laws of Power" deals primarily
with the gray areas. At the risk of sounding melodramatic and trite, I
say that most of the Laws covered in this book can be used for great
evil..
Verse-translation of selective poems of Rumi which reflect the experience in ever-new images, in smiles taken from daily life or in high-soaring verse...
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the pos..