'In what may be
Dickens's best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty
work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman — and one
day, under sudden and enigmatic circumstances, he finds himself in
possession of "great expectations." In this gripping tale of crime ..
Changing misconceptions one hero at a time. This much needed children’s book empowers children with stories of 20 famous and little known Muslim heroes who were trailblazers. Winner of Fofky s Reader s Choice Middle Grade Book Award 2021. Do you know the story of the first nurse or the female founde..
“The CIA itself would be hard put to beat his grasp of global events . . . Deeply satisfying.” —The New York Review of BooksFrom the award-winning and bestselling author of Directorate S, the explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan.To
what extent did America’s ..
Raskolnikov, a
destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St
Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He
imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher
purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a danger..
Virginia Woolf's Orlando
'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully
constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's
close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries,
the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabe..
Heralded as Virginia
Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a
woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied
with the last-minute details of party preparation while in her mind she
is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As s..
The serene and maternal
Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and
assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly
trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs
a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensio..
Peri, a married, wealthy,
beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside
mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles
to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground--an old Polaroid of
three young women and their university professor. A rel..
In her latest novel,
Elif Shafak spins an epic tale spanning nearly a century in the life of
the Ottoman Empire. In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan arrives in Istanbul.
As an animal tamer in the sultan’s menagerie, he looks after the
exceptionally smart elephant Chota and befriends (and falls fo..
Set within a once-stately apartment block in Istanbul, The Flea Palace
tells the story of Bonbon Palace, built by Russian noble émigré Pavel
Antipov for his wife Agripina at the end of the Tsarist reign. It is now
sadly dilapidated, flea-infested, and home to ten very different
individuals a..
The book 'How to stop worrying & start living' suggest many ways to conquer worry and lead a wonderful life.The book mentions fundamental facts to know about worry and magic formula for solving worry-some situations.Psychologists & Doctors' view:-Worry can make even the most stolid person il..
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..