Children of the Alley (Mahfouz Naguib)(Paperback)

Arabian Nights and Days (Mahfouz Naguib)(Paperback)

The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories from the tradition of The One

Heart of the Night (Mahfouz Naguib)(Paperback)

Nobel winning author, Naguib Mahfouz's late-translated novella, Heart of the Night is now available for the first time in paperback Jaafar Ibrahim Sayyed al-Rawi is guided by his motto, 'let life be filled with holy madness to the last breath.' He narrates his life story to a friend during one long

The Thief and the Dogs (Mahfouz Naguib)(Paperback)

Naguib Mahfouz's haunting novella of post-revolutionary Egypt combines a vivid pychological portrait of an anguished man with the suspense and rapid pace of a detective story.After four years in prison, the skilled young thief Said Mahran emerges bent on revenge. He finds a world that has changed

Velvet (Habayeb Huzama)(Paperback)

Winner of The Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature Winner of the 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation A novel of enormous power and great beauty, in which a Palestinian woman raised in a refugee camp learns to sew which helps her to construct a life Hawwa is a child of the

The Coffeehouse (Mahfouz Naguib)(Paperback)

Mahfouz's last novel, an evocative depiction of life in Egypt in the twentieth century as told through the lives of a group of friends, is now available in paperback for the first time On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys become friends for life, making a

Palace Walk - From the Nobel Prizewinning author (Mahfouz Naguib)(Paperback / softback)

Ahmad, a middle-class shopkeeper runs his household strictly according to the Qur'an while at night he explores the pleasures of Cairo. A tyrant at home, Ahmad forces his gentle, oppressed wife and two daughters to live cloistered lives behind the house's latticed windows, while his three very

Cairo Trilogy - Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (Mahfouz Naguib)(Pevná vazba)

Filled with compelling drama, earthy humour and remarkable insight, this book traces three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of

Harry Potter: Exploring Diagon Alley : An Illustrated Guide

A thrillingly detailed tour of Diagon Alley, as seen in the Harry Potter films!Explore Diagon Alley in gorgeous and intricate full-color illustrations. From the stacked shelves of Ollivanders and Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes to the vaults of Gringotts and beyond, journey through fan-favorite locations

The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write (Mahfouz Sabrina)(Paperback)

The Things I Would Tell You brings together the works of over thirty established women writers of Muslim heritage, as well as young emerging artists currently leading the way on the UK's spoken word scene.Adhaf Soueif, Leila Aboulela, Warsan Shire, Kamila Shamsie and many others explore the

Matilda Bone (Cushman Karen)(Paperback)

Into the fascinating, pungent setting of Blood and Bone Alley, home of leech, barber-surgeon, and apothecary, comes Matilda, raised by a priest to disdain worldly affairs and spend all her time in study and prayer. To Matilda's dismay, her new occupation will not involve Latin or writing, but

Children of Sisyphus, the PB (Patterson Orlando)(Paperback)

The Children of Sisyphus is the story of Dinah, a prostitute who lives and fails to find love on the Dungle, the rubbish heap where the very poorest squat. Trapped by patriarchy and male passivity, and cursed by one of her rivals, Dinah is forced into a panicked flight to save herself. But

Children of the Great Depression (Freedman Russell)(Paperback)

As he did for frontier children in his enormously popular Children of the Wild West, Russell Freedman illuminates the lives of the American children affected by the economic and social changes of the Great Depression. Middle-class urban youth, migrant farm laborers, boxcar kids, children whose

The Children of Hrin (Tolkien Christopher)(Paperback)

The Children of Now (Losey Meg Blackburn)(Paperback)

The Children of Now is a groundbreaking work that shows that a large number of kids come into the world bearing inherent gifts that are beyond strange--they are telepathic, understand subtle energies, and/or have amazing psychic abilities. Many of them remember where they were before they came to

Children of the World (Depalma Kate)(Paperback)

Innovative and inclusive, Barefoot Books Children of the World empowers young readers to learn about children around the globe and ponder their own place in it. Created with the guidance of diversity specialists, this groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction addresses the need for children's

Children of the Stones (Burnham Jeremy)(Paperback / softback)

The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children (Tsabary Shefali)(Paperback)

Instead of being merely the receiver of the parents' psychological and spiritual legacy, children function as ushers of the parents' development. Parents unwittingly pass on an inheritance of psychological pain and emotional shallowness. To handle the behavior that results, traditional books on

Scavenger: A Mystery (Chambers Christopher)(Paperback)

In the lively, but desperate world of D.C.'s underbelly, filled with back-alley deals, gentrification clashes, and unexpected encounters between politicians and bottom-rung natives--all set against a soundscape of patois, street Spanish, and D.C. slang--a Black homeless man must hone his detective

Memorial Candles: Children of the Holocaust (Goldblum Naomi)(Paperback)

When they reach adulthood, children of Holocaust victims often need professional help as during their childhood, their parents unconsciously transmit to them much of their own trauma. Dina Wardi shows verbatim accounts of therapy

Let the Children Worship (Helopoulos Jason)(Paperback)

Jason Helopoulos encourages the church to embrace the important part children play in the life of the church and unfolds the enormous blessings to be found in having them present in the worship services of the congregation. He points out how the struggles are temporary - whereas the blessings can

Second Generation Voices: Reflections by Children of Holocaust Survivors and Perpetrators (Berger Alan)(Paperback)

Heirs to the legacy of Auschwjtz, the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and perpetrators have always been thought of as separated by fear and anger, mistrust and shame. This groundbreaking study provides a forum for expression in which each group reflects candidly upon the consuming

Children born of war in the twentieth century (Lee Sabine)(Paperback)

This book explores the life courses of children born of war in different twentieth-century conflicts, including the Second World War, the Vietnam War, the Bosnian War, the Rwandan Genocide and the LRA conflict. It investigates both governmental and military policies vis- -vis children born of war

Freedom's Flowers: The Effects of Domestic Abuse on Children (Craven Pat)(Paperback)

Freedoms Flowers is a book about the effects of domestic abuse on children. It is composed of firsthand accounts from these children and their mothers. Some of the children write as adults from memory and some are male. The youngest contributor is eight years old. Their stories describe not only

The Master of Knives (Vehlmann Fabien)(Paperback)

Five children, a deserted city--and a deadly enemy. In the abandoned town, the children have established a new home and organized a life for themselves. As they prepare for a trip to other cities in an attempt to determine the extent of the phenomenon that saw everyone else vanish, they encounter