A soul that can transcend three millennia and travel beyond physical boundaries, visits England in 1593 to interrogate a poet.Considering the sexist pen that the poet used in one specific play and its cultural ripple effect that could impact women's rights in the future, the soul torments the playwright through a cross-examination.

In 2013, the tyrant of Iran, Ali Khamenei wakes up after a prophetic dream. Panicked, he calls his estranged wife, and the debating conversation exposes a connection between his dream and a satanic secret of Islam.On that very morning a deaf-mute oracle, sequestered in solitary confinement by the regim for two decades, predicts the dictator's dream on the wall of his prison cell: the rise of a man who will build one empire and destroy another.

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize winning author presents the stories of a wide range of Muslim women in the Middle East. As an Australian American and an experienced foreign correspondent, Brooks' thoughtful analysis attempts to understand the precarious status of women in the wake of Islamic fundamentalism."Frank, enraging, and captivating." - The New York TimesNine Parts of Desire is the story of Brooks' intrepi...

****New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice**To save ancient Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven in this “fast-paced narrative that is…part intellectual history, part geopolitical tract, and part out-and-out thriller” (The Washington Post) from the award-winning journalist and author of The Falcon Thief.**In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel...

A previously unknown and unpublished tale, by respected scholar and novelist Kathleen Herbert, who retells Guinevere's story from her point of view. This is a view of Guinevere which speaks to our age.

Now, a remarkable anthology brings together 104 Urdu poems of the celebrated Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz (newly translated to English by Dr. Khalid Hameed Shaida). Born one hundred years ago in Sialkot, one of Pakistan’s cradles of poetry, Faiz’s mastery of the classical traditions of preceding generations of poets arose from the exhaustive study of works in Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi, Arabic, Persian, and English. But he was not content to limit himself to aesthetics and form, and over the c...

A Syrian-born female psychologist speaks out against the evil of radical Islam: "Forged in justifiable anger, this [is a] flamethrower of a book" ( Kirkus Reviews).On Feb. 21, 2006, Wafa Sultan gave one of the most provocative interviews ever given by a Muslim woman on the Al Jazeera network. In the middle of the interview, she told her male Muslim interviewer that it was her turn to speak. And she did. She told him to "shut up".This simple yet radic...

"In this satisfying, lyrical memoir," an American woman discovers her true faith—and true love—by converting to Islam and moving to Egypt ( Publishers Weekly).Raised in Boulder, Colorado, G. Willow Wilson moved to Egypt and converted to Islam shortly after college. Having written extensively on modern religion and the Middle East in publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and The New York Times Magazine, Wilson now shares her remarkable...

The White People is a horror short story by Welsh author Arthur Machen. Written in the late 1890s.

Playwright, poet, essayist, flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde pack an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre. This selection includes almost all of his short stories, including "The Canterville Ghost," "The Fisherman and his Soul," and "The Remarkable Rocket."Alongside THE MODEL MILLIONAIRE, Harper Perennial will publish the short fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, Leo ...

The Leadership of Muhammad is a very personal study of the life-story and leadership skills of the Prophet. John Adair served with a Bedouin regiment in the Arab Legion and this story is full of fascinating detail of desert life and Bedouin beliefs. A business book that crosses boundaries it highlights the key leadership skills displayed by Muhammad and allows you to share in his wisdom. John Adair weaves the story of Muhammad's life together with aspects of Bedouin culture and ancient pro...