One of Beirut’s most celebrated voices, Rabih Alameddine, follows his international bestseller, The Hakawati, with a heart-rending novel that celebrates the singular life of an obsessive introvert, revealing Beirut’s beauties and horrors along the way.

Aaliya Sohbi lives alone in her Beirut apartment, surrounded by stockpiles of books. Godless, fatherless, divorced, and childless, Aaliya is her family’s unnecessary appendage. Every year, she translates a new favorite book into Arabic, then stows it away. The thirty-seven books that Aaliya has translated have never been read—by anyone. After overhearing her neighbors, "the three witches," discussing her too-white hair, Aaliya accidentally dyes her hair too blue.

In this breathtaking portrait of a reclusive woman’s late-life crisis, readers follow Aaliya’s digressive mind as it ricochets across visions of past and present Beirut. Insightful musings on literature, philosophy, and art are invaded by memories of the Lebanese Civil War and Aaliya’s volatile past. As she tries to overcome her aging body and spontaneous emotional upwellings, Aaliya is faced with an unthinkable disaster that threatens to shatter the little life she has left.

A love letter to literature and its power to define who we are, the gifted Rabih Alameddine has given us a nuanced rendering of a single woman's reclusive life in the Middle East.

Discover four critically acclaimed, award-winning modern classics from #1 New York Times-bestselling author John Green in this deluxe box set. This collection includes:

• Printz Award–winning Looking for Alaska
• Printz Honor book An Abundance of Katherines
• Edgar Award–winning Paper Towns
• #1 New York Times–bestselling The Fault in Our Stars

These stories take you on emotional journeys filled with adventure, heartache, and profound insights into the teenage experience. John Green masterfully captures the complexities of youth, love, and friendship.

This exquisite library case, designed by Karen Kavett, features unique designs and icons from all four titles, offering a beautifully upgraded collection for fans and new readers alike.

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is an enchanting tale that captures the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic awakening. It tells the story of two hapless city boys exiled to a remote mountain village for re-education during China’s infamous Cultural Revolution.

There, the two friends meet the daughter of the local tailor and discover a hidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translation. As they flirt with the seamstress and secretly devour these banned works, they find transit from their grim surroundings to worlds they never imagined.