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Emirati Women's Day on August 28th grew into something bigger this year. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, the Mother of the Nation, stretched the day out into a full Emirati Women's Month, under the slogan "We Emerge Stronger and Better." A whole month set aside to recognise the women shaping the UAE, and honestly, everywhere else too, felt like reason enough to go pull some overdue titles off our own shelves.

It is that time again. Uniforms are being labelled, bags are being packed, and somewhere in the UAE right now, a parent is typing "back to school reading list" into Google at eleven at night, hoping the algorithm hands them something their kid will actually finish. We have been that parent. Some of us still are.

Here is the thing though, you do not need forty books on a list like this. You need six good ones.

Used books have more advantages than new ones, especially when you buy them from online bookstores. To answer your big WHY on this, we’d like to tell you that pre-loved books from online bookstores such as Bookends come at a...

Albert Einstein, the genius scientist once said “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” The word fairy tales itself is enough to...

It’s Valentine’s month and love is in the air! Most of us have garnered our very first idea of love from romance novels we read as teenagers. Valentine’s is the celebration of love and love can acquire any form in...