Category Archives: Travel Guides
Lola
Lola stands next to Garcia while he mans the grill in their craggy square of backyard. The barbeque has just begun, and the women are clustered gossiping, while the men hold sweating beers. Lola prefers the periphery.Business has been good lately in their tiny nugget of South Central Los Angeles, where a legit man has
Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh
`Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the man who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.`Sir Walter Ralegh Sir Walter Ralegh was a writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer. He lived more lives than most in his own time, in any time.We do not even know when this fifth son
The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao
`A real gem of a book` StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de Janeiro’Why Euridice and Antenor married, no one knows for certain.’Euridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While Antenor is busy congratulating
The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghetto – 75th Anniversary Edition
Mary Berg was fifteen when the Nazi army poured into the country in 1939. She survived four years of Nazi terror, and managed to keep a diary throughout.This astonishing, vivid portrayal of life inside the Warsaw Ghetto ranks with the most significant documents of the WW2. Mary Berg candidly chronicles not only the daily deprivations
The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories
Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2017A powerful, groundbreaking history of the Occupied Territories from one of Israel`s most influential historiansFrom the author of the bestselling study of the 1948 War of Independence comes an incisive look at the Occupied Territories, picking up the story where `The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine` left off.In this comprehensive
Fever Dream
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She`s not his mother. He`s not her child.The two seem anxious and, at David`s ever more insistent prompting, Amanda recounts a series of events from the apparently recent past.
Libya: From Colony to Revolution
Since Qaddafi`s ousting in 2011, Libya has been beset by instability and conflict. To understand the tumultuous state of the country today, one must look to its past. With great clarity and precision, renowned regional expert Ronald Bruce St John examines Libya`s long struggle to establish its political and economic identity amidst the interference of
Oak and Ash and Thorn: The Ancient Woods and New Forests of Britain
A Guardian Best Nature Book of the YearThe magic and mystery of the woods are embedded in culture, from ancient folklore to modern literature. They offer us refuge: a place to play, a place to think. They are the generous providers of timber and energy. They let us dream of other ways of living. Yet
The Pictures
*Shortlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award 2017* World-weary Jonathan Craine is a detective at the LAPD who has spent his entire career as a studio `fixer`, covering up crimes of the studio players to protect the billion-dollar industry that built Los Angeles. When one of the producers of The Wizard of Oz
Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
This is the gripping story of the five Munich university students who set up an underground resistance movement in World War II, featured in the award-winning Oscar-nominated film, Sophie Scholl – The Final Days. Republished in 2018 to commemorate the 75 years since their arrest & execution. This updated edition includes a new preface and
Dark Pines: A Tuva Moodyson Mystery 1
A Tuva Moodyson MysterySEE NO EVILEyes missing, two bodies lie deep in the forest near a small Swedish town.HEAR NO EVILTuva Moodyson, a deaf reporter on a small-time local paper, is looking for the story that could make her career.SPEAK NO EVILA web of secrets. And an unsolved murder from twenty years ago.Can Tuva outwit
Who Lost Russia?: How the World Entered a New Cold War
The collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991 appeared to usher in a remarkable new era of peace and co-operation with the West. This, we were told, was the end of history: now the entire world would embrace enlightenment values and liberal democracy.Reality has proved very different. Russia emerged from the 1990s
The Health of Nations: The Campaign to End Polio and Eradicate Epidemic Diseases
`Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.` – Jonas Salk, inventor of one of the first successful polio vaccinesNo one will die of smallpox again…One of the worst killers ever is now consigned to history – perhaps the greatest humanitarian achievement of our
The Tiger and the Acrobat
Little Tiger is not like other tigers. Not content to spend her days alone, roaming the snow forests of Siberia hunting prey, she prefers instead to ponder the ways of the world. One day, eager to discover her own place within it, she sets out on a remarkable journey to discover the secret of life,
Tales from Watership Down
Tales from Watership Down is the enchanting sequel to Richard Adams`s bestselling classic Watership Down, which won the Carnegie Medaland Guardian Children`s Fiction Award.Adams returns to the vivid and distinctive world he created in that enduring work, reacquainting readers with the characters we know and love, including Fiver, Hazel, Bigwig, Dandelion and the legendary rabbit
The End of the Liberal Order?
`No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.`-Niall Ferguson`We do not need to invent the world anew. The international order established by the United States after World War II is in need of expansion and repair, but not reconception.`-Fareed ZakariaFears of a globalized world are rampant. Across the West, borders
A Good Day for Climbing Trees
How two unlikely heroes inspired a whole townSometimes, in the blink of an eye, you do something that changes your life forever.Like climbing a tree with a girl you don`t know.Marnus is tired of feeling invisible, living in the shadow of his two brothers.His older brother is good at breaking swimming records and girls` hearts.
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
Endorsed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama – `Balcombe vividly shows that fish have feelings and deserve consideration and protection like other sentient beings`A Sunday Times must readA New York Times BestsellerA Forbes Best Pop Science Book of 2016One of the Week`s Best Science Picks, NatureWhat`s the truth behind the old adage that goldfish have
Slumberland
`Shockingly original` The Times `A literary freestyler with brio to burn…scabrous and very funny` Guardian `A no-holds-barred comedic romp` Junot Diaz After creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes in search of Charles Stone, aka the Schwa, a little known avant-garde jazzman, to play over his sonic masterpiece. His quest brings him to a recently
A Shimmer of Hummingbirds: Birder Murder Mystery 4
Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune hopes an overseas birding trip will hold some clues to solving his fugitive brother`s manslaughter case. Meanwhile, in Jejeune`s absence his long-time nemesis has been drafted in as cover to investigate an accountant`s murder. And unfortunately Marvin Laraby proves just a bit too effective in showing how an investigation should be
