Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Hope in Leaving
Emmy award-winning actor Barbara Williams opens up about her brutal yet often beautiful childhood in a British Columbian logging town, from her brother`s suicide to her mother`s poverty. The family moved more than 27 times, and mental illness, substance abuse and injustice followed wherever they went. They lived a hard small-town life and suffered, but
Infidels
Infidels follows the life of Jallal, the son of a prostitute witch doctor. As a ten-year-old sidekick to his mother, Jallal spits in the face of her enemies both real and imagined. The cast of characters that rush into their lives are unforgettable for their dreams of love and belonging that unravel in turn. Built
Trick
The same blood runs through their veins. One, Daniele Mallarico, is a successful illustrator at the peak of his career. The other, Mario, is his four-year-old grandson who has barely learned to talk but has a few tricks up his loose-fitting sleeves all the same. The older combatant has lived for years in almost complete
The Castle Cross The Magnet Carter
Sweeping American history from 1941 to the 21st century, this is this story of four men – two white brothers from rural Alabama and two black brothers from small-town Maryland – whose journey culminates in an explosive and devastating encounter between the two families. As the four mature into men, they confront the fierce resistance
Weeping Waters
Inspector Albertus Beeslaar is a traumatized cop who has abandoned tough city policing and a broken relationship in Johannesburg for a backwater post on the edge of the Kalahari Desert. But his dream of rural peace is soon shattered by the repeated attacks of a brutally efficient crime syndicate, as he struggles to train and
Lawrence And The Arabs
Beginning his life-long affair with the Middle East, T. E. Lawrence–Lawrence of Arabia–made his first journey to the region, a four-month walking tour of Syria studying the Crusaders` castles, while still a student at Oxford. He later returned to the area as an archeologist and at the outbreak of World War I was attached to
Chourmo
This second novel in Izzo`s acclaimed Marseilles trilogy is a touching tribute to the author`s beloved city, in all its color and complexity. Fabio Montale is an unwitting hero in this city of melancholy beauty.Fabio Montale has left a police force marred by corruption, xenophobia, and greed. But getting out is not going to be
The Name Of Death
The powerful true-life story of a Brazilian boy who could have been a fisherman but instead became the biggest professional killer known to the world. Without moralising about mass murderer, The Name of Death attempts to show how such a career can be not so very different from other ordinary working lives. The portrait that
Nameless Serenade
A Commissario Ricciardi Neapolitan mystery that packs a real punch.Years ago, Vinnie Sannino left Naples on a ship bound for America, where he found fame and wealth as a boxer. But his gilded life in the new world came to an abrupt end when, during a fight, with a heavy punch to the head of
Destination Paradise
Western tourists are not always aware that the Maldives is a Muslim country, or that the Republic of Maldives is the non-Arab country with the world`s highest number of foreign fighters per capita. All the wealth coming from tourism is concentrated in the hands of a few businessmen. The Maldives is a fertile breeding ground
The Hazards Of Good Fortune
Seth Greenland’s witty, clear-eyed new novel is a story of interconnecting lives, in which generations, races, and religions converge and conflict.Jay Gladstone was born to privilege. He is a civic leader and a generous philanthropist, as well as the owner of an NBA team. But in today’s New York, even a wealthy man’s life can
Little Culinary Triumphs
Set in the storied Parisian quarter of Montmarte, this heartwarming, comic tale is a must for foodies, Francophiles, and lovers of a good story well told.Made famous by artists, writers, and bon vivants of every ilk, Montmartre has been the stomping ground for bohemian celebrities through the ages and a neighborhood synonymous with transgression and
The Sect Of Angels
Based on a true story and told with the pacing, humour, and thrills of a Mediterranean mystery, Andrea Camilleri`s new novel tells the story of a turn-of-the-century Sicilian scandal that reveals a pandemic that is with us still: a contagious refusal to accept the truth.The lawyer and journalist Matteo Teresi discovers the existence of a
The Girl With The Leica
Gerda Taro was a German-Jewish war photographer, anti-fascist activist, artist and innovator who, together with her partner, the Hungarian Endre Friedmann, was one half of the alias Robert Capa, widely considered to be the twentieth century`s greatest war and political photographer. She was killed while documenting the Spanish Civil War and tragically became the first
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay: Neapolitan Novels Book 3
Now an HBO series, book three in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted epic by one of today`s most beloved and acclaimed writers, Elena Ferrante, ‘one of the great novelists of our time.” (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times)In the third book
The Story of the Lost Child: Neapolitan Novels Book 4
Now an HBO series, book four in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted epic by one of today`s most beloved and acclaimed writers, Elena Ferrante, ‘one of the great novelists of our time.” (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times) Here is the
Ferocity
Southern Italy, the 1980s. On a hot summer`s night under a full moon, far from the outlying neighbourhoods of a southern Italian city, Clara stumbles naked, dazed, and bloodied down a major highway. When she dies no-one is able to say exactly how or why, but her brother cannot free himself from her memory or
Glass Souls
In the abyss of a profound personal crisis, Commissario Ricciardi feels unable to open himself up to life. He has refused the love of both Enrica and Livia and the friendship of his partner, Maione.Contentment for Ricciardi proves as elusive as clues to the latest crime he has been asked to investigate. The beautiful, haughty
The Apothecary`s Shop
In a medieval Venice undone by devastating famine and excessive, orgiastic Carnival festivities of all kinds, the protagonists of The Apothecary`s Shop chase a dream of rebirth, the eternal fantasy of defeating death. The young Costanza, of the noble Grimani family, has disappeared. The family scribe, Edgardo, promises to return the girl to her family,
