This was where she had first told him of her decision to become a police
officer. She was done with her vague plan to refinish furniture or to
work in the theatre, as well as with her backpacking trips around the
world. It was a long time since she had broken up with her first love, a
boy from Kenya who had studied medicine in Lund. He had finally gone
back to Kenya and she had stayed put. Linda had looked to her mother,
Mona, to provide her with clues about how to live her own life, but all
she saw in her mother was a woman who left everything half done. Mona
had wanted two children and had only had one. She had thought that Kurt
Wallander would be the great and only passion of her life, but she had
divorced him and married a golf-playing retired banker from Malmö.
A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as "Typhoid Mary," the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the burgeoning metropolis of early twentieth century New York.
Stranger than fiction, blending tragedy and farce, How to Create the Perfect Wife is an engrossing tale of the radicalism, and deep contradictions, at the heart of the Enlightenment.
Z, the novel about the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is at points charming and; like another reviewer, I kept thinking of the movie, "Midnight...
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Although heavy on the scientific details, which slowed down the story for me (OK, I admit, I was one of those liberal arts majors who skipped out on...
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Loved this book. Magical, quirky, enchanting I could go on. All books do not have to be literary fiction, sometimes it is just so comforting to read...
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British Parliament asks Amazon to clarify why it pays $9 million in income tax on $23 billion of UK sales.(May 20 2013) Amazon will be called back to give further evidence to members of the British Parliament "to clarify how its activities in the U.K. justify its low corporate...
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