He let the smuggler go. There was no point running
after him. Abdul had dealt with men like that in Iraq and
all across Europe. They had no honor, and they could
always find another customer.
His head was still buzzing, but he got to his feet anyway
to escape the pile of dog dirt he’d nearly landed in.
Everywhere in Calais, there was dog dirt. He used to wonder
what was wrong with the French that they couldn’t
clean up after their dogs. Now he was beyond wondering.
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.
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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