A government bus filled with imprisoned illegal monks has overturned. Two women in an approaching sedan have been killed. Now Shan, an exiled Chinese national and a former Beijing investigator, must find the murderer.
Every Man Dies Alone by
Hans Fallada
Hardcover: Mar 2009
Paperback: 30 Mar 2010 Publication information
This never-before-translated masterpieceby a heroic best-selling writer who saw his life crumble under the Nazis is based on a true story. It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front.
Freeze Frame
: The Fourth of the Enzo Files
by
Peter May
Hardcover: Mar 2010
Paperback: 1 Mar 2010 Publication information
A promise made to a dying man leads forensics ace Enzo Macleod to the study which the man's heir has preserved for nearly twenty years. Enzo rashly boasted he could solve the case - but that proves to be more difficult than he thought...
Museum of Human Beings by
Colin Sargent
Hardcover: Dec 2008
Paperback: 1 Nov 2009 Publication information
A Shoshone woman, Sacagawea, leads Lewis and Clark to the Pacific at the turn of the 19th century. On her back is her infant son, Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, the youngest member of the Expedition - a child caught between two worlds.
The Man in the Wooden Hat by
Jane Gardam
Hardcover: Oct 2009
Paperback: 27 Oct 2009 Publication information
Old Filth has been acclaimed as Jane Gardams masterpiece, a book where life and art merge. And now that beautiful, haunting novel has been joined by a companion that also bursts with humor and wisdom: The Man in the Wooden Hat.
Curse of the Pogo Stick by
Colin Cotterill
Hardcover: Jul 2008
Paperback: 1 Aug 2009 Publication information
Fearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story set in today's globalized world.
The story of an American family, middle class in middle America, ordinary in every way but one. But that exception is the beating heart of this extraordinary novel.
First time novelist Vaddey Ratner captured my heart and senses in this novel based on her childhood in Cambodia. Her story transcends any news story...
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From the first page, I was drawn in by the lyrical writing of the author and mesmerized as the narrator, eight year old Raami, remembered the years...
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Trite but true, all good things must come to an end. I so wanted to keep reading the wonderful prose, the settings that let one think they are part...
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Kenn Nesbitt is new Children's Poet Laureate(Jun 12 2013) Kenn Nesbitt has been named the new Children's Poet Laureate: Consultant in Children's Poetry to the Poetry Foundation, which noted that the two-year position...
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