Lee Child has steadily accrued one of the keenest groups of admirers for any contemporary thriller writer ?? and the reason is easy to discern. In such gritty and authoritative novels as Tripwire, Killing Floor and Die Trying, Child established his tough itinerant protagonist Jack Reacher as a key modern hero, with a taciturn, hard-boiled […]
One rainy afternoon in Istanbul a woman walks into a doctor??s surgery. I need to have an abortion, she announces. She is nineteen years old, and unmarried. What happens that afternoon is to change her life, and the lives of everyone around her. Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. […]
As editor-in-chief of New Yorks leading fashion magazine, Fiona Monaghan was utterly content with her life, jetting back and forth between Manhattan and Europe-until the day John Anderson strolled into her office.A widower with two daughters, John was as conservative as Fiona was freewheeling, and was both amused and appalled by her world of high-strung […]
A prisoner of a palace . . . Serena was almost too beautiful. Yet behind her aristocratic face there was something hurt, something closed. When she went back to the family palace in Rome after the Second World War she was searching for a shining fragment of the past to hold her heart. The last […]
A policeman, a criminal overlord, a film star, beggars, cultists, spies and terrorists-the lives of the privileged, the famous, the wretched and the bloodthirsty interweave with cataclysmic consequences amid the chaos of modern-day Mumbai in this soaring, uncompromising and unforgettable epic masterwork of literary art.
Chloe Patterson was one day away from becoming part of the most affluent family in Riverton…until her fiance married another woman Pregnant with a Hopewell heir, Chloe realized the only way to protect her baby from the powerful family was to keep her pregnancy a secret
Suzanne Carter has sworn off men…really! Her inability to take life seriously drives them crazy, so its best she leaves them alone. Then one night, strong, handsome Ryan Alondo rescues her and she simply melts. Who could resist all that rough-and-tumble sexiness? But as tempting as he is, shes not going to fall for his […]
The book is a laugh riot like the previous two!! Easy breezy read….Underneath the humor, sarcasm, satire and bumblings of one of Pakistans rich dumb socialites (fictional) Moni also touches on the deep troubling political and social issues Pakistan faces and how their people view these events and learn to live life inspite of such […]
A uniquely brilliant book . . . told in language as subtly beautiful as its desert setting. One of the most important pieces of American writing of our time Stephen Amidon, Sunday Times John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life […]
The stories of Exile and the Kingdom explore the dilemma of being an outsider – even in ones own country – and of allegiance. With intense power and lyricism, Camus evokes beautiful but harsh landscapes, whether the shimmering deserts of his native Algeria or the wild, mysterious jungles of Brazil.
Years ago, when humans and androids crash landed onto the planet Zuul, whatever remained of their society quickly succumbed to the ravages of earthquakes and a never-ending winter from volcanic dust clouds. As humans and machines scavenged to stay alive, they also faced the Zid, an alien race that abhors all technology with religious fervor. […]
A beguiling mystery and lyrical novel of Africa — the fourth in a series that the L.A. Times calls ??thoroughly engaging and entertaining.? Now that The No. 1 Ladies?? Detective Agency (the only detective agency for ladies and others in Botswana) is established, its founder, Precious Ramotswe, can look upon her life with pride: she??s […]
As they grow up, their seemingly perfect lives are altered by families falling apart, unfortunate mistakes, and losses and victories great and small. Throughout their adolescence, the five are able to turn back to their trusted group to regain their footing and steady their course. But as they emerge from school, their futures seem neither […]
Kay Lansing grew up in Englewood, New Jersey, daughter of the landscaper to the wealthy and powerful Carrington family. One day, accompanying her father to work, six-year-old Kay overhears a quarrel between a man and a woman that ends with the mans caustic response: “I heard that song before.” That same evening, young Peter Carrington […]