A 90-year-old man is found dead in his bed, smothered with his own pillow. On his desk the police find newspaper cuttings about a murder case dating from the Second World War, when a young woman was found strangled behind Reykjavík’s National...
A noisy little family, a cheerful group of classmates, and a boy, born on the first year of the lunar calendar living a never changing life. Then one day he notices a girl in his class shrouded in mystery. Her name is Makina. However, the boy just...
Three boys, the kings of the school. One cynical newcomer. An
outrageous competition.
When Mika Niles overhears the details of "The Book of Firsts" she’s at
first bemused, then scornful, then intrigued. Judging which of...
**A NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF THE HENNA ARTIST, A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
"Captivated me from the first chapter to the last page." --Reese Witherspoon on The Henna Artist**
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Sydney Banks is a well-known author and lecturer. Born in Scotland, he has lived and worked in Canada for many years, and since 1973 has been lecturing at universities and clinics there and throughout the United States and Europe. Mr. Banks’...
The classic parable of self-knowledge, now in paperback! Beset by daily life's trials and tribulations, many people search for the elusive wisdom that will help them make sense of their journey and find inner peace. So, too, do the characters in...
When he arrived in Moscow in 1851, a young Leo Tolstoy set himself three immediate aims: to gamble, to marry, and to obtain a post. At that time he managed only the first. The writer's momentous life would be full of forced breaks and abrupt...