Supple but crunchy, sweet but tart--with its strange construction of seeds filled with delicious garnet juice so vibrant it's hard not think it is some otherworldly blood--no wonder the pomegranate has appealed so much to the human imagination...
A Little Treachery is enacted in a quaint-looking rural cottage in idyllic surroundings. Idyllic at least they seem to Clem and Catherine Hare, two elderly spinsters who have just obtained it ‘for a song’ through the offices of a friend of a...
Bestselling author Walter Mosley blends philosophy and humor in this thought-provoking exploration of race, sin, and salvation. It is the story of two men — one human and one angel — who have the power to topple heaven.
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We all have our value in one way or another. We all fit in somewhere and can be used as part of a clever scheme. Make it a game (after all this is intended as a fun-book). What makes you invaluable? Why should someone labor to maneuver you in some...
At 3 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon in 1911, Oskar Johansson is caught in a blast in an industrial accident. The local newspaper reports him dead. But they are mistaken.
Because Oskar Johansson is a born survivor.
Though crippled, he finds the...
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Flowers, fire and fairy tales are the elements that will forever shape 9-year-old Alice Hart's life, in The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, the remarkable debut by Holly Ringland.
Alice Hart lives in isolation by the sea, where her mother's...