Samir Naqqash's stirring novel *Tenants and Cobwebs* nostalgically commemorates the lost culture of an ancient Iraqi Jewish minority living amidst a majority Muslim population in 1940s Baghdad. The plot unfolds during a time of great turmoil: the rise of Iraqi nationalism and anti-Jewish sentiment f
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"What's the first thing you think of when I say 'angel'?" asked Mallory. Alice shrugged. "I don't know... guns?" Alice isn't having the best of days - late for work, missed her bus, and now she's getting rained on - but it's about to get worse. The war between the angels and the Fallen is escalatin
See here, first take a little polish on the finger and rub into the leather. Then spit. and rub.' - boasts one recruit of his boot polishing skills. sadly, the only reward this gets him is thirty pairs of shoes to shine. This is only one of the hilarious episodes in Carl Muller's continuation of the
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Fate takes many forms. . . . When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howl
Noah Keller has a pretty normal life, until one wild afternoon when his parents pick him up from school and head straight for the airport, telling him on the ride that his name isn't really Noah and he didn't really just turn eleven in March. And he can't even ask them why -- not because of his Asto
"Murdoch's finest novel . . . Surely one of the major achievements in fiction in recent years." --Joyce Carol Oates When old friends Henry and Cato reunite after years apart, they quickly become embroiled in the drama of each other's lives. Henry, who has just returned to England as the sole heir to
If a knight captures a lady, can she steal his heart?With one careless roll of the dice, Baron Lindsey Fordyce gambles away his beautiful daughter Rowena. Spirited away to an imposing castle, Rowena finds herself pressed into the service of a dark and forbidding knight accused of murder...and much m
Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea... Police Chief Delaney Reed is good at keeping secrets for the beach town of Ordinary Oregon-just ask the vacationing gods or supernatural creatures who live there. But with the first annual Cake and Skate fundraiser coming up, the only secre
R. K. Narayan (1906--2001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and vibrancy. *Swami and Friends* introduces us to Narayan's beloved fictional town of Malgudi, where ten-year-old Swaminathan's excitement about his country's initial st
Set in London and in the South of France, this brilliantly structured novel centers on two women: Gertrude Openshaw, bereft from the recent death of her husband, yet awakening to passion; and Anne Cavidge, who has returned in doubt from many years in a nunnery, only to encounter her personal Christ.
Kylara Vatta, risk-taking, rule-breaking, can-do heroine of *Trading in Danger,* is back in businessthe kind thats anything but usualin the new military science fiction adventure by ace action storyteller Elizabeth Moon. The exciting military career she hoped for never got off the groundbut Ky Vatt
Creator of the modern female private eye story, Marcia Muller has been writing novels and short stories about Sharon McCone for decades. Now McCone's colleagues get a chance to offer their viewpoints on some cases. McCone and Friends contains three stories told by McCone herself, as well as two stor
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EDITORIAL REVIEW: Brian Aldiss marked the centenary year of H G Wells' birth with this ingenious novella combining comedy, terror and, intriguingly, late nineteenth-century period charm. In a sleepy East Anglian town we meet Bruce Fox and Gregory Rolles - two young men who have sworn to Think L
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After being reported as dead in a German POW camp, Jack Chesley returns to L.A. in 1947 very much alive, only to discover that his wife is dead--and her twin sister insists that it wasn't an accident like the cops said. They set out to find her killer, a journey that takes them from the boozy back c
Invisible aliens invade the bucolic English countryside in Brian W. Aldiss & rsquo;s Nebula Award & ndash;winning science fiction novella, plus nine other stories of the fantastic and the odd A meteor shower in the skies above the rolling English countryside late in the nineteenth century fires the
A rogue attack. A shocking kidnapping. A surprise fated mate. Joshua, the Crown Prince and Captain of the Guards, doesnโt want to fall in love, but fate has other plans for himโฆ so do rogue wolf shifters. Leah enjoys the time she spends with her longtime friend and fiercest confidante, but when ti
I married my fake fiancรฉ and nowโฆ I want a divorce. Iโve known Mason since we were kids and next-door neighbors. Back when I was more interested in his brother. Scandalous, I know. All of that is in the past. The only thing that matters now is my dying fatherโs last wish. His dream is to wal
0At Christmas time, will Cleoโs frozen heart melt when she meets the perfect man? After the tragic loss of her husband in Afghanistan, single mom Cleo Martin moves to Pecan Grove with her young son to build a new life. Sheโs stuck in a dead-end job and struggling to make ends meet when a fateful ic
A birthday wish led to an unexpected gift landing on her doorstep. Who knew this unexpected cowboy would bring so much trouble with him? Sydney led a fulfilling life of hard ranch work. She had her animals, and she thought that was enough for her. Until she made a crazy birthday wish which was
Le 7 avril 1803 naรฎt ร Paris la militante fรฉministe et ouvriรฉriste Flora Tristan, fille d'un officier pรฉruvien au service du Roi d'Espagne et d'une bourgeoise parisienne. Un siรจcle plus tard, le 8 mai 1903, son petit-fils, Paul Gauguin, meurt seul et presque aveugle dans sa case des รฎles Marquises.
A wolf rebellion. A newly appointed king. A Lady who is destined for more. Lady Sarah knows sheโs destined for more, but until she finds out exactly what more means for her, sheโs content to soak up all the knowledge she can about battle tactics and anything else that interests her. Unlike other yo
Bullets arenโt the only things flying on this missionโฆ When Texas Ranger Nash Sullivan finds himself in a hailstorm of gunfire during a bunker raid, he handles himselfโand those around himโwith his usual skill and sharp wit. It seems his charm worked its wonders too, because heโs gone from a Rang
In the city of Quafin, Emilie Hartford will find dangerโฆand love I always knew that being a cop would be dangerous. Long nights, unknown threats, and the constant rush that any hesitation to act could very well mean death. But I lived for that. I loved the rush. And nowhere was more dangerous than
Preorder the long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize-winning Thomas Cromwell trilogy. 'If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?' England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a
Whatโs worse than having untamed magic? Not having any magic. My magic is broken after being attacked by the magic thief. And I need it back fast, before she tries again. Iโll do anything to get it back โ including private tutoring with a crazy professor and private time with the sexy billionaire t