2018
December
Michael Ondaatje
Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth... >>
The 24-hour Wine Expert
Janice Robinson
From the world's most respected wine critic, the essential guide to wine in 100 pages... >>
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
Deepak Chopra
This is a book you will cherish for a lifetime, for within is pages are the secrets of making all your dreams come true. Based on natural laws that govern all of creation, this book shatters the myth that success is the result of hard work, exacting plans, or driving ambition.. >>
Winners Take All
Anand Giridharadas
An insider's groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve... >>
So, Anyway
John Cleese
Candid and brilliantly funny, this is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed legend... >>
The Lie Tree
Frances Hardinge
Faith Sunderly leads a double life. To most people, she is reliable, dull, trustworthy - a proper young lady who knows her place as ... >>
November 2018
Originals : How Non-Conformists Move the World
Adam Grant
In Originals the author addresses the challenge of improving the world from the perspective of becoming original: choosing to champion novel ideas and values that go against ... >>
Anna, Grandmother of Jesus
Calire Heartsong
Meet the extraordinary mother of Mary and grandmother of Jesus whose teachings and service birthed a spiritual lineage that changed the world. Learn how Anna used cellular rejuvenation ... >>
Train to Pakistan
Khushwant Singh
In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the state of Pakistan was formally announced, ten million people—Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs—were in flight... >>
October 2018
Katie Rhodes
DI Ben Kitto needs a second chance. After ten years working for the murder squad in London, a traumatic event has left him grief-stricken. He’s tried to resign from his job, but his boss has persuaded him to take three months to reconsider... >>
My Name is Red
Orhan Pamuk
At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor... >>
The Children Act
Ian McEwan
A fiercely intelligent, well-respected High Court judge in London faces a morally ambiguous case while her own marriage crumbles in a novel that will keep readers thoroughly enthralled until the last stunning page.. >>
The Quiet American
Graham Greene
"I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused," Graham Greene's narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous "Quiet American" of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career. Pyle is the brash young idealist sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission to ... >>
The Merchant of Prato
Iris Origo
Francesco di Marco Datini, the 14th-century Tuscan merchant who forms the subject of the Marchesa Origo's study, has now probably become the most intimately accessible figure of the later-Middle Ages. In 1870... >>
The French Intifada: The long war between France and its Arabs
Andrew Hussey
A provocative rethinking of France's long relationship with the Arab world. To fully understand both the social and political pressures wracking contemporary... >>
September 2018
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Anand Giridharadas
Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can--except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it... >>
The Human Stain
Philip Roth
It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town an aging Classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie.. >>
The Gift
Cecilia Ahren
If you could wish for one gift this Christmas, what would it be? Everyday Lou Suffern battled with the clock. He always had two places to be at .. >>
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The Garden of Evening Mists
Tan Twan Eng
It's Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambridge and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war criminals, Yun Ling Teoh, herself the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace ... >>
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Moral allegory and spiritual autobiography, The Little Prince is the most translated book in the French language. With a timeless charm it tells the story of a little boy who leaves the safety of his own tiny planet to .. >>
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