2019
August
Three Daughters of Eve
Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles.... >>
The Museum of Innocence
“It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn’t know it.”
So begins the new novel, his first since winning the Nobel Prize, from the universally acclaimed author of Snow and My Name Is Red... >>
Optimism over Despair: On Capitalism, Empire and Social Change
Noam Chomsky interviewed by C.J. Polychroniou
This volume offers readers a concise and accessible introduction to the ideas of Noam Chomsky, described by the New York Times as “arguably the most important intellectual alive...>>
I hear sirens in the Street
Still, one tiny clue is all it takes, and there it is. A tattoo. So Duffy, fully fit and back at work after the severe trauma of his last case, is ready to follow the trail of blood-however faint-that always, always connects a body to its killer..... >>
Jazz
In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death.... >>
Into Thin Air
A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was .... >>
July
Forbidden
How something so wrong can feel so right. She is pretty and talented - sweet sixteen and never been kissed. He is seventeen; gorgeous and on the brink of a bright future. And now they have fallen in love. But... they are brother and sister... >>
Three Mothers (and a camel)
A single-volume edition of two hugely charming and funny memoirs of family life, by the inimitable Phyllida Law... >>
Tibetan Secrets of Youth and Vitality
How to Look and Feel Younger Using Five Ancient Rites for Stimulating your Energy Centres.... >>
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Switzerland and Brexit
June
Inside of a Dog: what dogs see, smell and know
The bestselling book that asks what dogs know and how they think. The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human.... >>
Family Matters
A Rohinton Mistry’s enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait of present-day Bombay in all its vitality and corruption. At the age of seventy-nine, Nariman Vakeel, .... >>
The Unfinished Palazzo
Judith Mackrell brings to life the history of Venice’s mysterious and idiosyncratic Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, “the Unfinished Palazzo,” through the lives of three of its most eccentric, passionate, and rule-breaking residents—Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse, and Peggy Guggenheim.... >>
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Your genes are not your fate by Dean Ornish
Un million de révolutions tranquilles: Travail, argent,habitat, santé, environnement... : comment les citoyens changent le monde
French Book : Tired of hearing that no alternative was possible to economic liberalism, Bénédicte Manier, journalist, took his pilgrim's staff and crisscrossed the planet. The fruits of his journey are exhilarating! .... >>
May
Language
Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first comes to London from China she feels like she is among an alien species... >>
Machines Like Me
Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of.. >>
35 siècles de poesie amoureuse
Pierre Haïat
Crazy Rich Asians
Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season.... >>
Counting to 100 in French with a NYC Cabbie