Critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling novelist Tosca Lee skillfully adapts a well-researched account of the life of Judas Iscariot, disciple turned defector to Jesus, into her own fictional world of ancient Israel, humanizing the man whose very name is synonymous with betrayal...
BEING ME, the sexy second installment in the Inside Out erotic romance trilogy, following If I Were You—in the seductive tradition of Fifty Shades of Grey.
Fascinated by the dark fantasies in the journals she’s discovered, and the two men who have now found a place in her life, Sara...
BORGO PROPIZIO by Loredana Limone, a charming debut novel which won the PREMIO FELLINI Literary Award.
Belinda intends to reinvent her life and Borgo Propizio, a village on a hill, in an Italy apparently a bit out of time, seems to her the ideal place to start again. The small town...
Luke Delaney takes the thriller genre to new heights with his debut crime novel, Cold Killing—an unforgettable and haunting duel between a seasoned detective and a brilliant serial killer.
Detective Inspector Sean Corrigan finds the body of a brutally murdered young man in his own South...
Zachary Night has been waiting his whole life for this moment. Like his family before him, he’s finally headed to Indigo 8, a top-secret training center where future Starbounders learn the skills they need to protect the galaxy. There, Zachary meets a friendly alien exchange student and a...
DARCY BURDOCK, the inimitable 10-year old with an imagination as large as her heart. Meet her doting Mum, who loves her as much as fried eggs and chips, her Dad who good and kind and steals ham slices out of the fridge, her baby brother Hector who likes to eat snails, and her sister Poppy who...
A tale of romance and adventure during the turbulent years of the late Byzantine Empire.
Spoilt, imperious and proud, Princess Agnes of France is only thirteen when she is sent to marry the emperor of Constantinople's son. But by the time she is sixteen, she is a widow, her husband...
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From the author of the giant #1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog comes an equally smart, delightful, and startling exploration of how we perceive and discover our world.
Alexandra Horowitz’s brilliant On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes shows us how to...
McAvoy lets his mind drift back to the chaos and bloodshed in the square. To that moment when the masked man appeared from the doorway of the church and looked into his eyes. 'Is there anything distinctive, Sarge?' asks Nielsen. 'Yes', he says, with the sudden sense that memory is important....
My name is Lara, I am 14, and I have just seen a dead person. The boat is softly rocking under me. I stay lying on my back and gasp for breath while I stare into the blue silk like sky. I keep getting visions of the drowned person. The drowned person in the flooded city.
In the...
This wild ride of a debut thriller is packed with insider details that reveal the fascinating world of a New York lawyer who’ll stop at nothing to secure justice.
Introducing Tug Wyler, a dogged and irreverent New York City personal injury and medical malpractice attorney. He is as at...
FROM MASTERFUL STORYTELLER MICHAEL J. TOUGIAS COMES A NEW, HEART-STOPPING TRUE-LIFE TALE OF MARITIME DISASTER, SURVIVAL, AND DARING RESCUE, HIS MOST THRILLING AND AMAZING STORY YET.
Seventy-foot waves batter a torn life raft 250 miles out to sea in one of the world’s most dangerous...
Bridging both travel and nature writing, Empire Antarctica is an eloquent, exquisitely written narrative of one man, a lonely continent and the reassuring presence of Emperor penguins.
Gavin Francis spent fourteen months as a medical doctor 'wintering' at Halley Base, a profoundly...
Jane is a young New York woman who can never seem to find the right man—perhaps because of her secret obsession with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Predjudice. When a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-obsessed...
Joff Winterhart’s Days of the Bagnold Summer perfectly captures the ennui, the tension, the pathos and the affection of this mother-son relationship. A sublimely funny and perceptive graphic novel, Days of the Bagnold is about Sue, 52 who works in a library and her son Daniel, 15, still at...
Music is an intrinsic part of everyday life, and yet the history of its development from single notes to multi-layered orchestration can seem bewilderingly specialised and complex.
In his energetic tour through 40,000 years of music, from prehistoric instruments to modern-day pop, Howard...
Yulia, a war correspondent that’s all out of hope decides to travel to Afghanistan following her professional instinct and the desire to find the story that has never been told before. In Kabul, Yulia will uncover a sordid plot in which power and corruption converge with the violence of the...
A journey to delight the palette and nourish the soul, this gastronomic memoir of French cuisine combines historical facts and traditions with today's best dishes. The Dryanskys' remembrances include the joys of eating ortolans anddrinking an 1874 Mouton Bordeaux at Chateau Mouton Rothschild...
Recently nominated for the PRIX FEMMINA, LIVRO weaves a grand narrative filled with trauma and love. Beginning in the 1940s and continuing through the 1960s, a massive exodus of Portuguese emigrants fled to France as a period of dictatorship was ending. This is a saga dedicated to the many...
About Reykjavik 101
Hlynur Björn is an unemployed 30-something loner, still living with his mum, who spends his days on the Internet, watching satellite TV, and gazing at girls in the pub. But Hlynur's cosy, unthreatening world is shaken when his mother comes out as a lesbian, and her...
