![]() ![]() Rami and Bassam had been raised to hate one another. They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every aspect of their lives, from the roads they are allowed to drive on to the schools their children attend to the checkpoints, both physical and emotional, they must negotiate.īut their lives, however circumscribed, are upended one after the other: first, Rami’s thirteen-year-old daughter, Smadar, becomes the victim of suicide bombers a decade later, Bassam’s ten-year-old daughter, Abir, is killed by a rubber bullet. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Independent įrom the National Book Award–winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an epic novel rooted in the unlikely real-life friendship between two fathers.īassam Aramin is Palestinian. ![]() WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD.Colum McCann has found the form and voice to tell the most complex of stories, with an unexpected friendship between two men at its powerfully beating heart.”-Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire ![]()
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![]() Few writers can enter their characters so completely or evoke their lives as viscerally as Andre Dubus III, whether imagining Massoud Behrani and Kathy Nicolo, the tragic protagonists of his breakthrough novel House of Sand and Fog, or depicting the real-life characters that shaped his early life in the gripping memoir Townie. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The bag he had lugged in from out of town proved to be one of those hornets’ nests you can, if you’re unlucky, run into in the woods south of Beryl. ![]() I saw Mole from a slightly altered perspective. They hopped and danced, grabbed their backs and behinds, squealed and howled piteously. Mole patrons began slapping their faces and pawing the air, forsaking us. That meant no sound, and very little flash or fury. Silent was on the job already, but he was Silent. There are 3 books in this book collection.Ī dagger nicked Mercy. His latest work is Working God’s Mischief, fourth in the Instrumentalities of the Night series. His other series include Dread Empire and and the Garrett, P.I. He is best known for his Black Company series, which has appeared in 20+ languages worldwide. He has three sons (army officer, architect, orchestral musician) and numerous grandchildren, all of whom but one are female. He met his wife of 43 years while attending the Clarion Writer's Workshop in 1970. He began writing with malicious intent to publish in 1968, eventually producing 51 books and a number of short fiction pieces. ![]() He started writing short stories in 7th grade, had several published in a high school literary magazine. He worked for General Motors for 33 years, retiring some years ago. Navy and attended the University of Missouri. Glen Cook was born in New York City, lived in southern Indiana as a small child, then grew up in Northern California. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As the story opens, Thea, conducting a forbidden love affair with a scene painter at the Schouwburg Theatre, still yearns to understand the circumstances of her secret conception and to know more about the mother who died giving birth to her. Nella Brandt, the challenged wife of the previous book, now returns as aunt to 18-year-old Thea, the illegitimate daughter of her sister-in-law Marin and Otto, the African manservant who worked for Nella’s late husband. Hemmed in by long-kept silences and problematic histories, a complicated family in 18th-century Amsterdam struggles to find its future.īurton’s sequel to her bestselling debut, The Miniaturist (2014), picks up a generation later, in 1705, in a world riddled with secrets. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when her guardian passes away, her beloved home falls into the hands of a distant cousin. She manages her elderly guardian's remote Cornwall estate, wears breeches instead of frocks, and answers to the unlikely name of Henry. Henrietta Barrett has never followed the dictates of society. ![]() During an extended stay in the country, she never expects to meet Lord John Blackwood, a wounded war hero who intrigues her like no other man. When a suitor tells Arabella he's willing to overlook her appalling bluestocking tendencies on account of her looks and fortune, she decides to take a break from the Marriage Mart. Lady Arabella Blydon has both beauty and a brain, and she's tired of men. But Emma's cousins are just as determined to see her settle in England. She's determined to then return to Boston to run her father's shipping company. American heiress Emma Dunster has agreed to participate in just one London season. That is until a redheaded American throws herself in front of a carriage to save his young nephew's life. And two, he is determined to avoid marriage. There are two things everyone knows about Alexander Ridgely. ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s an arrow, a sword-stick and a noose, all ingeniously deployed, and a couple of corpses that aren’t who or what they seem. Most of the stories are locked-room mysteries: someone was murdered in a room that no one else could have got into or out of. Father Brown’s nemesis Flambeau doesn’t appear, and more action takes place in the USA than I remember. The Incredulity of Father Brown was the third of five collections, and contains eight stories. ![]() Then, having not read anything by him for roughly half a century, I found this slim, yellowing paperback in a street library. I thought his aphorisms, ‘Blessed is he who expecteth little, for he shall often be surprised,’ and ‘Anything worth doing is worth doing badly’ were words to live by. If they hoped it would break my addiction to Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh, they were to be disappointed, but I did love Father Brown, and once I’d read all his stories, I sought out everything I could find by Chesterton: the autobiography, essays (including ‘On chasing after one’s hat’), his books on Francis of Assisi and Thomas Aquinas, Orthodoxy, some poetry (‘I don’t care where the water goes/ If it doesn’t get into the wine’) and more. On my eleventh or twelfth birthday, my parents gave me The Father Brown Omnibus, a doorstop of a book containing all 53 of G K Chesterton’s Father Brown stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reprinted in 2023 with the help of original edition published long back. Unique Leather Bound Edition having Spine and corners bind with leather with Golden Leaf Printing on round spine. 394 CHOOSE ANY COLOR OF YOUR CHOICE WITHOUT ANY EXTRA CHARGES, JUST CLICK ON MORE IMAGES FOR OPTIONAL COLORS and inform us your choice through mail. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. ![]() If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Each page is checked manually before printing. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. ![]() NO changes have been made to the original text. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. ![]() ![]() This unbiased review is from an uncorrected proof copy provided by Hachette Australia. If the battle descriptions are a little tedious, and if the connections only very gradually become clear, they are worth persevering through for a powerful, heart-breaking and thought-provoking read. ![]() The astute reader will begin to make the links between the characters and see the parallels with events in Australian Indigenous history as the story progresses. Race and gender are not immediately apparent this is almost certainly intentional as it forms part of the overall theme of the novel: how perspective and judgement alter when we know this about a person. And the mortally-infected man is the victim of a Federation experiment. The prisoner is held captive by the Federation. The fugitive is on the run from the Federation. The soldier left a spouse and children to fight for the Federation, for her family, her Country. The fighter pilot has been flying for the Federation since Conglomeration forces began attacking Earth. A fighter pilot, a soldier, a fugitive, a prisoner, a mortally-infected man: the opening chapters introduce these five ostensibly-unconnected characters and detail their situations. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Old Lie is the second novel by award-winning Australian author, Claire G. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Soneji has outsmarted the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police. Because Gary Soneji, who wants to commit the crime of the century, is playing at the top of his game. What is she running from? What is her secret? Alex Cross and Jezzie Flanagan are about to have a forbidden love affair-at the worst possible time for both of them. She rides her black BMW motorcycle at speeds of no less than 100 mph. ![]() Blond, mysterious, seductive, she’s got an outer shell that’s as tough as it is beautiful. Jezzie Flanagan is the first woman ever to hold the highly sensitive job as supervisor of the Secret Service in Washington. But he also has two adorable kids of his own, and they are his own special vulnerabilities. He’s a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. Discover the classic thriller that launched the #1 detective series of the past twenty-five years, now one of PBS’s 100 Great American Reads Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. ![]() ![]() “Not only in just obvious ways, but the more I dug into the script the more I see how career-driven she is. Nossal, like Vacio making her New Village Arts stage debut, says she sees a lot of herself in Kathy Selden. I’ve never had the blessing to sing and tap dance on a stage by myself. ![]() Vacio, filling “some mighty big shoes” in the Kelly role, calls the core of this song and that rainy moment “pure joy. Its score included “All I Do Is Dream Of You,” “Fit as a Fiddle,” the jazzy ballad “You Were Meant For Me,” the memorably staged “Good Morning” and “Make ‘Em Laugh” (O’Connor dances up the side of a wall) and the iconic title tune in which Kelly created an immortal moment on screen. In its cast supporting Kelly and Reynolds were Donald O’Connor, Cyd Charisse and Jean Hagen. ![]() The film musical written by Adolph Green and Betty Comden, with music by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed, was choreographed by Kelly and director Stanley Donen. ![]() |