Samuel is just 17 when his mother dies and he is called to live with the family he has only heard of. He leaves his village in Trinidad and flies to Toronto, where he finds his father living in a place called Regent Park. And so we see the city through the eyes of a young immigrant, naive and inexperienced, it is true, but wise in the culture of comic books.
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(Mystery)
When the body of a boy from one of Greece's prominent families turns up in one of Athens' worst neighborhoods, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis of the special crimes division is certain there's a message in the murder. But who sent it and why?
(General)
A beautifully imagined tale of the Brontë sisters, "Becoming Jane Eyre" delicately unravels the connections between one of fiction's most indelible heroines and the remarkable woman who created her.
(General)
A story about conditional love, cowardice, and the possibility of redemption - and what happens to a man of science when he is forced to question his certainties. It is a novel that sweeps from the trenches of the First World War to the terrorist-besieged streets of London today.
(Mystery)
Primavera Blackstone is enjoying the quiet life in the idyllic village of St Martí d'Empuries on the Catalan coast of Spain. The attractive single mother and eight-year-old Tom, son of the late and still lamented Oz Blackstone, are popular figures in the tiny community. Then a dispute explodes with a powerful councillor who refuses to allow the village wine fair to go ahead. When his body is found in his rockery, some ominous questions are being asked. Did he fall or was he...?
(Science Fiction)
For ten years now mankind has lived in Otopia - our world, but our world changed. Ever since the Quantum Bomb our dimension and realms of faerie, demonia, of the elementals and of death have been intermingled. We live alongside creatures from our myths, dreams and nightmares.
(Romance)
Sans boyfriend, Delaney Markham makes the best of her gift, seeing and hearing dead people, by holding séances to make ends meet-- that is, until one incredibly annoying ghost just won't go away. Besides being sinfully hot, all signs point to Clyde Atwell being much more than an ordinary spirit. In fact, he's a newbie demon whose first assignment is to take Delaney back down to hell with him.
(General)
Forcibly removed from the ancient village of Ein Hod by the newly formed state of Israel in 1948, the Abulhejas are moved into the Jenin refugee camp. There, exiled from his beloved olive groves, the family patriarch languishes of a broken heart, his eldest son fathers a family and falls victim to an Israeli bullet, and his grandchildren struggle against tragedy toward freedom, peace, and home.
(Romance)
The overnight socialite tells a timeless story of transformation and unlikely love set against the glittering backdrop of contemporary Manhattan.
(Mystery)
A Parisian art dealer is found dead in his hotel room the day after a Paganini concert. In his wallet is a scrap of sheet music, torn from a page that belongs to the competition's winner. But how did the dead man get hold of it? And why? Detective Antonio Guastafeste asks violin maker Gianni Castiglione to help him navigate the curious world of classical musicians, their priceless instruments, and the unsavory dealers who prey upon them.
(General)
On a languid midsummer’s day in the countryside, old Adam Godley, a renowned theoretical mathematician, is dying. His family gathers at his bedside: his son, young Adam, struggling to maintain his marriage to a radiantly beautiful actress; his nineteen-year-old daughter, Petra, filled with voices and visions as she waits for the inevitable; their stepmother, Ursula, whose relations with the Godley children are strained at best; and Petra’s “young man”—very likely more interested in the father than the daughter—who has arrived for a superbly ill-timed visit.
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