From the acclaimed author of Crescent, called "radiant, wise, and passionate" by the Chicago Tribune, here is a vibrant, humorous memoir of growing up with a gregarious Jordanian father who loved to c…
On a quiet street in downtown Amsterdam, the founder of a new religious society/commune—a group that calls itself “Hindist” and mixes elements of various “Eastern” traditions—is found hanging from a c…
Shelve Outsider in Amsterdam (Grijpstra & de Gier Mystery #1)
This delectable and witty mystery introduces Rosie "Aunty" Lee, feisty widow, amateur sleuth and proprietor of Singapore's best-loved home cooking restaurant
When an explosion kills wealthy industrialist Gregory Van Dyke, Police Commissioner Teddy Roosevelt presumes that anarchists are responsible and personally asks Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to trac…
Shelve Murder on Marble Row (Gaslight Mystery, #6)
In the four years since her husband’s death, midwife Sarah Brandt has become an angel of mercy in the tenements of turn-of-the-century New York. Now, Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy has taken up the t…
Shelve Murder on Bank Street (Gaslight Mystery, #10)
Sarah Brandt is not completely surprised when her very proper mother asks her to attend a seance. She knows that Mrs. Decker still carries great guilt over the death of her older daughter, Maggie. So …
Shelve Murder on Waverly Place (Gaslight Mystery, #11)
When a wealthy businessman is murdered, Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy is assigned to investigate, even though the crime is out of his jurisdiction. The reason he soon realizes, is that the man has a…
Shelve Murder on Lexington Avenue (Gaslight Mystery, #12)
Midwife Sarah Brandt braves the dangers of the tenements in nineteenth-century New York to help the impoverished and, with Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy, bring the guilty that prey on them to justic…
Shelve Murder on Fifth Avenue (Gaslight Mystery, #14)
When the affluent Lintons of Lenox Hill summon Sarah Brandt to examine their teenage daughter, their worst fear is confirmed: she is with child. The pregnancy is a mystery, however, as the young woman…
Shelve Murder on Lenox Hill (Gaslight Mystery, #7)
„Parfumul ei trebuie să aibă miros de femeie. Nici de cocotă, nici de soție supusă. Nici de tânără, nici de bătrână. Nici de extravaganță, nici de discreție. Doar de femeie. Să fie parfumul feminități…
أخرجت صليبي وتركته يتدلى من رقبتي بوضوح لعلي أكسب ود هذه القرية. تأملت وجوه الناس التي اتشحت بالاعتياد ولا تبدو كمن يرى أشياء جديدة كل يوم. إلى متى سأمكث في هذا المكان؟ تصاعد هذا السؤال في داخلي وأن…
Retiring from a life in the media, journalist Martha Nelson finds herself feeling lost and struggles to adapt to her new, quieter life. When a local history group asks her to compile a book about her …
When midwife Sarah Brandt visits Little Italy to check up on a new mother who delivered her baby just the day before, she finds the young woman dead. The family insists that the death was from complic…
Shelve Murder in Little Italy (Gaslight Mystery, #8)
Wintering is a poignant and comforting meditation on the fallow periods of life, times when we must retreat to care for and repair ourselves. Katherine May thoughtfully shows us how to come through th…
Shelve Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
The Larkin family isn't just lucky—they persevere. At least that's what Violet and her younger brother, Sam, were always told. When the Lyric sank off the coast of Maine, their great-great-great-grand…
Part memoir and part joyful romp through the fields of imagination, the story behind a beloved pseudonymous Twitter account reveals how a writer deep in grief rebuilt a life worth living.
A beautifully illustrated collection of Gloria Steinem's most inspirational and outrageous quotes, with an introduction and essays by the feminist activist herself.
For decades--and especially now, in …
Shelve The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion
Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the United States to find work. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only…
Die Dienstagsfrauen gehen fasten. Fünf ungleiche Freundinnen, ein gemeinsames Ziel: Entschleunigen, entschlacken, abspecken, so lautet das Gebot der Stunde. Zu ihrem jährlichen Ausflug checken die Die…
Un roman surprinzător, emoţionant şi plin de umor care explorează, prin ochii inocenţi ai Rădiţei şi cei ai mamei sale, un fenomen ce a marcat profund România postcomunistă: emigraţia temporară. Pentr…
This New York Times Notable Book begins on a rainy winter night. It takes hours for a black woman known as Mad Annie to die in the gutter. It will take 20 years for the woman who found her to shape he…
Claire et Jean-Jacques vivent ensemble depuis huit ans. Mais, leur tendresse apparente, qui les fait citer en exemple par leurs amis, cache la véritable érosion de leur amour... Dissection d'un couple…
Today's most highly regarded writer on Indian food gives us an enchanting memoir of her childhood in Delhi in an age and a society that has since disappeared. Madhur (meaning "sweet as honey") Jaffrey…
Shelve Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India
„Pretextul romanului Adam şi Eva e o scenă trăită prin septembrie 1918 la Iaşi. Pe strada Lăpuşneanu, pe o răpăială de ploaie, am întâlnit o femeie cu umbrelă. Din depărtare m-au uimit ochii ei verzi,…
On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past, fighti…
Magical, tantalizing, and sensual, The Mistress of Spices is the story of Tilo, a young woman born in another time, in a faraway place, who is trained in the ancient art of spices and ordained as a mi…
