Maria Semple Violet Parry is living the quintessential life of luxury in the Hollywood Hills with David, her rock-and-roll manager husband, and her darling toddler, Dot. She has the perfect...

Rupert Thomson On a sunny day in July 1964, Thomson returned home from school to discover his mother had died suddenly while playing tennis. 20 years later, Thomson and his...

Mike McCormack A man accused of political manipulation returns from a mysterious trial to his home in the west of Ireland only to find it deserted in this terse, brooding...

Modechai SchmutterEvery week, acclaimed humor columnist and author Mordechai Schmutter entertains thousands of readers all over the world from the relative safety of his home. Get ready for lots of...

Leon Sheleff This Thin Green Line: From Intractable Problems to the Feasible Solutions in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Xlibris Corp 2005

Carmen M Reinhart, Kenneth S Rogoff Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the...

Jeffrey Archer   This Was a Man opens with a shot being fired, but who pulled the trigger, and who lives and who dies?In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth...

Tadeusz BorowskiTadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where the will to survive overrides...

Alice Oseman A short story, based on characters from Solitaire.I used to think that difficult was better than boring, but I know better now…I’m not going to think about the past...

Author: Maeve Binchy From the New York Times bestselling author of Circle of Friends, The Glass Lake, and Evening Class comes a stunning collection of fifteen Christmas stories filled with...

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