Alexander McCall Smith A client, who was adopted, askes Precious Ramotswe to trace her biological family. But will her searches bring happiness or something rather different, something rather frightening? January...

Alexander McCall Smith Alexander McCall Smith, best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, has turned his hand to humour. The delightful result is a creation of comic genius....

Joy Harjo In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one of our leading Native American voices, details her journey to becoming a...

Astrid Lindgren Originally published 1945

Winston S Churchill In Volume 2 of Winston Churchill’s epic four-volume account of British history, he details the turbulent period of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—taking us from the dramatic...

Ann M Martin It's a bridesmaid surprise!Kristy's father left her family when she was little. Now, years later, he's called with some surprising news: He's getting married! Kristy and her...

Samuel P Huntington "Sam Huntington, one of the West's most eminent political scientists, presents a challenging framework for understanding the realities of global politics in the next century. The Clash of...

Louise Doughty Fires in the Dark reveals the highly secretive and misunderstood world of the coppersmith gypsies.In 1927, when prosperity still reigns in Central Europe, Yenko is born to two Coppersmith...

Melissa Fu It is 1938 in China and, as a young wife, Meilin’s future is bright. But with the Japanese army approaching, Meilin and her four year old son, Renshu,...

Rosie Thomas Constance has made a new life for herself in a foreign land. She is a musician, a composer, a highly paid arranger of other people's music, living in...

Gloria D Miklowitz In 1492 people of the Jewish faith were leaving Spain by the thousands. Not even the Conversos, those who had converted to the Catholic faith, were safe....

Lena Spitzer Original title: A Sun and a Shield: The Chassidic Dynasty of Dej