This is about a passage through a continent filled with the most confusing contrasts: the ageing Soviet jets, on their way to strafe Unita positions against a backdrop of palms and an azure sea; the boy in the Angolan town Viana whose leg had been blown off by a landmine but whose hope and trust seemed to deny the agony of a land torn by bloody warfare; the almost serene stillness of the Tete valley in Mozambique, chilling for its nightmare scenery of burnt-out trucks and its forlorn landscape. Through it, Wender travels deeper into perhaps one of the most inexplicable events and places of this century. Rwanda.
The book is a cycle of love poems, which McKuen numbered rather than giving them individual titles. The author believed this gave them a more subjective, personal feel.Â
Wonderful ... his bent for historical accuracy is unmatched in commercial fiction ... Jakes makes the reader care about his characters - San Francisco Chronicle
Orla McLeod knows too much about violence for her own good. She knows about pain and how to inflict it, she knows about guilt and she knows about survival. And because she was barely a teenager when she learnt all this, she knows what these things can do to a child.
Peter and Steven offer a vision of the future that's truly awesome in both the most traditional and modern understandings of the word; it's as big as it is awe inspiring.
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh thrilled the world by becoming the first lone pilot to cross the Atlantic. Soon after he landed, however, the flight log was stolen from the cockpit of the Spirit of St Louis. It was never recovered. That much is fact ...When the flight log becomes available on the Black Market, Hella and her son Ari travel to the home of a shady millionaire in Depression-torn Key West to make their bid. But Hella soon discovers that she is not the only person willing to go to great, even murderous, lengths to obtain it ...
In this emotionally charged, heart-pounding thriller Lisa Scottoline has broken new ground. Look Again examines the very essence of parenthood and raises a question that will haunt readers long after they have finished the last page: 'What would I do?'
'Gordimer has the range and concerns of a mature and brilliant artist. Her writing has the tough precision of poetry and the closely observed naturalness of everyday life' - Diane Johnson, Washington Post Book World
Fleeing crushing poverty and ceaseless pogroms, many Lithuanian Jews left Europe in the early 1900's and set off to find refuge in a mysterious, faraway land - South Africa.On a dark continent, virtually devoid of the light of Torah, these Jews faced enormous challenges to maintain their faith. This important but relatively unknown slice of history forms the backdrop of this breathtaking novel by highly acclaimed author Gita Gordon. Spanning four generations and traversing the globe, South African Journeys brings the story of the Jews of South Africa to life.
This is the towering story of two families struggling against the tide of history. Some, pushed beyond the threshold of despair, do not survive. The others must find their way back to a place of peace and forgiveness. Through anger, injustice and betrayal, the family discovers that there is a force stronger than war.
Klima's achievement lies in his humane understanding of moral confusions and his sympathetic rendering of them, and especially in his ability to question while avoiding the polemical. Irish Times
At the top of the Eiffel Tower, a young man proposes to his girlfriend, cheered on by delighted tourists. In that second, everything changes, not just for the happy couple, but for the family and friends awaiting their return in Bridgeport, Ireland ...
On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents - she would never get married and she would never have children.But life, is a profoundly random business. Many years and many lives later, she is a professor in Boston, in love with a brilliant, erratic man named Theo. And then Jane falls pregnant.
This is a gripping story of identity, connection with our past, and the power of words to create or devastate. Crossing two decades, from the vibrant revolutionary murals of Mexico City to the halls of a Congress bent on eradicating the color red, The Lacuna is as deep and rich as the New World itself.
Forty two and married for half of her life. Jessie Sullivan lives quiet conventionally. She honestly believes that she is happy. She has a lovely home, a good, dependable husband and an accomplished teenage daughter. But when she returns to the remote island of her childhood, to establish the cause of her mother's increasingly strange behavior, Jessie is drawn to Brother Thomas, a Benedictine monk on the verge of taking his final vows.
It's 1944 when twin sisters, Pearl and Stasha, arrive at Auschwitz. They take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood, all under the watchful eye of Josef Mengele, the camp physician known as the Angel of Death ...
Kowalski introduces Haley Bombauer (a.k.a Flash Jackson), a girl who is longing to burst out of the confines of her provincial upbringing. With compassion and humor, the novel tells of her emergence into a world that 'was not designed with girls in mind'.
Eight years ago, Nova Kumalisi agreed to have a baby for Mal and Stephanie Wacken. Halfway through the pregnancy, the couple changed their minds and walked away, leaving Nova pregnant, scared and alone.
