The Madonna on the Moon

9 best books like The Madonna on the Moon (Rolf Bauerdick): Doctor Zhivago, Death Comes as the End, Celestial Bodies, Recipes for Love and Murder, Quo Vadis, Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life, Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection, Divorare il cielo, The Satanic Mechanic

Doctor Zhivago

Author	Boris Pasternak
ISBN	0679774386

This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak's complete rejection by Soviet authorities; when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature...

Death Comes as the End

Author	Agatha Christie
ISBN	0312981619

In this startling historical mystery, unique in the author's canon, Agatha Christie investigates a deadly mystery at the heart of a dissonant family in ancient Egypt. Imhotep, wealthy landowner and priest of Thebes, has outraged his sons and daughters by bringing a beautiful concubine into their...

Celestial Bodies

Author	Jokha Alharthi
ISBN	1948226944

Winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize

In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla, who chooses to refuse all offers and await a reunion with the man she loves, who has emigrated...

Recipes for Love and Murder

Author	Sally Andrew
ISBN	1782116451

Meet Tannie Maria: A woman who likes to cook a lot and write a little. Tannie Maria writes recipes for a column in her local paper, the Klein Karoo Gazette.

One Sunday morning, as Maria savours the breeze through the kitchen window whilst making apricot jam, she hears the screech and bump that...

Quo Vadis

Author	Henryk Sienkiewicz
ISBN	0781805503

Rome during the reign of Nero was a glorious place for the emperor and his court; there were grand feasts, tournaments for poets, and exciting games and circuses filling the days and nights. The pageantry and pretentious displays of excess were sufficient to cloy the senses of participants as well as...

Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life

Author	Noor Al-Hussein
ISBN	1401359485

Leap of Faith is the dramatic and inspiring story of an American woman's remarkable journey into the heart of a man and his nation.

Born into a distinguished Arab-American family and raised amid privilege, Lisa Halaby joined the first freshman class at Princeton to accept women, graduating...

Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection

Author	Haemin Sunim
ISBN	0143132288

A #1 internationally bestselling book of spiritual wisdom about learning to love ourselves, with all our imperfections, by the Buddhist author of The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down.

When you care for yourself first, the world begins to find you worthy of care.

No one is...

Divorare il cielo

Author	Paolo Giordano
ISBN	8806222279

A dieci anni da La solitudine dei numeri primi, Paolo Giordano torna a raccontare la giovinezza, poi l'azzardo di diventare adulti.

La prima volta che Teresa li vede stanno facendo il bagno in piscina, nudi, di nascosto. Lei li spia dalla finestra. Le sembrano liberi e selvaggi. Sono tre intrusi,...

The Satanic Mechanic

Author

Sally Andrew

Meet Tannie Maria - recipe writer turned crime fighter - and before she has time to take her Venus Chocolate Cake out of the oven, our glorious heroine finds herself embroiled in another mystery.

In this wonderful sequel to Recipes for Love and Murder, Slimkat the bushman finds his life under...