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Author	Alex von Tunzelmann
ISBN	0743285883

Tunzelmann has concocted a very readable and balanced history of the last days of Empire. Tunzelmann avoids demonizing any sect, individual or nation and shows the circuitous routes through which every decision was squeezed out, many tragedies averted and many more inadvertently precipitated....

Author	David Macaulay
ISBN	0395257840

The word itself conjures up mystery, romance, intrigue, and grandeur. What could be more perfect for an author/illustrator who has continually stripped away the mystique of architectural structures that have long fascinated modern man? With typical zest and wry sense of humor punctuating his drawings,...

Author

Maile Meloy

It’s 1952 and the Scott family has just moved from Los Angeles to London. Here, fourteen-year-old Janie meets a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows—a fascinating boy who’s not afraid to stand up to authority and dreams of becoming a spy. When Benjamin’s father is kidnapped,...

Author	Karuna Riazi
ISBN	1481486969

A trio of friends from New York City find themselves trapped inside a mechanical board game that they must dismantle in order to save themselves and generations of other children in this action-packed debut that’s a steampunk Jumanji with a Middle Eastern flair.

When twelve-year-old Farah...

Author	Friedrich Dürrenmatt
ISBN	0802130666

This is the first complete English translation of the play that many critics consider to be Durrenmatt's finest work. Unlike an earlier version adapted for the English-language stage, this translation adheres faithfully to the author's original play as it was published and performed in German.

The...

Author	James Runcie
ISBN	1635570581

The captivating prequel to the treasured Grantchester series follows the life, loves, and losses of young Sidney Chambers in postwar London.

It is 1938, and eighteen-year-old Sidney Chambers is dancing the quickstep with Amanda Kendall at her brother Robert's birthday party at the Caledonian...

Author	Cecelia Watson
ISBN	0062917935

A page-turning, existential romp through the life and times of the world’s most polarizing punctuation mark

The semicolon. Stephen King, Hemingway, Vonnegut, and Orwell detest it. Herman Melville, Henry James, and Rebecca Solnit love it. But why? When is it effective? Have we been misusing...

Author

Ursula Poznanski

Erebos hat geschlafen… Jetzt ist es wieder wach!
Wenn du auf deinem Handy eine neue App vorfindest, die du ganz bestimmt nicht selbst installiert hast, könnte das ein Werbegag sein.
Doch was, wenn das Programm Kontrolle über dein Leben gewinnt? Es läuft nicht nur auf dem Handy und dem...

Author

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The new novel by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, starring brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes.

Now a force to be reckoned with in the War Office, the young Mycroft Holmes is growing his network of contacts and influence, although not always in a manner that pleases his closest friend,...

Author	Georges Simenon
ISBN	0141396105

Cars drove past along with the trucks and trams, but by now Maigret had realised that they were not important. Whatever roared by like this along the road was not part of the landscape. . . . What really counted was the lock, the hooting of the tugs, the stone crusher, the barges and the cranes, the two pilots’ bars,...

Author	Jerry Pinto
ISBN	8192328023

The tragedy of words like 'touching' and 'poignant' is that they have become hackneyed to the point they only give rise to skepticism if one spots them in a blurb. And yet I can't think of word choices more apt at the moment.

After having had nothing but disdain for the present crop of Indian Dan...

Author	Judith Mackrell
ISBN	0230752330

Glamorized, mythologized and demonized - the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in their determination to reinvent the way they lived. Flappers is in part a biography of that restless generation: starting with its first fashionable acts of rebellion just before the Great War, and continuing...

Author	Preeti Mistry
ISBN	0762462450

"What Preeti Mistry does on the page is as delicious and exciting as what she does in her restaurant." - Anthony Bourdain

Vibrant and unexpected, The Juhu Beach Club Cookbook is a bold take on Indian food from Oakland-based James Beard Award nominee Preeti Mistry.


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Author

Sulari Gentill

A Rowland Sinclair Novel (The fifth book in the Rowland Sinclair Mystery Series)

After narrowly escaping Nazi terror, Rowland Sinclair and his companions land in London, believing they are safe.

But they are wrong.

A bizzare murder plunges the hapless Australians into...

Author	Sulari Gentill
ISBN	1921997435

The black sheep of a wealthy grazier dynasty, gentleman artist Rowland Sinclair often takes matters into his own hands. When the matter is murder, there are consequences.

For nearly fourteen years, Rowland has tried to forget, but now the past has returned.

A newly-discovered gun...

Author	Osamah Sami
ISBN	1742706150

Meet Osamah Sami: a schemer, a dreamer and a madcap antihero of spectacular proportions whose terrible life choices keep leading to cataclysmic consequences … despite his best laid plans to be a Good Muslim Boy.

By the age of thirteen, Osamah had survived the Iran–Iraq war, peddled fireworks...

Author	Aya Sakyo
ISBN	4403663346

コーフンしたり、びっくりしたりすると三毛猫になっちゃう猫科人間の九重（ここのえ）。
ある朝、三毛猫化した九重は、運命の男と出会う!!　
指先一本で初対面の九重をゴロゴロ言わせる、超絶撫でテクを持つ彼の名は夏目（なつめ）。...