HISTORICAL FICTION | MYSTERY SERIES “East meets West, spies dine with monks, and mind grapples with heart in a sixteenth-century locked-room mystery on a snowy mountain. Susan Spann hits perfection yet again.” —Laurie R. King, author of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice and Island of the Mad “A page-turning and atmospheric historical mystery that beautifully melds fascinating […]
BIOGRAPHY Mr. Williams, a music producer-turned-filmmaker, and Richard Webb Jr., who taught high school history for 25 years, have a different and somewhat contrarian view of the Fitzgerald landscape. – James Baron, The New York Times If filmmaker Robert Steven Williams and author Richard Webb, Jr., who is writing a book due out June 26 […]
THRILLER In a park in Leiden, a passer-by makes a shocking discovery: an emaciated body with the number 5 carved into its stomach. The victim used to work as a journalist for a well-known newsmagazine and disappeared a few months ago, leaving a goodbye note. Detective Léon Coeur was suspended after a shooting incident and […]
LITERARY FICTION “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Dario Corbo’s family exists in a delicate balance, he has reached a precarious truce with his estranged wife, a bitter and bad-tempered woman who never misses an opportunity to rub salt in old wounds, but he has a close […]
NON-FICTION | HISTORY U.S. relations with Iran have been fraught for decades, but under the Trump Administration tensions are rising to startling levels. Medea Benjamin, one of the best-known 21st century activists, offers the incredible history of how a probable alliance became a bitter antagonism in this accessible and fascinating story. In 1979, the Iranian […]
LITERARY FICTION How can the urgency, the terror and the pain of a life disrupted by the nightmare of a brutal loss be narrated? This novel is a hymn of love. An unusual noise, a grunt, wakes up the woman in the middle of the night. She thinks that her boyfriend is teasing her. She […]
ANIMALS | HISTORY 100 cats who made history! Cats escort historical great men and women ever since Antiquity! Dorica Lucaci intend to offer us a book gathering 100 cats’ portraits who had a role in history. On the menu: Egyptian cats, Napoleon, second world war or Stalingrad’s battle cats, Cathar cats, the Templar’s ones… Obviously, the […]
Dion’s latest essay presents the idea that to save the planet, we must go further and engage in a ‘cultural battle’ based on ‘a desirable ecological vision of the future’. In other words, this powerful essay is very convincing in it’s argument that eating organic and vegetarian, opting for zero waste and 100% renewable energy […]
LITERARY FICTION August 1992. One afternoon during a heatwave in a lost valley somewhere in eastern France, with its dormant blast furnaces and its lake. 14-year-old Anthony and his cousin decide to steal a canoe to find out what it’s like on the other side at the famous naturist beach. The trip ultimately takes Anthony […]
LITERARY FICTION Late 1930s, Yukon, Alaska. An adventuress flees California with her daughter and, braving myriad dangers, strikes out in pursuit of her ghosts on the Amerindian trails of the wild north-west with a mysterious and crazy map as her only guide. Bud Cooper, who crosses paths with her, recounts the story of this adventure […]