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Baking Cakes in Kigali

Tue, 8 Mar 2011 0:15:32 PST

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The glass palace

Tue, 8 Mar 2011 0:09:12 PST

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Mosquito

Tue, 8 Mar 2011 0:07:11 PST

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Dopo la morte della moglie, Theo Samarajeeva abbandona la sua agiata vita di scrittore a Londra per tornare nello Sri Lanka, suo paese natale, dove stringe amicizia con una giovane artista, Nulani, un'amicizia che si trasformerà in amore. Sullo sfondo della minaccia di un'insurrezione terroristica la loro storia offre uno spiraglio di speranza in un paese sull'orlo della distruzione. Ma quando la ...

L'arte di ascoltare i battiti del cuore

Fri, 1 Oct 2010 20:38:58 PST

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A Kalaw, una tranquilla città annidata tra le montagne birmane, vi è una piccola casa da tè dall'aspetto modesto, che un ricco viaggiatore occidentale non esiterebbe a giudicare miserabile. Il caldo poi è soffocante, così come gli sguardi degli avventori che scrutano ogni volto a loro poco familiare con fare indagatorio. Julia Win, giovane newyorchese appena sbarcata a Kalaw, se ne tornerebbe vol ...

The Constant Princess

Fri, 1 Oct 2010 20:32:25 PST

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Splendid and sumptuous historical novel from the internationally bestselling author, Philippa Gregory, telling of the early life of Katherine of Aragon. We think of Katherine of Aragon as the barren wife of a notorious king; but behind this legacy lies a fascinating story. Katherine of Aragon is born Catalina, the Spanish Infanta, to parents who are both rulers and warriors. Aged four, she is bet ...

L'assaggiatrice

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:47:12 PST

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Gaetano, il marito, sparisce all'improvviso. Anciluzza, la moglie, resta a Tummìna con due picciriddre a carico. Da matura casalinga laureata, Anciluzza si fa commerciante suo malgrado, e per guadagnarsi la vita apre una putìa di prodotti tipici siciliani. Nel retrobottega la donna cuoce zuppa di pesce, impasta cassatelle di ricotta, addensa biancomangiare alle mandorle, frigge melanzane per la c ...

The Help

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:47:01 PST

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"The Help" is the phenomenal international bestseller (that inspired the Oscar nominated film) by Kathryn Stockett. Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking i ...

Girls of Riyadh

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:48:56 PST

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When Rajaa Alsanea boldly chose to open up the hidden world of Saudi women—their private lives and their conflicts with the traditions of their culture—she caused a sensation across the Arab world. Now in English, Alsanea’s tale of the personal struggles of four young upper-class women offers Westerners an unprecedented glimpse into a society often veiled from view. Living in restrictive Riyadh b ...

Leo&Lou

Tue, 2 Mar 2010 6:08:49 PST

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Animals in Translation

Tue, 2 Mar 2010 5:56:04 PST

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"Animals in Translation" is the culmination of Temple Grandin's extraordinary life's work, drawing upon the latest research, her distinguished career as an animal scientist and her own experience of being autistic. With co-author Catherine Johnson, Grandin argues that while 'normal people' convert experience into words and abstractions, animals and autistics process the world as sensory informati ...

African Nights

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:07:58 PST

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Lyrical, beautifully written tales of life in AfricaAfrica evokes a deep sense of mystery. It is a place that retains what most of the world has lost: space, roots, traditions, awesome beauty, true wilderness, rare animals, and extraordinary people. In this wonderful and haunting collection of stories, Kuki Gallmann writes of her life in Africa, where every day brings challenge and adventure. Afr ...

I Dreamed of Africa

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:07:54 PST

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This autobiography tells the story of an Italian woman whose life is driven by love of Africa. The prologue covers a string of deaths which shaped Kuki Gallmann's life including that of a woman friend who died in a car crash. The widower, Paulo (who then married Kuki), his two daughters and Kuki's son by a previous marriage all went to Kenya and bought a large estate. Paulo died in an accident an ...

Elefanti in giardino

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:07:39 PST

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In questo libro l'autrice trascina con sé il lettore attraverso un lungoperiodo di storia che passa dalle tragedie della guerra in Italia allemovimentate vicende personali e familiari. Il mondo scomparso della vita dicampagna di una famiglia di donne, la nonna bellissima e un po' strega, lafuga notturna per non diventare ostaggi dei fascisti di Salò si fondono con lestorie di Michae ...

Cry of the Kalahari

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:07:24 PST

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This is the story of the Owens' travel and life in the Kalahari Desert. Here they met and studied unique animals and were confronted with danger from drought, fire, storms, and the animals they loved. This best-selling book is for both travelers and animal lovers.

Girl With a Pearl Earring

Sun, 7 Feb 2010 21:47:55 PST

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A beguiling story about artistic vision and sensual depth that eerily and eloquently re-creates the feeling of the famous painting that inspired it In seventeenth-century Delft, there's a strict social order-rich and poor, Catholic and Protestant, master and servant-and all know their place. When Griet becomes a maid in the household of the painter Johannes Vermeer, she thinks she knows her rol ...

Frangipani

Sun, 7 Feb 2010 21:47:13 PST

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An international literary sensation. First published in Australia, FRANGIPANI has already been licensed in Canada, Holland, Italy, Spain, the UK, and the US. The debut of an entrancing new storyteller, Vaite seasons her tale with charming bits of Tahitian tradition and folk wisdom. A heroine you'll wish was your best friend. Her name is Materena Mahi, and she's the best listener in Tahiti. In T ...

Can't Wait to Get to Heaven

Sun, 7 Feb 2010 21:46:43 PST

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Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs Elner Shimfissle is up a tree, picking figs to make jam, and the next thing she knows, she is off on a strange adventure, running into people she never expected to see again, in the unlikeliest of places. Meanwhile, Elner's highly strung niece Norma takes to her bed, before embarking on a brand new career; Elner's neighbour Verbena turns to the Bible; ...

A Spot of Bother

Sun, 7 Feb 2010 21:46:03 PST

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At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels, listening to a bit of light jazz. Then Katie, his tempestuous daughter, announces that she is getting remarried, to Ray. Her family is not pleased - as her brother Jamie observes, Ray has 'strangler's hands'. Katie can't decide if she loves Ray, or loves the way he cares ...

Twilight

Sun, 7 Feb 2010 21:34:34 PST

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Quando Isabella Swann decide di lasciare l'assolata Phoenix per la fredda e piovosa cittadina di Forks, dove vive suo padre, non immagina certo che la sua vita di teenager timida e introversa conoscerà presto una svolta improvvisa, eccitante e mortalmente pericolosa... Nella nuova scuola tutti la trattano con gentilezza, tutti tranne uno: il misterioso e bellissimo Edward Cullen. Edward non dà co ...

On, Off

Sun, 7 Feb 2010 21:34:10 PST

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Colleen McCullough, who crafts "fiction at its best" (Time), triumphs with a searing murder mystery packed with heartpounding twists inside the world of science.All the victims were pretty girls.When the remains of a young woman are found at a Connecticut neurological institute, Lieutenant Carmine Delmonico is called to investigate. It is only the first of a serial killer's grisly crimes, however ...

The Animal Dialogues

Mon, 7 Dec 2009 19:04:18 PST

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One of the finest nature writers at work in America today takes us on a dramatic, lyrical, revelatory tour of the hidden domain of wild animals.<br />(...)<br />The glory of each essay lies in Child's ability to portray the sometimes brtual beauty of the wilderness, to capture the individual essence of wild creatures, to transport the reader deep inside the animal kingdom.

Six Suspects

Mon, 7 Dec 2009 19:00:04 PST

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Vicky Rai, the son of a high-profile Minister, has been shot dead by one of the guests at his own party. They are a glitzy bunch, but among them the police find six strange, displaced characters with a gun in their possession. each of them steaming with a secret motive.India's wiliest investigative journalist, Arun Advani, makes it his mission to nail the murderer. In doing so, the amazing, tende ...

My Family and Other Animals

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 9:31:06 PST

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Soaked in the sunshine of Corfu, where the author lived as a boy, this delightful book tells of Gerald Durrell's early life with his 'family and other animals'. Brought vividly to life are the extraordinary members of the Durrell family and their many eccentric hangers-on, as well as the bizarre menagerie Gerry adopts for closer study. The procession of creatures he brings back to the strawberry- ...

The Secret Life of Bees

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 22:30:45 PST

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"The bees came the summer of 1964, the summer I turned fourteen and my life went spinning off into a whole new orbit, and I mean whole new orbit. Looking back on it now, I want to say the bees were sent to me. I want to say they showed up like the angel Gabriel appearing to the Virgin Mary, setting events in motion I could never have guessed." So begins the story of Lily Melissa Owens, a plucky g ...

The Lovely Bones

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 22:30:29 PST

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When we first meet 14-year-old Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. This was before milk carton photos and public service announcements, she tells us; back in 1973, when Susie mysteriously disappeared, people still believed these things didn't happen. In the sweet, untroubled voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death, and her own adjustment to the strange ...

Dewey

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 22:26:44 PST

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On the coldest morning of the year, Vicki Myron found a tiny, bedraggled kitten almost frozen to death in the night drop box of the library where she worked, and her life -- and the town of Spencer, Iowa -- would never be the same.Vicki was a single mother who had survived the loss of her family farm and an alcoholic, abusive husband. But her biggest challenge as the new head librarian in Spencer ...

The Marriage Bureau for Rich People

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 22:26:21 PST

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What does somebody with a wealth of common sense do if retirement palls? Why, open a marriage bureau, of course. And soon Mr Ali, from beautiful Vizag in South India, sees his new business flourish as the indomitable Mrs Ali and able assistant Aruna look on with careful eyes. But although many clients go away happy, problems lurk behind the scenes as Aruna nurses a heart-rending secret; while Mr ...

The Food of Love

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 22:25:59 PST

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The success of Like Water for Chocolate and Chocolat (not to mention their film adaptations), and films such as Big Night and Babettes Feast confirms that fine food and romance are a winning combination. The Food of Love, Anthony Capellas delicious first novel, follows suit and tempts readers to devour it at one sitting. Laura, a twentysomething American, is on her first trip to Italy. Shes co ...

A Partisan's Daughter

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 22:24:52 PST

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Chris is in his forties: bored, lonely, trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. He's a stranger to the 1970s youth culture of London, a stranger to himself on the night he invites a prostitute into his car. Roza is Yugoslavian, recently moved to London. She's in her twenties, but has already lived a life filled with danger, misadventure, romance, and tragedy. And though she's not a prostitute, w ...

The Wedding Officer

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:32:50 PST

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Twenty-two-year-old James Gould arrives in Occupied Naples in 1943, where his duties include dissuading Allied soldiers from marrying their beautiful Italian girlfriends, and his diet includes little more than spam fritters and warmed-up rations. The girls of Naples, however, soon arrange for a beautiful young country girl to join his staff as a cook. Under the twin influences of Italian food and ...

Timothy, or Notes of an Abject Reptile

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:29:59 PST

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Few writers have attempted to explore the natural history of a particular animal by adopting the animal’s own sensibility. But Verlyn Klinkenborg has done just that in Timothy: an insightful and utterly engaging story of the world’s most famous tortoise, whose real life was observed by the eighteenth-century English curate and naturalist Gilbert White. For thirteen years, Timothy lived in White’ ...

Marley & Me

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:29:31 PST

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The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family in the making and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then they brought home Marley, a wiggly yellow furball of a puppy. Life would never be the same. Marley quickly ...

La mennulara

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:28:59 PST

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Roccacolomba. Sicilia. 23 settembre 1963. E' morta la Mennulara, al secolo Maria Rosalia Inzerillo, domestica della famiglia Alfallipe, del cui patrimonio è stata da sempre - e senza mai venir meno al ruolo subalterno - oculata amministratrice. Tutti ne parlano perché si favoleggia sulla ricchezza che avrebbe accumulato, forse favorita dalle relazioni con la mafia locale. Tutti ne parlano perché ...

The Earthsea Cycle

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:28:35 PST

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Perfume

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:28:11 PST

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Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's. Soon, he is creating the most sublime fragrances in all the city. Yet there is one odor he cannot capture. It is exquisite, magical: the scent of a young virgin ...

The Amber Spyglass

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:14:06 PST

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"The Amber Spyglass brings the intrigue of "The Golden Compass and "The Subtle Knife to a heart-stopping end, marking the final volume of His Dark Materials as the most powerful of the trilogy. Along with the return of Lyra, Will, Mrs. Coulter, Lord Asriel, Dr. Mary Malone, and Iorek Byrnison the armored bear, come a host of new characters: the Mulefa, mysterious wheeled creatures with the powe ...

The Subtle Knife

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:13:15 PST

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"What is he? A friend, or an enemy?" "He is a murderer." Will has just killed a man. He's on the run. His escape will take him far beyond his own world, to the eerie disquiet of a deserted city, and to a girl, Lyra. Her fate is strangely linked to his own, and together they must find the most powerful weapon in all the world.

Northern Lights

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:12:48 PST

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"Without this child, we shall all die." Lyra Belacqua and her animal daemon live half-wild and carefree among scholars of Jordan College, Oxford. The destiny that awaits her will take her to the frozen lands of the Arctic, where witch-clans reign and ice-bearsfight. Her extraordinary journey will have immeasurable consequences far beyond her own world...

Harry Potter Boxed Set

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:09:11 PST

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The Evil Seed

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:08:15 PST

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Something inside me remembers and will not forget...When Alice Farrell is drawn to Grantchester churchyard and reads the strange inscription on Rosemary Virginia Ashley's gravestone, she feels oddly disturbed. And when former boyfriend Joe returns to Cambridge with his new girlfriend Ginny, Alice is repelled by the ethereal, lavender-eyed beauty - and is certain of her evil. Then Alice finds an o ...

Runemarks

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:08:06 PST

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Seven o'clock, on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the end of the world, and goblins had been at the cellar again...Maddy Smith was born with a rusty-coloured ruinmark on her hand - a symbol of the old gods and definitely cause for suspicion. For magic is dangerous. Or so everyone thinks. But Maddy enjoys working magic. Even if it is just to control some pesky goblins. And every time he ...

Blackberry Wine

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:07:46 PST

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From the author of Chocolat, an intoxicating fairy tale of alchemy and love where wine is the magic elixir. Jay Mackintosh is a 37-year-old has-been writer from London. Fourteen years have passed since his first novel, Jackapple Joe, won the Prix Goncourt. His only happiness comes from dreaming about the golden summers of his boyhood that he spent in the company of an eccentric vintner who was ...

Sleep, Pale Sister

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:07:39 PST

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Henry Chester, a domineering and puritanical Victorian artist, is in search of the perfect model. In nine-year-old Effie he finds her. Ten years later, lovely, childlike and sedated, Effie seems the ideal wife. But something inside her is about to awaken. Drawn by her lover, Mose, into a dangerous underworld of intrigue and blackmail, she meets Fanny Miller, the brothel-keeper, and her shadowy da ...

The Lollipop Shoes

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:07:21 PST

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'Who died?' I said. 'Or is it a secret?' 'My mother, Vianne Rocher.' Seeking refuge and anonymity in the cobbled streets of Montmartre, Yanne and her daughters, Rosette and Annie, live peacefully, if not happily, above their little chocolate shop. Nothing unusual marks them out; no red sachets hang by the door. The wind has stopped - at least for a while. Then into their lives blows Zozie de l'Al ...

Jigs and Reels

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:07:17 PST

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Novelist Joanne Harris has received widespread critical acclaim as the creator of richly evocative tales that vividly bring to life the world, rituals, and cuisine of rural France. Now the bestselling author of Holy Fools and Chocolat widens her horizons with Jigs & Reels -- her first ever collection of short stories. Each of the twenty-two tales in this enchanting collection is a surprise and a ...

Gentlemen and Players

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:07:00 PST

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Coastliners

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:06:35 PST

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Holy Fools

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:06:10 PST

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With her internationally bestselling novels Chocolat, Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange, and Coastliners, Joanne Harris has woven intoxicating spells that celebrate the sensuous while exposing the passion, secrets, and folly beneath the surface of rustic village life. In Holy Fools, her most ambitious and accomplished novel to date, she transports us back to a time of intrigue and turm ...

Five Quarters of the Orange

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:05:53 PST

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Beyond the main street of Les Laveuses runs the Loire, smooth and brown as a sunning snake - but hiding a deadly undertow beneath its moving surface. This is where Framboise, a secretive widow named after a raspberry liqueur, plies her culinary trade at the creperie - and lets her memory play strange games. Into this world comes the threat of revelation as Framboise's nephew - a profiteering Par ...

The French Kitchen

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:05:50 PST

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Joanne Harris' bestselling novels, "Chocolat", "Blackberry Wine" and "Five-Quarters of the Orange", are affectionately known as her culinary trilogy. In them, Joanne Harris whets our appetites with some tantalisingly delicious recipes taken from her own grandmere's recipe book. For, like Framboise, the heroine of "Five-Quarters of the Orange", Joanne has family recipes which have been passed down ...

The Comfort of Saturdays

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:05:06 PST

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Isabel Dalhousie is a new mother and a connoisseur of philosophy; she'd rather not be a sleuth. But when a chance conversation at a dinner party draws Isabel into the case of a doctor whose career has been ruined, she cannot ignore what may be a miscarriage of justice. Because for Isabel ethics are not theoretical at all, but an everyday matter of life and death. As she attempts to unravel the tr ...

The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:04:55 PST

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Readers who fell in love with Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, now have new cause for celebration in the protagonist of these three light-footed comic novels by Alexander McCall Smith. Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win ...

The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:04:37 PST

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In the fabulous new installment in the best-selling adventures of Isabel Dalhousie, Isabel is asked to help a doctor who has been disgraced by allegations of scientific fraud concerning a newly marketed drug. Our ever-curious moral philosopher finds her interest piqued. Would a doctor with a stellar reputation make such a simple but grave mistake? If not, what explains the tragic accident that ...

The Unbearable Lightness of Scones

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:04:20 PST

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To the casual observer, the great enlightened city of Edinburgh, home of no-nonsense philosophers and cream teas, might appear immune to the rollercoaster of strong emotions. But at 44 Scotland Street, as Matthew and Elspeth embark on the risky enterprise of married love, the raffish portrait painter Angus Lordie has a premonition of disaster. And soon enough Irene Pollock is shocked to learn tha ...

The Careful Use of Compliments

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:04:17 PST

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For philosophically minded Isabel Dalhousie, editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, getting through life with a clear conscience requires careful thought. And with the arrival of baby Charlie, not to mention a passionate relationship with his father Jamie, fourteen years her junior, Isabel enters deeper and rougher waters. Late motherhood is not the only challenge facing Isabel. Even as she nego ...

At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:04:03 PST

Tea Time for the Traditionally Built

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:03:57 PST

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It is a troublesome fact on which even Mma Ramotswe and her assistant Mma Makutsi agree: there are things that men know and ladies do not, and vice versa. It is unfortunate, for example, when Mma Ramotswe's newest client is the big-shot owner of the ailing Kalahari Swoopers, that one thing lady detectives know very little about is football. And when the glamorous Violet Sephotho sets her sights o ...

The Miracle at Speedy Motors

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:03:48 PST

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It has never occurred to Precious Ramotswe that there might be disadvantages to being the best-known lady detective in Botswana. But when she receives a threatening anonymous letter, she is compelled to reconsider her unconquerable belief in a kind world and good neighbours. While she ponders the identity of the letter-writer Mma Ramotswe has a further set of problems to solve, both professional ...

The World According to Bertie

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:03:34 PST

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Poor put-upon Bertie is still struggling to escape his overbearing mother's influence, his yoga lessons and his pink bedroom while wondering why new baby brother Ulysses looks uncomfortably like his psychotherapist. The insufferably handsome Bruce has returned from London to land, on his feet and rent-free, in the arms of heiress Julia Donald. But all is not well among the residents of 44 Scotlan ...

Portuguese Irregular Verbs

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:03:25 PST

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Love Over Scotland

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:03:14 PST

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With his characteristic warmth, inventiveness and brilliant wit, Alexander McCall Smith gives us more of the gloriously entertaining comings and goings at 44 Scotland Street, the Edinburgh townhouse. Six-year-old prodigy Bertie perseveres in his heroic struggle for truth and balanced good sense against his insufferable mother and her crony, the psychotherapist Dr Fairbairn, going as far as to mak ...

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:03:08 PST

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In the newest addition to the universally beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, the charming and ever-resourceful Precious Ramotswe finds herself overly beset by problems. She is already busier than usual at the detective agency when added to her concerns are a strange intruder in her house on Zebra Drive and the baffling appearance of a pumpkin. And then there is Mma Makutsi, who decide ...

The 2 1/2 Pillars of Wisdom

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:03:02 PST

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Welcome to the extraordinary world of Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, an unnaturally tall and memorable character whose sublime insouciance is a blend of the cultivated pomposity of Frasier Crane and Inspector Clouseau’s hapless gaucherie. The complete exploits of this unlikely adventurer are delightfully captured in The 21⁄2 Pillars of Wisdom.

The Good Husband of Zebra Drive

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:02:42 PST

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Mr J.L.B. Matekoni becomes involved in the agency's work when he investigates an errant husband. But can a man investigate such matters as competently as one of the ladies? Mma Ramotswe has her doubts. One thing, though, that she does not doubt is the good nature of Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, who stands for all that is solid and true in a shifting world.

Espresso Tales

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:02:33 PST

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It was a chance encounter with Armistead Maupin (of Tales of the City fame) in San Francisco which inspired Alexander McCall Smith to write his daily novel about the residents of 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in the author's home town of Edinburgh. With its multiple-occupancy flats, Scotland Street is an interesting corner of the city, verging on the Bohemian, where h ...

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:02:22 PST

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Precious Ramotswe, that cheerful Botswanan private investigator of 'traditional build', is now married to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. The Agency is busy, but Mma Ramotswe cannot ignore the plea which is made by a woman who comes to her with a tale of particular misfortune. Unfortunately, her attempts to help are interrupted by a close encounter between her tiny white van an ...

The Right Attitude to Rain

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:02:20 PST

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The key to contentment in the Scottish climate is the right attitude to rain - just as in life the key to happiness lies in making the best of what you have. Bruised in love by her faithless Irish husband, Isabel Dalhousie is a connaisseur of intimate moral issues: she edits a philosophical journal and spends a great deal of her time considering how to improve the lives of those around her. Ther ...

Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:02:01 PST

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Isabel Dalhousie thinks often of friends, sometimes of lovers, and on occasion of chocolate. As an Edinburgh philosopher she is certain of where she stands. She can review a book called In Praise of Sin with panache and conviction, but real life is...well, perhaps a bit more challenging - particularly when it comes to her feelings for Jamie, a younger man who should have married her niece, Cat. J ...

Blue Shoes and Happiness

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:01:50 PST

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Now that she is finally and happily married to her long-term suitor Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency of Botswana might have expected life to grow more sedate. But the many problems that lead customers to Mma Ramotswe's door seem, if anything, to have multiplied, and no sooner has she settled her traditionally built person into the married state than she finds ...

44 Scotland Street

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:01:32 PST

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Welcome to 44 Scotland Street, home to some of Edinburgh's most colorful characters. There's Pat, a twenty-year-old who has recently moved into a flat with Bruce, an athletic young man with a keen awareness of his own appearance. Their neighbor, Domenica, is an eccentric and insightful widow. In the flat below are Irene and her appealing son Bertie, who is the victim of his mother’s desire for hi ...

Full Cupboard of Life

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:01:20 PST

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Here is the fifth novel in the internationally bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency hit series. Once again we are transported to Gaborone, capital city of Botswana, and into the world of Mma Ramotswe and her friends. THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY. FOR ALL CONFIDENTIAL MATTERS AND ENQUIRIES. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED FOR ALL PARTIES. UNDER PERSONAL MANAGEMENT. Mma Ramotswe and Mr. ...

The Sunday Philosophy Club

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:01:03 PST

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With The Sunday Philosophy Club, Alexander McCall Smith, the author of the best-selling and beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novels, begins a wonderful new series starring the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie. Isabel is fond of problems, and sometimes she becomes interested in problems that are, quite frankly, none of her business. This may be the case when Isabel sees a young man p ...

The Kalahari Typing School for Men

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:00:42 PST

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Alexander McCall Smith is a professor of medical law at Edinburgh University. He was born in what is now known as Zimbabwe and taught law at the University of Botswana. He is the author of more than fifty books: novels, stories, children¿s books, and specialized titles such as Forensic Aspects of Sheep. He lives in Scotland. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Morality for Beautiful Girls

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:00:38 PST

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In Morality for Beautiful Girls, Precious Ramotswe, founder and owner of the only detective agency for the concerns of both ladies and others, investigates the alleged poisoning of the brother of an important “Government Man,” and the moral character of the four finalists of the Miss Beauty and Integrity Contest, the winner of which will almost certainly be a contestant for the title of Miss Bots ...

Tears of the Giraffe

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:00:24 PST

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The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 2:00:00 PST

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This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith’s widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to “help people with problems in their lives.” Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con ma ...

Mal'aria

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 1:59:16 PST

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1925: il risanamento delle zone paludose e malariche è uno degli obiettivi del nuovo Regime. Ma c'è una regione, una zona a sud del Delta del Po, tra Ravenna e Ferrara, dove il tasso di mortalità, soprattutto infantile, fa registrare picchi altissimi e incomprensibili. Cosa succede laggiù? La direzione generale della Sanità manda sul posto d'urgenza un giovane ispettore, Carlo Rambelli, incaricat ...

Margherita Dolcevita

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 1:59:07 PST

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Margherita Dolcevita è una ragazzina allegra, intelligente e appena soprappeso, con un cuore che di tanto in tanto perde un colpo. Vive con la famiglia fra città e campagna. Un giorno, davanti alla sua casa, spunta, come un fungo, un cubo nero. E da quel giorno tutto cambia. Sono arrivati i corruttori. E anche l'amore.

L'ombra del vento

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 1:58:51 PST

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Una mattina del 1945 il proprietario di un modesto negozio di libri usati conduce il figlio undicenne, Daniel, nel cuore della città vecchia di Barcellona al Cimitero dei Libri Dimenticati, un luogo in cui migliaia di libri di cui il tempo ha cancellato il ricordo, vengono sottratti all'oblio. Qui Daniel entra in possesso del libro "maledetto" che cambierà il corso della sua vita, introducendolo ...

No et moi

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 1:55:45 PST

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The Interpretation of Murder

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 1:55:19 PST

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A dazzling literary thriller - the story of Sigmund Freud assisting a Manhattan murder investigation. Think SHADOW OF THE WIND meets THE HISTORIAN. THE INTERPRETATION OF MURDER is an inventive tour de force inspired by Sigmund Freud's 1909 visit to America, accompanied by protege and rival Carl Jung. When a wealthy young debutante is discovered bound, whipped and strangled in a luxurious apartme ...

Estasi culinarie

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 1:54:24 PST

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Nel signorile palazzo di rue de Grenelle, già reso celebre dall'"Eleganza del riccio", monsieur Arthens, il più grande critico gastronomico del mondo, il genio della degustazione, è in punto di morte. Il despota cinico e tremendamente egocentrico, che dall'alto del suo potere smisurato decide le sorti degli chef più prestigiosi, nelle ultime ore di vita cerca di recuperare un sapore primordiale e ...

!!!!!!!! - L'eleganza del riccio

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 1:54:05 PST

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 1:53:50 PST

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At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful meeting . . . Changez is living an immigrant's dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by the elite "valuation" firm of Underwood Samson. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his ...

The Friday Night Knitting Club

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 1:53:08 PST

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The New York Times bestselling sensation that's "Steel Magnolias set in Manhattan" (USA Today)-now in paperback. Juggling the demands of her yarn shop and single-handedly raising a teenage daughter has made Georgia Walker grateful for her Friday Night Knitting Club. Her friends are happy to escape their lives too, even for just a few hours. But when Georgia's ex suddenly reappears, demanding a ...

Comfort Food

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 1:52:53 PST

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Life of Pi

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 1:51:53 PST

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This brilliant fabulist novel combines the delight of Kipling's "Just So Stories" with the metaphysical adventure of "Jonah and the Whale," as Pi, the son of a zookeeper, is marooned aboard a lifeboat with a hyena, a wounded zebra, an orangutan, and a tiger. [예스24 제공]

Sarah's Key

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 1:51:27 PST

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Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old Jewish girl, is arrested by the French police in the middle of the night, along with her mother and father. Desperate to protect her younger brother, she locks him in a cupboard and promises to come back for him as soon as she can. Paris, May 2002: Julia Jarmond, an American journalist, is asked to write about the 60th anniversary of the Vel' d'Hiv'--the in ...

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 1:50:58 PST

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Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most d ...

The Kite Runner

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 1:50:21 PST

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Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father and resolves to win the local kite-fighting toumament, to prove that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan promises to help him? for he always helps Amir? but this is 1970s Afghanistan and Hassan is merely a low-caste servant who is jeered at in the street, although Amir still feels jealous of his natural courage a ...