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Saving Grace
A young woman in New York is caught between her politician father and a manipulative lover in a novel that offers “sheer enjoyment” (Library Journal). Jonathan Fleishman has always been perceived as the rarest kind of politician: as idealistic as he was powerful, genuinely committed to the good of the people. For Jonathan, public approbation is the oxygen he breathes; so it is deeply galling that the one person who refuses to see his worth is his own beloved daughter, Grace. When his spotless record is challenged by accusations of corruption leveled by Gracie’s lover, a ruthless young journalist named Barnaby, Jonathan’s good life is abruptly shattered. And Grace, faced with the betrayal of a lover who used her to get at her father, comes to realize that neither man is what he seems, even to himself. Saving Grace is an intricately textured book, a portrayal of a family in crisis and an exploration of the intersection between public and private lives. Library Journal called Saving Grace the book that “Bonfire of the Vanities tried to be.”
Now and Again
A provocative novel about the fallout from a search for truth by the author of the national bestseller The Lifeboat. For Maggie Rayburn--wife, mother, and longtime secretary at a munitions plant--life is pleasant, predictable, and, she assumes, secure. When she finds proof of a high-level cover-up on her boss's desk, she impulsively takes it, an act that turns her world, and her worldview, upside down. Propelled by a desire to do good--and also by a newfound taste for excitement--Maggie starts to see injustice everywhere. Soon, her bottom drawer is filled with what she calls "evidence," her small town has turned against her, and she must decide how far she will go for the truth. NOW AND AGAIN is a blazingly original novel about the interconnectedness of lives, the limits of knowledge, and the consequences of doing the right thing.
Dear Reader
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love, Cathy Rentzenbrink's Dear Reader is the ultimate love letter to reading and to finding the comfort and joy in stories. 'Exquisite' - Marian Keyes, author of Grown Ups 'A warm, unpretentious manifesto for why books matter’ - Sunday Express Growing up, Cathy Rentzenbrink was rarely seen without her nose in a book and read in secret long after lights out. When tragedy struck, it was books that kept her afloat. Eventually they lit the way to a new path, first as a bookseller and then as a writer. No matter what the future holds, reading will always help. A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how books can change the course of your life, packed with recommendations from one reader to another.
Centring the Periphery: New Perspectives on Collecting East Asian Objects
Centring the Periphery: New Perspectives on Collecting East Asian Objects, edited by Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik, explores East Asian collections in "peripheral" areas of Europe and North America and their relationship with the East Asian collections in former imperial and colonial centres. The authors not only present the stories of a number of less well-known individual objects and collections, but also discuss the evolution of fashions and tastes in East Asian objects in areas that were not centres of European colonial power, and the socioeconomic conditions in which they were collected. To date, research on the collecting of East Asian objects in the Euro-American region has focused prima...
Ethnologia Europaea 45:1
This issue opens with Katarzyna Wolanik Boström and Magnus Öhlander's inquiry into mobile physicians and their pragmatic use of proto-ethnographic insights so as to facilitate their day to day work with culturally diverse patients. Gabriella Nilsson uncovers how school nurses, too, habitually draw on their knowledge of class and family background while implementing normative medical guidelines on childhood obesity. Maria Zackariasson seeks to show how members in a faith-based youth organization experience and handle the pull and push of faith and peer group sociability. Ewa Klekot examines different traces and registers of memorialization of recent Polish history in two districts of Warsaw. Disciplinary memory is augmented through Konrad J. Kuhn's analysis of Swiss scholars' participation in the Europeanization of Volkskunde. With Laura Hirvi's observations among young Finnish artists in Berlin, the issue concludes with another set of transnationally mobile actors.
Cafe Nevo
CAFE NEVO is a Tel Aviv gathering place for artists, politicians, lovers, and Bohemians-both Arabs and Jews, young and old, conservative and radical. Nevo is presided over by Emmanual Sternholz, the waiter whose unblinking gaze takes in the tangled web of destinies and desires spun out around him. In this comic, tragic, and compelling mosaic of intertwined lives, Barbara Rogan has created a dazzling work of fiction-and a marvelously illuminating mirror of Israel in its pioneering heyday. Praise for CAFE NEVO: "An inspired, passionate work of fiction...a near-magical novel." -Kirkus Review "A wonderful novel...vivid...unforgettable." -San Francisco Chronicle "Fresh, funny, tragic, violent, sexy, mystical and romantic...Barbara Rogan's style is utterly engaging...works beautifully." -Christian Science Monitor "From the very first line of CAFE NEVO we are in the hands of a real storyteller. Barbara Rogan writes with compelling grace." -Alice Hoffman "Indeed a wonderful novel...with richly developed characters acting and interacting...the cafe and its clients will long remain in memory." -Madeleine L'Engle
Truth and Beauty
Axel Gold was jinxed. Germans bombed him, the British starved him and his father abandoned him. As a man, his true love cuckolds him and he seems doomed to spend his life seeking truth and beauty on a planet run by deceit and corruption. Only in midlife does a long-suppressed memory free him to take the world as he finds it, and to profit by it. Axel and George were childhood buddies. One becomes a journalist, the other survives Vietnam to become a filmmaker. It takes an Argentine beauty named Molly to set the friendship asunder. Lush, lusty and politically incorrect-an irreverent, rollicking tale of the resilience of the human spirit and triumph of the underdog.
'Seeing It All'
A cross-cultural relationship. Blinded by love. It's killing her. After years of waiting, Kaye Knowles is enjoying living with the man of her dreams, Vedat Erdem, in an idyllic location in southwest Turkey. Hoping that the struggles of the past are far behind her, she is unprepared for the shocking turn of events that unfold. When she is struck down by a devastating illness, she discovers an unexpected side to Vedat's character. Kaye finds a hidden strength and finally finds a place to call home. Will Vedat be there to share it with her? Does she have her happy ending? 'Seeing It All' is a contemporary story about a challenging cross-cultural relationship and is the sequel to 'Seeing the Truth.' Both books are set in a variety of locations around Turkey giving readers an insight into life in this fascinating country. If you like heart-wrenching emotion and an enthralling page-turner with a dash of humour, you'll love this book. Buy it now to experience what it's like to have a love so strong, you'll do anything to keep it.
Jordan in Transition
A discussion of transition in Jordan between 1990-2000, showing it to be a multi-faceted process. It shows that significant change in Jordan depends on the outcome of the Palestine/Israel conflict and the new relationships it can forge with the wider world, particularly with Europe.
