Aubin, Henry T. The Rescue of Jerusalem | ⇒ | Kushites descended from the oldest black civilizations of the Nubian sub-Sahara rescue Jerusalem, and with it Yahwism, without which there would otherwise be no Judaism, Christianity, or Islam. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Benedict, Helen The Edge of Eden Black, Cara Murder in Belleville | ⇒ | An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 2) Tension runs high in this working-class neighborhood as a hunger strike to protest strict immigration laws escalates among the Algerian immigrants. Aimée barely escapes death in a car bombing in this tale of terrorism and greed in the shadows of Paris. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Murder in Clichy | ⇒ | An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 5) Spirited Aimée Leduc, a private investigator based in Paris, has been introduced to the Cao Dai temple by her partner, René , who urges her to learn to meditate as a counterbalance to her frenetic lifestyle. A Vietnamese nun asks her for a favor Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Murder in Montmartre | ⇒ | An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 6) Aimée's childhood friend, Laure, is a policewoman. Her partner, Jacques, has set up a meeting in Montmartre with an informer. When Laure goes along as backup, Jacques is lured to a rooftop where he is shot to death. Laure's gun has been fired, gunpowder residue is on her hands, and she is charged with her partner's murder. The police close ranks against the alleged cop killer. Aimée is determined to clear Laure's name. In doing so, she encounters Separatists terrorists, Montmartre prostitutes, a Surrealist painter's stepdaughter, a crooked Corsican bar owner, and learns of "Big Ears" Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Murder in the Bastille | ⇒ | An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 4) Aimée Leduc is all dressed up in her new Chinese silk jacket, supposedly an "exclusive," for dinner with a difficult client at an elegant restaurant in the Bastille district. She is chagrined to see that the woman seated at the very next table is wearing an identical jacket. When the woman leaves her cell phone on the table, Aimée follows her to return it and is attacked in the shadowy Passage Boule Blanche. When she regains consciousness, Aimée finds that she is blind. Nevertheless, she is told she is lucky- the woman she was following was found in the next passage, murdered. Aimée is determined to identify her attacker. Was he actually a serial killer targeting showy blondes as the police insist? Was he really after the other woman? Or was Aimée his intended victim? Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Murder in the Latin Quarter Murder in the Marais | ⇒ | An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 1) Aimée Leduc, the intrepid young French-American detective, is hired to investigate the grisly murder of an old Jewish woman in the Marais district of Paris. Her undercover search leads to a neo-Nazi group and requires that she play a dangerous game involving current politics and old war crimes. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Murder in the Rue de Paradis | ⇒ | An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 8) Aimée is thrilled when her one-time lover, Yves, an investigative journalist, returns from his assignment in Egypt and proposes marriage. But after a single night of bliss, his body is discovered in a Paris doorway. His throat has been slit. Aimée is determined to avenge him. The trail leads to a sleeper jihadist and embroils her in Turkish and Kurdish politics. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Murder in the Sentier | ⇒ | An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 3) The third Aimée Leduc investigation is set in the historic Sentier district, where once-fashionable private mansions now house the Parisian "rag" trade and nightclubs. Members of a 1960s Red gang are seeking their hidden loot, which leads to new murders. Aimée fears the killers may include her long-lost mother. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis | ⇒ | An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 7) Facing a tight deadline on a computer security contract, Aimée responds to a telephone call from a stranger that leads her to an abandoned infant in a courtyard on the Ile Saint-Louis. She brings the baby home with her, calls her Stella, and awaits contact from the mother. But days pass, and no one reclaims the infant. Meanwhile, a group of environmental protestors is trying to stop the government from entering into a contract with an oil company notorious for pollution. As Aimée attempts to identify the baby's mother, two murders and an abortive bombing involving the protestors lead her Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Brooke, P.J. Blood Wedding | ⇒ | A Sub-Inspector Max Romero Investigation (Vol. 1) Sub-inspector Max Romero investigates the death of a Muslim girl. The prime suspect has supposed terrorist links, but insensitive handling of the case leads to his suicide. As a result, Max is co-opted into a dangerous antiterrorist operation. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Brophy, Grace The Last Enemy | ⇒ | A Commissario Cenni Investigation (Vol. 1) Rita grew up in Brooklyn, the only child of a narcissistic Italian mother and the G.I. she married at the end of World War II. After her mother's death, she quits her teaching job and descends upon her poor but aristocratic relatives, the Count and Countess Casati, in Assisi. It takes a while before they realize, to their chagrin, that Rita has come to stay. When the family assembles to watch the penitentes procession in the town square during Easter Week, a Casati tradition, Rita does not join them as planned. Her corpse is later found in the family mausoleum. Alessandro Cenni, a Commissario in the State Police of Umbria and a handsome bachelor whose twin brother is about to become a bishop, must penetrate the secrets of the Casati family and their circle if he is to discover who killed Rita and why. But he is blocked by their powerful right-wing connections, and by a superior who prefers to arrest a scapegoat rather than risk political suicide. Aided by a loyal staff in his quest for that rarity Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Bruce, Alison Cambridge Blue | ⇒ | A DC Goodhew Investigation Gary Goodhew is a university graduate returned to Cambridge as a police detective. He has a lot of initiative; DS Marks, his boss, likes things done by the book. But when a series of linked murders involving an eccentric Cambridge family has to be solved it is Gary, who discovered the first body, who prevails. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Chang, Henry Chinatown Beat | ⇒ | A Detective Jack Yu Investigation (Vol. 1) NYPD Detective Jack Yu was raised in Chinatown. Some of his old friends are criminals now; some are dead. Recently transferred to his old neighborhood, where ninety-nine percent of the cops are white, Jack is confronted with a serial rapist who preys on young Chinese girls. Then Uncle Four, an elderly leader of the charitable Hip Ching Society and member of the Hong Kong-based Red Circle Triad, is gunned down. To solve these crimes, Jack turns to both modern police methods and an ancient fortuneteller. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Coles, William Prelude Davidson, Craig The Fighter | ⇒ | Everything has been handed to Paul Harris, the son of a wealthy southern Ontario winery owner. But after a vicious beating shakes his world he descends into the realm of hardcore bodybuilders and boxing gyms, seeking to become a real man. Rob Tully, a working-class teenager from upstate New York, is a born boxer. He trains with his father and uncle, who believe a gift like his can change their lives. But he struggles under the weight of their expectations, fearing his own ability to inflict pain. Their disparate paths lead to an underground bare-knuckle fight venue where men brawl for hard cash. When two fighters step into a ring where anything goes, sometimes only one walks out. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Dickinson, David Death of a Pilgrim Dickinson, David Death on the Holy Mountain Disher, Garry Kittyhawk Down | ⇒ | A Hal Challis Investigation (Vol. 2) The once-peaceful beach resort of Bushrangers Bay, not far from Melbourne, is the site of multiple crimes that must be investigated by Homicide Squad Inspector Hal Challis of the Mornington Peninsula Police Force and his staff. A toddler is missing; an unidentified corpse has been fished from the sea; cars are being stolen and torched; letter boxes are being burned. And then one of Challis's own friends, Kitty Casement, who runs an aerial photography service and flies a Kittyhawk, is murdered. Figuring out the connections and identifying the criminals absorbs all the energy and intelligence of this cast of sympathetic but complicated policemen and women. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Dragon Man | ⇒ | A Hal Challis Investigation (Vol. 1) A serial killer is on the loose in a small coastal town near Melbourne. Detective Inspector Hal Challis and his team must apprehend him before he strikes again. But first, Challis has to contend with the editor of a local newspaper who undermines his investigation at every turn, and with his wife, who attempts to resurrect their marriage through long-distance phone calls from a sanitarium, where she has been imprisoned for the past eight years for attempted murder-his. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Downing, David Silesian Station Downing, David Zoo Station | ⇒ | As World War II approaches, an Anglo-American journalist faces having to leave his German son and his longtime girlfriend in Berlin. As Soviet, German, and British intelligence all attempt to recruit him, he struggles to survive and maintain his integrity. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Etchells, Olive Devil at the Crossroads Fallenberg, Evan Light Fell Gage, Leighton Blood of the Wicked | ⇒ | A Chief Inspector Mario Silva Investigation (Vol. 1) In the remote Brazilian town of Cascatas do Pontal, where landless peasants are confronting the owners of vast estates, the the bishop arrives by helicopter to consecrate a new church and is assassinated. Mario Silva, Chief Inspector for Criminal Matters of the Federal Police of Brazil, is dispatched to the interior to find the killer. The Pope himself has called Brazil's president; the pressure is on Silva to perform. Assisted by his nephew, Hector Costa, also a federal policeman, Silva must battle the state police and a corrupt judiciary as well as criminals who prey on street kids, the warring factions of the Landless League, the big landowners and the Church itself, in order to solve the initial murder and several brutal killings that follow. Justice is hard to come by. An old priest, a secret liberation theologist, finally metes it out. Here is a Brazil that tourists never encounter. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Buried Strangers Genelin, Michael Dark Dreams Hellenga, Robert The Sixteen Pleasures | ⇒ | The Italians called them "Mud Angels," the young foreigners who came to Florence in 1966 to save the city's treasured art from the Arno's flooded banks. American volunteer Margot Harrington was one of them, finding her niche in the waterlogged library of a Carmelite convent. For within its walls she discovered a priceless Renaissance masterwork- a sensuous volume of sixteen erotic poems and drawings. Inspired to sample each of the ineffable sixteen pleasures, Margot embarks on the intrigue of a lifetime with a forbidden lover and the contraband volume--a sensual, life-altering journey of loss and rebirth in this exquisite novel of spiritual longing and earthly desire. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Herron, Mick Down Cemetery Road Herron, Mick Smoke and Whispers Herron, Mick The Last Voice You Hear Herron, Mick Why We Die Hill, Suzette A. Bone Idle Howell, Lis Chorister at the Abbey: The Norbridge Chronicles Murder Mystery | ⇒ | The Chorister, a biblically-obsessed serial killer, terrifies members of the Abbey Chorus in a market town in northern England. Amateur detectives, a single mother and a teacher, fi nd themselves drawn into the investigation to help their friends. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Jones, Stan Village of the Ghost Bears Kray, Roberta The Lost Laurie, Hugh The Gun Seller | ⇒ | Cold-blooded murder just isn't Thomas Lang's cup of tea. Offered a bundle to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts to warn the intended victim instead -- a good deed that soon takes a bad turn. Quicker than he can down a shot of his favorite whiskey, Lang is bashing heads with a Buddha statue, matching wits with evil billionaires, and putting his life (among other things) in the hands of a bevy of femmes fatales. Up against rogue CIA agents, wannabe terrorists, and an arms dealer looking to make a high-tech killing, Lang's out to save the leggy lady he has come to love...and prevent an international bloodbath to boot. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Limon, Martin Slicky Boys | ⇒ | A Sergeants Sueño and Bascom Mystery (Vol. 2) George Sueño and his partner Ernie Bascom thought they'd seen it all, but nothing could prepare them for the Slicky Boys. They're everywhere. They can kill a man in a thousand ways you don't even want to know about. And you'll never even see them coming. They steal, they kill, they slip away. George and Ernie are about to discover that even the U.S. Military is no match for evil and that human sympathy can sometimes lead to a lonely grave. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Wandering Ghost | ⇒ | A Sergeants Sueño and Bascom Investigation (Vol. 5) The only female MP assigned to a base in the DMZ is missing. Has she been abducted, killed or, possibly, gone AWOL? Eighth Army cops George Sueño and Ernie Bascom, sent to find her, discover a murder that has been concealed, rampant black marketeering and corruption, crooked officers, rioting Korean civilians, and the wandering ghost of a schoolgirl run down by a speeding army truck. It is up to them to right egregious wrongs while being pursued by criminals who want to kill them. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Lovesey, Peter Diamond Solitaire | ⇒ | An Inspector Peter Diamond Investigation (Vol. 2) Fired from the police for insubordination, Peter Diamond is reduced to working as a security guard at Harrods. There he finds a tiny Japanese girl after the store closes. He must identify her in order to save her life. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Skeleton Hill The House Sitter | ⇒ | An Inspector Peter Diamond Investigation (Vol. 7) A woman is found strangled on a beach in Sussex. It takes police 12 days to discover she was a top profiler for the National Crime Faculty. Why was she killed? And why is the NCF thwarting Detective Peter Diamond's efforts to unmask her murderer? Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Last Detective | ⇒ | An Inspector Peter Diamond Investigation (Vol. 1) A nude female corpse has been found floating in a large reservoir just south of Bristol. Peter Diamond must solve the mystery of the "Lady in the Lake," locate two missing letters attributed to Jane Austen, and save a woman unjustly accused of murder. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Secret Hangman | ⇒ | An Inspector Peter Diamond Investigation (Vol. 8) Widowed Inspector Peter Diamond is being pursued by a secret admirer even as he pursues a serial killer. Delia Williamson, a waitress and the mother of two young girls, is first reported missing by her own mother. She is found in a public park, hanged from the crossbar of a children's swing set. There seems to be no reason for her to have committed suicide and the postmortem reveals that she was murdered. Her present partner, her ex-husband, and a traveling salesman who dined at her table in the restaurant where she worked are all suspects. And then her former husband is found in a cave, also hanged. A remorse suicide? Diamond doesn't think so. When a well-to-do couple is found dead, both hanged, a suicide pact is suggested. Diamond is dubious; too many couples are dying by the same method. Before he can figure out what is going on, one more person will die. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Summons | ⇒ | An Inspector Peter Diamond Investigation (Vol. 3) John Mountjoy has escaped from prison and taken a hostage, and the only person he'll talk to is Detective Peter Diamond, who arrested him four years earlier for the murder of a young journalist. Diamond must follow a cold trail to find another killer and clear Mountjoy's name before someone else dies. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Upon a Dark Night | ⇒ | An Inspector Peter Diamond Investigation (Vol. 5) A young woman is dumped, injured and unconscious, in a private hospital's parking lot. She is an amnesiac with no memory prior to her discovery by hospital personnel. Detective Inspector Peter Diamond of the Bath homicide squad is unwilling to become involved. He has other, more important cases to solve; A woman has plunged to her death from the roof of a local landmark while half the young people of Bath partied below, and an elderly farmer has shot himself. Are these apparent suicides really so, or are there sinister forces at work? And then he finds a connection to the amnesiac woman named, temporarily, Rose. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Maltman, Thomas The Night Birds | ⇒ | The summer of 1876 feels like the end of the world to fourteen-year-old Asa Senger. Locusts plague the prairie farms; his family is about to lose everything. The Dakota Indians have been banished from Minnesota, yet an aged Indian appears. Asa's father, the sheriff, jails him, counting on a bounty payment, but Asa is somehow compelled to free the old man, and must bear this guilt. The James-Younger gang, preparing to rob Northfield, stops at their farmhouse. What has propelled them into his life? In this time of fear, another mysterious visitor appears, an aunt who has been confined to an asylum for years. Asa's mother wants nothing to do with her; his father welcomes her. And Asa learns that his identity is bound up in a lost history, The Great Sioux Uprising, which everyone else wants to forget. Prefigured by the twin ravens Hunin and Munin Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
McCunn, Ruthanne Lum God of Luck | ⇒ | Ah Lung and his beloved wife, Bo See, are separated by a cruel fate when, like thousands of other Chinese men in the nineteenth century, he is kidnapped, enslaved and shipped to the deadly guano mines off the coast of Peru. Using their wits and praying to the God of Luck, they never lose hope of someday being reunited. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
McKinney, Chris The Tattoo Nabb, Magdalen The Marshal's Own Case | ⇒ | A Marshal Guarnaccia Investigation The marshal must leave his snug world, the carabinieri station at the Pitti Palace, and look for a criminal in the shadowy world of prostitutes, their pimps, and their tricks. No one believes he can navigate in this milieu, much less identify a killer, but once again he confounds them. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Vita Nuova Neville, Stuart Ghosts of Belfast | ⇒ | Fegan has been a "hard man," an IRA killer in Northern Ireland. Now that peace has come, he is being haunted, day and night, by twelve ghosts- a mother and infant, a schoolboy, a butcher, an RUC constable, and seven other of his innocent victims. In order to appease them, he's going to have to kill the men who gave him orders. As he's working his way down the list he encounters the wife of a policeman, a woman who may offer him redemption. Now he has given Fate Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Newman, Gary Ruffian on the Stair | ⇒ | On his grandfather's death, writer Seb Rolvenden inherits papers which reveal that his grandfather was involved in the disappearance of a painter and his masterpiece. Seeing a book in this, Seb pursues a trail of clues in the papers. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Pawel, Rebecca Death of a Nationalist | ⇒ | A Sergeant Tejada Investigation set in Spain (Vol. 1) Madrid 1939. Carlos Tejada Alonso y Lean is a Sergeant in the Guardia Civil, a rank rare for a man not yet thirty, but Tejada is an unusual recruit. The bitter civil war between the Nationalists and the Republicans has interrupted his legal studies in Salamanca. Second son of a conservative Southern family of landowners, he is an enthusiast for the Catholic Franquista cause, a dedicated, and now triumphant, Nationalist. This war has drawn international attention. In a dress rehearsal for World War II, fascists support the Nationalists, while communists have come to the aid of the Republicans. Atrocities have devastated both sides. It is at this moment, when the Republicans have surrendered, and the Guardia Civil has begun to impose order in the ruins of Madrid, that Tejada finds the body of his best friend, a hero of the siege of Toledo, shot to death on a street named Amor de Dios. Naturally, a Red is suspected. And it is easy for Tejada to assume that the woman caught kneeling over the body is the killer. But when his doubts are aroused, he cannot help seeking justice. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Watcher in the Pine | ⇒ | A Sergeant Tejada Investigation (Vol. 3) Spain, 1940. Potes, a remote northern mountain village, is Carlos Tejada's first independent Guardia Civil command. He soon discovers that this "promotion" is a mixed blessing. The villagers are unwelcoming. He and his pregnant wife, Elena, have no place to live but the jail, and his own men seem strangely hostile. Is it just their suspicion of his wife's Republican sympathies? Or is there more going on in the beautiful but bleak area, recently devastated by the civil war? Tejada discovers that there may, indeed, be a new outbreak of that war with Potes as its epicenter. And he must find a way to reconcile his love for his wife with his duty. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Phillips, Delores The Darkest Child | ⇒ | Rozelle Quinn is so fair-skinned that she can pass for white. Yet everyone in her small Georgia town knows. Rozelle's ten children (by ten different daddies) are mostly light, too. They sleep on the floor in her drafty, rickety three-room shack and live in fear of her moods and temper. But they are all vital to her. They occupy the only world she rules and controls. They multiply her power in an otherwise cruel and uncaring universe. Rozelle favors her light-skinned kids, but insists that they all love and obey her unquestioningly. Tangy Mae, thirteen, is her brightest but darkest-complected child. Tangy wants desperately to continue with her education. Shockingly, the highest court in the land has just ruled that Negroes may go to school with whites. Her mother, however, has other plans. Rozelle wants her daughter to work, cleaning houses for whites, like she does, and accompany her to the "Farmhouse," where Rozelle earns extra money bedding men. Tangy Mae, she's decided, is of age. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Qiu, Xiaolong A Loyal Character Dancer | ⇒ | An Inspector Chen Cao Investigation Set in China (Vol. 2) Inspector Chen's mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort U.S. Marshal Catherine Rohn. Her mission is to bring Wen, the wife of a witness in an important criminal trial, to the United States. Inspector Rohn is already en route when Chen learns that Wen has unaccountably vanished from her village in Fujian. Or is this just what he is supposed to believe? Chen resents his role; he would rather investigate the triad killing in Shanghai's beauteous Bund Park. But his boss insists that saving face with Inspector Rohn has priority. So Chen Cao, the ambitious son of a father who imbued him with Confucian precepts, must tread warily as he tries once again to be a good cop, a good man, and also a loyal Party member. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
When Red is Black | ⇒ | An Inspector Chen Cao Investigation set in China (Vol. 3) Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is taking a vacation, in part because he is annoyed at his boss, Party Secretary Li, but also because he has been made an offer he can't refuse by Gu, a triad-connected businessman. For what seems to be a fortune-with no apparent strings attached- he is to translate a business proposal for the New World, a complex of shops and restaurants to be built in Central Shanghai, evoking nostalgia for the "glitter and glamour" of the 1930s. It is up to Detective Yu, Chen's partner, to take charge of a new case. Yin, a novelist, has been murdered in her room. At first it seems that only a neighbor could have committed the crime, but when one confesses, Yu cannot believe that he is really the killer. As Yu looks further into Yin's life, ample motives begin to surface, even on the part of Internal Security. But it is only when Inspector Chen steps back into the investigation that the culprit is apprehended. And then Chen discovers how Gu has played him and how he, in turn, can play the new capitalist system. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Raichev, R.T. The Hunt for Sonya Dufrette Rees, Matt Beynon A Grave in Gaza | ⇒ | An Omar Yussef Mystery (Vol. 2) As he tries to save the lives of two men, Omar Yussef is confronted with the corruption and violence of Gaza's warring government factions and the criminal gangs with which they are connected. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Roberts, David No More Dying | ⇒ | A Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne Murder Mystery February, 1939. Edward and Verity are invited to Clivenden in Buckinghamshire, renowned as the headquarters of those prepared to go to any lengths to avert war. Murder stalks the formal gardens as private and public passions come to a climax. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Sweet Poison Sato, Kiyo Kiyo's Story: A Japanese Family's Quest for the American Dream | ⇒ | When her father left Japan, his mother told him never to return; there was no future there for him. Shinji Sato arrived in California determined to plant his roots in the Land of Opportunity even though he could not become a citizen. He and his wife started a farm and worked in the fields together with their nine children. At the outbreak of World War II, when Kiyo, the eldest, was eighteen, the Satos were ordered to Poston Internment Camp. Though they had lived the US for two decades and their children were citizens, they were suddenly uprooted and imprisoned by the government. Nearly a year later, Kiyo was released with special permission to attend college, but after graduation she was rejected by many nursing schools due to her ethnicity. She ultimately became a captain in the Army Nursing Corps. Eventually, her siblings, too, all entered professions. And as soon as the law changed, her parents finally became American citizens. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Shen, Aisling JuanJuan A Tiger's Heart: The Story of a Modern Chinese Woman | ⇒ | A Tiger's Heart chronicles her rise from poverty in the rice fields of rural China to a successful career in business in the early days of the country's economic boom, illustrating the massive economic and social changes that have taken place in China over the past several decades. Juanjuan's story is emblematic of a new generation of Chinese people who are leaving the rice paddies and leaving government jobs in order to enter the free market and determine the course of their own lives. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
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