An Italian journalist gets wrapped up in the criminality and cultural controversies of modern Turin in this satirical novel. It's October 2006. The northern Italian town of Turin has been rocked by a series of murders involving Albanians and Romanians, and journalist Enzo Laganà is determined to get to the bottom of the crime wave-even if he must invent a few sources to do so. But first he's been conscripted to mediate the issue of a pig running...

Sexually abused as a young girl in a society that rendered children without a voice, Jawahara Saidullah drifted through life, certain the trauma she'd suffered as a child meant she wasn't worthy to take part in living. Through her identification of India's warrior queens, Jawahara eventually found the strength to face her trauma.Like these historical women who saved their thrones, lineage, and countries in male-dominated societies that considered...

Welcome to Arima, officially known as The Royal Chartered Borough of Arima-the easternmost and second-largest borough in Trinidad and Tobago.In 1887, the town, in a historic gesture celebrating Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, petitioned for municipal status. Queen Victoria granted this request the following year, marking the official establishment of Arima as a Royal Borough on August 1, 1888.Nestled in the heart of Trinidad and Tobago, the Borough...

Peculiar Version of Primitive Proverbs: A Modern Reimagining of Timeless WisdomUnveil the dust-laden scrolls of ancient wisdom and witness their vibrant reinterpretation for the modern world in Peculiar Version of Primitive Proverbs. This captivating collection transcends the limitations of traditional sayings, offering a unique blend of the old and the new that challenges your perceptions and sparks thought-provoking interpretations.Forget one-size-fits-all...

Donna Giannino knows what it's like to "walk through the fire". She's a survivor. She has the scars to prove it. And although her physical scars have mended, it's the wounds to her soul that won't heal. Once full of life, she's isolated herself from the world outside of the thick walls she's created for herself. Unable to overcome her past, especially the night that left both her body and her spirit broken; she's living a half-life, where the...

She hadn't intended to shoot him. Something was very wrong. Why was he stealing gas for a 'borrowed' truck?What do we really know about ourselves, our families, the reality of the world in which we live? Maggie is about to find all of that a challenge which can mean the difference between life and death.Maggie Gard has come to Idaho to live on her grandfather's mountain, to work in his service station, and find healing for her soul. What she doesn't...

★★★★★ "The first chapter will grab you right away and you won't be able to read fast enough to find out what happens." MIKKY IS DETERMINED TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. LIFE CAN'T STAY THE SAME. NOT AFTER WHAT HAPPENED.Buckle up – this rollercoaster of a thriller will leave you breathless! Mikky's task is simple. Find out who owns the valuable dagger, the talisman and symbol for a cult-like group in London's underworld – a drugs gang led by...

Augustus Talbot has a plan as normal, but this time is different, this is the big one and he needs his family around him, he wants to show them off to the Chinese.Dexter and Elizabeth think that they are free on the high seas, but not so, trapped by the plans of the Sultan of Brunei, who is an old friend of Dexter, but whose plan is it really, Dexter has his suspicions and knows that the old man is pulling the strings again.The Western world leaders...

Published in 1926 and written by civil rights activist and longtime head of the NAACP Walter White, Flight "belongs to an extinct but historically crucial genre of African-American fiction: the passing novel. Here, White, himself light enough to pass, explores the many dimensions of the path not taken. Along the way, he reflects on the American propensity for personal reinvention and the arbitrariness of racial designation" (Nell Irvin Painter, New...

Une femme vit seule dans un pays de l'ouest de l'Europe. Tiraillée entre l'Orient et l'Occident, entre un divorce difficile et une vie marginalisée et bridée par son éducation, elle découvre avec effroi que toute sa vie était dénuée de sens. Enfermée dans les croyances d'un autre âge qu'une fille doit accepter les limites qui lui ont été fixées, elle tente de remonter le temps à la recherche de son identité de femme. Une rencontre...