Search results (562 Listed volumes)
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Alberto Angela
A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome
Rich in atmosphere and historical information, A Day in Ancient Rome is a voyage into a world both distant to us in time and surprisingly near in its habits, mores, and passions. -
Reine Arcache Melvin
The Betrayed
Read by Nicole Guanco-Murphy The Betrayed tells the story of two sisters who love the same man. As dictatorship and political upheaval ravage the Philippines, the sisters’ conflicting passions threaten to lead them to betray not only each other, but all that their father stood for. -
Reine Arcache Melvin
The Betrayed
The Betrayed tells the story of two sisters who love the same man. As dictatorship and political upheaval ravage the Philippines, the sisters’ conflicting passions threaten to lead them to betray not only each other, but all that their father stood for. Shy, idealistic Pilar initially... -
Nick Arvin
Mad Boy
Mad Boy is a rollicking, picaresque novel about family and perseverance set during America’s “forgotten war” of 1812. -
Shokoofeh Azar
The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen
From International Booker Prize and National Book Award finalist Shokoofeh Azar, comes a stylistically audacious and emotionally powerful novel about one large, complicated family and a love affair lasting decades. -
Shokoofeh Azar
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
From the pen of one of Iran’s rising literary stars, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is a family story about the unbreakable connection between the living and the dead. -
Beryl Bainbridge
The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress
Subversive, sinister and marvelously vivid, Beryl Bainbridge’s great last novel evokes a nation on the brink of self-destruction with artful brilliance. -
Tim Baker
Fever City
1960s Los Angeles: a detective searches for the kidnapped child of one of America's richest men, while a notorious hit man's story unfolds in the days before JFK's murder. Both are caught in an increasingly complex web, while a modern journalist discovers that the era's conspiracy theories just might... -
Alessandro Barbero
The Eyes of Venice
“Unexpected twists and remarkable encounters, good guys and bad guys, love and adventure, all in the best tradition of dramatic storytelling. With one extra ingredient: intelligent—it might be more accurate to say ‘perfect’—reconstruction of the historical setting.”—Corriere della Sera
