Venom House (Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery, #16) (Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte)
by Arthur Upfield
The Answerth family's mansion seems to deserve its nickname of Venom House - perhaps because of its forbidding setting, an island in the centre of a man-made lake, its treacherous waters studded by the skeletons of long-dead trees. Perhaps it's because of the unquiet ghosts of the Aboriginals slaughtered by the Answerth ancestors. Whatever the reason, most people are content to give Venom House and its occupants a wide berth...until a couple of corpses turn up in the lake. Inspector Bonaparte ha...
Octavio, o cómo protegerse de la intemperie y otros relatos
by Manuel Maytin
Winner of the South African Literary Award First Time Author PrizeShortlisted for the Etisalat Prize for LiteratureFeatured in the New York Times' "Globetrotting" sneak preview of books coming out in 2019 from around the worldOne of "Seven new and noteworthy fiction titles about South Africa" The Globe and Mail Wandering in Cape Town, Leke stalks people, steals small objects, and visits doctors and healers in search of a cure. But he isn't sure what ails him--loneliness, or the family curse. Aba...
Sometimes it's a simple as meeting the boy next door. Jini lives alone with her cat Oscar - yes, she's single but, after breaking up with her boyfriend, she's more than content to be living alone. Sometimes she worries she might be playing things too safe, but she's had enough of taking risks. Ben is a firefighter and, if he's honest, he's finding life hard. The arrival of a small tabby cat, who Ben decides to call Fred, helps him feel less isolated. But then, one day, Fred appears with a...
Daughters of Nijo: A Romance of Japan (Classic Reprint)
by Onoto Watanna
"Darya has discovered the perfect gift for her daughter's twenty-fifth birthday: an ideal husband. Mina, however, is fed up with her mother's years of endless matchmaking and the spreadsheets grading available Iranian-American bachelors. Having spent her childhood in Tehran and the rest of her life in New York City, Mina has experienced cultural clashes firsthand, but she's learning that the greatest clashes sometimes happen at home. After a last ill-fated attempt at matchmaking, mother and daug...
Dispelling the myth of the Matriarch (Dispelling the Myth of the Matriarch, #1)
by Sandra Renee Northard
For fans of THE KITE RUNNER by Khaled Hossein and Yasmin Khadra's THE SWALLOWS OF KABUL, a devastating tale of forbidden love between an Englishwoman and a Kabul warlord. The Taliban have disappeared from Kabul's streets, but the long shadows of their brutal regime remain. In his short life eleven-year-old Fawad has known more grief than most: his father and brother have been killed, his sister has been abducted, and Fawad and his mother, Mariya, must rely on the charity of family to eke out a...
A Perfect Pledge is at once a beautifully detailed novel about family life, a lively and abundant portrait of Trinidadian society and an ambitious, universal story of striving and strife. Following four decades of tumult – both national and domestic – this third novel by acclaimed author Rabindranath Maharaj is both deeply perceptive and strikingly unsentimental; it is full of singular characters and memorable, often hilarious dialogue. A Perfect Pledge is a major addition both to Canadian liter...
Don't Make a Sign on the Boat, Stories from Burma
by U Nyaneinda and Susanne Isabel Krajanek
“There is no writer that dives deeper (or more bravely) into the chasm that is the human heart. [David Mura’s] first novel is a tour de force: luminously written and by turns crafty, tough, wise, and joyful.”—Junot Díaz Ben Ohara is the sole surviving member his family. A troubled and brilliant astrophysicist, Ben’s younger brother has mysteriously vanished in the Mojave Desert. His father, one of a small group of WWII draft resisters (known as the No-No Boys) during the internment of Japanese...