Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. First published in 1958, it is the autobiographical account of an adolescent boy and his father in Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel writes of their battle for survival and of his battle with God for a way to understand the wanton cruelty he witnesses each day. In the short novel Dawn …
Lonely Planet Costa Rican Spanish Phrasebook & Dictionary (Lonely Planet Phrasebooks)
Lonely Planet: The world’s leading travel guide publisher*Costa-Rican Spanish PhrasebookGrab this phrasebook and trade tiquismos with the Ticos, chase the best beach break, track down a toucan and go home knowing you’ve had an all-round pura vida time. Our phrasebooks give you a comprehensive mix of practical and social words and phrases in more than 120 languages. Chat …
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho continues to change the lives of its readers forever. With more than two million copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has established itself as a modern classic, universally admired.Paulo Coelho’s masterpiece tells the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as …
Nothing could keep Christopher and Rebecca apart: not her abusive parents, or even the fiancé she brought home after running away to England. But when World War II finally strikes the island of Jersey, the Nazi invaders ship Rebecca to Europe as part of Hitler’s Final Solution against the Jewish population.After Christopher and his family are deported back …
Praise for Valeria Luiselli:”Valeria Luiselli’s lovely and eccentric first novel is . . . peppered with arresting imagery.”—The New York Times”Luiselli’s extraordinary debut novel Faces in the Crowd signals the arrival of major talent.” —Jeremy Ellis, Brazos BookstoreWith her first novel, Luiselli has established herself as a brilliant explorer of voice, self, and art.”—Josh Cook, Porter Square Books”Luiselli’s …
Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote’s fancy often leads him astray—he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants—Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane …
Inspired by a true story, My Mother’s Secret is a captivating and ultimately uplifting tale intertwining the lives of two Jewish families in hiding from the Nazis, a fleeing German soldier, and the mother and daughter who team up to save them all. Franciszka and her daughter, Helena, are simple, ordinary people…until 1939, when the Nazis invade their homeland. …
Jane Austen revolutionized the literary romance, using it as a platform from which to address issues of gender politics and class consciousness among the British middle-class of the late eighteenth century. The novels included in the collection – Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Lady Susan – represent all of Austen’s …
The inspiring international bestseller of a seemingly ordinary woman who uses her talent and courage to transform herself first into a prestigious couturier and then into an undercover agent for the Allies during World War II.Between Youth and Adulthood…At age twelve, Sira Quiroga sweeps the atelier floors where her single mother works as a seamstress. At fourteen, she …
A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and …