“Uncommon Type”
A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world. A World War II veteran grappling with his emotional and physical scars. A second-rate actor plunged into sudden stardom and a whirlwind press junket. Four friends traveling to the moon in a rocketship built in the backyard. These are just some of the stories […]
“The Bookseller of Kabul”
With The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad has given readers a first-hand look at Afghani life as few outsiders have seen it. Invited to live with Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul, and his family for months, this account of her experience allows the Khans to speak for themselves, giving us a genuinely […]
“A Gentleman in Moscow”
From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility—a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel. A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an […]
“The Birth of Venus”
The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain’s most innovative writers of literary suspense. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with […]
“The Dying Game”
On the remote island of Isola, seven people have been selected to compete in a 48-hour test for a top-secret intelligence position. One of them is Anna Francis, a workaholic with a nine-year-old daughter she rarely sees, and a secret that haunts her. Her assignment is to stage her own death and then observe, from […]
“Room by Room DesignSource”
Seemingly limitless examples of individual expression display the diversity of design solutions that can be applied to each room in your house. Experimentation with arrangement, colour, texture, material, and finishes illuminate the myriad ways to personalize spaces and create the dream home. At 650 full-colour pages of hundreds and hundreds of ideas, “Room by Room […]
“Genghis Khan: Life, Death and Resurrection”
Genghis Khan is one of history´s immortals: a leader of genius and the founder of the world´s greatest land empire – twice the size of Rome´s. His mysterious death in 1227 placed all at risk, so it was kept a secret until his heirs had secured his conquests. Secrecy has surrounded him ever since. His […]
“Kublai Khan: The Mongol King Who Remade China”
Kublai Khan, the thirteenth-century Mongolian prince who became warrior emperor of China, was perhaps the most powerful man who ever lived. Grandson of great Genghis Khan, he inherited the largest land empire in history – and doubled it. Driven to fulfil his grandfather´s destiny and ensure Mongol supremacy, Kublai´s realm would embrace over half of […]
“Harold: The Last Anglo-Saxon King”
King Harold Godwineson (c.1022-66) is one of history´s shadowy figures, known mainly for his defeat and death at the Battle of Hastings. His true status and achievements have been overshadowed by the events of October 1066 and by the bias imposed by the Norman victory. In truth, he deserves to be recalled as one of […]
“Out of Eden: The Peopling of the world”
Imagine an airline check-in queue in London, which has seven people standing in line. They stand silently and avoid eye contact because they don´t know each other. And yet they are actually related – all of them have an African female and male ancestor in common. Not only are we all ultimately African, but what´s […]
“Ghosts, Apparitions and Poltergeists: An Exploration of the Supernatural Through History”
A strange thumping began, and it seemed to come from the ceiling above the girl´s room… Skeletal remains rotting behind cellar walls, temple priests removing brains with iron hooks, phantom locomotives roaring across midnight plains – Brian Righi isn´t making this stuff up. The ghost stories he finds in history are far more chilling than […]
“How the Irish Saved Civiliszation: The Untold Story of Ireland´s Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe”
National bestseller From the fall of Rome to the rise of Charlemagne – the “dark ages” – learning, scholarship, and culture disappeared from the European continent. The great heritage of Western civilization – from the Greek and Roman classics to Jewish and Christian works – would have been utterly lost were it not for the […]
“The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology & Anthropophagy”
Belief in the existence of cannibalism just beyond the borders of one´s own culture is a time-honored, universally accepted notion. In advanced societies, man-eaters are presumed to inhabit mysterious lands on the fringes of civilization. Among primitive peoples, cannibals are said to reside over the next mountain or farther along the river. The author of […]
“Tibet: Roof of the World”
Panoramic China It is easy to have a quick look at China´s past and present, but it takes time to gain a panoramic knowledge of China. The “Panoramic China” series is meant to assist readers, especially those overseas, in this respect. Each volume in the series focuses on a province, municipality or autonomous region, describing, […]
“Yunnan, “Shangri-La” over the Horizon”
Panoramic China It is easy to have a quick look at China´s past and present, but it takes time to gain a panoramic knowledge of China. The “Panoramic China” series is meant to assist readers, especially those overseas, in this respect. Each volume in the series focuses on a province, municipality or autonomous region, describing, […]
“The Ten Thousand Things”
“A work of art in itself. A thoroughly enjoyable literary sojourn by a master of historical fiction.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A sweeping historical novel that deserves to be compared to the classic Chinese novels that partly inspired it, The Ten Thousand Things is nothing short of a literary event. Set on the cusp […]
“Your Brother´s Blood”
Barkley does not suffer the wicked to live Thomas is thirty-two. He lives in the small town of Barkley. He has a wife there, Sarah, and a child, Mary; good solid names from the Good Book. And he is on his way home from the war, where he has been serving as a conscripted soldier. […]
“Cosmic Ascension: Your Cosmic Map Home”
Almost all the books on the planet on the subject of ascension are written about planetary ascension. However, because of the extraordinary times in which we now live, in terms of Earth´s history, there is a new opening and potentiality to also begin one´s cosmic ascension process. This has never before been available. It must […]
“Thoth: Architect of the Universe”
The Imperial Measurement System – based on Egyptian units. Stonehenge – dedicated to the mathematical constant Pi. The Avebury henge – designed as a map of the Earth. Stonehenge – designed to mimic the motions of the Earth. The Great Pyramid – a map of the Earth´s continents.
“Immortality & Reincarnation: Wisdom form the Forbidden Journey”
Everything she had to say about Tibet in general and Buddhism in particular was stamped with poetry and insight. – Lawrence Durrell, author of The Alexandria Quartet The question of what occurs to the individual personality after death is one of the fundamental quandaries of the human experience. The famed traveler and mystic Alexandra David-Neel, […]
