 | Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon By Amado, Jorge Translator Taylor, James L. Translator Grossman, William L. 2006-09 - Vintage Books USA 9780307276650 Check Our Catalog Ilheus in 1925 is a booming town with a record cacao crop and aspirations for progress, but the traditional ways prevail. When Colonel Mendonca discovers his wife in bed with a lover, he shoots and kills them both. Political contests, too, can be settled by gunshot... No one imagines that a bedraggled migrant worker who turns up in town-least of all Gabriela herself-will be the agent of change. Nacib Saad has just lost the cook at his popular cafe and in desperation hires Gabriela. To his surprise she turns out to be a great beauty as well as a wonderful cook and an enchanting boon to his business. But what would people say if Nacib were to marry her? Lusty, satirical and full of intrigue, "Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon" is a vastly entertaining panorama of small town Brazilian life. …More |
 | The Last Chinese Chef By Mones, Nicole 2008-06 - Mariner Books 9780547053738 Check Our Catalog This exhilarating story is the transporting tale of how the sensual, romantic elements of haute Chinese cuisine become the perfect ingredients to lift the troubled soul of a grieving American woman. …More |
 | Love in the Time of Cholera By Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Translator Grossman, Edith 2007-10 - Vintage Books USA 9780307389732 Check Our Catalog An Oprah's Book Club selection a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds three people's lives together for more than 50 years. …More |
 | The Shadow of the Wind By Ruiz Zafon, Carlos Translator Graves, Lucia 2005-02 - Penguin Books 9780143034902 Check Our Catalog Barcelona, 1945 A great world city lies shrouded in secrets after the war, and a boy mourning the loss of his mother finds solace in his love for an extraordinary book called The Shadow of the Wind, by an author named Julian Carax. When the boy searches for Carax's other books, it begins to dawn on him, to his horror, that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book the man has ever written. Soon the boy realizes that The Shadow of the Wind is as dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget, for the mystery of its authors identity holds the key to an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love that someone will go to any lengths to keep secret. …More |
 | The White Tiger By Adiga, Aravind 2008-10 - Free Press 9781416562603 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life -- having nothing but his own wits to help him along. …More |
 | The Kite Runner By Hosseini, Khaled 2003-01 - Riverhead Books 9781594480003 Check Our Catalog Alex Award Winner - 2004 Winner - 2004 ALA Notable Fiction Selection A BookPage Notable Title An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, takes readers from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. As emotionally gripping as it is tender, The Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful debut. …More |
  | Saving Fish from Drowning By Tan, Amy 2006-09 - Ballantine Books 9780345464019 Check Our Catalog On an ill-fated art expedition into Burma, 11 Americans leave their Floating Island Resort for a Christmas-morning tour--and disappear. Through twists of fate, they encounter a tribe awaiting the return of a leader and the mythical book of wisdom that will protect them from the ravages of the Myanmar military regime. …More |
  | The God of Small Things By Roy, Arundhati 1998-06 - Harper Perennial 0060977493 Check Our Catalog Winner - 1997 Booker Award "A banquet for all the senses", said "Newsweek" of this bestselling and Booker Prize-winning literary novel--a richly textured first book about the tragic decline of one family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love. …More |
 | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress By Dai, Sijie Author Sijie, Dai Translator Rilke, Ina 2002-10 - Anchor Books 0385722206 Check Our Catalog Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is an enchanting tale that captures the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic awakening. An immediate international bestseller, it tells the story of two hapless city boys exiled to a remote mountain village for re-education during China's infamous Cultural Revolution. There the two friends meet the daughter of the local tailor and discover a hidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translation. As they flirt with the seamstress and secretly devour these banned works, the two friends find transit from their grim surroundings to worlds they never imagined. …More |
 | Midnight's Children: Great Books Edition By Rushdie, Salman 2000-01 - Penguin Books 0140283390 Check Our Catalog After the publication of MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN in 1980. Salman Rushdie was awarded the Booker Prize and hailed as the voice of contemporary India. A dense interweaving of narratives, cultures, and voices, Midnight's Children chronicles modern India through the lives of the one thousand and one children born within the country's first hour of independence on August 15, 1947. The protagonist-narrator, Saleem Sinai -- born at the stroke of midnight, the precise moment of India's nationhood -- is celebrated in the press and welcomed by Prime Minister Nehru himself. The coincidence of his birth endows him with telepathic powers that connect him with the other one thousand midnight children, who also possess magical talents. Inextricably linked to his nation, Saleem's story is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror the course of modern India. Ebullient, operatic, comic, and serious, this novel is a wild, astonishing evocation of the maturity of a vast and complicated land and its people. It is also a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy. …More |
 | Things Fall Apart Things Fall Apart By Achebe, Chinua 1996-11 - Heinemann 0435905252 Check Our Catalog Chinua Achebe's first novel portrays the collision of African and European cultures in people's lives. Okonkwo, a great man in Igbo traditional society, cannot adapt to the profound changes brought about by British colonial rule. Yet, as in classic tragedy, Okonkwo's downfall results from his own character as well as from external forces. …More |
 | Nervous Conditions By Dangarembga, Tsitsi 1996-09 - Seal Press (CA) 187806777X Check Our Catalog …More |
 | Once on a Moonless Night By Dai, Sijie Author Dai, Sijie Translator Hunter, Adriana 2009-08 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307271587 Check Our Catalog From the author of the beloved best seller "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress" comes a haunting tale of love--and the beguiling power of a lost language--in this story that carries readers across the breadth of China's past. …More |
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