Product Description: These 92 haiku are a product of the Berry region of France in the winter of 2015. They were composed during long walks through the woods and farmlands to an old Roman bridge. The author has written several other books of haiku: Matsuyoi: Waiting for the Moon (Cache Creek, California, 2001); 200 San Juan Ridge Haiku (Nevada City, 2005); and Haiku Avalanche (Lausanne, Switzerland, 2010)...read more

Product Description: "Compelling, poetical, sensitive, erotic-this wonderful novel is all this and much more."-ExpressA reclusive millionaire invites a writer to stay in his mansion and ghostwrite his life story. The writer will be well paid for his efforts-literary fame is virtually guaranteed; the subject's only stipulation is that the book not be published until after his death...read more

The Hajj - the pilgrimage to Mecca - is among the duties of each and every Muslim. One January morning, Ilija Trojanow, with the help of his friends donned the ibraw, the traditional garb of the pilgrim, and boarded a plane in Mumbai to fly to Dhiba. He joined hundreds of thousands of Muslims, who each year go on the Hajj.

At the request of a childhood friend, an aging Gerhard Self, a former Nazi prosecutor turned private detective, searches for a mischievous hacker who has invaded the computer system of a Rhineland chemical plant, but his investigation turns deadly as it leads him into a confrontation with the dark secrets of Germany's past. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: Set in the idyllic landscape of rural Bohemia in the 1930s, this is the tragic love story of Jarmila, the village beauty, and a toy maker who falls under her siren spell. The wife of the far older local feather-merchant, Jarmila enjoys all the pleasures her husband's wealth can buy, yet still longs for true love which she hopes to find in her affair with the penniless toy-maker...read more

A sweeping novel of life during the Nazi regime probes every segment of German society during the Nazi period as it explores the devastating impact of persecution on society, from a young student tortured by the Gestapo because of a vague association with the Young Socialist Workers to a famed opera singer beaten for suspicion of homosexuality. (view table of contents)