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Country driving : a journey through China from farm to factory
Peter Hessler.
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438 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
In this penetrating narrative account, Hessler investigates China's lurch into modernity as he survives the advent of the nation's uniquely terrifying car culture, probes the transformation of village life, and explores China's frantic industrialization.
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Cracks : a novel
by Sheila Kohler.
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165 p. ; 21 cm.
Now a major motion picture starring Eva Green and directed by Jordan Scott A beautiful schoolgirl mysteriously disappears into the South African veld. Forty years later, thirteen members of the missing girl's swimming team gather at their old boarding school for a reunion, and look back to the long, dry weeks leading to Fiamma's disappearance. As teenage memories and emotions resurface, the women relive the horror of a long-buried secret. A stunning and singular tale of the passion and tribalism of adolescence, Cracks lays bare the violence that lurks in the heart of even the most innocent.
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The crying tree
Naseem Rakha.
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353 p. ; 25 cm.
Irene and Nate Stanley are living a quiet and contented life with their two children, Bliss and Shep, on their family farm in southern Illinois when Nate suddenly announces he's been offered a job as a deputy sheriff in Oregon. Irene does not want to uproot her family and has deep misgivings. They are just settling into their life in Oregon's high desert when 15-year-old Shep is shot and killed during an apparent robbery in their home. The murderer is caught and sentenced to death. Irene copes by waiting, week by week, for Daniel Robbin's execution and the justice she feels she and her family deserve. Ultimately, faced with a growing sense that Robbin's death will not stop her pain, Irene takes the extraordinary and clandestine step of reaching out to her son's killer, and the two forge an unlikely connection.--From publisher description.
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Cutting for stone : a novel
Abraham Verghese.
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541 p. ; 25 cm.
A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel-an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother's death in childbirth and their father's disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Yet it will be love, not politics-their passion for the same woman-that will tear them apart and force Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flee his homeland. He makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him-nearly destroying him-Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him. An unforgettable journey into one man's remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others.
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Daniel Deronda
George Eliot ; introduction by Edmund White ; notes by Hugh Osborne.
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xxv, 796 p. ; 21 cm.
George Eliot's final novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), follows the intertwining lives of the beautiful but spoiled and selfish Gwendolene Harleth and the selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda, as they search for personal and vocational fulfilment and sympathetic relationship.
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Day after night : a novel
Anita Diamant.
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294 p. ; 25 cm.
Four young women haunted by unspeakable memories and losses, afraid to begin to hope, find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience even as they confront the challenge of re-creating themselves in a strange new country. Based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred Jewish prisoners from the Atlit internment camp outside Haifa.
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De amor y de sombra
Isabel Allende.
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267 p. ; 21 cm.
Desarrollada en un país latinamericano sin nombre que vive bajo el dominio de una dictadura militar, la segunda, hipnotizante, novela de Allende cuenta la historia de una mujer y un hombre que están destinados, bajo las circunstancias más espeluzantes, a compartir un amor excepcional. Irene Beltrán es fruto de la clase alta, una bien intencionada, aunque algo ingenua, reportera en una revista para mujeres. Francisco Leal, hijo de exiliados españoles, es un fotógrafo partidario de la resistencia clandestina. Durante el curso de un trabajo rutinario, esta pareja descubre, literalmente, un crimen que resulta en desafío -- y provocación -- al terrorismo oficial del gobierno, y que también pone en grave peligro sus vidas.
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The death and life of great American cities
Jane Jacobs ; with a new foreword by the author.
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xxiv, 598 p. ; 20 cm.
Originally published: New York: Random House, 1961.
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The death and life of the great American school system : how testing and choice are undermining education
Diane Ravitch.
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x, 283 p. ; 25 cm
Award-winning author, public intellectual, and former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch critiques a lifetime's worth of school reforms and reveals the simple--yet difficult--truth about how we can create actual change in public schools.
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Death of a red heroine
Qiu Xiaolong.
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463 p. ; 21 cm.
In this Anthony Award-winning debut, Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police must find the murderer of a National Model worker, and then risk his own life and career to see that justice is done. "A Loyal Character Dancer "is the latest in Qiu's Shanghai series featuring Inspector Chen. "A marvelously assured debut. . . . Engrossing, immensely readable."-"The Wall Street Journal"
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Delirio
Laura Restrepo.
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342 p. ; 24 cm.
La historia comienza cuando Aguilar vuelve después de un viaje a su hogar y encuentra que su mujer, Agustina, ha sufrido severos cambios en la personalidad, perdiendo la cordura y tornándose delirante. A partir de este suceso la narración se enfoca en las posibles causas que provocan tal demencia en la mujer, ahondando en los detalles de su infancia. Así se van describiendo los inauditos rituales que llevaba siendo niña; la relación que tenía con sus disímiles hermanos; con su abuelo, un músico alemán que emigra a Colombia; y con su amigo McAlister, un narcotraficante que se relaciona con Pablo Escobar. Todos estos pormenores nos harán entender los detonantes del delirio así como también nos permitirá hacernos una idea de lo que fue la sociedad colombiana en los años ochenta.
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Delta wedding
Eudora Welty.
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326 p. ; 21 cm.
A vivid and charming portrait of a large southern family, the Fairchilds, who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. The story, set in 1923, is exquisitely woven from the ordinary events of family life, centered around the visit of a young relative, Laura McRaven, and the family's preparations for her cousin Dabney's wedding.
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