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Blood Alley by Tom Coffey
New York in the 1940s was a wide-open town. In the city of Swing Street, Frank Costello, and the Stork Club, everything was for sale, including its people. Into this arena steps Patrick Grimes, a World War II veteran who works the graveyard shift for The New York Examiner, one of the city’s brassiest tabloids. Late one night, Grimes learns that a watchman has found the body of a young woman in a squalid section of tenements and breweries by the East River, and races over to investigate. The victim turns out to be Amanda Price, the eldest daughter of one of Manhattan’s wealthiest men. Grimes can’t help but wonder what would draw such a woman to that part of town...
Publication date: May 2008 More Info... |  |
The Misremembered Man by Christina McKenna
Jamie McCloone’s early years in a grim, cruel orphanage have left him wary of people and anxious
of change. Now in his early forties, he has no dreams
of changing his lonely life as a bachelor farmer until
his kind-hearted neighbours, Patrick and Rose,
decide he is in need of a wife. Lydia couldn’t be
more different to Jamie. Rector’s daughter and proper
schoolteacher, she still lives at home, looking after her
aged and demanding mother. She dreams constantly
of changing her spinsterly fate, but has no idea how
to—until a friend suggests she puts an ad in the
Lonely Hearts column of the Mid-Ulster Vindicator...
Publication date: March 2008 More Info... |  |
A Paragon of Virtue by Christian von Ditfurth
NOne by one, over a period of several years, the wife and children of prominent Hamburg citizen
Maximilian Holler are being slain. The police are
stumped. Are the murders connected? Why would
someone want to destroy the family of a muchrespected
businessman and philanthropist? Is there
a serial killer on the loose? Is Holler as blameless a
victim as he seems?
Trying to help an old friend-become-policeman
discover who and what is at the root of these
crimes, history professor Josef Stachelmann becomes
embroiled in a tragic and shocking case that has roots
stretching far back into the past, all the way to the
Nazi regime that is his own area of expertise...
Publication date: March 2008 More Info... |  |
The Messiah by Marek Halter
After the success of his bestselling The Book of Abraham,
The Wind of the Khazars and The Canaan Trilogy (Sarah,
Zipporah and Lilah), Marek Halter returns with a remarkable tale—based in truth—of the little-known crusade by a 16th-century Jew to marshal support for a Jewish state, four centuries before the creation of modern-day Israel. David Reubeni is a Jewish prince from the lost
kingdom of Chabor. Arriving in Venice, he begins spreading his own gospel of the return of the Jews to a homeland in Palestine. Reubeni scours the European courts for support, ultimately pleading his cause to Pope Clement VII...
Publication date: April 2008 More Info... |  |
Farther Along by Donald Harington
He wants to get away from it all. Despite a satisfying career as chief curator of a museum devoted to the vanished American past, he finds he himself wants to vanish. So with the help of a book on the life and culture of a vanished tribe of Indians known as Bluff-dwellers, he takes up residence in the wilderness of the Ozark mountains, with only a dog for company and only an atlatl - a primitive spear thrower - to provide him with his supper. His few amusements are the playing of tunes on a hair-comb-and-tissue and writing what he intends to be an indictment of modern civilization in his journals. He makes the acquaintance of a young moonshiner who keeps him supplied abundantly with corn liquor. But after six years of this life he realizes that what he is trying to get away from is himself...
Publication date: May 2008 More Info... |  |
To This Day by S.Y. Agnon, Nobel Prize Winner
To This Day, Nobel prizewinner S.Y. Agnon’s last novel
(first published in Hebrew in 1952), is also his last to be
translated into English. It is a brilliantly accomplished
and haunting work. On the surface it is a comically
entertaining tale of a young writer—a Galician Jew
who has lived in Palestine, returns to Europe on the
eve of World War I, and is now stranded in Berlin—
who wanders from rented room to rented room in
a city with a severe wartime housing shortage. On
a deeper level it is a profound commentary on exile,
Zionism, divine providence, human egoism, and other
typically Agnonian concerns.
Publication date: April 2008 More Info... |  |
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