Set on the Korean island of Jeju, The Island of Sea Women follows Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls from very different backgrounds, as they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective. Over many decades—through the Japanese colonialism of the 1930s and 1940s, World War
"It is a magnificent epic," said William H. Prescott after the publication of History of the Conquest of Mexico in 1843. Since then, his sweeping account of Cortés's subjugation of the Aztec people has endured as a landmark work of scholarship and dramatic storytelling. This pioneering study
Evelyn Danaher lives a quiet, uneventful life. That is until she meets Tommy. The only man who makes her lose control of her temper and her knickers at the same time. Tattooed Irish firefighter Tommy Riordon found the woman of his dreams, then crashed and burned when a misunderstanding left him on
What does the news of the Pope's impending visit to Boston mean for the city's power politics, corrupt dealmakers, and warring newspapers? Is it true that the Pope is coming to work a miracle, to deliver an obscure saint who lives among them? That is the mainspring of the action in this sardonic,
Ishmael, lone survivor of the doomed whaling ship Pequod, falls through a rift in time and space to a future Earth—an Earth of blood-sucking vegetation and a blood-red sun, of barren canyons where once the Pacific Ocean roared. Here too there are whales to hunt—but whales that soar through a dark
Powieść historyczno-obyczajowa osadzona w realiach Wietnamu I połowy XX wieku, barwna i okrutna opowieść o miłości i zemście. Luźno oparta na życiu dziadka autora, hafciarza gobelinów na dworze ostatniego cesarza Wietnamu. Rok 1916, nad Rzeką Perfumową. Dan Nguyen ma zaledwie siedem lat, kiedy
What’s the most selfless thing you’ve ever done? What price tag would you put on the ability to save the ones you love? They say the worst decisions are made by the desperate or the fools. I was desperate enough to make a foolish decision to save my family. The cost? Me. They may be a motorcycle
Changeling knight in the court of the Duke of Shadowed Hills, October "Toby" Daye has survived numerous challenges that would destroy fae and mortal alike. Now Toby must take on a nightmarish new assignment. Someone is stealing both fae and mortal children—and all signs point to Blind Michael.
