1998, Seville. Summer. An elderly priest is found murdered in horrific circumstances; Inspector Velasquez assumes at first a junkie is on the loose. But then a second man of the cloth shows up in the Guadalquivir River, followed by a Russian gangster, and Velasquez realizes he has a puzzle of major proprotions on his hands. Are they politically motivated? Are the three murders linked? And if so, how? His boss, Comisario Alonso, is breathing down his...

Collected Australian Stories is a visit into the Australian mind and the various facets of this ancient land. The impressive culture of the Aborigines, the original inhabitants of the land is brought to life in such stories as The Challenge and The Stone Country. Other stories such as The Wejii Man examine deeper cultural beliefs. The more recent history of Australia is also explored through such stories as Lost Souls, a story of hope and despair...

Jawaan Miyan, a Pakistani, lived in that area too. He had come to live in a house along Broadway turning. It was not a big house, but it was very comfortable and in good condition. There were two rooms, a kitchen, a storeroom, toilet, bathroom, and a garage. For a single man, it was obviously a big house. He was a tall man with athletic body. He was said to be a very friendly person. When he met his Pakistani people he shook their hands with affection...

When her mother abandons her family, Nilsu loses faith in the world and everyone in it. Terrified of suffering the same fate, she breaks off relationships before they even begin. Then she meets Teo, a passionate environmentalist and one of the founders of the Turkish Green Party. Teo's close relationship with his mother has always held him back and when she commits suicide, his life slips off the rails. In this story of a young woman's struggle to...

Seemingly disparate lives are brought together in a clever, prism-like plot in this award-winning novel. The story is based on three people-Ali, Dogan, and Olcay-and vividly depicts the struggle between the older generation who were content with the new (post-Ottoman) Turkey and who are disturbed by changes sought and brought on by the rebellious young generation. In this unforgettable, epic portrait of 1960s Turkey, the personal and political are...

After discovering her village destroyed, C'hiim's dark destiny leads her to the forest of the Steeyaha-one of the supernatural beings White people will later name "Stick Indians." The Steeyaha recognizes her as a Whakla-"neither man nor woman." For a price, C'hiim can claim the Power she needs to confront the War Leader who exterminated her people. Will the War Leader see her as an avenging avatar of his Goddess-or a fool who has returned to die?...

Kashmir, the heaven on this earth, greatly admired and adorned by poets and writers in their works, source of inspiration for several Mughal Emperors, had suddenly seen a few decades of terror, bloodshed, killings, and encounters. Every place, every house, and each individual in this beautiful state in India was, as if, suddenly clouded in suspicion. There was unseen fear in the atmosphere and the eyes of the people reflected several different images...

"Continental Divide For almost a year Heaven had pleaded with her best friend Tanya Reed to visit her and Hamid in Pakistan. Not even the arrival of the couples new baby could force Tanya to go to the health department for needed shots and other meds she'll need for the journey. Tanya hates needles. It's only when Heaven mentions Hamid's available RICH brothers that the sound Tanya hears in her head overrides her fear of needles. Cha-ching!! She's...

Umi Sinha's unforgettable debut is an intense, compelling and finely wrought epic of love and loss, of race and ethnicity, of homeland - and of belonging - See more at: http://myriadeditions.com/books/belonging/#sthash.CKAzTgEv.AUmi Sinha's unforgettable debut is an intense, compelling and finely wrought epic of love and loss, of race and ethnicity, of homeland - and of belonging - See more at: http://myriadeditions.com/books/belonging/#sthash.CKAzTgEv.dpufUmi...

Richard Parry is a painter who cannot paint, a writer who doesn't write. His obsession is Lulu, that 'orphan off the street', his aboriginal 'green child'. But on returning from Australia to his hometown he finds it has become notorious for the suicides of young people. As Parry tries to connect past and present he is haunted by dreams of Australia and of his youth. Yet is Parry all he seems? Isn't he frankly, 'a bit creepy'? How trustworthy is memory?...