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Fiction
Man in the dark by Paul Auster
August Brill is an old man, lying on his bed, recovering from a car accident. He makes up stories using his imagination to forget his suffering and keep the ghosts away. This one takes place in 2007 during the American civil war instead of 9/11 and war in Iraq which had never happened, August Brill imagines America fighting itself.
Once again, Paul Auster navigates between two worlds, through pain and suffering, he experiments the loneliness of a man and his extraordinary ability to create even in the dark… |
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Fiction
The Gift by Cecelia Ahern
Lou Suffern is a very busy man always in two places at the same time. Husband and father, architect and businessman, he cannot play it all. That’s why he chooses his career over his beloved family. One day before Christmas on his way to work, he meets Gabe, the beggar outside the building, and offers him a job. But who is this man, Gabe, fastest than Lou, who can read his mind and sees through him so easily? Is he a Christmas gift for a careless man such as Lou? Or another trick to resolve?
The only way to find out is to listen to inspector Raphie who tells his teenager offender, the “Turkey boy”, Lou’s story, the night before Christmas. |
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Fiction
Remember me? by Sophie Kinsella
Having been in a car accident, Lexi wakes up in the hospital, suffering from amnesia. Last thing she remembers is an evening two years ago with a bunch of girl friends all waiting for Loser Dave. When she opens her eyes, it’s 2007: she finds out she’s married to a very handsome and rich man; she is a director at the company where she used to work; she has a lover, but most surprisingly, her friends can’t stand her anymore because she has become a “bitch-boss-from-hell”! |
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Fiction
Beirut I love you by Zena El Khalil
This is the story of Zena, a Lebanese young woman who lives, loves, thinks and writes in Beirut. Beirut I love you relates her memoir, her sorrows, her friendship with Maya, her sexual experiences, and her long sleepless nights.
In this biography, Zena El Khalil refers to Beirut as the city she chose to live in, the cradle of her family and the inspiration she looks for. However, reality turns into disappointment and instead of a post-war society tormented with grief, she meets people losing themselves in alcohol and shopping, while she desperately tries to remember what happened "before this bloody war started". |
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Fiction
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The White Tiger is a brilliant novel based on social discrimination in India. Balram, the man who calls himself “the white tiger” writes to the Prime minister of China, “Premier Jiabao”, about his exemplary career as an Indian entrepreneur. From his miserable childhood in Darkness - a metaphoric name for all the area surrounding the Ganges delta - the white tiger, which is the rarest animal in this jungle of “half-baked men”, ends up living in Bangalore rattling city, working in technology and electronics.
In his masterpiece, the author uses a bitter yet witty style to condemn economic injustice and social inequalities in India, a so-called emerging country. |
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Non-Fiction
Hot, flat, and crowded by Thomas L. Friedman
This book deals with the question of how to save the world and the United States through the environmental fight. Thomas Friedmann, after “The world is Flat”, describes his view of the new world paradigm in a very synthetic and educational manner. |
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Non-Fiction
The man who owns the news by Michael Wolff
This book is about Rupert Murdoch who is one of the most controversial yet successful businessman in the media arena as depicted by Michael Wolff. As semi-official biographer, Wolff has been using more material from family and colleagues, than from the 77 years old Australian news tycoon which gives a little taste of a modern Citizen Kane. This is yet another story of a workaholic, bad father who built his empire with almost magic-like inspiration, but the characters do not lack charm after all. |
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Mind, body and spirit
The Secret daily teachings by Rhonda Byrne
After the tremendous success of The Secret, Rhonda Byrne delivers her secret daily teachings in order to help you find peace of mind and happiness in your everyday life. In this timeless agenda that you can start at any time of the year, you get in touch with the secret way to make your dreams come true.
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.” Buddha (c.563-c.483 BC). |
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Cooking
Jamie's Ministry of food by Jamie Oliver
Is cooking still a mystery to you? That's because you haven’t laid eyes on this book yet, it's the quickest simplest way to surprise all of your friends and most of all yourself.
You will learn how to prepare in no time a fabulous chili con carne, an ecstatic roast beef or a wonderfully exotic curry. |
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