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Passion on the Vine - Sergio Esposito
As a young child in Naples, Italy, Sergio Esposito sat at his kitchen table observing the daily ritual of his large, loud family bonding over fresh local dishes and simple country ... -
Party Girl_ A Novel - Anna David
From Publishers WeeklyDavid, who has written about celebrities for glossy mags, delivers the saga of Amelia Stone, who writes about celebrities for a trashy gossip magazine. Amelia... -
Paris Noir - Aurelien Masson
From Publishers WeeklyRarely has the City of Light seemed grittier than in this hard-boiled short story anthology, part of Akashic's noir series that began in 2004 with Brooklyn No... -
Paris 1919 - Margaret Macmillan; Richard Hol
From Publishers WeeklyA joke circulating in Paris early in 1919 held that the peacemaking Council of Four, representing Britain, France, the U.S. and Italy, was busy preparing a "j... -
Paradox - Alex Archer
Archaeologist Annja Creed reluctantly accepts an assignment on behalf of a covert arm of the U.S. Government. She is to lead an expedition to the top of Mount Ararat to find the tr... -
Panorama_ A Novel - H. G. Adler; Peter Filkins; Pet
From Publishers WeeklyThe first English-language translation of an opus by Adler (The Journey), Czech writer and Holocaust survivor, opens with the young Josef Kramer, at a "panora... -
Palestine Inside Out - Saree Makdisi
Palestine Inside Out Sheds Light on the most important—but also the least visible—aspects of life under occupation: the permits, passes, curfews, closures, “sterile roads,” and “se... -
Pakistan_ A Hard Country - Anatol Lieven
From Publishers WeeklyLieven (Chechnya), who has reported on Pakistan off and on for 20 years, offers a compelling argument for reorienting Western interests (and investments) in i... -
Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
SUMMARY:Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another...In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the ... -
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue_ - John McWhorter
From Publishers WeeklyThis evolutionary history of the English language from author and editor McWhorter (The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language) isn't an easy read, but...