The incredible true story of a young survivor of the Killing Fields who became a leader to those around him. A gripping firsthand account of survival against all odds, Bun Yom’s Tomorrow I’m Dead is the story of the courage,... Read More

In a world filled with distraction and noise, Stone’s book is a welcome call to come home to ourselves and to our place in nature. There is magic in the music of the birds, wild dreams to be dreamed, and much, much more to be seen... Read More

Henderson’s descriptions of little-known parts of Africa bring to life the warmth, curiosity, pride, and endurance of the people he met there. Like a travel blog, but written back in the 1970s, James Henderson’s Travels with King... Read More

Lake Superior in winter is a vast sheet of ice, white and implacable; its rocky shores, tall pines, and moody silences are the perfect backdrop for award-winning Norwegian mystery writer Vidal Sundstøl’s Minnesota Trilogy. The third... Read More

Josep Pla (1897-1981), one of the most influential and controversial Catalan authors of the twentieth century, has a sensibility he declared to have been “notoriously influenced” by his admiration for the Dutch genre painters. In... Read More

Parisian bookseller Laurent Letellier, on his way to enjoy a double espresso and study his notes for an upcoming book signing, discovers a mauve leather handbag, in excellent condition and obviously not empty, sitting upon a waste bin... Read More

When Hélène Chambon, great-niece of author Daniel Roche, pen name H. R. Sanders, moves to Paris to study archeology, she encounters a mystery much more engrossing than her studies—one that not only involves her enigmatic, eccentric,... Read More

Sultry, seductive Alexandria is filled with secrets, seething resentments, and hidden tensions, and the Egyptian Jews who live there, though enamored of the city’s charms, are coming to see that their lives are precariously balanced... Read More