An ogre opens a coffee café in a backward village that never even heard of coffee.
I loved this book because, like my book, it deals in magical realism with likable yet severely flawed characters. These characters encounter riveting obstacles that they resolve with humor, courage, and intriguing solutions.
High fantasy, low stakes - with a double-shot of coffee.
After decades of adventuring, Viv the orc barbarian is finally hanging up her sword for good. Now she sets her sights on a new dream - for she plans to open the first coffee shop in the city of Thune. Even though no one there knows what coffee actually is.
If Viv wants to put the past behind her, she can't go it alone. And help might arrive from unexpected quarters. Yet old rivals and new stand in the way of success. And Thune's shady underbelly could make it all…
This is a novel of violence and misogyny, but it is also strangely uplifting and inspirational.
A group of women brought up in a cult discover a horrifying secret about the men in their lives that leaves them with two choices: go or stay. Their dilemma is complicated by their extreme isolation; none of them can read or write and they speak a language distinct to their religious sect. It is told from the POV of a recently returned outcast whose presence is a mystery until the last page.
Now a major motion picture from writer/director Sarah Polley, starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, with Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand.
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
“This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid's Tale.” -Margaret Atwood, on Twitter
"Scorching . . . a wry, freewheeling novel of ideas that touches on the nature of evil, questions of free will, collective responsibility, cultural determinism, and, above all, forgiveness." -New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice
One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For…
I love this book because it is a great mystery, made into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock.
Two men meet on a train, and one proposes that they kill each other’s enemies. The suggestion comes from a character whose psychosis unravels before the reader’s eyes and who is determined to disown rationality, empathy, and everyone and anything except adherence to his weird fixations.
The classic thriller behind the Hitchcock film, and Highsmith's first novel - soon to be remade by David Fincher, director of Gone Girl, with a screenplay by Gillian Flynn.
By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley and Carol
The psychologists would call it folie a deux . . .
'Bruno slammed his palms together. "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?'''
From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a…
This is a book of magical realism. The setting is the suburban, constantly under-construction city of Lake Ann, where no one is what he appears to be. Two men in a flimsy boat disappear at sea, and a saga rich in pathos, unexplainable events, and humor is born.
Meet Truly, Sara, Jay, and Link, characters whose sex, drugs, and murder set the stage. This sexy and suspenseful novel lures readers into the mysteries of New Orleans' magic, Hawaii’s urban island atmosphere, and Florida’s New South, where shocking events are all part of a larger plan.
