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The Berlin Assignment

By (author) Adrian de Hoog
Categories: Crime and mystery fiction

This story of discovery, romance, and intrigue is set in Berlin shortly after the fall of the Wall. Anthony Hanbury, a Canadian diplomat pursuing a desultory career, is assigned as consul to Berlin. Having ...

The Violin Lover

Set in Jewish London in the 1930s, Susan Glickman’s The Violin Lover is written against the backdrop of Hitler’s escalating campaign against the Jews. This beautifully written novel tells the story ...

Inverted Sort of Prayer, An

Cut loose at the end of a long and violent hockey career prolonged by steroids and numbed by liquor, ex-enforcer Billy Purdy discovers that the soon-to-be-published novel of a celebrated politician’s ...

Les héritiers de la mine

Au début, on ne sait pas trop sur quel pied danser. LeFion, l'un des 21 enfants, prend la parole, mais c'est pour nous expliquer qu'il ne comprend rien à toute cette histoire dont il n'a été que le ...

Éva, Eugénie et Marguerite

Entre 1910 et 1955, trois femmes, issues de milieux différents et menant leur vie en parallèle, subissent l’influence de la toute puissante religion catholique. Éva entrera chez les Trappistines. ...