Pearl: 495 books

With down to earth, in-depth reviews of dream spas, as well as super cheap (or free) healing, this is your guide to the perfect wellness break. From Tkissila at the Palais Rhoul in Marrakech to a cold stone Jade Harmony Facial at the Tian Spa in Beijing, and not forgetting the hilarious Russian Venik...

A guide to spa breaks, this book includes definitions and descriptions of common massage and spa services as well as the more unusual offerings of international spas in China, Morocco, Tuscany and more. From Reflexology in China, to Ayurvedic Massage in Tuscany or even the ancient and exhilarating Tkissila...

« Son regard est planté dans le mien, j’ai envie qu’il m’embrasse. » Camille est une jeune femme pour qui la bonté est une seconde nature, même si la vie le lui rend mal. Depuis l'accident qui a meurtri son cœur et son corps, elle n’a pu compter que sur Ben, son meilleur ami,...

« ― Je te promets que personne ne te fera de mal, mon cœur. ― Ne fais pas de promesses que tu ne peux pas tenir, Tom, tu ne sais pas de quoi elle est capable. » Combien de fois une personne peut-elle pardonner ? Camille est de celles qui, malgré un fort caractère, ne...

In this inspiring memoir—that Jane Fonda raves “will make you braver…want to live your life better and make a difference”—the award-winning playwright and bestselling author of What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day reminisces on the art of juggling marriage, motherhood, and politics while...

“The Winning Connection” is a philosophy of networking, focusing on four basic principles which create winning connections. These four principles, when followed, unite people, resources and opportunities with an attitude and mindset which creates infinite possibilities and results. When the four...

After a decade of elegant pleasures and luxe living with the Atlanta brothers and sisters with the best clothes and biggest dreams, Ava Johnson has temporarily returned home to Idlewild—her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits by cold reality. But what she imagines to be the end is, instead,...

Catherine Sanderson seems to have it all: a fulfilling career helping immigrant women find jobs, a lovely home, and a beautiful, intelligent daughter on her way to Smith College. What Catherine doesn’t have: a father for her child– and she’s spent many years dodging her daughter’s questions...

When Regina Burns married Blue Hamilton, she knew he was no ordinary man. A charismatic R&B singer who gave up his career to assume responsibility for the safety of Atlanta’s West End community, Blue had created an African American urban oasis where crime and violence were virtually nonexistent....

Five of the most daring voices in African American literature today explore the sizzling, wildly popular genre of erotica in this unique collection edited by the author who “cleverly delivers all that her name stands for: Never Tell Your Secrets” (Zane). Dare to embrace your wild side as...

Humankind possesses a dual nature, the ability to rise to the brightest heights—or sink to the darkest and most perverse depths. What inspires some to reach the pinnacles of virtue while others cannot resist the temptations of vice? Is it something innate, or a result of destiny and circumstance? Delve...

“Buck has never done better work than this. By a great gift of intuition she has entered into the mind, heart and spirit of the Chinese peasant woman and revealed the permanent values of life.” —*TheTimes Literary Supplement*** Dickensian in its epic sweep, one of Buck’s finest novels...

Lost for forty years, a new novel by the author of The Good Earth The Eternal Wonder tells the coming-of-age story of Randolph Colfax (Rann for short), an extraordinarily gifted young man whose search for meaning and purpose leads him to New York, England, Paris, a mission patrolling the DMZ...

The Nobel Prize–winning author’s perceptive fable of cross-cultural passions in nineteenth-century China In 1850s China, a young girl, Peony, is sold to work as a bondmaid for a rich Jewish family in Kaifeng. Jews have lived for centuries in this region of the country, but by the mid-nineteenth...