Mondial: 25 books

A turn of the century comedy in which traditions clash with independence to remind us of how quickly social mores change, and of what dangers lurk at every new turn. -- In this comedy of bad manners, the ill-matched parents of too young newly-weds Billy and Ann Richardson politely collide in a series...

Before Carl Van Vechten's later careers--as the first dance critic in America, as a best-selling novelist during the Jazz Age of the Twenties, as the leading white champion of African American arts and letters, and as a celebrity photographer--he was Assistant Music Critic for the New York Times (1906-13)....

"Tutaishi: The African Tale" is a story of shame, hope and triumph. It is a novel about a young girl, Theo, who manages to escape abuse from the Congo, where she has been in the hands of rebel soldiers. After many difficulties she travels to South Africa where she befriends and later falls...

There once was a love affair, when he was sixteen and she was thirty-two. Now, many decades later, they meet again at "Winter Ridge," an isolated compound outside Louisville, Kentucky. Will the love affair start once more? Memories seem to stand in its way... --- "We are always the same age inside...

Sex, affairs, adventure, a sky rocking career, culinary and other worldly pleasures – or a holy vocation? Time: shortly after World War II. Location: Everywhere. -- "The Last Mistress" is the story of Richard Brown, who leaves an English boarding school at the end of World War II to find his way...

Fictional and Non-Fictional Essays - Passionate and often controversial: Over the last few years, Zambian writer Malama Katulwende (winner of the Julius Chongo Award 2006 for Best Creative Writing, at the Ngoma Awards ceremonies) has published more than forty articles for the website ukzambians.co.uk....

La kultura panoramo de Esperantujo prezentas signojn de stagno. "Fonto" chesis aperi. Necesas nova internacia literatura revuo. Tamen la tempo ankorau' ne maturas por lanchi paperan revuon monatan au' du-monatan. Pro tio ni decidis publikigi Beletran Almanakon (BA). Principe, la almanakon...

Jesus' death - "triumph of a glorious illusion". His "resurrection" - a plot by Kaiaphas gone wrong. -- This novel, based on a large amount of research, seeks to explore Jesus' actual life before he became an object of deification and falsification. It follows him from his humble birth,...

The splendid drunken twenties in New York: First published in 1925, the novel centers around a wide cast of characters whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mysterious Gunnar O'Grady in 1920s New York. Though, like most Van Vechten novels, there is more than actually meets the eye. The book...

Neglected for over forty years, this moving novel has been republished in a more tolerant climate. Two People is about a love affair in Rome between a middle-aged American and a much younger Italian boy, but the word "people" in the title is both singular and plural, dealing with two cultures...

Angla-Esperanto-Angla Vortaro: Find what you are looking for: Concise yet comprehensive, with coverage of all the words you need, including many technical terms. Both directions: Contains both Esperanto–English and English–Esperanto sections, with a total of over 30,000 entries. Keep up-to-date:...

On a midwestern farm in the last century, a boy is forced to come of age in a colorful family of dysfunctional women, scarred by the unfulfilled dreams of his alcoholic mother, his strange spinster aunts, his malevolent nieces, and especially "the prettiest girls in Euphoria, Kansas," his five unforgettable...

If you want to know where the brothers Paul and George Soros got their business skills, look no further than this little adventure story told by their father.In simple, understated style, Tivadar Soros tells how he and his companions broke out of their Siberian prisoner-of-war camp at the time...

At the end of the twentieth century, a woman's awakening passion takes her on a journey of self-discovery. Based on the myth of Psyche and Eros, this novel tells the story of a woman who boldly navigates through the complexities of love and loss, masculinity and femininity, eroticism and spirituality,...