The African Equation (Pocket)
avHoward (TRN) Curtis, Yasmina Khadra, Howard (TRN) Curtis
ISBN: 9781908313706 - UTGIVEN: 2015-03Through the eyes of a kidnapped westerner, literary giant Yasmina Khadra tells a gripping story of moral conflict, cultural awakening and lasting friendship in East Africa.[...]
Saving Mozart (Pocket)
avRaphael Jerusalmy, Howard (TRN) Curtis, Raphael Jerusalmy
ISBN: 9781609451455 - UTGIVEN: 2013-11Raphael Jerusalmy's debut novel takes the form of the journal of Otto J. Steiner, a former music critic of Jewish descent suffering from tuberculosis in a Salzburg sanatorium in 1939. Drained by his illness and isolated in the gloomy sanatorium, Steiner finds solace only in music. He is horrified to[...]
Game for Five (Pocket)
avMarco Malvaldi, Howard (TRN) Curtis, Marco Malvaldi
ISBN: 9781609451844 - UTGIVEN: 2014-04At the Bar Lume, in a small coastal resort near Livorno, between shots of espresso and hands of cards, four old-timers and Massimo, the barman, wile away the time chatting, arguing, and theorizing about the murder of a young woman in their town.
The girl's body was found in a dumpster bin on th[...]
Three-Card Monte (Pocket)
avMarco Malvaldi, Howard (TRN) Curtis, Marco Malvaldi
ISBN: 9781609452056 - UTGIVEN: 2014-08This new novel by Marco Malvaldi marks the return of the investigative quartet nicknamed the "senile squad." At the Bar Lume, with the exception of the bartender Massimo and his assistant, the beautiful and kindly Tiziana, the youngest regular customer is Aldo, seventy-something owner of the Osteria[...]
Three Tales (Pocket)
avGustave Flaubert, Howard (TRN) Curtis, Gustave Flaubert
ISBN: 9781843911838 - UTGIVEN: 2009-09In each of the titular "Three Tales", Flaubert studies the nature of humanity and spirituality: the loyal servant who dies alone, having served her masters all her life, not once complaining of the tragic losses she has suffered therein; the young man sanctified at birth whose bloodlust leads him to[...]
Reasonable Doubts (Pocket)
avGianrico Carofiglio, Howard (TRN) Curtis, Gianrico Carofiglio
ISBN: 9781904738244 - UTGIVEN: 2007-10Guerrieri is asked to handle the appeal of Fabio Paolicelli sentenced to sixteen years for smuggling drugs into Italy. Everything seems stacked against the appeal, not least the fact that Paolicelli initially confessed to the crime. Guerrieri's reluctance to take on the case is intensified by the fa[...]
The Lost Sailors (Pocket)
avJean-claude Izzo, Howard (TRN) Curtis, Jean-claude Izzo
ISBN: 9781933372358 - UTGIVEN: 2007-09A richly textured, melancholy investigation into the human comedy.
