by Mario Perera (2008)
This is a book that delves into the heart of Sri Lanka and gives the reader insights into its history, geography, religions, culture and civilization. It describes the country’s fabulous natural beauty including its fauna and flora. Mr.Bernard Baritaud, former French diplomat and professor of the Sorbonne University who spent several years in Sri Lanka, describes this book as being ‘the novel of Sri Lanka’. The author who holds university qualifications in philosophy, theology, languages (classical and modern) and law was a polyglot tourist guide for twenty five years. He and is widely traveled in Europe and Asia and has written many other books both in French (with co-author Laetitia Buczaczer) and in English. ‘Siripala the cinnamon peeler’ is unique in its kind and justifies its name as ‘the novel of Sri Lanka’.
Alberto Fuguet
Simon feels that all that is happening to him is a parenthesis: he got divorced, swindled his father's company, agreed to come back and did not return. Now he's driving around the southern United States in a rented car. On the way he meets Adriana, a Bolivian "made in USA" who will share the feeling of loss and emptiness that invades him. Forms part of Fuguet's Cortos, a volume of stories published in 2004.
Jude Deveraux
Celebrated chef Kady Long finds herself transported back in time to nineteenth-century Colorado, where she is tricked into marrying the man she saves from hanging, a man who harbors a painful secret about his past. "Kady lleva una vida normal y feliz, trabajando en el restaurante de su futura suegra, pero está intrigada por la persistente imagen de un misterioso jinete que la visita en sueños. Un día se ve envuelta en un fantástico viaje al pasado, durante el cual descubrirá el significado de esos sueños. Sus aventuras en un antiguo pueblo le enseñarán que el pasado no debe olvidarse, pues contiene la clave para encontrar la pasión."--P. [4] of cover.
William Barr
"From policing and prospecting in the Yukon, patrolling Chesterfield Inlet, establishing the RCMP's post in Stony Rapids, sledging across Ellesmere Island, coordinating aerial surveillance patrols in the Gaspe to guarding Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt in Quebec City in 1944, Harry Stallworthy's life was always full of adventure." "While stationed at Bache Peninsula, Ellesmere Island in the 1930s, Stallworthy led one of the longest arctic sledge patrols in RCMP history, searching for traces of German geologist Dr. Hans Kruger. In 1934 he set off with the Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition with Eddie Shackleton, son of the famous Antarctic explorer. Shackleton recalls that the Expedition "owed so much to this remarkable Polar man.""--BOOK JACKET.
Charles Dickens
From the book:If the readers of this volume will be so kind as to take their credentials for the different places which are the subject of its author's reminiscences, from the Author himself, perhaps they may visit them, in fancy, the more agreeably, and with a better understanding of what they are to expect. Many books have been written upon Italy, affording many means of studying the history of that interesting country, and the innumerable associations entwined about it. I make but little reference to that stock of information; not at all regarding it as a necessary consequence of my having had recourse to the storehouse for my own benefit, that I should reproduce its easily accessible contents before the eyes of my readers.