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<div id="cbcf8920008097344ea1804f6496bb"><a href="https://www.caspio.com" target="_blank"></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937856704270701984.post-73010262687730668452016-03-21T07:36:00.001-07:002016-03-21T07:36:55.692-07:00Test yet againUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937856704270701984.post-13635826634677827742016-03-21T07:17:00.001-07:002016-03-21T07:17:12.480-07:00test againtestUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937856704270701984.post-83567928259099917632016-03-21T07:05:00.001-07:002016-03-21T07:05:58.964-07:00testUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937856704270701984.post-47247257598120918612016-03-21T06:11:00.035-07:002016-03-21T06:11:52.324-07:00"Honourable Schoolboy, The" for sale at The Berlin Book Nook<br/> <br /> Title: Honourable Schoolboy, The<br /> Author: le Carré, John<br /> Format: Paperback<br /> Publication date: 01/12/1978<br /> <br /> Description (from goodreads.com):<br /> The Honourable Schoolboy - Le Carre, John - Pan Books<br /> <br /> <a href="http://theberlinbooknook.blogspot.de/p/book-search.html?Books_25012016_Author=le Carré, John&Books_25012016_Title=Honourable Schoolboy, The">Check that this book is still available</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937856704270701984.post-18097092638136629342016-03-21T06:11:00.033-07:002016-03-21T06:11:51.020-07:00"Stories Of English, The" for sale at The Berlin Book Nook<br/> <br /> Title: Stories Of English, The<br /> Author: Crystal, David<br /> Format: Paperback<br /> Publication date: 05/31/2005<br /> <br /> Description (from goodreads.com):<br /> How did a language originally spoken by a few thousand Anglo-Saxons become one used by more than 1,500 million people? How have all the different versions of English evolved and changed? In this compelling global tour, David Crystal turns the history of the language on its head and tells the <em>real</em> stories of English that have never been fully told.<br><br><em>The Stories of English</em> is a history of the language by David Crystal. Crystal provides an original view of where the richness, creativity, and diversity of the language truly lies - in the accents and dialects of nonstandard English users all over the world. Whatever their regional, social, or ethnic background, each group has a story worth telling, whether it is in Scotland or Canada, South Africa or the United States - and Crystal relates the fascinating and sometimes arcane details.<br><br>Interwoven throughout the central chronological story are accounts of uses of dialect around the world, as well as in classics from <em>The Canterbury Tales</em> to <em>The Lord of the Rings<em>. For the first time, regional speech and writing is placed center stage, giving a sense of the social realities behind the development of the English language. This shift in perspective enables the reader to understand, for the first time, the importance of everyday, previously marginalized voices in our language and provides an argument for the way English should be taught in the future.</em></em><br /> <br /> <a href="http://theberlinbooknook.blogspot.de/p/book-search.html?Books_25012016_Author=Crystal, David&Books_25012016_Title=Stories Of English, The">Check that this book is still available</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937856704270701984.post-16863049506929617562016-03-21T06:11:00.031-07:002016-03-21T06:11:49.821-07:00"Under Aglass Bell" for sale at The Berlin Book Nook<br/> <br /> Title: Under Aglass Bell<br /> Author: Nin, Anaïs<br /> Format: Paperback<br /> Publication date: 04/24/1986<br /> <br /> Description (from goodreads.com):<br /> Nelle sedici storie di questo volume, che comprende le raccolte "Campana di vetro" e "Inverno artificiale" è presente un continuo slittamento tra realtà e sogno, in una prosa modellata sull'invenzione e soprattutto filtrata attraverso la lente, deformante e rivelatrice, della sensibilità poetica della Nin. Racconti senza luogo e senza data, dove l'istantanteo si fonde nel ricordo, il passato nel presente, il fantasma nel visibile, uniti da un unico tema: la donna e il suo riflesso, il viaggio interiore intrecciato al vissuto.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://theberlinbooknook.blogspot.de/p/book-search.html?Books_25012016_Author=Nin, Anaïs&Books_25012016_Title=Under Aglass Bell">Check that this book is still available</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937856704270701984.post-11468822700073708422016-03-21T06:11:00.029-07:002016-03-21T06:11:48.633-07:00"Hume in 90 Minutes" for sale at The Berlin Book Nook<br/> <br /> Title: Hume in 90 Minutes<br /> Author: Strathern, Paul<br /> Format: Paperback<br /> Publication date: 06/18/1905<br /> <br /> Description (from goodreads.com):<br /> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://theberlinbooknook.blogspot.de/p/book-search.html?Books_25012016_Author=Strathern, Paul&Books_25012016_Title=Hume in 90 Minutes">Check that this book is still available</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937856704270701984.post-71195067883427231222016-03-21T06:11:00.027-07:002016-03-21T06:11:47.530-07:00"Toast : the Story Of a Boy's Hunger" for sale at The Berlin Book Nook<br/> <br /> Title: Toast : the Story Of a Boy's Hunger<br /> Author: Slater, Nigel<br /> Format: Paperback<br /> Publication date: <br /> <br /> Description (from goodreads.com):<br /> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://theberlinbooknook.blogspot.de/p/book-search.html?Books_25012016_Author=Slater, Nigel&Books_25012016_Title=Toast : the Story Of a Boy's Hunger">Check that this book is still available</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937856704270701984.post-60339600232671146942016-03-21T06:11:00.025-07:002016-03-21T06:11:46.342-07:00"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" for sale at The Berlin Book Nook<br/> <br /> Title: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy<br /> Author: le Carré, John<br /> Format: Paperback<br /> Publication date: 12/01/1975<br /> <br /> Description (from goodreads.com):<br /> It is now beyond a doubt that a mole, implanted decades ago by Moscow Centre, has burrowed his way into the highest echelons of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of its most vital operations and its best networks. It is clear that the double agent is one of its own kind. But which one? George Smiley is assigned to identify him. And once identified, the traitor must be destroyed<br /> <br /> <a href="http://theberlinbooknook.blogspot.de/p/book-search.html?Books_25012016_Author=le Carré, John&Books_25012016_Title=Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy">Check that this book is still available</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937856704270701984.post-80613580785972293822016-03-21T06:11:00.023-07:002016-03-21T06:11:45.250-07:00"Captain Corelli's Mandolin" for sale at The Berlin Book Nook<br/> <br /> Title: Captain Corelli's Mandolin<br /> Author: de Bernières, Louis|BERNIERES, LOUIS DE<br /> Format: Paperback<br /> Publication date: 08/04/1997<br /> <br /> Description (from goodreads.com):<br /> Extravagant, inventive, emotionally sweeping, <strong>Captain Corelli's Mandolin</strong> is the story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history. The place is the Greek island of Cephallonia, where gods once dabbled in the affairs of men and the local saint periodically rises from his sarcophagus to cure the mad. Then the tide of World War II rolls onto the island's shores in the form of the conquering Italian army.<br><br>Caught in the occupation are Pelagia, a willful, beautiful young woman, and the two suitors vying for her love: Mandras, a gentle fisherman turned ruthless guerilla, and the charming, mandolin-playing Captain Corelli, a reluctant officer of the Italian garrison on the island. Rich with loyalties and betrayals, and set against a landscape where the factual blends seamlessly with the fantastic, <strong>Captain Corelli's Mandolin</strong> is a passionate novel as rich in ideas as it is genuinely moving.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://theberlinbooknook.blogspot.de/p/book-search.html?Books_25012016_Author=de Bernières, Louis|BERNIERES, LOUIS DE&Books_25012016_Title=Captain Corelli's Mandolin">Check that this book is still available</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937856704270701984.post-70197637090349060472016-03-21T06:11:00.021-07:002016-03-21T06:11:41.615-07:00"Office Of Innocence, The" for sale at The Berlin Book Nook<br/> <br /> Title: Office Of Innocence, The<br /> Author: Keneally, Thomas<br /> Format: Paperback<br /> Publication date: 04/28/2003<br /> <br /> Description (from goodreads.com):<br /> Keneally at his powerful best, with the gripping tale of a priest and a serial killer in World War II Australia<br /> <br /> <a href="http://theberlinbooknook.blogspot.de/p/book-search.html?Books_25012016_Author=Keneally, Thomas&Books_25012016_Title=Office Of Innocence, The">Check that this book is still available</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937856704270701984.post-67222282193662918022016-03-21T06:11:00.019-07:002016-03-21T06:11:40.372-07:00"Illegal Action" for sale at The Berlin Book Nook<br/> <br /> Title: Illegal Action<br /> Author: Rimington, Stella<br /> Format: Paperback<br /> Publication date: 10/02/2008<br /> <br /> Description (from goodreads.com):<br /> When MI5 intelligence officer Liz Carlyle learns of a Russian government plot to kill super-rich Nikita Brunovsky - a man who openly criticises the Putin regime from his London base - it's a race against time to track down the killer. How the Russian is to be silenced is unclear, but the Foreign Office dreads any kind of incident and Liz must work fast to protect him.<br><br>As she goes undercover, desperately trying to find out who in Brunovsky's retinue might betray him, Liz discovers that an 'illegal' Russian agent has arrived in London. Is this the assassin she is seeking? Under an assumed name, caught up in the high-octane world of the oligarchs, Liz soon finds herself in terrible danger...<br /> <br /> <a href="http://theberlinbooknook.blogspot.de/p/book-search.html?Books_25012016_Author=Rimington, Stella&Books_25012016_Title=Illegal Action">Check that this book is still available</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937856704270701984.post-61091029054438876642016-03-21T06:11:00.017-07:002016-03-21T06:11:39.284-07:00"Back When We Were Grownups" for sale at The Berlin Book Nook<br/> <br /> Title: Back When We Were Grownups<br /> Author: Tyler, Anne<br /> Format: Paperback<br /> Publication date: 07/04/2002<br /> <br /> Description (from goodreads.com):<br /> One morning, Rebecca wakes up and realises she has turned into the wrong person. Is she really this joyous and outgoing organiser of parties, the put-upon heart of her dead husband's extended family? What happened to her quiet and serious nineteen-year-old self, and what would have happened if she'd married her college sweetheart? Can someone ever recover the person they've left behind?<br><br><strong>OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLD</strong><br><br>‘She’s changed my perception on life’ Anna Chancellor<br><br>‘One of my favourite authors ’ Liane Moriarty<br><br>‘She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan<br><br>‘Anne Tyler has no peer’ Anita Shreve<br><br>‘My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world’ Nick Hornby<br><br>‘A masterly author’ Sebastian Faulks<br><br>‘Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good’ John Updike<br><br>‘I love Anne Tyler’ Anita Brookner<br><br>‘Her fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humour’ Eudora Welty<br /> <br /> <a href="http://theberlinbooknook.blogspot.de/p/book-search.html?Books_25012016_Author=Tyler, Anne&Books_25012016_Title=Back When We Were Grownups">Check that this book is still available</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937856704270701984.post-18701082016485886692016-03-21T06:11:00.015-07:002016-03-21T06:11:38.060-07:00"Death Of William Posters, The" for sale at The Berlin Book Nook<br/> <br /> Title: Death Of William Posters, The<br /> Author: Sillitoe, Alan<br /> Format: <br /> Publication date: <br /> <br /> Description (from goodreads.com):<br /> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://theberlinbooknook.blogspot.de/p/book-search.html?Books_25012016_Author=Sillitoe, Alan&Books_25012016_Title=Death Of William Posters, The">Check that this book is still available</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937856704270701984.post-57561560272869391932016-03-21T06:11:00.013-07:002016-03-21T06:11:37.001-07:00"All Passion Spent" for sale at The Berlin Book Nook<br/> <br /> Title: All Passion Spent<br /> Author: Sackville-West, Vita|Glendinning, Victoria<br /> Format: Paperback<br /> Publication date: 05/01/1983<br /> <br /> Description (from goodreads.com):<br /> In 1860, as a young girl of 17, Lady Slane nurtures a secret, burning ambitionâ€"to become an artist. She becomes, instead, the wife of a great statesman and the mother of six children. Seventy years later, released by widowhood, and to the dismay of her pompous children, she abandons the family home for a tiny house in Hampstead. Here she recollects the dreams of youth, and revels in her newfound freedom with her odd assortment of companions: Genoux, her French maid; Mr. Bucktrout, her house agent; and a coffin maker who pictures people dead in order to reveal their true characters. And then there's Mr. FitzGeorge, an eccentric millionaire who met and loved her in India when she was young and very lovely. It is here in this world of her own that she finds a passion that comes only with the freedom to choose, and it is this, her greatest gift, that she passes on to the only one who can understand its value. <br><br>First published in 1931, Vita Sackville-West's masterpiece is the fictional companion to her great friend Virginia Woolf's<em> A Room of One's Own</em>.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://theberlinbooknook.blogspot.de/p/book-search.html?Books_25012016_Author=Sackville-West, Vita|Glendinning, Victoria&Books_25012016_Title=All Passion Spent">Check that this book is still available</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937856704270701984.post-15769073845664645782016-03-21T06:11:00.011-07:002016-03-21T06:11:36.010-07:00"Three Stations" for sale at The Berlin Book Nook<br/> <br /> Title: Three Stations<br /> Author: Smith, Martin Cruz<br /> Format: Paperback<br /> Publication date: 06/01/2011<br /> <br /> Description (from goodreads.com):<br /> «Un tren de pasajeros cruza la noche a sacudidas. Una solitaria madre adolescente se dirige a Moscú buscando una nueva vida. Un soldado de corazón endurecido la observa furtivamente, pensando en sexo. Cuando el tren llega a destino, un bebé ha desaparecido sin dejar rastro.» Y Renko deberá resolver el enigma.Martin Cruz Smith es uno de los maestros indiscutibles del thriller internacional, avalado por la crÃtica más prestigiosa. Sus tramas, magistralmente ambientadas en Rusia, han seducido a los lectores más exigentes de novela negra.'Las tres estaciones' está protagonizado, al igual que 'Parque Gorki', por el célebre detective Arkady Renko y ambientada en la turbulenta Moscú de nuestros dÃas.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://theberlinbooknook.blogspot.de/p/book-search.html?Books_25012016_Author=Smith, Martin Cruz&Books_25012016_Title=Three Stations">Check that this book is still available</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937856704270701984.post-81095189136185241292016-03-21T06:11:00.009-07:002016-03-21T06:11:34.462-07:00"Memories Of the Ford Administration" for sale at The Berlin Book Nook<br/> <br /> Title: Memories Of the Ford Administration<br /> Author: Updike, John<br /> Format: Unknown Binding<br /> Publication date: 05/26/1999<br /> <br /> Description (from goodreads.com):<br /> Alfred Clayton, the hero of John Updike's fifteenth novel, has received a request from the Northern New England Association of American Historians for his memories and impressions of the Gerald Ford Administration (1974-77). "Alf" obliges with his memories of a turbulent period in his personal history, as well as pages of an unpublished book he was writing at the time, on the life of James Buchanan, the fifteenth President of the United States (1857-61). The alternating texts body forth an arresting contrast between the life-styles and social dictions of two American centuries. The contemporary characters include Clayton's wife, Norma, whom he thinks of as the Queen of Disorder, and his mistress, Genevieve Mueller, whom he thinks of as the Perfect Wife, as well as his various colleagues on the faculty of Wayward College in New Hampshire. The characters around Buchanan include his doomed fiancee, Ann Coleman, and such eloquent contemporary politicians as Andrew Jackson, Edwin Stanton, and (in his capacity as American Consul in Liverpool) Nathaniel Hawthorne. All come unsettlingly to life in Clayton's wide-ranging confessions, which bring us down to the year 1991.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://theberlinbooknook.blogspot.de/p/book-search.html?Books_25012016_Author=Updike, John&Books_25012016_Title=Memories Of the Ford Administration">Check that this book is still available</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937856704270701984.post-9493341151817691072016-03-21T06:11:00.007-07:002016-03-21T06:11:33.299-07:00"Shipping News, The" for sale at The Berlin Book Nook<br/> <br /> Title: Shipping News, The<br /> Author: Proulx, Annie|Proulx, E. Annie<br /> Format: Paperback<br /> Publication date: 08/01/1993<br /> <br /> Description (from goodreads.com):<br /> When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just desserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters and family members all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As Quoyle confronts his private demons--and the unpredictable forces of nature and society--he begins to see the possibility of love without pain or misery. A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family, <em>The Shipping News</em> shows why Annie Proulx is recognized as one of the most gifted and original writers in America today.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://theberlinbooknook.blogspot.de/p/book-search.html?Books_25012016_Author=Proulx, Annie|Proulx, E. Annie&Books_25012016_Title=Shipping News, The">Check that this book is still available</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937856704270701984.post-34161330898883356702016-03-21T06:11:00.005-07:002016-03-21T06:11:31.347-07:00"Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes" for sale at The Berlin Book Nook<br/> <br /> Title: Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes<br /> Author: Strathern, Paul<br /> Format: Paperback<br /> Publication date: 04/18/1996<br /> <br /> Description (from goodreads.com):<br /> "If we accept Wittgenstein's word for it," Paul Strathern writes, "he is the last philosopher. In his view, philosophy in the traditional sense was finished." Ludwig Wittgenstein was a superb logician who distrusted language & sought to solve the problems of philosophy by reducing them to logic. All else-- metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, finally even philosophy itself--was excluded. They were all wrong, he argued. "What we cannot speak about," he declared, "we must pass over in silence." In Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Wittgenstein's life & ideas, & explains their influence on the struggle to understand existence in the world. The book also includes selections from Wittgenstein's work; a brief list of suggested reading for those who wish to push further; & chronologies that place Wittgenstein within his own age & in the broader scheme of philosophy.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://theberlinbooknook.blogspot.de/p/book-search.html?Books_25012016_Author=Strathern, Paul&Books_25012016_Title=Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes">Check that this book is still available</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937856704270701984.post-77543397991151683242016-03-21T06:11:00.003-07:002016-03-21T06:11:29.022-07:00"Abyss, The" for sale at The Berlin Book Nook<br/> <br /> Title: Abyss, The<br /> Author: Yourcenar, Marguerite|Frick, Grace<br /> Format: Paperback<br /> Publication date: 04/26/1985<br /> <br /> Description (from goodreads.com):<br /> This historical novel presents the life of an imaginary Renaissance physician, Zeno of Bruges, and reflects Yourcenar's fascination with the occult. Zeno's personality and life is a combination of DaVinci, Paracelsus, Copernicus, and Giordano Bruno. Through Zeno's search for truth and the characters surrounding him, Yourcenar narrates life in the 16th century, perfectly reconstructing that time period in which the Middle Ages and Renaissance met.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://theberlinbooknook.blogspot.de/p/book-search.html?Books_25012016_Author=Yourcenar, Marguerite|Frick, Grace&Books_25012016_Title=Abyss, The">Check that this book is still available</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937856704270701984.post-47959982378834569402016-03-21T06:11:00.001-07:002016-03-21T06:11:26.498-07:00"Big Red Train Ride, The" for sale at The Berlin Book Nook<br/> <br /> Title: Big Red Train Ride, The<br /> Author: Newby, Eric<br /> Format: Paperback<br /> Publication date: 11/10/1989<br /> <br /> Description (from goodreads.com):<br /> The only continuous land route between Western Europe and the Pacific coast of the USSR, the Trans-Siberian Railway covers nearly a 100 degrees of longitude, seven time zones and 5900 miles in a journey lasting 192 hours and 35 minutes. In 1977 Eric Newby set out with his wife, an official guide and a photographer to gather a wealth of irreverent and humorous detail about life in the USSR.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://theberlinbooknook.blogspot.de/p/book-search.html?Books_25012016_Author=Newby, Eric&Books_25012016_Title=Big Red Train Ride, The">Check that this book is still available</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937856704270701984.post-79673134598949089742016-03-21T06:10:00.039-07:002016-03-21T06:10:25.384-07:00"Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance" for sale at The Berlin Book Nook<br/> <br /> Title: Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance<br /> Author: Levitt, Steven D.|Dubner, Stephen J.|Levitt, S. J. Dubner S. D.<br /> Format: Paperback<br /> Publication date: 06/24/2010<br /> <br /> Description (from goodreads.com):<br /> <strong>Sequel to the international bestseller Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner's Superfreakonomics is an irresistible look at the counterintuitive science of everyday life.</strong><br><br>The Freakquel is here. In Superfreakonomics Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner look deeper, question harder and uncover even more hidden truths about our world, from terrorism to shark attacks, cable TV to hurricanes. They ask, among other things:<br><br>What's a sure-fire way to catch a terrorist?<br>Are people hard-wired for altruism or selfishness?<br>Which cancer does chemotherapy work best for?<br>Why is combating global warming easier than we think?<br>Sometimes, the most superfreaky solution is the simplest.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://theberlinbooknook.blogspot.de/p/book-search.html?Books_25012016_Author=Levitt, Steven D.|Dubner, Stephen J.|Levitt, S. J. Dubner S. D.&Books_25012016_Title=Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance">Check that this book is still available</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937856704270701984.post-43565581442449285222016-03-21T06:10:00.037-07:002016-03-21T06:10:24.276-07:00"Philomena: the True Story Of a Mother and the Son She Had to Give Away" for sale at The Berlin Book Nook<br/> <br /> Title: Philomena: the True Story Of a Mother and the Son She Had to Give Away<br /> Author: Sixsmith, Martin|Dench, Judi<br /> Format: Paperback<br /> Publication date: 10/10/2013<br /> <br /> Description (from goodreads.com):<br /> Soon to be a major motion picture starring Judi Dench: the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 years<br><br>When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a “fallen woman.†Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty years later, Philomena decided to find him.<br><br>Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Philomena’s son was trying to find her. Renamed Michael Hess, he had become a leading lawyer in the first Bush administration, and he struggled to hide secrets that would jeopardize his career in the Republican Party and endanger his quest to find his mother.<br><br>A gripping exposé told with novelistic intrigue, Philomena pulls back the curtain on the role of the Catholic Church in forced adoptions and on the love between a mother and son who endured a lifelong separation.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://theberlinbooknook.blogspot.de/p/book-search.html?Books_25012016_Author=Sixsmith, Martin|Dench, Judi&Books_25012016_Title=Philomena: the True Story Of a Mother and the Son She Had to Give Away">Check that this book is still available</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937856704270701984.post-85972958048245180732016-03-21T06:10:00.035-07:002016-03-21T06:10:22.883-07:00"Child 44" for sale at The Berlin Book Nook<br/> <br /> Title: Child 44<br /> Author: Smith, Tom Rob<br /> Format: Paperback<br /> Publication date: 04/28/2011<br /> <br /> Description (from goodreads.com):<br /> Stalin's Soviet Union strives to be a paradise for its workers, providing for all of their needs. One of its fundamental pillars is that its citizens live free from the fear of ordinary crime and criminals.<br><br>But in this society, millions do live in fear . . . of the State. Death is a whisper away. The mere suspicion of ideological disloyalty-owning a book from the decadent West, the wrong word at the wrong time-sends millions of innocents into the Gulags or to their executions. Defending the system from its citizens is the MGB, the State Security Force. And no MGB officer is more courageous, conscientious, or idealistic than Leo Demidov.<br><br>A war hero with a beautiful wife, Leo lives in relative luxury in Moscow, even providing a decent apartment for his parents. His only ambition has been to serve his country. For this greater good, he has arrested and interrogated.<br><br>Then the impossible happens. A different kind of criminal-a murderer-is on the loose, killing at will. At the same time, Leo finds himself demoted and denounced by his enemies, his world turned upside down, and every belief he's ever held shattered. The only way to save his life and the lives of his family is to uncover this criminal. But in a society that is officially paradise, it's a crime against the State to suggest that a murderer-much less a serial killer-is in their midst. Exiled from his home, with only his wife, Raisa, remaining at his side, Leo must confront the vast resources and reach of the MBG to find and stop a criminal that the State won't admit even exists.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://theberlinbooknook.blogspot.de/p/book-search.html?Books_25012016_Author=Smith, Tom Rob&Books_25012016_Title=Child 44">Check that this book is still available</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0