Gadji, which in Romany means a non-Gypsy woman, details one woman's involvement with a Muslim Gypsy from Bosnia, who seeks political asylum in France after flight from the Balkans. The tumultuous path of their relationship illustrates the risk inherent in becoming committed to the quest of another, and the difficulty of negotiating language and cultural differences in the face of passionate love.

Gadji

Literature & Fiction

Domaratius, Louise

United States

Quality Words in Print

Virginia Vanderlyn, infamously adulterous wife of an archaeology professor, is found buried beneath the cellar floorboards of her Clare College home. The murder compels Professors Antigone and Hiawatha Musing to investigate, using their complementary gifts for reason and intuition in this sumptuously atmospheric mystery. Grave Circle seduces readers with alluring settings, poignantly human characters, and a stunning resolution.

Grave Circle: An Ivory Tower Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Nolta, David Derbin

Mystery

Poet Miriam Sagan's intimate, poignant, comical memoir begins with the death of her husband, a thirty-six-year-old Zen Priest. She approaches grief in typical baby boomer fashion: going to Korea, attending weightlifting classes, and searching for new lovers. She ultimately finds that she is not alone, and that she is surrounded with continuity, community, and all the beauty that is life.

Searching for a Mustard Seed: One Young Widow's Unconventional Story

Sagan, Miriam

Biographies & Memoirs

This quiet story of the Holocaust chronicles the lives of several Danes through the summer of 1943. It is the discontinuity of small things--the scattered inconveniences, chance meetings, glimpses of injustice, and indulgences of hope,--that haphazardly directs each individual to his fate. An hypnotic story of ordinary people caught in a silent maelstrom, ultimately driven to extraordinary feats. FIC000000

The Discontinuity of Small Things

Kevin Haworth

Hiawatha and Antigone Musing -- siblings, professors, and part-time sleuths -- return in the highly anticipated second of the Ivory Tower Mystery series, this time puzzling through a pair of murderers that occur at the grand English estate Lostlindens, where they have traveled with a group of American college students to view a priceless Shakespearean relic. FIC022000

Lostlindens: An Ivory Tower Mystery