Lloyd Jones

In tango, there are no wrong turns. But every dance begins with a backward step.
Taking his cue from the tango, the acclaimed author of Mister Pip has written a thrilling and sensuous novel about how we fall in love.
Ranging from rural New Zealand during the final days of World War I to Buenos Aires at mid-century to the present day, this masterful novel intertwines two love stories across three generations. The deep suspicions...

"The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. From the palace-city of Persepolis, Cyrus the Great, Darius, Xerxes, and their heirs reigned supreme for centuries until the conquests of Alexander of Macedon brought the empire to a swift and unexpected end in the late 330s BCE. In Persians, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the epic story of...

"Once upon a time there was a Princess. She had everything a little girl could ever want, and she was happy. That is, until the fog came..."--Page [4] cover.

A collection of facts and odd tidbits on a number of subjects.

"While making cookies and cupcakes to sell at her father's bakery, a young girl who always tries very hard to make her baking absolutely perfect learns to accept her mistakes and embrace imperfection."--

"Mr. Watts is the last Englishman remaining in a tropical village in Bougainville during its civil war in the 1990s. He begins to teach the local children by reading them Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens. Matilda, an imaginative young girl, is transported into the story of the novel, believing that Dickens' character Pip is her friend. Matilda's 'Pip' world is an extraordinary fusion of Dickens' Victorian London with the environment and people...