Water for Elephants, Sara GruenAn atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of "Riding Lessons." "Gritty, sensual and charged with dark secrets involving love, murder and a majestic, mute heroine (Rosie the Elephant) A STORY OF IMPOSSIBLE LOVE AND A WAY OF LIFE LOST FOREVER 'EVERY BIT THE FABULOUS ESCAPIST ENTERTAINMENT THAT ONCE WAS' (SUNDAY TIMES)

The notion of the brand

Mundy is a down-at-the-heels tour guide in southern Germany

her extraordinary heroines deal with armies of hilariously eccentric relatives

Magnitsky's brutal killing has remained uninvestigated and unpunished to this day

Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a negro butler

a huge heart and impressive understanding

Greece in the age of Heroes

superbly rendered

A grand reminiscence of college and theatre and comedyland in the 1980s

The result is a truly psychotic urban nightmare

as they imagined her in Tehran

The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala