Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried any time soon. But surely there is more to life at his age than weak tea and potted geraniums? Hendrik sets out to write an exposé: a year in the life of his care home in Amsterdam, revealing all its ups and downs-- not least his new endeavor, the anarchic Old-But-Not-Dead Club. And when Eefje moves in-- the woman Hendrik has always longed for-- he polishes his shoes...

"As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier's eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined, until now. But the journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town's bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing and too earth-shattering in its implications, to be forgotten. Because if what Kate Holland saw in those days is real, then we must accept the impossible. We must accept that...

'I'm a barber, ' he said. 'I come from afar. Across lands already forgotten ... ' In an Anatolian village forgotten both by God and the government, the muhtar has been elected leader for the sixteenth successive year. When he staggers to bed that night, drunk on raki and his own well-deserved success, the village is prosperous. But when he is woken by his wife the next evening he discovers that Nuri, the barber, has disappeared without a trace in...

Britain 1941. Still reeling from the greatest loss of his life, the Reverend Major Clement Wisdom is called on again to serve his nation in its time of need. Under the cover of taking up a new parish in far northern Scotland, Clement is sent to the remote village of Huna, in Caithness, to locate a possible enemy agent who is sending out encrypted radio messages. Arriving in the depths of winter, Clement quickly finds it isn't only the temperature...

"Emma Laurent has always preferred helping others to asking for help. But now, she's the one in need. Her stepmother is selling her late father's candy shop, her grandmother's assisted-living facility has become a financial burden, and the anniversary of her fiancee's death is quickly approaching. Rather than face her problems, Emma does what she does best--finds someone else to help by offering a mother and son with nowhere to go somewhere to stay....

"Ruti Midone dvadt︠s︡atʹ chetyre, a po ee oshchushchenii︠a︡m -- vse sto dvadt︠s︡atʹ chetyre. Ona rabotaet menedzherom v spet︠s︡ialʹnom poselke dli︠a︡ prestarelykh li︠u︡deĭ. Zabota ob ėkst︠s︡entrichnykh postoi︠a︡lʹt︠s︡akh pozvoli︠a︡et eĭ polnostʹi︠u︡ ignorirovatʹ otsutstvie lichnoĭ zhizni. U Teddi Preskotta, malʹchika-mazhora i li︠u︡biteli︠a︡ tatuirovok, allergii︠a︡ na li︠u︡bui︠u︡...

"Corre el año 1960 y el mundo está al borde de una revolución cultural, política, sexual y artística. En la isla griega de Hidra, un grupo de poetas, artistas y músicos disfrutan de sus sueños junto a sus líderes no oficiales, los escritores Charmian Clift y George Johnston, los turbulentos reyes de la bohemia. En medio de este círculo de artistas están el cautivador e inescrutable Axel Jensen, su deslumbrante esposa, Marianne Ihlen, y un...