Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett

Bel Canto is a wonderful book on the forming of bonds between people and the transformation of character with circumstance, by a great American writer, Ann Patchett.
Ann Patchett was born in Los Angeles in 1963 and raised in Nashville. In 1990, she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars. It was named a New [...]

The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho

Is this yet another tale of a wild chase after a treasure, or what is it? It is, and yet it most certainly is not! This fable, about an Andalusian shepherd boy, with its seemingly trivial story line, has sold more than 65 million copies world wide. And, even though The Alchemist was first published in Brazil as recently as [...]