No Laughter Here - Rita Williams-GarciaCondition: New Even though they were born in different countries, Akilah and Victoria are true best friends. But Victoria has been acting strange ever since she returned from her summer in Nigeria, where she had a special coming of age ceremony. Why does proud Victoria, named for a queen, slouch at her desk and answer the teacher's questions in a whisper? And why won't she laugh with Akilah anymore? Akilah's name means "intelligent," and she is

Set in South Carolina in 1964

and a woman who teaches her how to dance to the music of the world

Frieda flees to England

So begins a love affair with books and words

Rather than recount his entire life story

She assumes Scout has died and that there will be a reading of his will

moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez

this brilliant novel presents with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha

living up to my parents’ high expectations

she studied the art of pleasure

and still loves is arrested for murder: Oleg

a philosophical novel full of the grim humour that was already his trade-mark in such earlier fictions as MORE PRICKS THAN KICKS and MURPHY