Fractured SoulAwarded the Prix des libraires by Frances booksellers, a universal story about music and restoring ones faith in others amid the aftermath of tremendous loss. Tokyo, 1938. An amateur quartet, led by the compassionate Yu, gathers to practice. Suddenly, their rehearsal is brutally interrupted by military police. In the ensuing skirmish, Yus violin is smashed while his son, Rei, witnesses his fathers arrest. He will never see him again. Salvaging his

you don't perform at your best

and repairing a bad credit report

crazed with the exhaustion of “having it all

but Willow soon discovers it’s a trap designed by the villainous Brothers of Wol

it's also their home

she ends her self-imposed exile in London and returns to the South Africa she thought she'd escaped

or Ali Benjamin

the unvarnished truth

and especially her hilarious

executive coach Amanda Dewinter uses her thirty years of expertise and the latest coaching

it is an attempt to redirect the anxiety that’s pooled in her fingertips for as long as she can remember

Inside the captain’s cabin is a magnificent treasure that is as priceless as it is miraculous: a clockwork gold map imbedded with an intricate silver astrolabe