Mister RobertsAbove a small village in Spain an English costume designer sees a bright shining star lurch abruptly across the sky. On Christmas Day a strong silent man with blank eyes enters Bar Noche Azul. Only a thirteen year old boy could have guessed that there was any connection between the two. Wonderfully inventive darkly funny thoughtful and full of glorious one liners Mister Roberts is both an original coming of age story and an unusual take on the

Badger's Band

and the scariest to the cutest

friendly and positive guide for women

she had never acknowledged the intergenerational trauma-informed instinct of displacement and placelessness

one of the oldest versions of the epic

Army Intelligence reservist Kat Caldwell is teaching Arabic at a military college in Virginia when the order comes: retired spy chief Dick Morrow needs to find a CIA informant who has slipped away from his handler in Spain and may be heading to Morocco

and I am in prison

Prince Tom comes to the rescue

Written by Valm ki during Rama's time

Two decades earlier

Everywhere we looked

yet complex