Girl With a Pearl Earring Condition:Like New The dictator who grew so

The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast

dyed fabrics ranked among the most expensive objects of the ancient Mediterranean world

Andrew Clements again holds up a mirror to real life

Schuman shoots for publications including French Vogue

whom the ruling military junta prevented from visiting Burma as he was dying of cancer - reflects her greatest hopes and fears for her fellow Burmese people

Girl With a Pearl Earring Condition:Like New The dictator who grew soAn international bestseller with over two million copies sold, this is a story of an artist's desire for beauty and the ultimate corruption of innocence. When Griet becomes a maid in the household of Johannes Vermeer in the town of Delft, she thinks she knows her role: housework, laundry and the care of his six children. But as she becomes part of his world and his work, their growing intimacy spreads tension and deception in the ordered household