The Prague astronomical clock is featured on the front cover. The back cover features people in medieval attire among the performers in a festival of The Five Petalled Rose in Cesky Krumlov, The Czech Republic. Edited by Joanne Asala. Proverbs from the Czech language. Friends, Man's Best Friend, Husbands and Wives, The Great Outdoors, Law and Order, Religion, The LIfe of a Peasant, The Czech Spirit, Bread and Butter, Wine and Spirits, Words Spoken, Health and Medicine, Money Makes the World Go Around, Sage Words, and The Passing of Time. Examples: Everyone drives the water to his own mill....

In a City Transformed is the fourth volume of the acclaimed Stockholm Series by Per Anders Fogelstrom. It opens with the watershed year of 1928, on the eve of the Great Depression. As Sweden heads toward the years of economic crisis and massive unemployment, we the readers reacquaint ourselves with well-loved characters from previous volumes as they age and ponder their existence. The dramatic turns of events of younger characters' lives capture the reader, as they enter adulthood in a volatile period in history. People grow and change as does the ever-transforming city, and meanwhile, the...