- Location(s): Kanazawa, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, In Translation, Mystery
- Era(s): 1958
Tokyo, 1958. Teiko marries Kenichi Uhara, ten years her senior, an advertising man recommended by a go-between. After a four-day honeymoon, Kenichi vanishes. Teiko travels to the coastal and snow-bound city of Kanazawa, where Kenichi was last seen, to...
- Location(s): Versailles, Madrid, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 17th century
Francisca de Luarac, the daughter of a poor Spanish silk grower, is a dreamer of fabulous dreams. Marie Louise de Bourbon, the niece of Louis XIV, dances in slippers of fine Spanish silk in the French Court of the...
- Location(s): Hong Kong, London
- Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
Career-driven fashion designer Celeste Broady meets the man of her dreams while traveling in Thailand. Alex Renshaw seems to have it all: the charm, the charisma and the wealth. After a whirlwind wedding, they move to Hong Kong and...
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Various
In this sweeping novel, James A. Michener chronicles eight tumultuous centuries as three Polish families live out their destinies. The Counts Lubonski, the petty nobles Bukowksi, and the peasants Buk are at some times fiercely united, at others tragically...
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Pomegranate Sky is an evocative story of love and lies set against the turmoil of post-revolutionary Tehran. An impressive debut novel, Pomegranate Sky won the inaugural Virginia Prize for Fiction (2009). Living in contemporary Tehran, Layla refuses to bow...
- Location(s): Bodrum
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Two men. One is perfect, the other… not so much. How do you choose between the man that you should be with and the man you want? _____________________________________________________________________________ What does a marriage proposal, a bout of projectile vomiting and...