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An Elusive Truth

An Elusive Truth
  • Author(s): Jerry Timmins
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

“Time is as elusive as truth,” barks Carrick, the hard-bitten News Editor and when Lucas, a young and ambitious journalist, finds himself disoriented by fear and lies in Haiti, Carrick’s words resonate. Sent to research promised elections, Lucas is...

Son

Son
  • Author(s): Johana Gustawsson, Thomas Enger
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Everyone here is lying… Expert on body language and memory, and consultant to the Oslo Police, psychologist Kari Voss sleepwalks through her days, and, by night, continues the devastating search for her young son, who disappeared on his birthday,...

The Café With No Name

The Café With No Name
  • Author(s): Robert Seethaler, Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

It is 1966, and Robert Simon has just fulfilled his dream by taking over a café on the corner of a bustling Vienna market. He recruits a barmaid, Mila, and soon the customers flock in. Factory workers, market traders,...

A Savage War of Peace

A Savage War of Peace
  • Author(s): Alistair Horne
  • Location(s): Algeria
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Post colonial

The Algerian War lasted from 1954-1962. It caused the fall of six French governments, the collapse of the fourth Republic, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim Algerians died in...

Pinch Me: Waking Up in a 300-Year-Old Italian Farmhouse

Pinch Me: Waking Up in a 300-Year-Old Italian Farmhouse
  • Author(s): Barbara Boyle
  • Location(s): Piedmont
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

For fans of Stanley Tucci and Frances Mayes, Barbara Boyle’s story of leaving her California home to restore an old stone farmhouse in Italy’s Piedmont—only to fall in love with the food and people of her enchanting new town—will...

Firebird

Firebird
  • Author(s): Juliette Cross
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Ancient Rome

(The Fire That Binds) A spicy historical romantasy set in Ancient Rome where Emperors may govern but dragons rule . . . A conqueror captivated. A witch prophesied to save them all. A world where dragons rule Rome. From...

Love’s Knife

Love’s Knife
  • Author(s): Tracey Warr
  • Location(s): Toulouse
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 11th Century

(Trobairitz Sleuth Book 1) 1093. The music of murder. Beatriz de Farrera is a trobairitz (a female troubadour) at the court of Toulouse. She sings of love but intends to evade marriage and romantic entanglements. Her patron, Lady Philippa,...

Loch Down Abbey

Loch Down Abbey
  • Author(s): Beth Cowan-Erskine
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

It’s the 1930s and a mysterious illness is spreading over Scotland. But the noble and ancient family of Inverkillen, residents of Loch Down Abbey, are much more concerned with dwindling toilet roll supplies and who will look after the...

Rory & Chloé: A Dublin Love Story

Rory & Chloé: A Dublin Love Story
  • Author(s): Amelia Doyle
  • Location(s): Dublin, London
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Chloé Amiya Kapoor and Rory McCarthy spent all their childhood summers with Chloé’s aunt Élodie and her wife Saoirse (Rory’s godmother) in beautiful Dublin. Chloé in Mumbai and Rory in London are both astonished when, almost a year after...

Woven in the Mist

Woven in the Mist
  • Author(s): Carole Lehr Johnson
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Dual timeline set in 1603 and 1710

Two women, a century apart, face uncertain futures in the Scottish Highlands… Scotland 1710 Castle Deveron and its gardens form the borders of orphaned Muiriel “Muirie” Stewart’s world. Even with loving guardians, she exists between the family and the...

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