- Location(s): Tehran
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
This award-winning debut novel by Iranian journalist Nasim Marashi follows the lives of three young women in Tehran over the course of two seasons as they pursue their wildly different dreams even as they discover that it may mean...
- Location(s): Delaware
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s and the present
The New York Times bestselling author revisits the characters from her beloved novels Love Walked In and Belong to Me in this captivating, beautifully written drama involving family, friendship, secrets, sacrifice, courage, and true love for fans of Jojo...
- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
When the body of a young girl is found hanging from a tree, the only clue the police have is an airline tag around her neck. It reads ‘I’m travelling alone’. In response, police investigator Holger Munch is immediately...
- Location(s): New Jersey
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Eighteen-year-old Kerry Dowling is found fully dressed at the bottom of the family pool. She threw a party the night before, while her parents were away; her house was full of people. But no one saw anything. The police...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Victorian era, 19th century
Nominated for the Carnegie Medal Highly Commended, Young Quills Historical Fiction Award Ada Byron is rich and clever, but she longs to be free. Free to explore all the amazing ideas that come to her imagination, like flying mechanical...
- Location(s): Florence, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 16th Century to present
In Leonardo da Vinci’s studio, bursting with genius imagination, towering commissions and needling patrons, as well as discontented muses, friends and rivals, sits the painting of the Mona Lisa. For five hundred tumultuous years, amid a whirlwind of power,...
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
- Location(s): Salem
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 17th century
At the age of seven, Tituba watched as her mother was hanged for daring to wound a plantation owner who tried to rape her. She was raised from then on by Mama Yaya, a gifted woman who shared with...
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): early 2000s
After 602 days dry, Captain Benny Griessel of the South African police services can’t take any more tragedy. So when Benny is called in to investigate a multiple homicide, it pushes him close to breaking point – a former...
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): early 21st century
On holiday leave from the service, Gabriel McQueen is sent into a brewing ice storm to make sure that his father’s distant neighbor, Lolly Helton, who has fallen out of contact, is safe and sound. It’s a trip that...
- Location(s): Antarctica
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1990s
Jerri Nielsen was a forty-six year old doctor working in Ohio when she made the decision to take a year’s sabbatical at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Station in Antarctica, the most remote and perilous place on earth. The...
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