- Location(s): London, Notting Hill
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James are drawn into separate investigations that hold disturbing–and deadly–complications for their own lives in this powerful mystery in the bestselling series. On a beautiful morning in mid-May, the body of a...
- Location(s): Portugal
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s - present day
The Alentejo, Portugal 1934 I am Inês Bretão and I am 18 years old. Now that I am finally an adult and soon to be married, I feel like my real life is about to begin. I have decided...
Garden of the Lost and Abandoned
- Location(s): Uganda
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
The problem by most lights is overwhelming: at least 5,000 children live on the streets of Uganda’s capital city of Kampala. Some forget the names of their villages. The youngest may not know the names of their parents. But Gladys Kalibbala—part journalist,...
- Location(s): North Carolina, Bascom
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 20th century
The women of the Waverley family — whether they like it or not — are heirs to an unusual legacy, one that grows in a fenced plot behind their Queen Anne home on Pendland Street in Bascom, North Carolina....
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): N/A
Explore the world’s most stunning gardens and gain expert knowledge you can apply to your own green space with this all-encompassing guide to gorgeous gardens! Illustrated with inspiring photography and full of fascinating insights from expert gardeners, this beautiful...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1999
Turkey, 1999. A devastating earthquake brings Istanbul crumbling to the ground, ripping apart the fragile stability of Sinan’s world. His family home becomes a makeshift tent in a camp run by Western missionaries whom he stubbornly distrusts, and he...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
- Era(s): Modern
Garlic and Sapphires is Ruth Reichl’s riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine undetected when she takes on the much coveted and highly prestigious job of New York Times restaurant critic. Reichl knows that to be...
- Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille)
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Various
A short sublime book on the three things dearest to Jean-Claude Izzo’s heart: his native Marseilles, the sea in all its splendor, and Mediterranean noir–the literary genre his books helped to found. This collection of writings shows Izzo, author...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
It is, of course, the stuff of nightmares. Maureen comes home late and drunk and wakes up next morning with a hangover, and her boyfriend in the next room with his throat cut, and something nasty in the cupboard...
- Location(s): Cardiff
- Genre(s): Children, Historical
- Era(s): 19th century
1899. All Nansi knows is that her mother disappeared on the day she was fished out of Cardiff docks. She can’t remember anything else. Now, with no other family to turn to, she works for Sid at the Empire...
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