- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 20th century
A surprising and highly entertaining story of revolutionary vigor and sexual desire, infused with the humor of Yan Lianke’s Serve the People!, Hard Like Water is an unforgettable portrait of two young revolutionaries whose forbidden love sets them against...
Hard Times in Paradise: The History of Seychelles 1827-1919
- Location(s): Seychelles
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1827-1919
“Hard Times in Paradise” describes life in the Seychelles islands under the British, first as a Dependency of Mauritius and later as one of the Empire’s smallest Crown colonies. The story opens in 1827, the year that saw the...
- Location(s): New Jersey
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Trouble comes in bunches for Stephanie Plum. First, professional grave robber and semi-professional loon, Simon Diggery, won’t let her take him in until she agrees to care for his boa constrictor, Ethel. Stephanie’s main qualification for babysitting an extremely...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
(Inspector Ikmen Mystery 5) ‘Nadel’s novels take in all of Istanbul – the mysterious, the beautiful, the hidden, the banal… Fascinating’ – Scotland on Sunday A serial killer is stalking the streets of Istanbul, seemingly targeting gay men. A...
- Location(s): Harlem
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1930s
1936, September 17th, 1am… In the middle of Harlem, in the dead of night, a woman falls from a second storey window. In her hand, she holds a passport and the name written on it is Lena Aldridge… Nine...
- Location(s): Harlem
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 1960s
To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Regency period
Richard Brinsley Sheridan Mysteries Book 1 1791 Revolution in France is causing refugees to flee to England and London is fast becoming a hotbed of spies, government agents and fanatics. When renowned Irish playwright, Richard Brinsley Sheridan is led...
- Location(s): Las Vegas
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): N/A
When I’m on the trapeze, I feel whole. When I’m in the air with the ropes between my fingers, I feel like I’m everything I ever want to be in the world. This is what I want. It s...
- Location(s): Ghana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Harmattan Rain, shortlisted for the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Best First Book, follows three generations of women as they cope with family, love and life. A few years before Ghana’s independence, Lizzie-Achiaa’s lover disappears. Intent on finding him, she...
- Location(s): Bellingham
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
Sixteen-year-old, music- and sound design-obsessed Drea doesn’t have friends. She has, as she’s often reminded, issues. Drea’s mom and a rotating band of psychiatrists have settled on “a touch of Asperger’s.” Having just moved to the latest in a...
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