Hitchhiking Across America: 1963
- Location(s): North America
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Nick is a nineteen-year-old college student at UC Berkeley who quits his Lake Tahoe summer job to see America and meet Americans, face-to-face, hitching rides from Tahoe to Los Angeles, New Orleans, Miami, New York City, and points in-between....
- Location(s): Ecuador
- Genre(s): Adventure
- Era(s): 1980's
A missing historian. A village with a secret. Can a courageous geologist use her skills to foil a sinister plot? Start reading this fast-paced semi-finalist from the 2018 Adventure Writers’ Competition. Geologist Sam Harris loves getting her hands dirty....
- Location(s): Germany, Slovenia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1940s-2000s
Hitler’s Stolen Children is a powerful, first-person account of being at the heart of one of the Nazi’s cruelest and most obscene experiments—the Lebensborn program to create a new Aryan master race. In 1942, when she was nine months...
- Location(s): Ghana, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Moving between Ghana and London, Hold is an intimate, powerful coming-of-age novel. It’s a story of friendship and family, shame and forgiveness; of learning what we should cling to, and when we need to let go. ‘You have to...
- Location(s): South Carolina
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1772 American Revolution
The leisurely life Louis has intended does not include revolution. Charles Town, South Carolina, 1772—Louis Lestarjette arrives from France without purpose or plans beyond reconnecting with family and making a profit. Finding the town questioning its alliances, Louis must...
- Location(s): Tirana
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘I photographed the moment of my husband’s death…’ So begins HOLD STILL, a nerve-twisting thriller from bestselling author Tim Adler. How much do we really know about those we love? Kate is visiting Albania with her husband Paul, a...
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present
The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little drama; and yet its inhabitants are troubled. Sergeant PJ Collins hasn’t always been this overweight; mother of two Brid Riordan hasn’t always been an alcoholic; and elegant Evelyn Ross hasn’t...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1880s-1960s
This is the story of a street in London’s docklands and of a family who lived in it. The street was built in the 1880s, and the Wheelright family (originally dockers) lived there until its tragic demolition in the...
- Location(s): South West France
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Set in Lancashire and South West France, Holding On Letting Go follows four friends, all facing choices that will tilt the direction of their lives. For Chris, his wife’s words, ‘I’m leaving you,’ devastated his comfortable past, snatched away...
- Location(s): Florida
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary, 1950s
Judah Cannon. Sister Tulah. It all comes down to this. Before the final showdown with Tulah Atwell, the Pentecostal preacher responsible for his father’s death and his own return to a life of crime, however, Judah still has a...
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