- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
At a family wedding, the four Sorenson sisters polka-dot the green lawn in their summer pastels, with varying shades of hair and varying degrees of unease. Their long-infatuated parents watch on with a combination of love and concern. Sixteen...
- Location(s): Southern California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
It’s the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother’s recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor’s son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose...
- Location(s): South America
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1952
In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on a 500cc Norton. One of them was the twenty-three-year-old Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara. Written eight years before the Cuban Revolution, these are the diaries...
- Location(s): The Dolomites
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Jeremiah Salinger blames himself. The crash was his fault. He was the only survivor. Now the depression and the nightmares are closing in. Only his daughter Clara can put a smile on his face. But when he takes Clara...
- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1968
In 1968, Papua New Guinea is on the brink of independence, and everything is about to change. Amidst the turmoil filmmaker Leonard arrives from England with his Dutch wife, Rika, to study and film an isolated village high in...
- Location(s): Lesotho, Tšoeneng
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Kingdom of Lesotho is a mountainous enclave in southern Africa, and like mountain zones throughout the world it is isolated, steeped in tradition, and home to few outsiders. The people, known as Basotho, are respected in the area...
The Mountains of Paris: How Awe and Wonder Rewrote My Life
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 21st Century
Living in Paris for a winter and a spring and waking each morning to a view of Notre Dame, David Oates is led to revise his life story from one of trudging and occasional woe into one punctuated by...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
An intimate, stirring portrait of a country at war and a family’s battle to survive With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains...
- Location(s): Mousehole
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 20th Century
This is the stunningly illustrated story of the seaside village of Mousehole Cornwall, where Mowzer the cat lives happily with old fisherman Tom – Tom who rocks the rocking chair just right, and catches fresh fish for dinner every...
- Location(s): Arizona
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1890s
Arvel Walsh can tame mules, but can he tame the wild Arizona frontier, and the Mexican girl known as Chica, a young woman as unpredictable as the land she roams? Arizona in 1892 is the last of the wild...
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