- Location(s): Utah
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern and 1700s
A member of “The Keepers of Order,” an armed militia determined to hunt down the culprits who have been poaching bighorn sheep, is shot while patrolling one of the remotest parts of Utah’s rugged backcountry. In pursuit of the...
- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
Isabel is on a plane heading back to her island birthplace in Papua New Guinea. Izzy is looking forward to seeing her family again, but there’s another tragic reason for the trip. Izzy’s twin brother, Ray, died in a...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
The first question this remarkable new tale of mayhem and misunderstanding asks is: Who is singing the Sharpshooter Blues?Is it Morgan, the teenage trick-shot artist, who stops by The William Tell Grocery in Arrow Catcher, Mississippi, one day to...
The Shell: Memoirs of a Hidden Observer
- Location(s): Palmyra
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
The work of a modern-day Sozhenitsyn that exposes acts of violence and brutality committed by the Syrian regime. This compelling first novel is the astonishing story of a Syrian political prisoner of consciencean atheist mistaken for a radical Islamistwho...
The Sheltered Quarter: A Tale of a Boyhood in Mecca
- Location(s): Mecca
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1st half 20th century
Hamza Bogary describes a bygone way of life that has now irreversibly disappeared. He speaks of life in Mecca before the advent of oil. Only partly autobiographical, the memoir is nevertheless rich in remembered detail based on Bogary’s early...
- Location(s): Namibia
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): WW2
Threatened with Internment for the duration of World War II, two young German geologists, Henno Martin and Hermann Korn, sought refuge in the Namib Desert and lived a Robinson Crusoe existence for two and a half years. How they...
- Location(s): Western Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
For years Jaxie Clackton has dreaded going home. His beloved mum is dead, and he wishes his dad was too, until one terrible moment leaves his life stripped to nothing. No one ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Magical Realism
- Era(s): Contemporary
Fleeing war and the death of her family, Eve has carefully constructed a new life for herself in London. Yet she is troubled by vivid, disturbing dreams, symptoms of her traumatic past, which intrude increasingly on her daily life....
- Location(s): London, World
- Genre(s): Dystopian, Suspense
- Era(s): Future
Welcome to London, but not as you know it. Oxford Street burned for three weeks; Regent’s Park has been bombed; the British Museum is occupied by those with nowhere else to go. Lalla has grown up sheltered from the...
- Location(s): Uruguay
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
‘I am an excellent judge of men and I am sure I will not regret my choice. But it is essential you get to know the company as soon as possible. The post I am offering you is that...
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