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Husbands and Lovers

Husbands and Lovers
  • Author(s): Beatriz Williams
  • Location(s): Egypt, New England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century / 2022

Two women–separated by decades and continents, and united by a mysterious family heirloom–reclaim family secrets and lost loves in this sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives. New England, 2022. Three years ago,...

Husbands: Love and Lies in La-La Land

Husbands: Love and Lies in La-La Land
  • Author(s): Mo Fanning
  • Location(s): Hollywood, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): LGBTQIA+, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Hollywood, every pavement star tells a story. Not all of them shine. Wannabe actor Kyle Macdonald is down on his luck. Working as a supply teacher in an inner-city Birmingham school, he’s single again at 28, and sleeping...

Hush!

Hush!
  • Author(s): Minfong Ho
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

In an endearing lullaby, a mother asks a lizard, a monkey, and a water buffalo to be quiet and not disturb her sleeping baby.

Hyderabad

Hyderabad
  • Author(s): Manreet Sodhi Someshwar
  • Location(s): Hyderabad
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Post 1947

Book 2 of The Partition Trilog Mir Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, is the Nizam of Hyderabad, the largest Princely State of the Crown. It sits in the belly of newly independent India to which Jawaharlal Nehru and...

HYDRA IN WINTER: An Island Escape in Search of a Greek Pirate

HYDRA IN WINTER: An Island Escape in Search of a Greek Pirate
  • Author(s): Shelley Dark
  • Location(s): Hydra
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Shelley Dark lands solo on the Greek island of Hydra for two weeks in the dead of winter, she’s not chasing sunny beaches. She’s hunting a pirate—her husband’s great-great-grandfather and Australia’s first Greek convict. Armed with an umbrella,...

HYDRA IN WINTER: An Island Escape in Search of a Greek Pirate

HYDRA IN WINTER: An Island Escape in Search of a Greek Pirate
  • Author(s): Shelley Dark
  • Location(s): Hydra
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): modern day

When I land solo on the Greek island of Hydra for two weeks in the dead of winter, I’m not chasing sunny beaches. I’m hunting a pirate — my husband’s great-great-grandfather and Australia’s first Greek convict. Armed with an...

I Am a Brave Bridge: An American Girl’s Hilarious and Heartbreaking Year in the Fledgling Republic of Slovakia

I Am a Brave Bridge: An American Girl’s Hilarious and Heartbreaking Year in the Fledgling Republic of Slovakia
  • Author(s): Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
  • Location(s): Slovakia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Once upon a time an American girl moved to a little town in Slovakia. And she fell in love with the country, and with a boy. And then another boy. And then about a dozen boys fell in love...

I am a Cat

I am a Cat
  • Author(s): Natsume Soseki
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Cat lovers will delight in the thoughts of a cat whose particular joy in life is commenting on the folly of human beings. Based on a nameless cat’s observations of upper-middle-class Japanese society of the Meiji era, the essence...

I Am a Taxi

I Am a Taxi
  • Author(s): Deborah Ellis
  • Location(s): Bolivia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For twelve-year-old Diego and his family, home is the San Sebastian Women’s Prison in Cochabamba, Bolivia. His parents farmed coca, a traditional Bolivian medicinal plant, until they got caught in the middle of the government’s war on drugs. Diego...

I Am An Island

I Am An Island
  • Author(s): Tamsin Calidas
  • Location(s): The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Tamsin Calidas first arrives on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides, it feels like coming home. Disenchanted by London, she and her husband left the city and high-flying careers to move the 500 miles north, despite having...

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