- Location(s): Leavenworth
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Current
Private investigator Eddie Shoes heads to a resort outside Leavenworth, Washington, for a mother-daughter getaway weekend. Eddie’s mother Chava wants to celebrate her new job at a casino by footing the bill for the two of them, and who...
- Location(s): France, Senegal
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Three women who almost had it all…Norah thinks she has made it when she qualifies as a lawyer in Paris; Fanta works her way into a prestigious teaching job in her home city; Khady runs a cafe with her...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In Katy Yocom’s award-winning debut novel, Three Ways to Disappear, two families—one human, one tiger—follow parallel journeys in which the powerful drives to connect, love, and raise the next generation play out against the fact of loss and the...
- Location(s): Indiana, North Dakota, Rhode Island
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Contemporary
All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn’t touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a...
- Location(s): Taiwan
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): late 20th century
Here are twelve moving short stories about Taiwan and its people by one of the island’s most popular writers, Cheng Ch’ing-wen. Focusing primarily on village life and the effects of modernization on Taiwan in the postwar years, Cheng is...
- Location(s): Newport
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1893
Newport, Rhode Island in the last decades of the nineteenth century was a stunningly beautiful and glamorous playground for the rich during the summer months, and a perfect setting for a romance between a rich young man from New...
- Location(s): Jordan
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): early 2000s
Rana Azzoubi’s new book, Through a Mud Wall, is a gripping and fun story about four children, living in the country of Jordan, who embark on an adventure bigger than they could have ever imagined. Nadia and Walid, typical...
Through Gates of Splendour: The Five Missionary Martyrs of Ecuador
- Location(s): Ecuador
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1950s
In 1956, five young American men were martyred by Auca Indians in the jungles of Eucador as they attempted to reach them with the gospel. The widow of one of those men, here records the remarkable story of their...
Through Jaguar Eyes: Crossing the Amazon Basin
- Location(s): Amazon Rainforest
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
An account of a perilous 3600-mile journey made in February 1993 – without compass or map – across the vast Amazon Basin, from the Andes of north-west South America through the tropical jungles of the lowlands to the dense...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Although Gina Perini thrives in her new life as a bookshop manager, her harrowing escape from the war in the Balkans years earlier remains fresh in her mind. There are still those who are searching for her and who...
