The Hospital by the River: A Story of Hope
- Location(s): Ethiopia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1960s, 1970s
Gynaecologists Catherine and Reg Hamlin left Australia in 1959 on a short contract to establish a midwifery school in Ethiopia. Over 40 years later, Catherine is still there, running one of the most outstanding medical programmes in the world....
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In this slim debut novel, he tells a coming-of-age tale of a fairly unpleasant young actor from Texas named William who lives in Manhattan and is working his way through an ugly little relationship with a singer/songwriter named Sarah....
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
- Location(s): Liberia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Journalist Helene Cooper examines the violent past of her home country Liberia and the effects of its 1980 military coup in this deeply personal memoir and finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award. Helene Cooper is “Congo,”...
The House at the Edge of the Night
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century
On a tiny island off the coast of Italy, Amedeo Esposito, a foundling from Florence, thinks he has found a place where, finally, he can belong. Intrigued by a building the locals believe to be cursed, Amedeo restores the...
- Location(s): Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s onwards
From the bestselling author of The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle, a novel of long-hidden family secrets that refuse to lie buried in the past . . . Scotland 1950s Walter MacMillan is bewitched by the clever, glamorous Jean Thompson...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1852 and 2004
A stunning debut novel of love, family, and justice that intertwines the stories of an escaped house slave in 1852 Virginia and ambitious young lawyer in contemporary New York Virginia, 1852. Seventeen-year-old Josephine Bell decides to run from the...