- Location(s): Idaho
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
One hot August day a family drives to a mountain clearing to collect birch wood. Jenny, the mother, is in charge of lopping any small limbs off the logs with a hatchet. Wade, the father, does the stacking. The...
- Location(s): Arizona, Chicago
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
- Era(s): 1970s-2000s
It’s July, 1975 and an overworked Chicago police force receives a call that an 85-year-old white man has been attacked by a gang of black youths on the lakefront in Burnham Park. Amid public outrage, contentious Mayor Richard J....
- Location(s): Nantucket
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Emily Ackerman has traveled the world, her constant compass and companion a book of letters her mother left for her when she died. With no father in the picture, her mom’s advice has been her only true north. But...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
What if the problem with your love life is you? If I Can’t Have You by Charlotte Levin is an all-consuming novel about loneliness, obsession and how far we go for the ones we love. Samuel, the day we...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1960s
A personal journey throught the Vietnam war, a war no-one really wanted, facing an enemy in alien and inhospitable terrain. This the “the” book of the Vietnam war.
- Location(s): Seoul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
If I Had Your Face plunges us into the mesmerizing world of contemporary Seoul – a place where extreme plastic surgery is as routine as getting a haircut, where women compete for spots in secret ‘room salons’ to entertain...
- Location(s): Oregon
- Genre(s): Coming of Age
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘Just listen,’ Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel.’ I open my eyes wide now. I sit up as much as I can. And I listen. ‘Stay,’ he says. Everybody has to make choices. Some might break...
- Location(s): Miami
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s forward
A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family in Miami navigating recession, racism and Hurricane Andrew. You want a home. You want to win back your girlfriend’s admiration. You want to prove that your...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Meet Bailey Weggins, the thirty-something, single-again true crime writer for a leading Manhattan woman’s magazine. Smart and savvy, she’s got a sixth sense when it comes to seeing the truth in a story-especially if it’s murder. Bailey’s in bed...
- Location(s): North Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Ben Joe Hawkes is a worrier. Raised by his mother, grandmother, and a flock of busy sisters, he’s always felt the outsider. When he learns that one of his sisters has left her husband, he heads for home and...
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