- Location(s): Penang
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
Kebaya Tales is a delightful collection of short stories, teeming with fascinating and interesting characters, unexpected twists and turns, cultural rituals, beliefs and superstitions and poignant events in the life stories of the Peranakans. Lee Su Kim’s book brings...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
He’s been looking in the windows again. Messing with cameras. Leaving notes. Supposed to be a refuge. But death got inside. When Katie Straw’s body is pulled from the waters of the local suicide spot, the police decide it’s...
- Location(s): Rhode Island
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1846
A house of haunted history and ill temper. Make yourself at home in this beguiling novel of love, magic, and danger by Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg. Rhode Island, 1846. Estranged from his...
- Location(s): Germany, Maryland
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1948 and 1965
From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of Eve comes a sweeping story of one woman’s dream in post-World War II Germany and the three lives it changes forever. In the smouldering ruins of post-war Germany,...
- Location(s): United Arab Emirates (UAE)
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): over many eras
For those who visit the UAE today, staying in air-conditioned hotels and shopping in ultra-modern malls, the country itself remains an enigma – a glass and concrete creation that seems to have sprung from the desert overnight. Keepers of...
Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed
- Location(s): Somalia
- Era(s): 2010
The moving memoir of one brave woman who, along with her daughters, has kept 90,000 of her fellow citizens safe, healthy, and educated for over 20 years in Somalia. Dr. Hawa Abdi, “the Mother Teresa of Somalia” and Nobel...
- Location(s): Assam, Oxford
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): present
Meet Ved, a British investor heading back to his Indian roots with a business proposition: a lightbulb called the Everlasting Lucifer. Meet Keteki, an art curator with a nomadic lifestyle, on her way home to Assam. In Heathrow airport,...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): WW2
Born into a close-knit working class family in the slums of London’s Waterloo, Eva, Peggy and Kathleen are three remarkably different, but very loving sisters. Desperate to escape their violent father, they find different ways to survive. Beautiful Kathleen...
- Location(s): Wisconsin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s back to WW1 and WW2
Set in the conformist 1950s and reaching back to span two world wars, Ellen Baker’ s superb novel is the story of a newlywed who falls in love with a grand abandoned house and begins to unravel dark secrets...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Turkish variety are prized for their enlarged leaf bud; that’s where we put the heroin . . . Ayla has a plan. There’s a stash of heroin; just waiting to be imported. No one seems sure what to...
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