- Location(s): Birmingham, Zagreb
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present Day
An utterly uplifting and emotional story from award-winning Sally Jenkins. Vanessa is starting again at fifty-five after a betrayal ends her thirty-year marriage. She decides it’s time to follow her dream of opening a teashop. To attract customers, her...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Liv Travers never knew real friendship until she met fellow mums Beth and Binnie. The three women become inseparable as they muddle through early parenthood together. Then along comes Ange. Ambitious, wealthy and somehow able to do it all....
- Location(s): Belize
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Cole Lavetsky is done. Done with Hollywood exploitation, done with her high-stress executive career, and done living in the shadow of her golden-boy twin brother, a former teen heartthrob. With her vintage guitar and the beginnings of a revenge...
Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2006
The riveting story of Conor Grennan’s year in Nepal reads like a cross between Into Thin Air and Three Cups of Tea. While volunteering at an orphanage, Conor discovers that the children are not orphans: they are trafficked. Despite...
- Location(s): Sweden, Stockholm
- Genre(s): Fiction, Horror, In Translation
- Era(s): early 2000s
A man finds a baby in the woods, left for dead. He brings the baby home, and he and his wife raise the girl in their basement. When a shocking and catastrophic incident occurs, the couple’s son Jerry whisks...
- Location(s): Richmond (VA)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1993, 2008
Both a taut whodunit and a haunting snapshot of the effects of a violent crime, Little Threats tells the story of a woman who served fifteen years in prison for murder…and now it’s time to find out if she’s...
- Location(s): Manchester
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): First half of the 20th Century
The first volume of the autobiography by Anthony Burgess tells of a disaffected Manchester Catholic from his birth in 1917. It is a candid book of confessions, evocative of English life up to the start of his career as...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything – including her own children....
- Location(s): New Hampshire
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Anyone who hopes to visit or has visited New Hampshire, and, heck, even anyone who lives there, will delight in this hilarious guide to the Granite State. Popular New Hampshire storyteller Rebecca Rule provides her interpretation of the state’s...
Live from Jordan: Letters Home from My Journey Through the Middle East
- Location(s): Jordan
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1991
On the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Pittsburgh native and graduate student Ben Orbach traveled to the Middle East to experience the region first-hand. Despite having a degree in Middle Eastern studies, he was completely unprepared for...
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