Tante Jolesch or The Decline of the West in Anecdotes
- Location(s): Vienna
- Era(s): Early 20th century
Already a much loved classic in Austria, “Tante Jolesch or the Decline of the West in Anecdotes” is Friedrich Torberg’s tribute to the Jewish coffee-house world that flourished in Vienna in the afterglow of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until its...
- Location(s): Karpathos, Tilos
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
Taverna by the Sea is an enchanting, funny, poignant travel memoir about answering the call of adventure by taking on the challenge of running a Greek beach taverna. During a walking holiday on the island of Karpathos, a chance...
- Location(s): Boston, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
“Be careful what you wish for.” That’s a warning Dylan Johnson should have listened to. When his mobile computing firm is bought out by Mantric Technology, a red-hot company about to go public, it seems like a dream come...
Thank You, Madagascar: The Conservation Diaries of Alison Jolly
- Location(s): Madagascar
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Madagascar is one of the world’s natural jewels, with over ninety per cent of its wildlife found nowhere else on Earth. Few people knew it better than the pioneering primatologist and conservationist, Alison Jolly. Thank You, Madagascar is her...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Historical, LGBTQIA+, Mystery
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
1955: In an apartment on the Lower East Side, school teachers Dovie and Gillian live as lodgers. Dancing behind closed curtains, mixing cocktails for two, they guard their private lives fiercely. Until someone guesses the truth . . ....
The Abduction (The Carnivia Trilogy)
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
A teenage girl is kidnapped in Venice. The race to save her will uncover a conspiracy powerful men will kill to keep hidden. THE HOSTAGE: The teenage daughter of a US soldier disappeared in Venice last night. Now clues...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 19th Century
Wharton’s story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer’s impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, is a perfectly wrought book about an era when upper-class culture in this country was still a mixture of...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
The first body is in Singapore, on a bed in an empty suite in the Marriott Hotel. The second in Bangkok, in a seedy apartment close to the American embassy. Both women. Both Americans. Both beaten viciously and shot...
- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Crime
- Era(s): Golden Age 1920s
It’s 1924 and Poppy Denby is heading up to Northumberland to celebrate her father’s sixtieth birthday. She stops off in Newcastle en route to visit her Aunt Dot, who has temporarily relocated from London to renovate a house she’s...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Death is an art, and he is the master . . . Three glass cabinets appear in London’s Trafalgar Square containing a gruesome art installation: the floating corpses of three homeless men. Shock turns to horror when it becomes...
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