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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
  • Author(s): Fredrik Backman
  • Location(s): Sweden
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy—as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa’s best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother’s stories, in the Land-of-Almost-Awake and...

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
  • Author(s): Katerina Bivald
  • Location(s): Iowa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone like Sara, who traveled all the way from Sweden just to meet her book-loving pen pal, Amy. When she arrives, however, she finds Amy’s funeral guests just leaving. The residents of Broken...

All In

All In
  • Author(s): Simona Ahrnstedt
  • Location(s): Sweden
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Trust is the most precious commodity of all. In the cutthroat world of Sweden’s financial elite, no one knows that better than corporate raider David Hammar. Ruthless. Notorious. Unstoppable. He’s out to hijack the ultimate prize, Investum. After years...

Eclipse of the Crescent Moon: A Tale of the Siege of Eger, 1552

Eclipse of the Crescent Moon: A Tale of the Siege of Eger, 1552
  • Author(s): Géza Gárdonyi
  • Location(s): Hungary
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 16th century

The siege of Eger in 1552 was an astonishing event. A small Hungarian garrison commanded by István Dobó successfully resisted a huge Turkish army for nearly six weeks and forged it to retreat in disgrace. Dobó became a celebrated...

The Royal Physician’s Visit

The Royal Physician’s Visit
  • Author(s): Per Olov Enquist
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1760s (Enlightenment)

It is the 1760s, the height of the Enlightenment. The young King of Denmark, Christian VII, is a half-wit. His queen, the English princess Caroline Mathilde, has fallen in love with his most trusted advisor, the court physician Struensee....

A Western Heart

A Western Heart
  • Author(s): Liz Harris
  • Location(s): Wyoming
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1880

Wyoming, 1880 Rose McKinley and Will Hyde are childhood sweethearts and Rose has always assumed that one day they will wed. As a marriage will mean the merging of two successful ranches, their families certainly have no objections. All...

The Lost Girl

The Lost Girl
  • Author(s): Liz Harris
  • Location(s): Wyoming
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s and 1880s

What if you were trapped between two cultures? Life is tough in 1870s Wyoming. But it’s tougher still when you’re a girl who looks Chinese but speaks like an American. Orphaned as a baby and taken in by an...

The Art of Deception

The Art of Deception
  • Author(s): Liz Harris
  • Location(s): Umbria
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jenny O’Connor can hardly believe her luck when she’s hired to teach summer art classes in Italy. Whilst the prospect of sun, sightseeing and Italian food is hard to resist, Jenny’s far more interested in her soon-to-be boss, Max...

Evie Undercover

Evie Undercover
  • Author(s): Liz Harris
  • Location(s): Umbria
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When libel lawyer, Tom Hadleigh acquires a perfect holiday home – a 14th century house that needs restoring, there’s a slight problem. The house is located in the beautiful Umbria countryside and Tom can’t speak a word of Italian....

Beneath an Irish Sky

Beneath an Irish Sky
  • Author(s): Isabella Connor
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Following a tragedy, two very different worlds collide when an English millionaire discovers he has a son who was raised as an Irish Traveller. An angry young man is determined to learn the truth about why his father abandoned...

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