- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Paranormal
- Era(s): Modern
In the alleys of the decrepit Boston neighborhood known as the Weird, fairy prostitutes are turning up dead. The crime scenes show signs of residual magic, but the Guild, which polices the fey, has more “important” crimes to investigate...
- Location(s): New Jersey
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Contemporary and 1800s
Meet Willa Knox, a woman who stands braced against a world which seems to hold little mercy for her and her family – or their old, crumbling house, falling down around them. Willa’s two grown-up children, a new-born grandchild,...
- Location(s): Minnesota
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Inspired by a terrifying true story from the author’s hometown, a heart-pounding novel of suspense about a small Minnesota community where nothing is as quiet—or as safe—as it seems. Cassie McDowell’s life in 1980s Minnesota seems perfectly wholesome. She...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2001 onwards
One of the most powerful and moving stories you will ever read, this book will completely change the way you look at life. ‘Unspoken Abandonment’ is the story of one man’s struggle to return home from the war in...
Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Two years out of college and with a degree from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, Victoria Riccardi left a boyfriend, a rent-controlled New York City apartment, and a plum job in advertising to move to Kyoto to study kaiseki,...
- Location(s): Northern Spain, Madrid
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): 1938-39
October 1938 and foreign correspondent Jack Telford is on the run in northern Spain, territory now controlled by Franco’s fascists. And he’s killed somebody close to the Generalísimo’s heart. Telford’s a hunted man, and hunted by three different and...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), East Village, Staten Island
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
In her senior year at NYU, Riley Hope appears to be on top of the world. With a loving mother who makes Lorelai Gilmore look like a parenting slacker, ride-or-die friends, and a longtime boyfriend destined for the National...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
As a favour to his wealthy father-in-law, the Count Falier, Commissario Guido Brunetti agrees to investigate the seemingly innocent wish of the Count’s best friend, the elderly and childless Gonzalo, to adopt a younger man as his son. Under...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1941
In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy. On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him, Mary...
- Location(s): Idaho
- Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern
Bailey Wingate’s scheming adult stepchildren are surprised when their father’s will leaves Bailey in control of their fortune, and war ensues. A year later, while flying from Seattle to Denver in a small plane, Bailey nearly dies herself when...
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