- Location(s): Canada, East Coast USA, Scotland
- Genre(s): Short Stories, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Erica Winchat, a young writer overwhelmed by the stress of her first book contract, discovers thirteen curious items tangled in the flotsam on the Scottish beach of Tràigh Lar. Erica tells the intriguing story of the owner of each...
- Location(s): South America, Pacific Ocean, Peru
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1579
April 1579: When two ships meet off the Pacific coast of New Spain, an enslaved woman seizes the chance to escape. But Maria has unwittingly joined Francis Drake’s circumnavigation voyage as he sets sail on a secret detour into...
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2000
“Long live the King” hailed Entertainment Weekly upon the publication of Stephen King’s On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of...
Once in Kazakhstan: The Snow Leopard Emerges
- Location(s): Kazakhstan
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1990s
Soon after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Keith Rostenleaves the United States to be a Fulbright Lecturer in newly-independentKazakhstan. In Once in Kazakhstan, Rosten drawsa sometimes humorous portrait of a critical period in the emergenceof this Central Asian...
- Location(s): Germany
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): End of WW2
To be truly alive means having to make choices. To be truly alive is also, quite simply, to love. Northern Germany, 1945. Dead of night and dead of winter, a boy hears soldiers and sees strangers – forced labourers...
- Location(s): South East England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Later 19h Century
“The Thames is a character in its own right” On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the Thames, the regulars are entertaining themselves by telling stories when the door bursts open and in steps an injured...
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Diana Gallagher-Cary is at a tipping point. As a Washington, DC, OB/GYN at a prestigious hospital, she uses her career to distract herself from her grief over her granny’s death and her breakup from her long-term boyfriend after her...
- Location(s): Iraq
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 21st century
In war, there is no easy victory. When troops invaded Iraq in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein’s regime, most people expected an easy victory. Instead, the gamble we took was a grave mistake, and its ramifications continue to reverberate...
- Location(s): Crete
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Ancient past to present
Set on the island of Crete, this multi-layered novel is of landscapes and lives shaped by an ancient ethos. When Michael, a Greek-American, visits his father’s village, he comes to believe that his grandmother, the proud Efpraxsia, has poisoned...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
From the internationally best-selling storyteller, Vita Murrow, this illustrated treasury brings together a dozen original stories set in some of the last true wildernesses in the world, from the Arctic to the Amazon. Weaving established mythology with original storytelling,...
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