- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Fictional Seven Island has two houses. One for Hillsingers and one for Quicks. 1964. The Hillsingers and the Quicks have shared the small Maine island of Seven for generations. But though technically family–Jim Hillsinger and Billy Quick married Park Avenue...
- Location(s): Delhi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Jivan Singh, the bastard scion of the Bapuji family, returns to his childhood home after a long absence – only to witness the unexpected resignation of the ageing Devraj Bapuji from the vast corporation he founded, Company India. On...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Post Russian Revolution
Ayn Rand’s first published novel, a timeless story that explores the struggles of the individual against the state in Soviet Russia. First published in 1936, We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings...
We Trade Our Night for Someone Else’s Day
- Location(s): Vukovar
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The city of Vukovar, situated on Croatia’s easternmost periphery, across the Danube River from Serbia, was the site of some of the worst violence in the wars that rocked ex-Yugoslavia in the early ’90s. It is referred to only...
- Location(s): New York State
- Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern
Certain that society is on the verge of economic and environmental collapse, five disillusioned twenty-somethings make a bold decision: They gather in upstate New York to transform an abandoned farm, once the site of a turn-of-the-century socialist commune, into...
We Were Soldiers Once…and Young
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1965
- Location(s): Poland, World
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s onwards
Inspired by one family’s extraordinary wartime story, for anyone enthralled by The Tattooist of Auschwitz `EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING’ PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 1939. Three generations of the Kurc family strive to live normal lives despite the growing hardships they face as Jews....
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
- Location(s): Rwanda
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1995
All at once, as it seemed, something we could have only imagined was upon us – and we could still only imagine it. This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in...
- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): early 2000s
Meg Langslow knew the fan convention for her actor-boyfriend’s hit television series was going to be the ultimate in weird. But she came along because she figured Michael could use an occasional dose of sanity-and because it was an...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A murderer’s confession – devastating, unblinking, poignant, unforgettable – which reveals a story of class, education and the inescapable workings of destiny. Ah Hock is an ordinary, uneducated man born in a Malaysian fishing village and now trying to...
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