- Location(s): Johannesburg
- Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern
Outside the Lines is a journey through the underbelly of Johannesburg, South Africa and the intimacy of family drama scattered across racial, religious, and class divisions. Drug addict Cathleen is kidnapped and her distracted, middle-class family fails to notice...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1970s
- Location(s): England, Scotland
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Dystopian
The border’s closed, Jake said. No one can get into Scotland, just like no one can cross the Channel . . .This is England and it’s no longer a free country. The Government can track anyone, anywhere, from a...
Over a Thousand Hills I Walk with You
- Location(s): Rwanda
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1994
Before that fateful April day, Jeanne lived the life of a typical Rwandan girl. She bickered with her little sister, went to school, teased her brother. Then, in one horrifying night, everything changed. Political troubles unleashed a torrent of...
- Location(s): Indiana
- Genre(s): Historical, Young Adult
- Era(s): 1970s
In the summer of 1979, Andy and Tom are two fourteen-year-old boys—best friends, expert cave explorers, and crack shots with their Springfield M-6 Scout rifles. In rural southern Indiana they are blissfully unaware of the local labor strife surrounding...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 20th Century
On holiday in Cornwall, Simon, Jane and Barney Drew discover an ancient map in the attic of the Grey House, where they are staying with their mysterious Great-Uncle Merry. They know immediately that it is special. But it is...
- Location(s): Cambodia, London, Singapore, Thailand
- Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Thailand. An epic storm. A shipwreck. A white man has been found alive. But who is he? Suffering horrific injuries and burns, he is taken to a local hospital. He is mute. Everything is a blank. They tell him...
- Location(s): Las Vegas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Gone in Sixty Seconds meets Heist Society in this edgy novel about a crack team of teenage criminals on a mission to learn to trust, build a life, and steal a wish list of exotic cars. Jules Parish has...
- Location(s): South West France, Paris
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1897-1914
She has a burning ambition, but everything conspires against her dreams. France, 1897. Born to a modest farming family, Marie-Thérèse has a remarkable singing voice and wants to become a professional singer. But too many obstacles, including her parents’...
- Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): pre-1940s
Set in provincial, pre-1940s New Zealand, Owls Do Cry explores the Withers family, in particular Daphne Withers. When one of Daphne’s sisters dies, a crisis is provoked that leads Daphne to a mental asylum where she receives shock treatment....
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