- Location(s): Almaty
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): early 2000s
Victor Robert Lee’s provocative spy novel introduces a protagonist to rival the most memorable espionage heroes. Cono 7Q is a startling young man of mixed and haunting heritage who has been gifted – or cursed – with an accelerated...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1900s
ALL ABOARD THE TRAIN TO PARIS! It’s 1911, and the young detectives of TAYLOR & ROSE are turning their talents to ESPIONAGE. On a case for the mysterious SECRET SERVICE BUREAU, the daring MISS SOPHIE TAYLOR and MISS LILIAN...
- Location(s): Catalonia, Brussels
- Genre(s): LGBTQIA+, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Permafrost’s no-bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover, a no-hope employee, and a some-time suicidal student of her own dislocated self. As she tries to break out of the roles set for her by a controlling, overprotective mother, a...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Can an old English cottage bring renewed faith and healing to several broken hearts? Susannah Wilkinson leaves her country, and the son she no longer believes wants nor needs her, and flees to England to fulfill her lifelong dream...
Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century to 2005
The book that revealed Iran to the West, now with a new Afterword. Elaine Sciolino updates Persian Mirrors to include coverage of the 2005 presidential election in Iran. As a correspondent for Newsweek and The New York Times, Sciolino...
- Location(s): Paris, London
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now he’s a drifter of no fixed abode. But the army tracks him down. Because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French president....
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Never forgive, never forget. Jack Reacher lives for the moment. Without a home. Without commitment. But he has a burning desire to right wrongs – and rewrite his own agonizing past. Never apologize. Never explain. When Reacher witnesses a...
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 1983
The road in front of Dr. Louis Creed’s rural Maine home frequently claims the lives of neighborhood pets. Louis has recently moved from Chicago to Ludlow with his wife Rachel, their children and pet cat. Near their house, local...
Peter the Great: His Life and World
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 17th / 18th centuries
Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, Robert K. Massie unfolds the extraordinary story of Peter the Great. A volatile feudal tsar with a taste for barbaric torture; a progressive and enlightened reformer of government...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
She has a job in Paris, the city of her dreams, a handsome Frenchman, a beautiful bilingual toddler, and a charming apartment with breathtaking views. So why does Catherine Sanderson feel that her life is coming apart? Stuck in...
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