- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1940s
Tommy and his sister Annika have a new neighbor, and her name is Pippi Longstocking. She has crazy red pigtails, no parents to tell her what to do, a horse that lives on her porch, and a flair for...
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Biography, Historical
- Era(s): 1700s
The first full biography of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, 18th-century partners in crime who terrorized the Caribbean: “Excellent . . . informative and interesting.” —Model Shipwrights Between August and October 1720, two female pirates named Anne Bonny and Mary Read terrorized...
Pirate State: Inside Somalia’s Terrorism at Sea
- Location(s): Somalia
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In 2009, the United States was hit broadside by Somali pirates who attempted to capture the U.S. flag ship Maersk Alabama. Suddenly, the pirates were no longer a distant menace. They had thrust themselves onto the American stage. Are...
- Location(s): South Carolina
- Genre(s): LGBTQIA+, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
“We’re just pit stops in each other’s lives.” When Isamu Miura returns home on medical discharge from the military, he finds his childhood best friend busy with a new relationship, and his father packing up to return to Japan....
- Location(s): Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): contemporary
One camping trip, two hearts, and a love that knows no bounds Logan Ramsay may be intelligent and energetic, but buying Heather Glen campsite could be the worst decision he’s ever made. Working a summer job there as a...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A riotously funny yet difficult story of two women in opposite life stages but similar mental states, Pizza Girlfollows an 18-year-old pregnant protagonist floundering as a pizza delivery girl in suburban Los Angeles. She encounters Jenny, a middle-aged stay-at-home...
- Location(s): Botswana, Maun
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1990s
24-year-old Caitlin Davies was studying in America when she met and fell in love with the enigmatic Ron. When Ron returned to his home in Botswana, Caitlin joined him in Maun, the ‘Place of Reeds’, and the two began...
Place: South African Literary Journeys
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): contemporary
In this travelogue, Justin Fox goes on a one-of-a-kind journey around South Africa. Marrying his love for travel and writing, he sets off to explore the places of his favourite books. From the mountainous eastern Karoo of Olive Schreiner...
- Location(s): Provence
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 12th century
Shortlisted for the Chaucer Awards, FINALIST in The Wishing Shelf Awards, HNS EDitor’s Choice 1152: Les-Baux-de-Provence ‘By far the best historical fiction I have read this year! – Rabia Tanveer, December 2015, for Readers’ Favorite Summoned to the court...
- Location(s): Dublin
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Current
A flight from London to Dublin arrives carrying an unusual cargo – a passenger stone-cold dead in his seat. Sergeant Fiona Moore immediately suspects foul play and forensics confirm a lethal cocktail of drugs was in the man’s system....
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