- Location(s): Louisiana
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1870s-1930s
The sequel to Lalita Tademy’s bestselling Cane River, the heartbreaking and compelling story of her family’s experiences of slavery and the American Civil War. Now, in Red River, she takes readers on a new journey: that of her father’s...
- Location(s): Coral Coast, The Outback
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Katy Sweeney is determined to find her sister. A year earlier, just three weeks into a solo vanlife trip, free-spirited Phoebe vanished without a trace on Western Australia’s remote and achingly beautiful Coral Coast. With no witnesses, no leads,...
- Location(s): Central Asia
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Food and Drink
- Era(s): Modern
‘Caroline Eden is an extraordinarily creative and gifted writer. Red Sands captures the sights, tastes and feel of Central Asia so well that when reading this book I was sometimes convinced I was there in person. A wonderful book...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1966
Moving, honest, and deeply personal, Red Scarf Girl is the incredible true story of one girl’s courage and determination during one of the most terrifying eras of the twentieth century. It’s 1966, and twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has everything a...
- Location(s): New Mexico, Sagrado
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
The classic coming-of-age story set during World War II about the enduring spirit of youth and the values in life that count. In the summer of 1944, Frank Arnold, a wealthy shipbuilder in Mobile, Alabama, receives his volunteer commission...
- Location(s): Santa Fe
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
In the summer of 1944, Frank Arnold, a wealthy shipbuilder in Mobile, Alabama, receives his volunteer commission in the U.S. Navy and moves his wife, Ann, and seventeen-year-old son, Josh, to the family’s summer home in the village of...
Redemption Road: The Quest for Peace and Justice in Liberia
- Location(s): Monrovia, Liberia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Set in Monrovia during the administration of Liberia’s former president, Charles Taylor, this riveting debut is a story of recovery, atonement, and the continuing quest for peace and justice in a nation plagued by conflict and inequalities since its...









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