Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party
- Location(s): Wuhan
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1972
The summer of 1972, before I turned nine, danger began knocking on doors all over China. Nine-year-old Ling has a very happy life. Her parents are both dedicated surgeons at the best hospital in Wuhan, and her father teaches...
- Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Cleo, scion of a once-prominent Cuban family and a promising young writer in her own right, travels to Spain to collect a prestigious award. There, Cuban expats view her with suspicion assuming she’s an informant for the Castro regime....
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2011
.. I wish that you will visit Iran so you will see for yourself about my country. WE ARE NOT TERRORISTS!!! Please come to my city, Shiraz. It is very famous as the friendliest city in Iran, it is...
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Historical, Young Adult
- Era(s): Early 20th century
“They say that dead men tell no tales, but they’re wrong. Even the dead tell stories.” It’s 1910. In a cabin north of the Arctic Circle, in a place murderously cold and desolate, Sig Andersson is alone. Except for...
- Location(s): The Rhine
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1851
It is the summer of 1851 and Charlotte Morrison is on holiday in Germany with her brother and his wife. Charlotte may be a spinster aunt with a seemingly sparse life, but beneath that quiet respectability lie unsuspected depths....
- Location(s): Black Forest
- Genre(s): Horror
- Era(s): Modern
Centuries ago a great castle was built in the mountains of Germany’s Black Forest. Its ancient guardians still thrive in its walls forever protecting its dark secrets, holding captive an enemy that threatens their very existence. Foretold is a...
- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Bonnie Turkle, multimedia historian for the Kentucky Commission of Tourism, is dispatched to Mud Creek, a tiny eastern Kentucky town, with few prospects but many oddballs, to rescue important artifacts from McBride’s Music Hall. Now fallen beyond disrepair, McBride’s...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
The twenty-eighth and final novel in the thrilling, wickedly funny Inspector Montalbano Mysteries series by bestselling author Andrea Camilleri. ‘Contrary to what you think, I’m carrying out this investigation as best I can. But let’s do this: if I...
Rice Noodle Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan’s Food Culture
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Food and Drink, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
An innovative new take on the travel guide, Rice, Noodle, Fish decodes Japan’s extraordinary food culture through a mix of in-depth narrative and insider advice, along with 195 color photographs. In this 5000-mile journey through the noodle shops, tempura...
- Location(s): North London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
It is 1919 shortly after the termination of the 1st European holocaust. Henry Earlforward, a middle aged North London Bookseller, courts and marries Violet Arb, a widow who has inherited the confectioners shop opposite his own premises in Riceyman...
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