Saint Petersburg: Sacrifice and Redemption in the City That Defied Hitler
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
In the crucible of the Second World War, Saint Petersburg – then known as Leningrad – stands as a testament to human endurance. As the Nazis encircle the city, intent on annihilating its 1.5 million inhabitants, the narrative plunges...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Caribbean
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister Alison vanishes from the luxury resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X on the last night of her family’s vacation. Several days later Alison’s body is found in...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
A woman walks the streets of Manhattan and contemplates with exquisite longing the precarious affair she has embarked on, amidst the grandeur and cacophony of the cityscape; a young Irish girl and her mother are thrilled to be invited...
- Location(s): South Carolina, Tamassee
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
When a twelve-year-old girl drowns in the Tamassee River and her body is trapped in a deep eddy, the people of the small South Carolina town that bears the river’s name are thrown into the national spotlight. The girl’s...
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
Dean Alfar’s first novel is about the sorcery wrought by love, lust, and literature, by friendship, family, and the Filipino nation. Salamanca streaks across decades and spaces, tracking the stormy relationship between polymorphous-perverse Gaudencio Rivera, whose passions ignite prodigious...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
A heartwarming, romantic comedy in the style of Notting Hill and Sleepless in Seattle. Ginger Knox thought she was living her best rom-com life. She had the job, the apartment in Notting Hill (adjacent), and an honest to God...










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