Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table: Book Two
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Early 2000s
Join Carole Bumpus as she continues the culinary journey of Book One in Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, with her incomparable guide, Josiane, as they head north from Paris to Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Normandy, and Brittany, then...
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Early 20th century
At the age of 27, Fannie Sedlacek left her Bohemian homestead in Nebraska to join the gold rush to the Klondike. From the Klondike to the Tanana, Fannie continued north, finally settling in Katishna near Mount McKinley. This woman,...
- Location(s): Queens, Netherlands
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th Century onwards
A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women–two sisters and their mother–in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge, from the...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
After travelling to over seventy countries and living on five, the author distills the best undiscovered destinations and shares insider advice. Searching for Unique is meant for travellers seeking hidden sights that most people overlook or simply do not...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1960s
Set in the fictional North West English town of Longferry. Thomas lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, working his grandpa’s trade as a shanker. He rises early to take his horse and cart to the...
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
An affair between 55-year-old widow Binta Zubairu and 25-year-old weed dealer Reza was bound to provoke condemnation in conservative Northern Nigeria. Brought together in unusual circumstances, Binta and Reza faced a need they could only satisfy in each other....
- Location(s): Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern
Animals talk…if you know how to listen. Robin Calloway has always been special–a misfit who lives more in her own head than the real world. Even her father thinks she’s crazy. So when her brother is found murdered, she’s...
Season of Migration to the North
- Location(s): The Sudan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is the 1960s, and he is eager to make a contribution to...
- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Winner, Book of the Year and Christina Stead Prize, New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards 1994 Winner, Best First Book, Southeast Asia and South Pacific Region, Commonwealth Writers Prize 1995 Shortlisted, Age Book of the Year Award 1994 Shortlisted,...
Seasons in Basilicata: A Year in a Southern Italian Hill Village
- Location(s): Aliano
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Award-winning travel writer and illustrator, David Yeadon embarks with his wife, Anne on an exploration of the “lost word” of Basilicata, in the arch of Italy’s boot. What is intended as a brief sojourn turns into an intriguing residency...
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