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Six Crimson Cranes

Six Crimson Cranes
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Lim
  • Location(s): South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

A princess in exile. Six enchanted cranes. An unspeakable curse. A beautiful and immersive YA fantasy retelling of the Grimm brothers’ The Six Swans fairytale, set in an East-Asian inspired world, by the author of Spin the Dawn. Shiori’anma,...

Six Days

Six Days
  • Author(s): Dani Atkins
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two people. One love story. Six days.   He loves me… He loves me not… He loves me… Gemma knows that she and Finn are destined to be together. They are soulmates. But then, on their wedding day, he...

Six Days in Bombay

Six Days in Bombay
  • Author(s): Alka Joshi
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When renowned painter Mira Novak arrives at Wadia hospital in Bombay after a miscarriage, she’s expected to make a quick recovery, and her nurse, Sona, is excited to learn more about the vivacious artist who shares her half-Indian identity. Sona, yearning for a...

Six Estonian Poets

Six Estonian Poets
  • Author(s): Doris Kareva (Editor)
  • Location(s): Estonia
  • Genre(s): Poetry
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Features the work of six of Estonia’s most renowned poets: Hasso Krull, Jurgen Rooste, Triin Soomets, Kauksi Ulle, Elo Viiding and Juhan Viiding. An anthology of the work of five highly individual poets of the younger generation together with...

Six Geese A-Slaying

Six Geese A-Slaying
  • Author(s): Donna Andrews
  • Location(s): Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000ss

Meg and Michael’s house is serving as the marshaling point for the annual Caerphilly Christmas parade. The theme is “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” and it features twelve drummers from the school marching band, eleven bagpipers, ten leaping lords costumed in medieval...

Six Mile Store

Six Mile Store
  • Author(s): A M Belsey
  • Location(s): Arkansas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s

Something ugly’s waitin’ for you… Honey’s working weekends down at the Six Mile while undertaking an MA English Literature course at the local Baptist college, trying to figure her life out. Her Turkish boyfriend is about to leave the...

Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-torn Village

Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-torn Village
  • Author(s): James Maskalyk
  • Location(s): The Sudan
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2007

“People are hungry to be brought closer to the world, even its hard parts. I went to Sudan, and am writing about it again, because I believe that which separates action from inaction is the same thing that separates...

Six Months in the Sandwich Islands

Six Months in the Sandwich Islands
  • Author(s): Isabella L Bird
  • Location(s): Hawai'i
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1870s

This classic of Hawaiian literature offers a charming glimpse at the splendid and fascinating world of pre–American Hawaii. Isabella Lucy Bird won fame in her own time as the most remarkable woman traveler of the nineteenth century, and Six...

Six Slovenian Poets

Six Slovenian Poets
  • Author(s): Brane Mozetič
  • Location(s): Slovenia
  • Genre(s): Poetry
  • Era(s): Modern

Six Slovenian Poets is the first in a new series of bilingual anthologies which brings the work of a younger generation of poets from across Europe to a wider English-language readership, a series which aims to keep a finger...

Six Weeks in Reno

Six Weeks in Reno
  • Author(s): Lucy H Hedrick
  • Location(s): Reno
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

  September 27, 1931. Today my new life begins. After twenty years in a loveless marriage, Evelyn Henderson will do anything to escape her stifling suburban life. She boards a train for Reno, Nevada, a former frontier town that’s...

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