- Location(s): Yemen, Middle East
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 10th century bce
Lift the veil of legend for the untold story of Makeda, the Queen of Sheba, and Bathsheba, wife and mother of Israel’s first kings. When Makeda, the slave-born daughter of the chieftain of Saba, comes of age, she wins...
Song of Survival: Women Interned
- Location(s): Java
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): World War II
“Song of Survival”, Helen Colijn’s account of her wartime experiences, is a window into a largely overlooked dimension of World War 2—the imprisonment of women and children in Southeast Asia by the Japanese and how these prisoners of war...
- Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
- Location(s): South India
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940 to early 2000s
A sweeping epic set in southern India, where a group of outcasts create a family while holding tight to their dreams. Barely a month after she is promised in marriage, eleven-year-old orphan Kokila comes to Tella Meda, an ashram...
- Location(s): Hawai'i
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WWII
Kiana Davenport immerses the reader into the land, history, and culture of the Hawaiian islands. Her own ancestry reaches back to the first Polynesians who settled in the islands more than 2000 years ago, and with a Hawaiian mother...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 60AD
The bestselling author of Sistersong transforms the story of Herla and the Wild Hunt into a rich, feminist fantasy in this stunning tale of two great warriors, a war-torn land, and an ancient magic that is slowly awakening. Britain,...
- Location(s): Luxor, Upper Egypt
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Luxor, 1946. When young nurse Aida El Masri returns from war-torn London to her family’s estate in Egypt she steels herself against the challenges ahead. Eight years have passed since her father, Ayoub, was framed for a crime he...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Sydney
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s-2010
Song of the Sun God is about the wisdom, mistakes and sacrifices of our past that enable us to live more freely in the future. Nala and Rajan, a young couple, begin their married life in 1946, on the...
Songs At the River’s Edge: Stories From a Bangladeshi Village
- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Katy Gardner’s account of her fifteen-month stay in the small Bangladeshi village of Talukpur has become a classic study of rural life in South Asia. Through a series of beautifully crafted narratives, the villagers and their stories are brought...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Scotland’s leading virologist goes missing, Mona and Paterson from the Health Enforcement Team are dispatched to London to find him. In a hot and unwelcoming city, Mona has to deal with a boss who isn’t speaking to her,...
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