- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as they believed. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrocket,...
- Location(s): Isle of Wight
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘Love makes you do things you never thought you were capable of.’ Margo and Richard’s love affair was the stuff legends are made of – forbidden, passionate, all-encompassing. But ultimately, doomed. When Richard walked out, Margo shut herself away...
- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1970s
The author is living and studying in Cambodia with his kmer partner and daughter when he and two colleagues are captured by the Khmer Rouge. They are taken deep into the jungle, held on suspicion that they are CIA....
The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery, and the Search for Timbuktu
- Location(s): Sahara, Mali
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1788
London, 1788: a group of British gentlemen—geographers, scholars, politicians, humanitarians, and traders—decide it is time to solve the mysteries of Africa’s unknown interior regions. Inspired by the Enlightenment quest for knowledge, they consider it a slur on the age...
- Location(s): Texas, San Antonio
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1830s
It’s 1836, and the Mexican province of Texas is in revolt. As General Santa Anna’s forces move closer to the small fort that will soon be legend, three people’s fates will become intrinsically tied to the coming battle: Edmund...
- Location(s): New Orleans
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Westcoast transplant Samantha Richardson has settled into New Orleans. With a budding romance, potential career change, and newfound family, she feels at home in the French Quarter. Sammy is drawn into the history of the city’s famous Voodoo queen...
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A small Alaskan town. A missing boy. A brutal murder. A detective brought in from out of state to assist the former sherriff who investigated a similar murder twenty-five years ago. But are they hunting a twisted psychopath –...
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A small Alaskan town. A missing boy. A brutal murder. A detective brought in from out of state to assist the former sherriff who investigated a similar murder twenty-five years ago. But are they hunting a twisted psychopath –...
- Location(s): West of Scotland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mesolithic Period
Between Grandmother Mountain and the cold sea, Alaia and her family live off the land. But when her brother goes hunting and never returns, the fragile balance of life is upset. Half-starved and maddened with grief, Alaia’s mother follows...
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Early Twentieth Century
In the early twentieth century, when Barcelona was celebrated as the center of modernist art and design, the grand master of an ancient religious brotherhood prepares to die – passing the care of a sacred relic to a prominent...
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