- Location(s): Liberia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Ctemporary
In the west African village of Lai, red-haired Gbessa is cursed at birth and exiled on suspicion of being a witch. Bitten by a viper and left for dead, she survives to discover a new life with a group...
- Location(s): Caribbean, New York City (NYC), Oxford
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Scarlett falls asleep on a Caribbean beach she awakes to her worst nightmare – Katie is gone. With all fingers pointed to her Scarlett must risk everything to clear her name. As Scarlett begins to unravel the complicated...
- Location(s): Ireland, North-West England
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): Current
Simmering hostilities can be found in any family unit and as everyone knows are particularly evident between siblings of the same gender and similar age. In Susie and Sally’s experience their profound animosity towards each other began in early...
Sheba: Through the Desert in Search of the Legendary Queen
- Location(s): Ethiopia, Israel, Yemen
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1200 BCE
In this exhilarating archaeological adventure, Nicholas Clapp seeks the truth behind the legend of the Queen of Sheba. Ever since she swept into the court of King Solomon three thousand years ago, her story has been told and retold,...
- Location(s): Pacific Northwest
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Set in the Pacific Northwest in the jittery, jacked-up early 1990s, “Shelter in Place,” by one of America’s most thrillingly defiant contemporary authors, is a stylish literary novel about the hereditary nature of mental illness, the fleeting intensity of...
- Location(s): Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
South Africa is under attack from all sides when Elanza, a politically connected heiress blinded by disease and looking for love before it is too late, meets a naïve English boy. Ralph, eighteen and innocent, has accidentally stumbled upon Elanza...
- Location(s): Oklahoma
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): 1909, 1990
Oklahoma, 1909. Eleven-year-old Olive Augusta Radley knows that her stepfather doesn’t have good intentions toward the two Choctaw girls boarded in their home as wards. When the older girl disappears, Ollie flees to the woods, taking six-year-old Nessa with...
Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
To the West, China may appear an unstoppable economic unity, a single high-performing whole, but for the inhabitants of this vast, complex and contradictory nation, it is the cities that hold the secret to such economic success. From the...
- Location(s): Isle of Mull
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1850
SHIABA SYNOPSIS In the winter of 1846, the potato crop in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland turned to slime. Thousands, dependent on the crop for survival, faced starvation, eviction and death. The remote township of Shiaba on the...
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
A wonderful first person narrative of a Nigerian girl’s impressions of America and the effects of culture shock. Deka has had a difficult life in Nigeria. The most populous nation in Africa suffers from corruption and rampant poverty. She...
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