- Location(s): Alabama
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Eighteen months after her husband’s unsolved murder, Cathy Cantrell returns to her Alabama home and teams up with deputy sheriff Jackson to investigate clues that suggest that an increasingly violent serial killer is responsible.
Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad
- Location(s): Baghdad
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): early 2000s
WHEN BOMBS BEGIN TO FALL, Ali drowns out the sound of war with a pen. Like other children living in Baghdad, Ali loves soccer, music and dancing, but most of all, he loves the ancient art of calligraphy. When...
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1962
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1978
It’s the winter of 1978 in Kabul and all seems quiet. Habib Dhil is a member of the privileged elite of Afghanistan. As the head of a powerful manufacturing concern, he has wealth, education, opportunities to travel, and a...
- Location(s): Mauritius
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A sweeping debut novel that explores the intimate struggle for independence and success of a young descendant of Indian indentured laborers in Mauritius, a small multiracial island in the Indian Ocean. The beauty of Busjeet’s splendid, often breathtaking book...
- Location(s): Milan, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Silk for the Feed Dogs illuminates a world the author knows intimately in a way it hadn’t been described before: with thoughtfulness, profundity and humor. Kat Connelly, innovative designer and introspective daughter of an Irish farmer, is disappointed with...
- Location(s): Thailand
- Genre(s): Children, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th century
Eleven-year-old Noi is learning to paint like her grandmother. She and her older sister, Ting, spend many rapt hours in the jungle watching as Kun Ya paints delicate silk umbrellas to sell at the market. But one day Kun...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A HOMECOMING MARRED BY BLOOD Journalist Martin Scarsden returns to Port Silver to make a fresh start with his partner Mandy. But he arrives to find his childhood friend murdered – and Mandy is the prime suspect. Desperate to...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): early 21st century
Every year on the first day of December, Christopher Byrne traveled from his farm in Nova Scotia to sell his Christmas trees on the streets of Manhattan. But this year there’d be no cheer for the widower and his...
- Location(s): Colorado
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Mid-19th century
As scruffy and rootless as the other prospectors searching for gold in the Rockies, Low Down wanted nothing in return for nursing a raggedy bunch through the pox. But when pressed to reveal her heart’s wish, she admits, “I...
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