Sisters of the Sweetwater Fury
- Location(s): Lake Erie, Lake Huron
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1913
It’s 1913 and Great Lakes galley cook Sunny Colvin has her hands full feeding a freighter crew seven days a week, nine months a year. She also has a dream—to open a restaurant back home—but knows she’d never convince...
- Location(s): South East Asia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
In the midst of WWII, an English mother, Norah, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Malaya, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific, swiftly overrunning the Allied...
- Location(s): Lebanon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Translated from the French by Georgina Kleege, Sitt Marie Rose, is the story of a woman abducted by militiamen during the Civil War in Lebanon. It reveals the tribal mentality which makes the Middle East a dangerous powerhouse. It...
Six Car Lengths Behind an Elephant
- Location(s): India, Japan, Spain, Venezuela
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 20th century
“If you’re married to a spy, the always fraught arena of a relationship turns into a positive minefield. What does that all-night absence mean? What can you begin to say to the kids? In Six Car Lengths Behind an...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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