- Location(s): New Jersey
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Where there’s smoke there’s fire, and no one knows this better than New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Contemporary
-How far would you go to enjoy a cigarette? In this witty black comedy, Laurain’s anti-hero can only make smoking pleasurable by committing the ultimate crime… When head-hunter Fabrice Valentine faces a smoking ban at work, he decides to...
- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1940s, World War II
When Smoky, a tiny Yorkie Terrier, is miraculously found in a foxhole in the steaming jungles of Papua New Guinea, she has no way of knowing she will become a World War II hero and Hollywood star. Flying with...
- Location(s): Florida
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Mid-19th century
Julia Cooper has a secret that could cost her her life. She’s really Lady Julia Anne Sanders Delerue, and she’s investigating who’s using Delerue-Sanders Shipping to smuggle contraband into frontier Florida. But when her disguise as a cleaning woman...
- Location(s): Uganda
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1970s
In Snakepit, Isegawa returns to the surreal, brutalizing landscapes of his homeland during the time of dictator Idi Amin, when interlocking webs of emotional cruelty kept tyrants gratified and servants cooperative, a land where no one–not husbands or wives,...
- Location(s): Indiana
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
A great, hilarious new voice in fiction: the poignant, all-too-human recollections of an affable bird researcher in the Indiana backwater as he goes through a disastrous yet heartening love affair with the place and its people. Nathan Lochmueller studies...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is tightly bound...
- Location(s): Chamonix, French Alps
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Luna Rowntree gets an unexpected and life-changing legacy from a man she’s never met, she’s determined to find out why – even if it is Christmas Day and her family are expecting her. So, with only her mother’s...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Historical
- Era(s): 1699
In Japan, 1699. Sa no Ichiro, the samurai detective who has risen to power and influence in the shogun’s court, has attracted dangerous rivals. When their son is kidnapped, Sano and his wife, Reiko, set off on a desperate...
- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Kentucky Tourism Commission employee and executive assistant extraordinaire Kelsey is known around the office for having everything under control. So it’s not surprising that she and her boss, Sadie, have everything planned to the second for the office winter...
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