- Location(s): South India
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940 to early 2000s
A sweeping epic set in southern India, where a group of outcasts create a family while holding tight to their dreams. Barely a month after she is promised in marriage, eleven-year-old orphan Kokila comes to Tella Meda, an ashram...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 60AD
The bestselling author of Sistersong transforms the story of Herla and the Wild Hunt into a rich, feminist fantasy in this stunning tale of two great warriors, a war-torn land, and an ancient magic that is slowly awakening. Britain,...
- Location(s): Kyrgyzstan
- Genre(s): Romance, Fiction, Novella
- Era(s): Modern
Your first mistake in Kyrgyzstan is thinking the mountains will wait for you. In Bishkek, a half-dead phone, confusing cash rules, and a travel plan that will not cooperate turn your carefully mapped escape into a live test of...
- Location(s): Luxor, Upper Egypt
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Luxor, 1946. When young nurse Aida El Masri returns from war-torn London to her family’s estate in Egypt she steels herself against the challenges ahead. Eight years have passed since her father, Ayoub, was framed for a crime he...
Songs At the River’s Edge: Stories From a Bangladeshi Village
- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Katy Gardner’s account of her fifteen-month stay in the small Bangladeshi village of Talukpur has become a classic study of rural life in South Asia. Through a series of beautifully crafted narratives, the villagers and their stories are brought...










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