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Song of the Cuckoo Bird

Song of the Cuckoo Bird
  • Author(s): Amulya Malladi
  • 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...

Song of the Exile

Song of the Exile
  • Author(s): Kiana Davenport
  • Location(s): Hawai'i
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WWII

Kiana Davenport immerses the reader into the land, history, and culture of the Hawaiian islands. Her own ancestry reaches back to the first Polynesians who settled in the islands more than 2000 years ago, and with a Hawaiian mother...

Song of the Huntress

Song of the Huntress
  • Author(s): Lucy Holland
  • 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,...

Song of the Mountain

Song of the Mountain
  • Author(s): Samuel Elle Swanson
  • 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...

Song of the Nile

Song of the Nile
  • Author(s): Hannah Fielding
  • 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...

Song of the Sun God

Song of the Sun God
  • Author(s): Shankari Chandran
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s-2010

Song of the Sun God is about the wisdom, mistakes and sacrifices of our past that enable us to live more freely in the future. Nala and Rajan, a young couple, begin their married life in 1946, on the...

Songs At the River’s Edge: Stories From a Bangladeshi Village

Songs At the River’s Edge: Stories From a Bangladeshi Village
  • Author(s): Katy Gardner
  • 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...

Songs by Dead Girls

Songs by Dead Girls
  • Author(s): Lesley Kelly
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Scotland’s leading virologist goes missing, Mona and Paterson from the Health Enforcement Team are dispatched to London to find him. In a hot and unwelcoming city, Mona has to deal with a boss who isn’t speaking to her,...

Songs from the Violet Cafe

Songs from the Violet Cafe
  • Author(s): Fiona Kidman
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Era(s): 1940s

New Zealand, 1943. Violet Trench crosses Lake Rotorua with a small boy, Wing Lee, but rows back alone. Twenty years later, the same body of water is the scene of an event that will have lasting repercussions for Violet...

Songs in Ordinary Time

Songs in Ordinary Time
  • Author(s): Mary McGarry Morris
  • Location(s): Pennsylvania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960

Songs in Ordinary Time is set in the summer of 1960 – the last of quiet times and America’s innocence. It centers on Marie Fermoyle, a strong but vulnerable woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her...

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