- Location(s): Iran, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1896-1986
This award winning novel takes place in Persia/Iran and the United States. This novel portrays four generations of Persian women over a span of one hundred years. It depicts the effects of religion and politics — ever changing in...
Tapestries of the Heart: Four Women, Four Persian Generations
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th, 20th centuries
This award winning novel portrays four generations of Persian women over a span of one hundred years. It depicts the effects of religion and politics-ever changing in Iranian society. Tapestries stands out as a true representation of the cycle...
- Location(s): Venezuela
- Genre(s): Romance, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Delta Force: The most dangerous elite counter-terrorism force on the planet • The deadliest shooters • • The most out-of-the-box thinkers in any military • • Will die to get the mission done • Sergeant Kyle Reeves: The premier...
- Location(s): Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire), Mali
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1973-75
As a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ivory Coast (1973-75) and a Peace Corps trainer in Mali (1986), Peter Bourque kept a personal journal and wrote over 55 letters back to the States. In them, he described the satisfactions and...
- Location(s): Taiwan
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): early 21st century
A disillusioned and raggedy American reporter and his drunken photojournalist partner are the last to see three Japanese schoolgirls who disappear into Taroko Gorge, Taiwan’s largest national park. The journalists—who are themselves suspects— investigate the disappearance along with the girls’ homeroom teacher, their bickering classmates, and...
- Location(s): Kaliningrad (Königsberg)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2010s
In Tatiana, Smith delivers his most ambitious and politically daring novel since. When the brilliant and fearless young reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow in the same week that notorious mob billionaire...
Tattoo (Pepe Carvalho Mysteries)
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 2000s
- Location(s): Marrakech
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize Runner up of the Luke Bitmead Bursary Maia is leaving London to paint in the bright sunlight and exotic setting of Morocco. Working as an assistant to a once famous Historian, she is...
- Location(s): Ulan Bator / Ulaanbaatar
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
National Magazine Award finalist Christopher Howard’s debut novel, Tea of Ulaanbaatar, tells the story of disaffected Peace Corps volunteer Warren, who flees life in late-capitalist America to find himself stationed in the post-Soviet industrial hell of urban Mongolia. As...
- Location(s): North Thailand
- Genre(s): Biography, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 19th century
A tale of piety, greed, debauchery and equanimity in a remote Asian kingdom. It’s 1875 and Chiang Mai, capital of Lanna, is a cultural crossroads of Buddhist monks and Christian missionaries, of spirit doctors and opium smokers, of seductive...
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