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The Land Beyond

The Land Beyond
  • Author(s): Leon McCarron
  • Location(s): Middle East
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There are many reasons why it might seem unwise to walk, mostly alone, through the Middle East. That, in part, is exactly why Leon McCarron did it. From Jerusalem, McCarron followed a series of wild hiking trails that trace...

The Land of Five Towers

The Land of Five Towers
  • Author(s): Ahmad Fuadi
  • Location(s): Java, Sumatra
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

A novel inspired by a true story (English Edition) Synopsis: Alif had never set foot outside of West Sumatra. He passed his childhood days searching for fallen durian fruit in the jungle, playing soccer on rice paddies, and swimming...

The Land of Trees

The Land of Trees
  • Author(s): L A Naylor
  • Location(s): Guatemala
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): current

Adoptee Lia has followed her Spanish teacher, Rafael, to Guatemala for romance and adventure. She doesn’t know much about the country, but she’s happy because she’s finally living life on her own terms. On their first night together, Lia...

The Landscape of Loneliness

The Landscape of Loneliness
  • Author(s): Brigita Orel
  • Location(s): Slovenia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

To find herself, Nina must first unravel her past. After eight years abroad, twenty-nine-year-old Nina returns home to Slovenia to attend to her ill father. Plagued by painful childhood memories, poor health, and a broken heart, she struggles to...

The Language of Baklava

The Language of Baklava
  • Author(s): Diana Abu-Jaber
  • Location(s): Jordan, Syracuse
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1960s, 1970s

Diana Abu-Jaber’s vibrant, humorous memoir weaves together stories of being raised by a food-obsessed Jordanian father with tales of Lake Ontario shish kabob cookouts and goat stew feasts under Bedouin tents in the desert. These sensuously evoked repasts, complete...

The Language of Secrets

The Language of Secrets
  • Author(s): Ausma Zehanat Khan
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Detective Esa Khattak heads up Canada’s Community Policing Section, which handles minority-sensitive cases across all levels of law enforcement. Khattak is still under scrutiny for his last case, so he’s surprised when INSET, Canada’s national security team, calls him...

The Language of the Birds

The Language of the Birds
  • Author(s): Alisher Nava'i
  • Location(s): Uzbekistan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Poetry
  • Era(s): late 15th century

The Language of the Birds is a masterpiece of Eastern Turkish literature (now Uzbek), and was written by one of Central Asia’s most prominent poets, Alisher Nava’i, shortly before his death in 1501. The story begins with the birds...

The Lantern Men

The Lantern Men
  • Author(s): Elly Griffiths
  • Location(s): Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Everything has changed for Dr Ruth Galloway. She has a new job, home and partner, and is no longer North Norfolk police’s resident forensic archaeologist. That is, until convicted murderer Ivor March offers to make DCI Nelson a deal....

The Laramie Project

The Laramie Project
  • Author(s): Moises Kaufman
  • Location(s): Wyoming, Laramie
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1998

On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepard’s death became...

The Last Affair

The Last Affair
  • Author(s): Margot Hunt
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Love may be blind, but obsession’s a real killer. Nora Holliday is not that kind of woman. Not the kind who has an illicit affair with a married man. But Josh Landon is everything Nora’s alcoholic husband isn’t. And...

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