- Location(s): Bath
- Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 19th century
Wicked deeds require the cover of darkness… A struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead – and to try and identify their killers – in this...
- Location(s): Florida
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
6 My Books Browse ▾ Community ▾ Book details The Shark Clubby Ann Kidd Taylor (Goodreads Author) 3.67 3,606 ratings 614 reviews it was amazing Your Rating (Clear) Read Write a review One summer day on the beach in Florida, two extraordinary things happen to...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
The first question this remarkable new tale of mayhem and misunderstanding asks is: Who is singing the Sharpshooter Blues?Is it Morgan, the teenage trick-shot artist, who stops by The William Tell Grocery in Arrow Catcher, Mississippi, one day to...
- Location(s): Kashmir, Mumbai (Bombay), Pakistan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
- Era(s): 1996-2015
All the women in Nafeesa’s family have been imprisoned, assassinated, scarred or exiled. Yes, every single one. Is it any wonder, then, that the surviving men in her family have kept those disturbing facts from her? But now Nafeesa...
The Shell: Memoirs of a Hidden Observer
- Location(s): Palmyra
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
The work of a modern-day Sozhenitsyn that exposes acts of violence and brutality committed by the Syrian regime. This compelling first novel is the astonishing story of a Syrian political prisoner of consciencean atheist mistaken for a radical Islamistwho...
The Sheltered Quarter: A Tale of a Boyhood in Mecca
- Location(s): Mecca
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1st half 20th century
Hamza Bogary describes a bygone way of life that has now irreversibly disappeared. He speaks of life in Mecca before the advent of oil. Only partly autobiographical, the memoir is nevertheless rich in remembered detail based on Bogary’s early...