The Redemption of Alexander Seaton

- Location(s): Banff
- Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
Banff, Scotland, the 1620s. A young man walks unsteadily through the streets. Is he just drunk or is there something more sinister happening? When he collapses in front of two sisters on that dark, wet night, the women guess...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Reality and dream collide in Amy Bonnaffons’s dazzling, wildly inventive miracle of a love story about an affair between the living and the dead (NPR) For weeks, Rachel has been noticing the same golden-haired young man sitting at her...
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): late 19th Century
Dr. Jose Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (1861-1896) was a Filipino polymath, nationalist and the most prominent advocate for reforms in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era. He attended the Ateneo Municipal de Manila, earning a Bachelor...
- Location(s): Butangen, Norway
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): early 20th century
The year is 1903, and twenty-two years have passed since Astrid Hekne died in childbirth. Her son Jehans lives on a modest smallholding up in the hills near Butangen, having withdrawn from his community. He is drawn to freedom,...