- Location(s): The Maldives
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
It looks like a reunion in paradise. Five businessmen gather on a boat in the Maldives. Agreement on a deal will dramatically increase their wealth. But a dark secret, hidden debt and past rivalry leads to bitter argument. Two...
- Location(s): Cameroon
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Modern looking back
In Cameroon, plum season is a highly anticipated time of year. But for the narrator of When the Plums Are Ripe, the poet Pouka, the season reminds him of the “time when our country had discovered the root not...
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1941
Set against the backdrop of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard’s brilliant novel weaves myth and legend together with the suffering and tragedies of the Filipino people. When nine-year-old Yvonne flees with her family...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Anna Hart is a missing persons detective in San Francisco. When tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna, desperate and numb, flees to the Northern California village of Mendocino to grieve. She lived there as a child with her beloved...
- Location(s): Wales
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Post WW2
A STIRRING HISTORICAL ADVENTURE FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE VALLEY OF LOST SECRETS. The First World War has ended, but it hasn’t gone away. When Natty has to move to a new village, she meets two young soldiers who...
- Location(s): Colorado
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Frannie O’Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado. Devastated by the mysterious murder of her husband, David, a local doctor, Frannie throws herself into her work. It is not long before another bizarre murder occurs and...
- Location(s): Vienna, England, Germany, Poland, Prague
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): World War Two
Three friends. Two sides. One memory. Vienna. 1936. Three young friends – Leo, Elsa and Max – spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness, and that events soon mean that...
When Turtles Come Home: A Memoir on Life in the Philippines
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
When Victoria Hoffarth was at graduate school in the U.S., her lecturer, the anthropologist Margaret Mead, once told her class, “There are so many varied places in the world. It is incumbent upon us to search for one where we most...
- Location(s): Poland, England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
England, 1943. Lost in fog, pilot Vee Katchatourian is forced to make an emergency landing where she meets enigmatic RAF airman Stefan Bergel, and then can’t get him out of her mind. In occupied Poland, Ewa Hartman hosts German...
- Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
An emotionally compelling tale of love and mystery set in the publishing world of World War II London, When We Meet Again tells the story of a mother searching for her stolen child, and illustrates the unbreakable bonds among...
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