- Location(s): The Wimmera
- Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
Will the mountain give up its secrets? While walking on an isolated track in the windswept Wimmera, rock-climber Skye discovers the body of a young woman. The body has injuries that suggest a rock-climbing accident, but it’s been found...
- Location(s): Syria, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s / 1960s
In The Crane, the renowned Syro-Lebanese author Halim Barakat creates a narrator who looks back wistfully on a childhood in a small village of Syria, then travels to the United States, and, with his wife, goes through the experiences...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Children, Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
One night, the sounds of New York City–the rumbling of subway trains, thrumming of automobile tires, hooting of horns, howling of brakes, and the babbling of voices–is interrupted by a sound that even Tucker Mouse, a jaded inhabitant of...