- Location(s): China, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Jasmine Yang thought her daughter was dead at birth. But five years after she was taken from her arms, she learns that her controlling husband sent the baby to America to be adopted, a casualty of China’s one-child-policy. Fleeing...
- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
- Era(s): present
The Legacy is the first installment in a fantastic new series featuring the psychologist Freyja and the police officer Huldar. The only person who might have the answers to a baffling murder case is the victim’s seven-year-old daughter, found...
- Location(s): Zambia (Northern Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
This new Zambian woman writer is a leader in Zambia on issues concerned with women and development. In her first novel she puts into focus the degrading beliefs and practices of a male-dominated society. Dealing, for example, with issues...
- Location(s): Palmers Green, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present Day
Can she discover the truth about her long-lost mother before becoming a mother herself? A tale of fear and family secrets by the author of The Missing Husband. Annie’s mother, Eve, died in childbirth thirty-five years ago. Despite this...
The Legacy of the Bones (The Baztan Trilogy, Book 2)
- Location(s): The Basque Country, Baztán valley
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
The second book in Dolores Redondo’s atmospheric Baztan trilogy, featuring Inspector Amaia Salazar. With masterful storytelling and a detective to rival Sarah Lund, this Spanish bestselling series has taken Europe by storm. IT TAKES JUST ONE WORD TO STIR...
- Location(s): New York State, Tarrytown
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1790
Ichabod Crane, a schoolteacher, came to Tarry Town in the glen of Sleepy Hollow to ply his trade in educating young minds. He was a gullible and excitable fellow, often so terrified by locals’ stories of ghosts that he...
- Location(s): Azerbaijan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The novel and short stories included in this book describe the problems inherent to modern Azerbaijani society such as alienation, loneliness, hopelessness, soullessness etc. against a background of sophisticated characters and events. The great, intellectual, path-defining writer of Azerbaijanian...