- Location(s): Shetland Islands
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1957 and contemporary
1957. Sonny is working on a whaling ship in the South Atlantic, reckoning with the most vicious storms he has ever seen. It’s a brutal way to make a living. When he finally returns to his Shetland home to...
- Location(s): Barbados
- Genre(s): Fiction, Future, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
What is it about turning forty that makes a woman take a look at where she’s been and where she’s going? For ActivGirl CEO Catherine Camilleri, it is a crossroads that has her wondering where she went off course....
- Location(s): Kentucky, Appalachian Mountains
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 20th century
Cal is not the readin’ type. Living way high up in the Appalachian Mountains, he’d rather help Pap plow or go out after wandering sheep than try some book learning. Nope. Cal does not want to sit stoney-still reading...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Tim Winton’s That Eye, the Sky is a tale about a boy’s vision of the world beyond, and the blurry distinctions between the natural and supernatural. At twelve years old, Morton – Ort for short – is not quite...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ren Sawyer and Lizzy Harper live completely different lives. He’s a rock star with a secret he can no longer live with. She’s a regular person whose husband stood her up for a long planned anniversary trip. On a...
- Location(s): Belfast
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A murder, a missing colleague, and a pack of lies… When DCI Gawn Girvin is called to a murder scene, she is shocked to find the victim was known to her. Harriet Hughes was a close friend of Jenny...
- Location(s): Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
‘That Old Ace in the Hole’ is a richly textured story of one man’s struggle to make good in the inhospitable ranch country of the Texas panhandle, told with razor-sharp wit and a masterly sense of place. Some folks...
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
Since his landmark debut collection, There Are Little Kingdoms, and its award-winning sequel in 2012, Dark Lies the Island, Kevin Barry has been acclaimed as one of the world’s most accomplished and gifted short story writers. Barry’s lyric intensity,...
- Location(s): Dubai
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Sand Fish,Maha Gargash’s second novel is set in mid-1990s Dubai and Cairo and tells the story of how secrets and betrayals consume three members—an authoritarian father, a rebellious abandoned daughter, and...
- Location(s): Cape Cod
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Summer comes another timely and deliciously twisty novel of intrigue, secrets, and the transformative power of female friendship, set on beautiful Cape Cod. Daisy Shoemaker can’t sleep. With a...
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