- Location(s): Guatemala
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): current
Adoptee Lia has followed her Spanish teacher, Rafael, to Guatemala for romance and adventure. She doesn’t know much about the country, but she’s happy because she’s finally living life on her own terms. On their first night together, Lia...
- Location(s): Slovenia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
To find herself, Nina must first unravel her past. After eight years abroad, twenty-nine-year-old Nina returns home to Slovenia to attend to her ill father. Plagued by painful childhood memories, poor health, and a broken heart, she struggles to...
- Location(s): Jordan, Syracuse
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1960s, 1970s
Diana Abu-Jaber’s vibrant, humorous memoir weaves together stories of being raised by a food-obsessed Jordanian father with tales of Lake Ontario shish kabob cookouts and goat stew feasts under Bedouin tents in the desert. These sensuously evoked repasts, complete...
- Location(s): Toronto
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Detective Esa Khattak heads up Canada’s Community Policing Section, which handles minority-sensitive cases across all levels of law enforcement. Khattak is still under scrutiny for his last case, so he’s surprised when INSET, Canada’s national security team, calls him...
- Location(s): Uzbekistan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Poetry
- Era(s): late 15th century
The Language of the Birds is a masterpiece of Eastern Turkish literature (now Uzbek), and was written by one of Central Asia’s most prominent poets, Alisher Nava’i, shortly before his death in 1501. The story begins with the birds...
- Location(s): Norfolk
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Everything has changed for Dr Ruth Galloway. She has a new job, home and partner, and is no longer North Norfolk police’s resident forensic archaeologist. That is, until convicted murderer Ivor March offers to make DCI Nelson a deal....
- Location(s): Wyoming, Laramie
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1998
On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepard’s death became...
- Location(s): Sussex
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Love may be blind, but obsession’s a real killer. Nora Holliday is not that kind of woman. Not the kind who has an illicit affair with a married man. But Josh Landon is everything Nora’s alcoholic husband isn’t. And...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): modern
At the age of seventeen, Eustace Conway ditched the comforts of his suburban existence to escape to the wild. Away from the crushing disapproval of his father, he lived alone in a teepee in the mountains. Everything he needed...
- Location(s): Svalbard, Norway
- Genre(s): Children, Fiction
- Era(s): N/A
Imagine making friends with a polar bear… The Last Bear is perfect for readers of 8+, beautifully illustrated throughout by Levi Pinfold – winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal and illustrator of Harry Potter 20th anniversary edition covers. “This...
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