- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In Katy Yocom’s award-winning debut novel, Three Ways to Disappear, two families—one human, one tiger—follow parallel journeys in which the powerful drives to connect, love, and raise the next generation play out against the fact of loss and the...
- Location(s): Taiwan
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): late 20th century
Here are twelve moving short stories about Taiwan and its people by one of the island’s most popular writers, Cheng Ch’ing-wen. Focusing primarily on village life and the effects of modernization on Taiwan in the postwar years, Cheng is...
- Location(s): Newport (R I)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1893
Newport, Rhode Island in the last decades of the nineteenth century was a stunningly beautiful and glamorous playground for the rich during the summer months, and a perfect setting for a romance between a rich young man from New...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
Through The Cane Fields is the story of two young sisters living a life of privilege in Apartheid era South Africa. Delia Hallowell is content with her carefree, luxurious life until she meets a boy named Thomas. As the...
- Location(s): Oregon
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Letting him inside could be her salvation…or her undoing. Clara Martelli clings to Book Nirvana, the Oregon bookshop she and her late husband Jared built together. When rising rents and corporate competition threaten its survival, her best hope is...