- Location(s): Maryland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th Century onwards
Once again James A. Michener brings history to life with this 400-year saga of America’s great bay and its Eastern Shore. Following Edmund Steed and his remarkable family, who parallel the settling and forming of the nation, CHESAPEAKE sweeps...
- Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean
- Genre(s): Novella
- Era(s): Post WW2
A group of passengers on a cruise ship from New York to Buenos Aires challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
A medley of Egyptian and American lives collides on the campus of the University of Illinois Medical Center in a post-9/11 Chicago, and crises of identity abound. Among the players are an atheistic anti-establishment American professor of the sixties...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
An anthology of noir short stories under the editorship of Neal Pollack. The city of Chicago has spent much time and money over the last decade marketing itself as a tourist-friendly destination for the whole family. The stories in...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1960s
Most of us have experienced the Vietnam War through TV – fires, bombings, B-52s. This book vividly takes you to the Vietnamese villages of Vietnam. He describes the people involved in the conflict, mostly North & South Vietnamese and...
- Location(s): Puerto Vallarta
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Molly Clark was a homicide detective in MilwaukeeWisconsin and in a confrontation with a serial killer is badly wounded. She drifts away to Puerto Vallarta to heal body and spirit. Bored with the bars and clubs, and sensing she...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1950s
This is a thriller set in 1950s Stalinist Russia, a regime that balks at nothing and executes opponents without conscience. It wanted to be seen as the perfect society. A series of brutal murders shatter this image, but if...
- Location(s): Algeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
- Location(s): Bristol
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 18th Century
Set in the late 18th century, this powerful historical novel focuses on the city of Bristol and its connections with the slave trade at a time when the abolitionist movement is gathering momentum in England. A well-respected Bristol councillor...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1929
In “Children of Wrath” Willi Kraus tackles the case of the Kinderfresser, the vicious Child-Eater of Berlin. Turning the clock back two years from The Sleepwalkers, the story starts out in the fall of 1929, the last days of...
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