- Location(s): Montgomery, Alabama
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1973
Montgomery, Alabama. 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference in her community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help women make their own choices for their lives and...
- Location(s): Florence, London, Venice
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
‘An artistic voyage in crime – thrilling and original’ Julia Blake is a conservator, working with classic art. Her expertise includes imaging beneath the surface of paintings to discover what lies beneath. She is sure that a number of...
- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Crime, Suspense
- Era(s): early 2000s
Film lover Barbara Marr is a typical suburban mom living the typical suburban life in her sleepy little town of Rustic Woods, Virginia. Typical, that is until she sets out to find the missing link between a bizarre monkey...
- Location(s): Kurdistan
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1979
An aspiring photographer follows her dreams and faces her fears in a poignant novel about finding beauty, promise, and love amid the chaos of war-torn Kurdistan. It’s 1979. Olivia Murray, a secretary at a Los Angeles newspaper, is determined...
- Location(s): Allegheny Mountains
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Take What You Need traces the parallel lives of Jean and her beloved but estranged stepdaughter, Leah, who’s sought a clean break from her rural childhood. In Leah’s urban life with her young family, she’s revealed little about Jean,...
- Location(s): Trenton, New Jersey
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mess with family. But when powerful mobster Salvatore “Uncle Sunny” Sunucchi goes on the lam in Trenton, it’s up to Stephanie to find him. Uncle Sunny is charged with...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1930s
No, 8 in the Inspector de Silva mystery series set in 1930s CEYLON When an American millionaire and his glamorous daughter visit Nuala, the splendour they bring to the town’s high society is soon tragically tarnished by a vicious...
Tales and More Tales from the Mountain
- Location(s): Portugal, Trás-os-Montes
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1940s
These brief and telling stories of rustic life and love are set in the remote and barren Tras-os-Montes – over the mountains – region of North East Portugal. The author speaks of the men and women living there, complex...
- Location(s): Africa
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): timeless
A collection of hugely entertaining stories, drawn from the rich folklore of many countries throughout Africa, and brought sparklingly to life with humour and rhyme by Ghanaian author, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, writing under the name used for his children’s...
Tales from an Israeli Storyteller
- Location(s): Israel
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
Tales from an Israeli Storyteller is an illustrated cycle of 20 short stories and novellas born from exploring the most iconic locations in Israel. This is the story of the Israel you don’t hear about on the news –...
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