- Location(s): Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Frances is doing fine; she has her life sorted. Then comes the phone call from Alec, the husband who left her for her younger sister Susan, thirteen years ago. Susan has disappeared, and Alec wants her daughter Kate to...
- Location(s): Europe, Nepal
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Dar Kumari is an indigenous Gurung woman living in the Nepali Himalayas with her elderly husband, Nar Bahadur. Their mud-brick house is in a remote farming village that has no electricity and can only be reached on foot. Their...
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Humour, Paranormal
- Era(s): Modern
Living in small town Rockabill, Maine, Jane True always knew she didn’t quite fit in with so-called normal society. During her nightly, clandestine swim in the freezing winter ocean, a grisly find leads Jane to startling revelations about her...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Children, Mystery, Paranormal
- Era(s): Contemporary
Winner of the 2022 Mildred L. Batchelder Award A July/August 2021 Kids’ Indie Next Pick A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection Winner of a 2022 SCBWI Crystal Kite AwardFrom renowned Japanese children’s author Sachiko Kashiwaba, Temple Alley Summer...
- Location(s): Abu Dhabi, Dubai
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In the United Arab Emirates, foreign nationals constitute over 80 percent of the population. Brought in to construct the towering monuments to wealth that punctuate the skylines of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, this labor force works without the rights...
- Location(s): The Maldives
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
Nurse Shelly Blake needs a man badly. After ditching her cheating ex, and going on her honeymoon to the Maldives alone, she intends to experiment, and indulge in a bit of voyeurism with as many men as possible. Trouble...
- Location(s): New Jersey
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Swing off the Jersey Turnpike and you’ll be in bounty hunter Stephanie Plum’s neighborhood. You’ll know it because all hell will be breaking loose. Not that she looks for trouble – it just seems to follow her. In Ten...
- Location(s): Corfu
- Genre(s): Destination Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A picture-perfect Greek paradise As the blazing sun beats down on the white sand, Charlotte settles back on her sun lounger with her baby daughter while her husband and two sons play nearby. Their surroundings at this exclusive luxury...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sandipan Chattopadhyay was one of the pioneers of modern Bengali literature, and among the foremost fiction writers of his time. A staunch anti-establishment figure and a supporter of creative freedom, his writings reflect his concerns with class and gender...
Ten Steps from the Hotel Inglaterra
- Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
- Era(s): Modern
A romantic travel adventure in Cuba. Charlie is a great character
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