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The Book of Lost Fragrances

The Book of Lost Fragrances
  • Author(s): M J Rose
  • Location(s): Egypt, France, Tibet
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Various

A Secret Worth Dying For… Jac L’Etoile has always been haunted by visions of the past, her earliest memories infused with the exotic scents that she grew up with as the heir to a storied French perfume company. These...

The Book of Lost Friends

The Book of Lost Friends
  • Author(s): Lisa Wingate
  • Location(s): Louisiana
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s & 1980s

Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest. For heiresses Lavinia and Juneau Jane, the journey is one of inheritance and financial desperation, but for Hannie, torn...

The Book of Lost Hours

The Book of Lost Hours
  • Author(s): Hayley Gelfuso
  • Location(s): Nürnberg (Nuremberg)
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Pre WW2 / 20th Century

Nuremberg, 1938. Lisavet Levy’s watchmaker father saves her from the Nazis by pushing her through a mysterious doorway. There, she discovers the Time Space – a vast, magical library where the memories of everyone who has ever lived are...

The Book of Night Women

The Book of Night Women
  • Author(s): Marlon James
  • Location(s): Jamaica
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 18th century

This is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the Night Women – a clandestine council of fierce slaves plotting an island-wide revolt...

The Book of Prague: Reading the City

The Book of Prague: Reading the City
  • Author(s): Ivana Myšková (editor), Jan Zikmund (editor)
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

An ex-con on compassionate release revisits his old haunts, only to feel dispossessed by how much the city has changed… The son of political dissidents in Soviet-era Prague is condemned to a life of menial jobs, like working at...

The Book of Proper Names

The Book of Proper Names
  • Author(s): Amélie Nothomb, Shaun Whiteside (translator)
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From France’s ‘literary lioness’ (Elle), The Book of Proper Names is the story of the hapless orphan girl, Plectrude. Raised by her aunt, and unaware of the dark secret behind her past, she is a troubled but dreamy child...

The Book of Riga (Reading the City)

The Book of Riga (Reading the City)
  • Author(s): Comma Press
  • Location(s): Riga
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Varies

Ten short stories written by Latvian authors and set in the country’s capital city…. A suicide attempt, staged to attract as much attention as possible, from the top of St. Peter’s Church, quickly evolves into an outlandish and absurd,...

The Book of Rio (Reading The City)

The Book of Rio (Reading The City)
  • Author(s): Toni Marques, Katie Slade
  • Location(s): Rio de Janeiro
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s the city the rest of the world descends on to party…. whether for the spectacular annual Carnival, the sun-kissed beaches, the World Cup, or, in 2016, the Olympics. It’s also a place that’s sadly become synonymous with some...

The Book of Rosy

The Book of Rosy
  • Author(s): Rosayra Pablo Cruz
  • Location(s): Mexico, Arizona
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Compelling and urgently important, The Book of Rosy is the unforgettable story of one brave mother and her fight to save her family. When Rosayra “Rosy” Pablo Cruz made the agonizing decision to seek asylum in the United States...

The Book of Ruth

The Book of Ruth
  • Author(s): Jane Hamilton
  • Location(s): Illinois
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

In The Book of Ruth, we move away from Chicago and into small town northern Illinois. The setting seems to be the 1970s, but really, the story is timeless. Hamilton depicts the life of a down and out, common,...

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