- Location(s): Florence
- Genre(s): Biography, Historical
- Era(s): 1600s
The life and loves of Michelangelo in the turburlent years of the Renaissance, beautifully crafted and a detailed account of the artist, his work and his setting.
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In waters as far and icy as the Bering Sea, a fierce, lost young woman finds herself through the hard work of fishing and the stubborn love of real friendship. Tara Marconi has made her way from Philly to...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Historical
- Era(s): Renaissance (16th century)
To the legendary clairvoyant Maestro Nostradamus, the future is forever in motion. But for young swordsman Alfeo Zeno, his apprentice and protector, the present is hard enough to contend with. His days are spent poring over astrology charts and...
- Location(s): Lincoln
- Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): Early medieval
After years of captivity in the Holy Land, Templar Bascot de Marins escapes with injuries to his body and soul. Now on sojourn at Lincoln Castle, he hopes to regain his strength, and mend his waning faith-but not even...
- Location(s): France, London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): First half 20th Century
In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are...
- Location(s): Vancouver Island
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
GRIPPING MURDER MYSTERY FICTION FROM CANADA A peaceful day in Castlecrest, a coastal town on Vancouver Island, is interrupted when a gunshot rings out from a jewellery store. Crime is so rare in the area that only RCMP Sergeant...
- Location(s): Chester, Cheshire, London
- Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 18th century
SUPERSTITION. MURDER. VENGEANCE. Tabitha Hart earns a scandalous living in London, with whichever gentleman has enough coin for her company. But in the summer of 1752, her mother urgently summons her home to the village of Netherlea and she...
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early-mid 2000s
They called it Badam Bagh – the Almond Garden. But inside Kabul’s central women’s prison, nothing bloomed. Nothing except rage. When Niloofar, a teenage inmate, sets herself on fire, the authorities call it a suicide attempt. But two women...
- Location(s): Alabama
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
With empathy, grace, humor, and piercing insight, the author of ‘Gods in Alabama’ pens a powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege, family, and the distinctions between perception and reality–the stories we tell...
- Location(s): Hawai'i
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): early 20th century
The spirit of aloha is found in Hawaii’s fresh ocean air, the flowers, the trade winds . . . the natural beauty that smoothes the struggles of daily life. In 1922 Honolulu, unhappy in the adoptive family that’s raised...
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