- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1947
That summer they hanged a fat man at the Western gate as a warning and example to all. Kao was a traitor, a thief, a pimp, a black marketeer—and Jake Dodds’s partner. So what if he traded stolen military...
The Chinese Emperor’s New Clothes
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Ming Da is only nine years old when he becomes the emperor of China, and his three advisors take advantage of him by stealing his stores of rice, gold, and precious stones. But Ming Da has a plan. With...
- Location(s): Amalfi Coast
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
San Francisco, 1953: Heartbroken over the mysterious death of her husband, Celina Savoia, a second-generation chocolatière, resolves to take their young son to Italy’s shimmering Amalfi coast to introduce him to his father’s family. Just as she embarks on...
- Location(s): North Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
#1 New York Times bestseller Nicholas Sparks turns his unrivaled talents to a new tale about love found and lost, and the choices we hope we’ll never have to make. Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a...
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Historical, Young Adult
- Era(s): 1940s
In 1940s Brooklyn, New York, an accident throws Reuven Malther and Danny Saunders together. Despite their differences (Reuven is a Modern Orthodox Jew with an intellectual, Zionist father: Danny is the brilliant son and rightful heir to a Hasidic...
- Location(s): Cornwall, Dorset
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1912
One Wednesday morning in November 1912 the ageing Thomas Hardy, entombed by paper and books and increasingly estranged from his wife Emma, finds her dying in her bedroom. Between his speaking to her and taking her in his arms,...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad), Monte Carlo, Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Based on the famous dance siblings: Vaslav Nijinsky and his brilliant sister Bronislava (Bronia) this is a story of a remarkable dancer who charts her own course through the tumultuous years of early twentieth-century Europe. Beautifully blending fiction with...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Adventure
- Era(s): 17th Century
Book 1 in The Chosen Man Trilogy Spring 1635, a storm and pirate raid interrupt wily rogue and Genoese merchant Ludovico da Portovenere’s voyage from Constantinople to Amsterdam, disrupting his plans and entangling others in a papal conspiracy that...
- Location(s): Cornwall, Orkney Islands
- Genre(s): Mythology
- Era(s): Arthurian Legend
The stories of Camelot do not begin with the sword in the stone—but rather with a twisted chain of murder, magic, and deceit. Igraine is happily married to Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall, even though his withdrawal from the Mysteries...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern Day
Carmen has always worked in her local department store. So, when the gorgeous old building closes its doors for good, she is more than a little lost. When her sister, Sofia, mentions an opportunity in Edinburgh – a cute...
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