- Location(s): Syria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
A riveting memoir about one woman’s journey into Syria under the Baathist regime and an unexpected love story between two strangers searching for meaning. When Stephanie Saldana arrives in Damascus, she is running away from a broken heart and...
- Location(s): Port au Prince
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. Fashionable, feisty and fiercely independent, she manages a boutique in Port of Spain, but behind closed doors she’s covering up bruises from her abusive partner and seeking solace in an affair with...
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Afghanistan: Parvana’s father is arrested and taken away by Taliban soldiers. Under Taliban law, women and girls are not allowed to leave the house on their own. Parvana, her mother, and sisters are prisoners in their own home. With...
- Location(s): Nova Scotia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Revolutionary
Even the most familiar stories have two sides… After fleeing revolutionary violence in colonial Massachusetts, Susannah Mills is trying to put the pieces of her shattered life back together. When the safe haven that she and her father sought...
- Location(s): New England, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): contemporary
Two viral break-ups. One fake relationship. Five sparkling, heart-pounding dates. June and Levi were best friends as teenagers – until the day they weren’t. Now June is struggling to make rent on her beachside tea shop, Levi is living...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Niagara Falls (NY)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a warmhearted and empowering new novel about love, family, friendship, secrets, and the power of a trip to change your life. Thirty-four-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1950
Washington, D.C., 1950 Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, an all-female boarding house in the heart of the US capital, where secrets hide behind respectable facades. But when the mysterious Grace March moves into the attic room, she...
- Location(s): West Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): post American Civil War
Yearning for a fresh start, Ewan McKay travels with his aunt and uncle from northern Scotland to West Virginia, promising to trade his skills in the clay business for financial assistance from his uncle Hugh. Hugh purchases a brickmaking...
- Location(s): East London
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Alice arrives in London’s Docklands to meet her former best friend’s fiancé, she has the terrible feeling something’s wrong. Why had Joanna never mentioned Mark and, after only a month together, how can she be sure he’s the...
- Location(s): Amman
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Bride of Amman, a huge and controversial bestseller when first published in Arabic, takes a sharp-eyed look at the intersecting lives of four women and one gay man in Jordan’s historic capital, Amman-a city deeply imbued with its...
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