- Location(s): Tenerife
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1706
It is May, 1706. Ana, a young Spanish woman, lives in a small town on the north-west coast of Tenerife with her mother and twin younger brothers. The town is in the shadow of a mighty volcano, which legend...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
A foreign correspondent traces the 4,000-mile plank-board boat journey he took with an inexperienced childhood friend along the Nile River from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea, a trip inspired by Alan Moorehead’s classic chronicles during which the author...
- Location(s): Namibia
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
From one of our most gifted writers on the natural world comes a stunning exploration of a unique landscape and the improbable and endangered animal that makes its home there. Rick Bass first made a name for himself as...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
Paris, 1944 Celebrated singer Genevieve Dumont is both a star and a smokescreen. An unwilling darling of the Nazis, her position of privilege allows her to go undetected as an ally to the resistance. When her estranged mother, Lillian...
- Location(s): Guinea, France
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1930s
The Black Terrorist is a fictional account built around the true, extraordinary, but little-known story of Addi BA. Addi BA was born in Guinea about 1916, brought to France in the late 1930s, and became a riflemen in the...
- Location(s): Netherlands
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 17th Century
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 18th Century
- Location(s): Québec
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Somewhere out there, in the darkness, a black wolf is feeding. Several weeks ago, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team uncovered and stopped a domestic terrorist attack in Montréal, arresting the person behind...
- Location(s): Ukraine, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1986 and 1941
Like Ruta Sepetys for middle grade, Anne Blankman pens a poignant and timeless story of friendship that twines together moments in underexplored history. On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red...
- Location(s): Libya
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
The moufflon, a wild sheep prized for its meat, continues to survive in the remote mountain desert of southern Libya. Only Asouf, a lone Bedouin who cherishes the desert and identifies with its creatures knows exactly where it is...
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