- Location(s): Mallorca
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): 21st Century
Every summer has a story… Fun-loving travel rep Jess doesn’t want to be chief bridesmaid at her snooty cousin’s wedding, but it will cause a family feud if she refuses. She doesn’t want to fall in love either but...
- Location(s): Canada
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back over 4 decades
Eight women. Four decades of friendship. One unimaginable request. Where can you find a story about friendship, laughter and the good things in life that also touches on alcoholism, infidelity, porn addiction, illness and grief? For many women, it’s...
- Location(s): Chennai (Madras)
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Four determined homeless children make a life for themselves in Padma Venkatraman’s stirring middle-grade debut. Life is harsh on the teeming streets of Chennai, India, so when runaway sisters Viji and Rukku arrive, their prospects look grim. Very quickly,...
- Location(s): Isfahan
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
The Bridge of Isfahan is a love story, set in Iran during the postwar 1940s, a time of burgeoning hopes and dangerous conflicts — not the least among them the cold war. Shirene is the green-eyed granddaughter of the...
- Location(s): Peru
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1714
An ancient bridge collapses over a gorge in Peru, hurling five people into the abyss. It seems a meaningless human tragedy. But one witness, a Franciscan monk, believes the deaths might not be as random as they appear. Convinced...
- Location(s): Belgium
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s and 1930s
This novel, first published in 1946, is one of May Sarton’s earliest and, some critics think, one of her best. It takes place during the years between the world wars and explores the life of a Belgian family, the...
- Location(s): Croatia
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 16th century to WW1
The Bridge on the Drina is a vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I. As we seek to make sense of...
The Bridge Over the River Kwai
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1942
1942: Boldly advancing through Asia, the Japanese need a train route from Burma going north. In a prison camp, British POWs are forced into labor. The bridge they build will become a symbol of service and survival to one...
- Location(s): Winterset
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): 1950s
The story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for the fulfillment of a girlhood dream, THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY gives voice...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s
Charles Holborne, ne Horowitz, is an East End boy with a past – an ex-boxer and ex-criminal – who becomes a West End boy when he qualifies as a barrister. Now he’s trapped between two worlds and fits in...
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