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The Darkness

The Darkness
  • Author(s): Lars D H Hedbor
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Revolutionary

These are the darkest days of the Revolution… The darkness descending over coastal Maine leaves George no choice but to leave childhood behind for good. Despite living in the shadow of America’s most crushing naval defeat in the ongoing...

The Darling

The Darling
  • Author(s): Russell Banks
  • Location(s): Liberia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1975 through 1991

Set in Liberia and the United States from 1975 through 1991, The Darling is the story of Hannah Musgrave, a political radical and member of the Weather Underground. Hannah flees America for West Africa, where she and her Liberian...

The Darling Dahlias and the Silver Dollar Bush

The Darling Dahlias and the Silver Dollar Bush
  • Author(s): Susan Wittig Albert
  • Location(s): Alabama
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

The New York Times bestselling author of the China Bayles Mysteries takes readers back to Darling, Alabama, in the spring of 1933–where the women of the Darling Dahlias’ garden club are betting their bottom dollar there’s going to be...

The Darlings

The Darlings
  • Author(s): Hannah McKinnon
  • Location(s): Cape Cod
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At age ninety-two, Tish Darling is the matriarch and protector of what’s left of the Darling family fortune, including the decades-old beach house, Riptide. Located on the crook of Cape Cod, it’s a place she once loved but has...

The Daughter from a Wishing Tree

The Daughter from a Wishing Tree
  • Author(s): Sudha Murty, Priyankar Gupta (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Did you know that the Trinity often turned to goddesses to defeat the asuras? Did you know that the first clone in the world was created by a woman? The women in Indian mythology might be fewer in number,...

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
  • Author(s): Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • Location(s): Yucatan Peninsula
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy

Carlota Moreau: A young woman, growing up in a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatán peninsula, the only daughter of a genius – or a madman. Montgomery Laughton: A melancholic overseer with...

The Daughter of River Valley

The Daughter of River Valley
  • Author(s): Victoria Cornwall
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Victorian

Cornwall, 1861 Beth Jago appears to have the idyllic life, she has a trade to earn a living and a cottage of her own in Cornwall’s beautiful River Valley. Yet appearances can be deceptive … Beth has a secret....

The Daughter of The Merchant of Venice

The Daughter of The Merchant of Venice
  • Author(s): Stephen Sturgess
  • Location(s): Crete, Istanbul (Constantinople), Venice
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 16th Century

The Daughter of the Merchant of Venice is an intriguing love story that follows the romance between an apprentice artist named Stefano D’Alvino and Giustina Boschetti, the daughter of a Venetian merchant. Theirs is a story of love, betrayal, forgiveness,...

The Dawn of Saudi

The Dawn of Saudi
  • Author(s): Homa Pouragari
  • Location(s): Saudi Arabia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

This poignant mystery is about three people whose lives intertwine in a tale that depicts the oppression of women and the human rights abuse under the pretext of religion. Dawn Parnell made the mistake of marrying a Saudi; Sahar...

The Day I Died

The Day I Died
  • Author(s): Lori Rader-Day
  • Location(s): Indiana
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Anna Winger knows people better than they know themselves with only a glance—at their handwriting. Hired by companies seeking trustworthy employees and by the lovelorn hoping to find happiness, Anna likes to keep the real mess of other people’s...

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