- Location(s): Argentina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
On June 20, 1973, General Juan Peron, the most revered–as well as the most hated–dictator in the history of Argentina, returned to his homeland after eighteen years of exile. His arrival was the occasion for a fratricidal massacre. Less...
The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
For centuries the Koh-i-Noor diamond has set man against man and king against king. Now part of the British Crown Jewels, the priceless gem is a prize that many have killed to possess. So when the Crown Jewels go...
- Location(s): Isfahan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1974
At once a great love story, a riveting political thriller, and a profound analysis of modern Iran, THE PERSIAN BRIDE is unflinching in its vision of twentieth-century chaos. In 1974, the young Englishman John Pitt follows the hippie trail...
- Location(s): Kansas, Harveyville
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
It is the 1930s, and hard times have hit Harveyville, Kansas, where the crops are burning up, and there’s not a job to be found. For Queenie Bean, a young farm wife, a highlight of each week is the...
- Location(s): Java, Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century looking back to WW2
Set among the Pacific islands and in the Indian Ocean, The Persimmon Tree tells the very personal and often romantic stories of men and women caught up in larger events – in this case starting with the Japanese invasion...
- Location(s): Wisconsin, Madison
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): early 21st century
Every day, Daniel Schroeder breaks his father’s heart. The two of them have always been close, which makes it all the more difficult to break the daily news: the last five years were nothing like Big Dan remembers. They’re...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Biography, Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
The remarkable story of J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation, from...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Fiction, Graphic Novel
- Era(s): 1087–85 BC
Also known as “The Pharaoh and the Priest”, Pharaoh is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. It was the sole historical novel by an author who had earlier disapproved of historical novels on...
- Location(s): Tuscany, Florence
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th Century
16th century Italy, deep in the Tuscan countryside a long-held feud between two aristocratic families ends in tragedy leaving only one young girl alive. Having barely escaped with her life, she vows to survive at all costs… Years later,...
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
In a bustling marketplace in Iran, a traditional storyteller regales her audience with the tale of Prince Zal and the Simorgh. High up on the Mountain of Gems lives the Simorgh, a wise phoenix whose flapping wings disperse the...
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