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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm

The Ear, the Eye and the Arm
  • Author(s): Nancy Farmer
  • Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2174

The year is 2174. The place is Zimbabwe, Africa. Three adventurous children escape their parents’ heavily guarded mansion to explore the dangerous world outside. They soon learn how dangerous it really is. Tendai, the oldest boy, is their leader,...

The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm

The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
  • Author(s): Nancy Farmer
  • Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 2194

General Matsika’s children steal out of the house on a forbidden adventure–and disappear. In Zimbabwe, in the year 2194, the children’s parents call in Africa’s most unusual detectives–the Ear, the Eye and the Arm–who have powers far beyond those...

The Easternmost House

The Easternmost House
  • Author(s): Juliet Blaxland
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘The house on the edge of the cliff was demolished this week, which means we are now the house on the edge of the cliff.’ Within the next three years, Juliet Blaxland’s home will be demolished, and the land...

The Eater Guide to PARIS (Eater City Guide)

The Eater Guide to PARIS (Eater City Guide)
  • Author(s): Eater, Lindsey Tramuta
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink
  • Era(s): 2020s

The Eater Guide to Paris is your go-to source for getting immersed in Paris’ iconic dining culture. Offering context on how the local scene has been shaped by history, immigration, agriculture, and tradition, this guide offers vibrant, incomparable insight...

The Eater of Flies

The Eater of Flies
  • Author(s): Richard Gadz
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1868

FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2022 NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR BEST HORROR Summer, 1868. London’s West End buzzes with a chaotic blend of affluence and moral decay, a place where high society and underworld meet. A valuable...

The Eaves of Heaven

The Eaves of Heaven
  • Author(s): Andrew X Pham
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1920s to 1975

A searing memoir by the award-winning author of Catfish and Mandala offers a portrait of his father’s experiences over the course of three wars–the French occupation of Indochina, the World War II Japanese invasion, and the Vietnam War–as he...

The Echoes of Love

The Echoes of Love
  • Author(s): Jenny Ashcroft
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1936 / WW2

Under the Cretan sun, in the summer of 1936, two young people fall in love… Eleni has been coming to Crete her entire life, swapping her English home for cherished sun-baked summers with her grandfather, in the shoreside villa...

The Edelweiss Pirates

The Edelweiss Pirates
  • Author(s): Dirk Reinhardt
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): WW2

‘An unknown story we should all know, about the triumph of courage and of the human spirit over the most evil regime the world has ever known’ Michael Morpurgo When sixteen-year-old Daniel befriends Josef Gerlach, he feels the old...

The Eden Legacy

The Eden Legacy
  • Author(s): Will Adams
  • Location(s): Madagascar
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fact collides with fiction in Will Adams’s fourth pulse-pounding adventure featuring archaeologist Daniel Knox. Welcome to Eden. Population: Zero. After she finds out her estranged father and sister are missing from their coastal nature reserve in Madagascar, TV zoologist...

The Edge

The Edge
  • Author(s): David Baldacci
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A BRUTAL MURDER Retired from the Army’s most prestigious special ops force, Travis Devine is now part of an elite undercover team in Homeland Security. But when he’s brought in by agent Emerson Campbell to investigate the murder of...

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