The Fate of an Emperor (Overlord #2)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 3rd Century
My name is Zabdas: a brother, protector, soldier and sacrifice. I am a defender of Syria. I shall tell you the story of my beloved Zenobia: fearless woman, determined wife, Warrior Queen of Palmyra … Seventy-thousand Roman soldiers have...
- Location(s): Black Forest
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Young Adult
The breathtaking sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller Night of the Witch culminates with a sweeping fantasy romance and an epic battle to determine the fate of magic…and the world. Fritzi is a champion. After escaping the...
- Location(s): Scotland, Athens, Hydra, Lake Garda
- Era(s): Contemporary
This book won an IPPY Bronze Medal in 2016, in the Best Regional Fiction Europe, category. David and Elizabeth Fredericks are spending a month away from their home in Eastern Scotland. Traveling through Greece and Italy, they plan to...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
July 1932. When a drowned man is found in a freight elevator in Haus Vaterland, the giant pleasure palace on Potsdamer Platz, Inspector Gereon Rath is called in to investigate. It’s not that Rath hasn’t problems enough. His hunt...
- Location(s): Gibraltar
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Chilling thriller set on Gibraltar – at the heart of The Rock are secret tunnels, hard to navigate and even harder to escape. Sebastian is a civil engineering prodigy and his latest project is his most ambitious to date:...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Despite the tumour-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid...
- Location(s): Montreal
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
This warm and lyrical semi-autobiographical first novel by singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen charts the coming of age of Lawrence Breavman, the only son of a Jewish Montreal family. ‘Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal....
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1947
Cornwall, Midsummer 1947. Pendizack Manor Hotel has just been buried in the rubble of a collapsed cliff. Seven guests have perished, but what brought this strange assembly together for a moonlit feast before this Act of God – or...
- Location(s): Michigan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
The Feast of Love is a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. In a re-imagined A Midsummer Night’s Dream, men and women speak of and desire their ideal mates; parents seek out...
- Location(s): Slovenia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A deftly written novel brimming with magical realist touches, The Feline Plague tells the story of Ira, a Slovenian child who discovers early the cruelty of the adult world—particularly the mistreatment of animals. Ira struggles to reconcile her life...
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