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The Fourth Largest In Latvia

The Fourth Largest In Latvia
  • Author(s): Miks Koljers
  • Location(s): Latvia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Fourth Largest In Latvia sees “Leading scholar in his field” Viktor Draaks embarking – against his will – on an increasingly desperate and absurd journey through Latvian society. On the way he encounters many of the typical inhabitants...

The Fourth Princess

The Fourth Princess
  • Author(s): Janie Chang
  • Location(s): Shanghai
  • Genre(s): Historical, Gothic
  • Era(s): 1911

From the internationally bestselling author of The Porcelain Moon comes a haunting Gothic novel set in 1911 China. Two young women living in a crumbling, once-grand Shanghai mansion face danger as secrets of their pasts come to light, even...

The Fourth Princess: A Gothic Novel of Old Shanghai

The Fourth Princess: A Gothic Novel of Old Shanghai
  • Author(s): Janie Chang
  • Location(s): Shanghai
  • Genre(s): Gothic
  • Era(s): The Republican Era

From the internationally bestselling author of The Porcelain Moon comes a haunting Gothic novel set in 1911 China. Two young women living in a crumbling, once-grand Shanghai mansion face danger as secrets of their pasts come to light, even...

The Fourth Shore

The Fourth Shore
  • Author(s): Virginia Baily
  • Location(s): Tripoli, London, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s and 1930s

The Fourth Shore: the sliver of fertile land along the Tripoli coast, the ‘lost’ territory Mussolini promised to reclaim for Italy. Which is how, in 1929, seventeen-year-old Liliana Cattaneo arrives there from Rome on a ship filled with eager...

The Fox Girl and the White Gazelle

The Fox Girl and the White Gazelle
  • Author(s): Victoria Williamson
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Reema runs to remember the life she left behind in Syria. Caylin runs to find what she’s lost. Under the grey Glasgow skies, twelve-year-old refugee Reema is struggling to find her place in a new country, with a new...

The Fox on the Swing

The Fox on the Swing
  • Author(s): Evelina Daciūtė, Aušra Kiudulaitė
  • Location(s): Lithuania
  • Genre(s): Children

This hope-filled children’s book teaches young readers about family, happiness, and friendship. Complete with stunning illustrations, The Fox on the Swing was selected to the final of the Nami International Picture Book Illustration Contest and to the Bologna Children’s...

The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans

The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans
  • Author(s): Simon Winchester
  • Location(s): Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Terrible things have been going on in the Balkans for centuries, and they are likely to go on for centuries more to come. It is an area of great contrasts — geographically beautiful, yet the underlying crust of the...

The Fragility of Bodies

The Fragility of Bodies
  • Author(s): Sergio Olguin
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Veronica Rosenthal 1) When she hears about the suicide of a local train driver who has jumped off the roof of a block of flats, leaving a suicide note confessing to four mortal ‘accidents’ on the train tracks, she...

The Fragments

The Fragments
  • Author(s): Toni Jordan
  • Location(s): Brisbane, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1980s, 1930s

Inga Karlson died in a fire in New York in the 1930s, leaving behind three things: a phenomenally successful first novel, the scorched fragments of a second book — and a mystery that has captivated generations of readers. Nearly...

The Frangipani Tree Mystery (Crown Colony)

The Frangipani Tree Mystery (Crown Colony)
  • Author(s): Ovidia Yu
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1936

1936 in the Crown Colony of Singapore, and the British abdication crisis and rising Japanese threat seem very far away. When the Irish nanny looking after Acting Governor Palin’s daughter dies suddenly – and in mysterious circumstances – mission...

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