- Location(s): Manitoba
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
In her best-loved novel, The Stone Angel, Margaret Laurence introduces Hagar Shipley, one of the most memorable characters in Canadian fiction. Stubborn, querulous, self-reliant—and, at ninety, with her life nearly behind her—Hagar Shipley makes a bold last step towards...
- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Twelve-year-old Nakri’s beloved home in Cambodia is shattered when the nation’s capital is overrun by government rebels. Her family is forced to flee, and she and her siblings end up in a children’s labor camp, separated from everything they’ve...
The Stone of Heaven: Unearthing the Secret History of Imperial Green Jade
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A riveting, entertaining, and richly detailed nonfiction narrative in the spirit of The Orchid Thief, Longitude and Nathaniel’s Nutmeg, this is the first book ever written about Imperial Green Jade — the rare and beautiful stone more precious than...
The Storm (The Lady of the Pier #3)
- Location(s): Brighton
- Genre(s): Historical, Paranormal, Romance
- Era(s): 1940s & 1980s
When Sofia falls in love, a mourning spirit begins to haunt her… The Storm is the concluding part of the trilogy where the two stories of Sofia and Laura merge into one and redemption seems finally possible… BRIGHTON 1988...