- Location(s): Dominican Republic
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
The Grand Paloma Resort is a lush paradise in the Dominican Republic where the guests enjoy incredible luxury, and the staff is always eager to please–that is, until they are pushed to the brink. Laura is a local...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family of sharecroppers, decide they have no choice but to follow. They head west, towards California,...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1979
Australia, 1979. It’s the height of summer and on a quiet suburban cul-de-sac a housewife is scrubbing the yellow and white chequered tiles of her bathroom floor. But all is not as it seems. For one thing, it’s 3...
The Grass Crown (Masters of Rome – 2)
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): BC
The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories
- Location(s): Alabama
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): late 20th century
Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harptells the story of three endearing misfits–an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies–who one day take up residence in a tree house. AS they pass sweet yet...
- Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Earlier 20th Century
Set in Rhodesia, ‘The Grass is Singing’ tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush and viciously abuses the black South Africans who work on their...
- Location(s): West Iceland
- Genre(s): Police Procedural
- Era(s): Contemporary
(Hildur Book 2) Detective Hildur Rúnarsdottir and her trainee Jakob are plagued by their own demons while working on the chilly west coast of Iceland: Hildur by the disappearance of her younger sisters twenty-five years ago and Jakob by...
- Location(s): Halifax NS, Nova Scotia
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Starts in 1873, comes up to present day
Historical fiction set in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It’s classified as a “young adult” book, but it was a joy to read. Very well written. I had a much better knowledge of the history of that part of Canada. Made...
- Location(s): Uganda, Kampala
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Prizewinning story writer Rosa Shand makes an impressive debut with a novel lushly set in the tumultuous Africa of the 1970s. Agnes is a dissatisfied wife who has come with her husband, a minister, to teach in Kampala, Uganda....
- Location(s): Mongolia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
This powerful, sweeping novel continues the saga of Dshurukawaa, the Tuvan shepherd boy introduced in The Blue Sky. Torn between the onset of visions and pressure from his family to attend a state boarding school, the adolescent attempts to...
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