- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1845
1845: New York City forms its first police force. The great potato famine hits Ireland. These two events will change New York City forever… Timothy Wilde tends bar, saving every dollar in hopes of winning the girl of his...
- Location(s): Slovenia
- Genre(s): Poetry
- Era(s): post WW1
There are very few major European poets of the early twentieth century not already known to English-language audiences, but Srecko Kosovel is one. Often called the Slovene Rimbaud (he died at twenty-two, leaving almost 1,000 poems), the full range...
- Location(s): Maui, Ontario
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
After an involuntary retirement from his high-flying Hollywood career, Stafford Hopkins has retreated to a luxury estate on Maui, along with his wife Agnes, both grimly resigned to life in a paradise where neither feels fully at home. Stafford...
- Location(s): Iraq
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 3000 BC
5,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia during a terrible drought, Jomar and Zefa’s father must send his children away to the city of Ur because he can no longer feed them. At fourteen, Jomar is old enough to apprentice...
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Valentina the emperor’s daughter is an obsessive collector of exotic birds. Her servants track down every bird she desires – just one remains unfound: a bird that talks. Servants search far and wide to fulfill her impossible quest –...
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Frank Murdoch lives on a remote private island in Alaska, drawn there by its peace and isolation. There he finds a secret, unearthed from a cave sealed for seven decades. His historical research attracts Abby Sinclair, a lovely archaeologist....
- Location(s): Nassau
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): WW2
The Bahamas, 1941. Newly-widowed Lulu Randolph arrives in Nassau to investigate the Governor and his wife for a New York society magazine whose readers have an insatiable appetite for news of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, that glamorous...
- Location(s): Beirut, Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1939 / 1970s
From Cairo 1939 on the eve of the war and then thirty years later to 1970s Beirut on the eve of yet another conflict, The Golden Hour is an epic dual timeline story which interweaves glory-seeking desert archaeologists, priceless...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 21st Century
When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities, taking ‘Roman’ names, and move into a grand mansion in downtown Manhattan. Arriving shortly after the inauguration...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1988 and 2011
Winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel, this debut novel digs deep into the complexities of family history and relationships. When Etta’s grandmother dies, she is compelled to travel to Myanmar to explore complicated adolescent memories of her...
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