- Location(s): Seville
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
A new psychological thriller in the Javier Falcon quartet, that includes THE HIDDEN ASSASSINS and The Blind Man of Seville. The sweltering city of Seville is still recovering from a shocking and unsolved terrorist attack but now a spectacular...
- Location(s): Massachusetts
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th century
At their newly founded school, Samuel Hood and his daughter Caroline promise a groundbreaking education for young women. But Caroline has grave misgivings. After all, her own unconventional education has left her unmarriageable and isolated, unsuited to the narrow...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back to 1980s
A moving, layered, and engrossing read, The Imagined Life follows Steven Mills, a man in a struggling marriage who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth about the father who vanished from his life when he was only twelve. Driving...
- Location(s): Iran, Tehran
- Genre(s): Magical Realism, Poetry
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Torkashvand family reveres their seemingly immortal patriarch, Agha, the trunk of their widely branching, family tree. When we come to the story, Agha is so old that he spends his days sitting in the family orchard, drinking tea...
The Impenetrable Forest: My Gorilla Years in Uganda
- Location(s): Uganda, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lying in the remote hills of southwest Uganda, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest harbors elephants, chimpanzees, monkeys, and half the world’s population of endangered mountain gorillas. For two years, Thor Hanson called that forest home, working with local guides and trackers...
- Location(s): Siberia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Young Adult
- Era(s): 1934
In 1934, thirteen-year-old Marya and her younger brother, Georgi, set out alone on a long and arduous journey into Siberia to find their mother after she and their father are exiled for opposing Stalin, in the companion story to...










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