The Kingdom of Roses and Thorns
- Location(s): Swaziland (Eswatini)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Kingdom of Swaziland, in southern Africa, boasts breathtaking mountain ranges, friendly people and a peaceful political climate. Scratch the surface, and one finds a country battling the ravages of the world’s worst HIV/AIDS epidemic, devastating poverty, and the...
- Location(s): Rome, Middle East
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1st Century AD
Sadoc, son of Azor, a retired shipping clerk lying diseased and dying on the outreaches of the Roman Empire, sets down for future generations a tale of epic proportions: he is charged with recounting no less an event than...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 18th century
A dark and gothic novel of vampires and 18th Century Venice, filled with mystery and intrigue. A captivating story of love and loss, THE KISS OF DEATH is a stunning companion volume to the bestselling MY SWORDHAND IS SINGING....
The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Russian Revolution
Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia, Robert Alexander re-creates the tragic, perennially fascinating story of the final days of Nicholas and Alexandra Romanov as seen through the eyes of their young kitchen boy, Leonka. Now...
- Location(s): Shanghai, California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s to 1950s
Pearl Louie Brandt has a terrible secret which she tries desperately to keep from her mother, Winne Louie. And Winnie has long kept her own secrets – about her past and the confusing circumstances of Pearl’s birth. Fate intervenes...
- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): pre US Civil War
When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her family. Orphaned while onboard ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Ancient China
Haoyou knows that his father’s spirit lives among the clouds above Ancient China. He also knows that to save his mother from being forced into a new marriage he must now follow in his father’s footsteps and take to...
The Kite that Bridged Two Nations: Homan Walsh and the First Niagara Suspension Bridge
- Location(s): Niagara Falls (NY)
- Genre(s): Children, Historical
- Era(s): Mid-19th century
This picture book is based on the true story of Homan J. Walsh, an ordinary boy born in Ireland and raised in Niagara Falls, NY. In 1848, Homan entered a kite-flying contest. The winner’s kite string would span Niagara...
- Location(s): San Francisco, Europe, Lake Tahoe (Nevada)
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Current Era
Every year, it comes. And every year, it reminds Grace that someone knows her deepest secret―the secret whose silence has tormented Grace over the years. That secret began with an innocent gang of teenage friends who called themselves The...
- Location(s): Tōhoku, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 2011
When a devastating earthquake rocks Japan’s northeast coast, a tsunami follows and Rei Shimura is drawn into her most rugged adventure yet. The mystery begins with an SOS from Rei’s friend, the antiques dealer, Yasushi Ishida, who’s trapped among...
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