- 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...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A dazzling and darkly comic novel of love, violence, and friendship in the California suburbs Bunny Lampert is the princess of North Shore–beautiful, tall, blond, with a rich real-estate-developer father and a swimming pool in her backyard. Michael–with a...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1800s
In the slums of 19th-century New York. A tattooed mystic fights for her life. Her survival hangs on the turn of a tarot card. Powerful, intoxicating and full of suspense. The Knowing is a darkly spellbinding novel about a...
- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): pre slave liberation
From National Book Award-nominated author Edward P. Jones comes a debut novel of stunning emotional depth and unequaled literary power Henry Townsend, a farmer, boot maker, and former slave, through the surprising twists and unforeseen turns of life in...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): present
The Kolkata Conundrum A novel by Kalyan Lahiri The mysterious and alluring Pramila, resident of Avantika Heights, is brutally murdered. Sudhir Das, the security guard from the Golden Red Security Agency, is caught red-handed.In steps Sudhir’s boss, young Orko...
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