The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19t Century
James Poneke is a young Maori orphan, raised by missionaries, with a burning desire to travel and explore the world. When an English artist on a tour of New Zealand invites James to return home with him, the boy...
- 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...
The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘For all the desert’s dreamlike beauty, to travel here was not just to pitch yourself into oblivion: it was to grind away at yourself until nothing was left. It was to aspire to the condition of sand.’ One third...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
He spent years training to kill. Now there is no stopping him. One grim morning, New York is shocked by the gruesome killing of four prominent individuals in the community. A serial killer has lined them up for a...
- 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...
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Who is Enric Marco? An old man from Barcelona who claims to be a Nazi concentration camp survivor and rises to be president of Spain’s leading Holocaust survivor movement, the Friends of Mauthausen. By the time he is unmasked...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When lovelorn Annie McDee stumbles across a dirty painting in a junk shop while looking for a present for an unsuitable man, she has no idea what she has discovered. Soon she finds herself drawn unwillingly into the tumultuous...
- Location(s): West Fife
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1966
Mission-raised Ellie Amadi expects to live a dream life when she and her son Nat leave home in West Africa to join her white, estate factor, husband James in the Fife mining village of Hollyburn. In 1966 Fife, mixed...
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