- Location(s): Madrid
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
(The Connections Book 2) On the night Madrid hosts the Champions League Final, disaster erupts at the Prado Museum: a guard is murdered and a Caravaggio is stolen. British art detective Benjamin Blake, hoping for a quiet few days...
- Location(s): Cape Verde (Cabo Verde)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
TRANSLATED BY JETHRO SOUTAR The first novel by a female author to be published in Cape Verde, and the first to be translated into English, The Madwoman of Serrano is a magical tale of rural ideals and urban ambition,...
- Location(s): Davos
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1910s
Hans Castorp is ‘a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man’ when he goes to visit his cousin in an exclusive sanatorium in the Swiss Alps.What should have been a three week trip turns into a seven year stay. Hans...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
With her magic paintbrush, Shen can paint steaming pots full of fish and oysters to feed the hungry people in her village, but when the evil emperor hears of her gift he commands Shen to paint gold for him...
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
At nine years old, Frankie Presto is sent to America in the bottom of a boat. His only possession is an old guitar and six precious strings. But Frankie’s talent is unique, and his amazing journey weaves him through...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Young Adult
This is a Gothic novel of Melanie who has to leave her childhood home and move to live with relatives, whom she has never met. Various characters populate this beautiful novel, including brooding Uncle Philip, who loves only the...
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): 20th century
From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family. The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find...
- Location(s): New York State
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
A thrilling and original coming-of- age novel about a young man practicing magic in the real worldQuentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school, he’s still secretly preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Nebraska
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Sabine—twenty years a magician’s assistant to her handsome, charming husband—is suddenly a widow. In the wake of his death, she finds he has left a final trick; a false identity and a family allegedly lost in a tragic accident...
The Magnificent Conman of Cairo
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Khaled, the spoiled idle son of a pasha, meets Malim, carpenter’s apprentice and son of a scoundrel, when he comes to fix a broken window. In the course of his work, Malim stumbles across a stash of money and...
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