The Teardrop Island: Following Victorian Footsteps Across Sri Lanka
- Location(s): Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Mr Fernando led me into a dark room that was lined with book-cases and smelled of leather and damp. The polished, concrete floor of the library was covered with white jasmine flowers that had blown through the windows during...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Story is set to the backdrop of 1950’s Malaya, at the height of communist guerilla activity. A married chinese women, Mei Kwei falls in love with a priest who saves the wowen caught with Mei’s husband from public embarressment.
- Location(s): Somalia, World
- Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Daniel and Vanessa Parker are an American success story. He is a Washington, D.C. power broker, and she is a doctor with a thriving practice. But behind the façade, their marriage is a shambles, and their teenage son, Quentin,...
- Location(s): Emilia Romagna, Tuscany
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 20th century
Monterini, Italy. 1921. Yacobo Levi, an intellectual dreamer, works in the family bookshop. Angelo Ghione, a contadino, makes good wine by singing to the grapes. Lifetime best friends, their Jewish and Catholic families live side by side amidst a...
- Location(s): Margate
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): WW2
It is early 1940 and World War Two has already taken a hold on the country. Rose Neville works as a Lyon’s Teashop Nippy on the Kent coast alongside her childhood friends, the ambitious Lily and Katie, whose fiancé...
The Teeth May Smile But the Heart Does Not Forget: Murder and Memory in Uganda
- Location(s): Uganda
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From Rwanda to Sierra Leone, African countries recovering from tyranny and war are facing an impossible dilemma: to overlook past atrocities for the sake of peace or to seek catharsis through tribunals and truth commissions. Uganda chose the path...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Meet Hatem el-Shenawi, a Muslim TV preacher who has won fame and fortune through his show delivering Islam to the masses. Affable, sharp-witted, and well-connected to the government and business elite of Cairo, Shenawi seems at the top of...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
SMALL FORTUNES. BIG FEELINGS. Fleeing a troubled past, immigrant fortune teller Tao roams the dusty countryside with only her mule for company, telling small fortunes, for small prices. Big fortunes come with big consequences . . . which she...
- Location(s): Ethiopia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The hunter becomes the hunted. Army Ranger Lt. Col. John Holliday continues his quest to uncover the mysterious secrets of the ancient Templar Order, an organization renowned for its incredible wealth and hidden power. He is swept into an...
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone untill he becomes an acolyte...
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