The Lost Uncle and the Elixir of Life
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Adventure
- Era(s): Modern day
When they stumble across a one-hundred-year-old journal detailing the disappearance of their Uncle Cecil, the Baldwin family set off for Sri Lanka in search of the truth. Had he gone in search of the butterfly flower with its magical...
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Fiction, Horror
- Era(s): 1959 and the present
The Blair Witch Project meets Midsommar in this brilliantly disturbing thriller from Camilla Sten, an electrifying new voice in suspense. Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed “The Lost...
- Location(s): Burgundy-Franche-Comté
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sweetbitter meets The Nightingale in this page-turning novel about a woman who returns to her family’s ancestral vineyard in Burgundy and unexpectedly uncovers a lost diary, an unknown relative, and a secret her family has been keeping since World...
- Location(s): Pompeii
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 70 AD
In 24 hours, Pompeii will vanish. The morning of the eruption was a day like any other. Julia Felix opens her tavern for another day of business, defying every convention that says a woman can’t succeed alone. Petrinus, newly...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Lost Whale is the enchanting second novel from the author of The Last Bear: the bestselling debut hardback of 2021 and The Times Children’s Book of the Week What if you could communicate with a whale? Rio has...
The Lost World of the Kalahari
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1955
Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. Ostracised by all the changing face of African cultural life they retreated deep into the Kalahari desert. His fascinating attempt to capture their way...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1800s
THE CAPTIVATING, HEART-RENDING STORY OF TWO WOMEN IN 1800S CHINA Love and loss. Sisterhood and betrayal. Little Flower and Linjing’s fates are bound together. As a child, Little Flower is sold to Linjing’s wealthy family to become a muizai....
The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali
- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
A timely and honest coming-of-age story that explores the complicated relationship between identity, culture, family, and love. Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali tries her hardest to live up to her conservative Muslim parents’ expectations, but lately she’s finding that impossible to...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1910s
When nineteen-year-old Alice Copeman becomes pregnant, she is forced by her father and stepmother to give up the baby. She simply cannot be allowed to bring shame upon her family. But all Alice can think about is the small, kitten-like...
The Love Goddess’ Cooking School
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Fiction, Food and Drink, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
When Holly Maguire inherits “Camilla’s Cucinotta,” her late grandmother’s home-based Italian cooking school in Blue Crab Island, Maine, twelve of the sixteen students for the upcoming fall class drop out. After all, Holly isn’t a seventy-five-year-old Milanese love goddess,...
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