The Long Night of White Chickens
- Location(s): Guatemala
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1980s
Raised in a Boston suburb by his aristocratic Guatemalan mother, Roger Graetz enters into an obsessive relationship with Flor, the young Guatemalan sent by Roger’s grandmother to live with him and his mother. Clever, beautiful For attends Wellesley...
- Location(s): Ohio
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Welcome to the grand opening of Fromagerie Bessette. Or as it’s more commonly known by the residents of small-town Providence, Ohio-the Cheese Shop. Proprietor Charlotte Bessette has prepared a delightful sampling of bold Cabot Clothbound Cheddar, delicious tortes of...
- Location(s): Lashkar Gah, Cornwall, Swat Valley
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The hand of friendship can span a thousand miles… Pakistan Among the almond orchards of the Swat Valley, Zamir tends goats with his son, Raza. He must make a heartbreaking decision if he is to protect his youngest child...
- Location(s): Wisconsin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
“She can’t be dead!” the young pastor cried as he looked down at the still, white face of his new bride. Blinded by bitterness, Paul Cameron leaves his church and flees to a logging camp deep in the north...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century (second half)
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 A noir narrative written with the intensity and power of poetry, The Long Take is one of the most remarkable – and unclassifiable – books of recent years. Walker is a D-Day...
- Location(s): Nordland
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Author of the Costa-prizewinning, world-wide bestseller The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney, returns to her snow-covered heartland in this tense mystery set in a small Scandinavian town. Nordland. A region in the Norwegian Arctic; a remote valley that stretches...
- Location(s): Cape Cod
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s and modern
When Callie Vinerelli gives refuge in her Cape Cod Home to a storm-ravaged stranger, the hidden secrets of her house on the dunes begin to emerge. She become enmeshed in the violence and tragedy of the past that left...
- Location(s): Québec
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A #1 New York Times Bestseller, Louise Penny’s The Long Way Home is an intriguing Chief Inspector Gamache Novel. Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec,...
The Long White Cloud – Gallipoli
- Era(s): 1915 and 2000
Gallipoli 2000 A young New Zealander woman coming to Gallipoli to find the lost grave of her great-grandfather who died in the Battle of Gallipoli, and the stunning eighty five year old secret of a Turkish granny strolling in...
- Location(s): Tremiti Islands, Calabria, Pianosa
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1st century AD
Rome, 8 CE. Julia, eldest granddaughter of Augustus, is four months pregnant, and it should be cause for celebration. The only problem is that her husband was executed a year ago for treason. The math is simple, and damning....
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