- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1688, 1862
A sweeping story of love, adventure and adversity, The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse is an epic tale of courageous women battling to survive in a hostile land. Olifantshoek, Southern Africa, 1688. When the violent Cape wind blows...
- Location(s): Syria
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 13th century and 2011
The story of two girls living eight hundred years apart—a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and a medieval adventurer apprenticed to a legendary mapmaker. It is the summer of 2011, and Nour has just lost her father to cancer....
- Location(s): Dieppe, Egypt, Malta
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): WW2
No. 111 Squadron prepare to face the murderous skies over Dieppe… Spring, 1942 The Allies and Fighter Command have gone on the offensive. The French town of Dieppe is selected for the first major assault on the European continent....
- Location(s): Amazon Rainforest
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
The year is 1735. A decade-long expedition to South America is launched by a team of French scientists racing to measure the circumference of the earth and to reveal the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry...
The Maps of Memory: Return to Butterfly Hill
- Location(s): Valparaiso, Chile
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s/1980s
In this inspiring sequel to the Pura Belpré Award-winning, “dazzling and insightful” (BCCB) I Lived on Butterfly Hill, thirteen-year-old Celeste Marconi returns home to a very different Chile and makes it her mission to rebuild her community, and find...
- Location(s): Mantua
- Genre(s): Fiction, Biography, Historical
- Era(s): 15th/16thCentury
From the acclaimed author of The Birth of Venus and In the Company of the Courtesancomes a vibrant exploration of the Italian Renaissance through the character of Isabella d’Este, the first female art collector and patron of her time....
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
They wanted to escape capitalism; instead, they created the perfect business. Only Ethan Hicks knows what happened up on the mountain, for everyone else is dead. Hundreds of them, hundreds of westerners, their bodies yet to be recovered from...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
French teenager Margot is the illegitimate daughter of a prominent stage actress and an influential politician. The comings and goings of their unconventional family, in a small Parisian apartment, cast her whole life under a veil of secrecy and...
- Location(s): Marlow
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
To solve an impossible murder, you need an impossible hero… Judith Potts is seventy-seven years old and blissfully happy. She lives on her own in a faded mansion just outside Marlow, there’s no man in her life to tell...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Future, Fiction
- Era(s): Near Future
What if marriage was the law? Dare you disobey? Britain. The near-future. A right-wing government believes it has the answer to society’s ills – the Sanctity of Marriage Act, which actively encourages marriage as the norm, punishing those who...
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