- Location(s): Oakland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Tilo, an immigrant from India, runs an Indian spice shop in Oakland, California. While she dispenses the classic ingredients for curries and kormas, she also helps her customers to gain a more precious commodity: whatever they most desire. For...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1930s
From New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict comes an explosive novel of history’s most notorious sisters, one of whom will have to choose: her country or her family? Between the World Wars, the six Mitford sisters–each more beautiful,...
- Location(s): Oxfordshire, London
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1990s
It’s 1919, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of poverty in London, and most of all her oppressive and dangerous uncle. Louisa’s salvation is a position within the Mitford household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside....
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Class 3 of Hampstead Primary School are off on a school trip to Paris! Morgan is the first to spot the bearded man in the black Citroen car, cruising behind their school bus, and feels sure he is following...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Brilliant & confident Robertson Ross, an outdoorsy Canadian computer expert hired to update the Louvre’s security system, falls in love with Mathilde, a classic beauty & cultured Parisian art dealer. But, when he discovers that she’s deeply in debt...
- Location(s): Madrid
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 18th Century
Ambrosio, the superior of the Capuchins in Madrid succumbs to temptations with one of his pentitents but ends up killing a her, so that he avoids discovery. Nevertheless he is discovered, tortured by the Spanish Inquisition and is sentenced...
- Location(s): Varanasi
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): A long time ago
In the heart of Benares, on the banks of the river Ganges, stands a tree with fruit so perfect it can only be called treasure. How the tree got there is a tale of two rulers—one selfish and proud,...
- Location(s): Arizona
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Audacious, controversial and hilarious, The Monkey Wrench Gang is Edward Abbey’s masterpiece – a big, boisterous and unforgettable novel about freedom and commitment that ignited the flames of environmental activism. Throughout the vast American West, nature is being vicitimized...
- Location(s): Thailand
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
The third Detective Maier mystery is a taut and crazy spy thriller for our disturbing times. When award-winning German conflict photographer Martin Ritter disappears in a boating accident in Thailand, the nation mourns the loss of a cultural icon....
- Location(s): Formentera, Ibiza, Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
In the Monster Belt, discoveries are made. Some good, some bad, some life changing … Harris White is on a journey, one that takes him across land and sea in search of The Monster Belt, where he believes he’ll...
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