- Location(s): New Mexico, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Turn of the 21st Century
On a cool autumn night in 1999, twenty-six-year-old Sarah Green crept out of her house and ran for her life. She was escaping not just the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps, a paramilitary religious cult operating out of the...
- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): early 2000s
‘My father died eleven years ago. I was only four then. I never thought I’d hear from him again, but now we’re writing a book together’ To Georg Røed, his father is no more than a shadow, a distant...
- Location(s): Blois
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 18th Century
Blois, 1705. The château of Duc Hugo d’Amboise simmers with rivalry and intrigue. Henriette d’Augustin, one of five mistresses of the duc, lives at the chateau with her daughter. When the duc’s wife, Duchesse Charlotte, maliciously undermines a new...
- Location(s): Miami, Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A commanding debut and a poignant coming-of-age story about a devout Jewish high school student whose plunge into the secularized world threatens everything he knows of himself Ari Eden’s life has always been governed by strict rules. In ultra-Orthodox...
- Location(s): Somalia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1988
It is 1988 and Hargeisa waits. Whispers of revolution travel on the dry winds but still the dictatorship remains secure. Soon, and through the eyes of three women, we will see Somalia fall. Nine-year-old Deqo has left the vast...
- Location(s): Torrington, Devon
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 19th century.
‘Burn ’em! Burn ’em!’ It is 1879, and a disorderly crowd of three thousand people are burning effigies of a local man and woman on Torrington Common in an unprecedented incident of Devon’s ‘rough music’. Lucy Jones, the free-spirited...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Time Slip, Fantasy
- Era(s): Present Day and Ancient Egypt
Anastasia and Edward Upton are eleven years old twins who are different in almost every way. Despite this they are inseparable and the best of friends. They tackle the highs and lows of sixth grade together whether they are...
- Location(s): The Galápagos Islands (Galapagos), Ecuador
- Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Roger and Suzanne take a vacation cruise through the Galapagos Islands, 600 miles west of Ecuador. Suzanne discovers a dead body with a couple of bullet holes in its back floating in the Pacific Ocean and we’re off to...
- Location(s): Egypt, England
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern day
Emily Renzi thinks she’s going crazy. After her parents move to a quiet village, she senses that something is off about the house they’re living in. Dreams of strange creatures invade her sleep, and mysterious shapes appear in the...
- Location(s): Traverse City
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
At forty-five, Jane McArdle has experienced her share of life’s twists and turns. Yet she’s shaken by the sudden death of her estranged half sister and the news that she’s now the guardian of her orphaned niece, Lucy. Still...
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