- Location(s): Devon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . . A contemporary classic, The Remains of the...
The Remarkable Feather Waka; a Moriori Tale of Long Ago
- Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa), Chatham Islands
- Genre(s): Mythology
- Era(s): Pre 19th Century
The Moriori had been living a peaceful life in the Chatham Islands for many centuries before they were almost all killed by a tribe of Maori from New Zealand in the mid 19th Century. Just a few stories remain...
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When the “Storm of the Century” threatens western Maine, Eric closes his office early and heads to the grocery store. In line ahead of him, an unkempt and seemingly unstable young woman comes up short on cash, so Eric...
- Location(s): Flanders
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation, Romance
- Era(s): 1922
An extraordinary love story and a captivating novel about the power of memory and imagination. Flanders 1922. After serving as a soldier in the Great War, Noon Merckem has lost his memory and lives in a psychiatric asylum. Countless...
- Location(s): Oklahoma
- Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism
- Era(s): Modern
Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago—from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed...
- Location(s): France, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1880s onwards
An astonishing true story of splendour, scandal and tragedy in Golden Age Paris. In 1881, Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted two young sisters from a Jewish banking dynasty at their home in Paris’s grand 8th arrondissement. Pink and Blue, a portrait of Elisabeth...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Current
The #1 International bestselling author of Pretty Little Wife returns with another thrilling domestic suspense novel that asks, how many wives and girlfriends need to disappear before your family notices? Elisa Wright is a mom and wife, living a...
- Location(s): Costa Rica
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
Bruno Johnson, ex-detective with Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and an ex-convict, is hiding out from the FBI in Costa Rica, tending bar to support eight children he illegally rescued from abusive homes. Partway through a normal day, Barbara...
- Location(s): Winnipeg
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
With a viewpoint that shifts as crisply as cards in the hands of a blackjack dealer, Carol Shields introduces us to two shell-shocked veterans of the wars of the heart. There’s Fay, a folklorist whose passion for mermaids has...
The Rescue of Streetcar 304: A Navy Pilot’s Forty Hours on the Run in Laos
- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1968
On 31 May 1968, Lt. Kenny Fields catapulted off USS America in his A-7 for his first combat mission. His target was in Laos, which at the time was officially off limits for US attacks. What the planners did...
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