- 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...
- Location(s): Basel
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
A second-chance romance set against the background of Art Basel, one of the world’s top art fairs, held in the Swiss city of Basel. A family friend invites widow Ellen Ross to accompany him to the fair. A chance...
- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Norway, 1942: She has lost everything to the Nazis. But now she fights back… War rages, and, under cover of darkness, Rumi Orlstad and her fellow resistance fighters smuggle British agents, fugitives and supplies across the North Sea into...
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