- Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
For fans of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. As fourteen-year-old Ella begins her first day at work she steps into a world of silks, seams, scissors, pins, hems and trimmings. She is...
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th century
The flax merchant, Charles Nicholas Falk—son of the late flax merchant, one of the fifty elders of the burgesses, captain of the infantry of militia, vestryman and member of the Board of Administration of the Stockholm Fire Insurance, Charles...
- Location(s): Siberia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
Davinsky Labor Camp, Siberia, 1933: Only two things in this wretched place keep Sofia from giving up hope: the prospect of freedom, and the stories told by her friend and fellow prisoner Anna, of a charmed childhood in Petrograd,...
- Location(s): Connemara
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Current
A desperate plea. A tangled web. Lead investigators O’Shea and Maguire face their most challenging case yet—the mysterious death of Maria Hyka. As Maguire and her team dig deeper, they uncover connections to a shadowy underworld. Their journey leads...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them. On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a...
- Location(s): The West Country
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW1 on
It is 1916. The world has gone to war, and young Leo Sercombe, hauling coal aboard the HMS Queen Mary, is a long way from home. The wild, unchanging West Country roads of his boyhood seem very far away...
- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
A freezing December night Christmas shoppers have gathered to listen to a Salvation Army carol concert. Then a shot rings out and one of the singers falls to the floor, dead. A blood-curdling terror Detective Harry Hole and his...
The Redemption of Alexander Seaton
- Location(s): Banff
- Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
Banff, Scotland, the 1620s. A young man walks unsteadily through the streets. Is he just drunk or is there something more sinister happening? When he collapses in front of two sisters on that dark, wet night, the women guess...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Reality and dream collide in Amy Bonnaffons’s dazzling, wildly inventive miracle of a love story about an affair between the living and the dead (NPR) For weeks, Rachel has been noticing the same golden-haired young man sitting at her...
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): late 19th Century
Dr. Jose Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (1861-1896) was a Filipino polymath, nationalist and the most prominent advocate for reforms in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era. He attended the Ateneo Municipal de Manila, earning a Bachelor...
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