- Location(s): Israel
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
The Same Embrace tells the powerful story of two young men struggling against a heritage of intolerance and silence. Twins Jacob and Jonathan were inseparable while growing up in their second-generation-American Jewish family. As adults, though, they are almost...
The Samurai of the Red Carnation
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Medieval Period
Matsuo is born to be a samurai, but as he is being trained in the art of war he realises he was meant for a different art altogether. Turning his back on his future as a warrior of the...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
A new crime-thriller full of suspense from Sujata Massey, the acclaimed author of The Bride’s Kimono and The Floating Girl. Antiques dealer Rei Shimura is in San Francisco visiting her parents and researching a personal project tracing the story...
The Samurai’s Daughter: The Shogun Quartet #4
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1870s
In the brave new Japan of the 1870s, Taka and Nobu meet as children and fall in love; but their relationship will test the limits of society. Unified after a bitter civil war, Japan is rapidly turning into a...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family’s summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener....
- Location(s): Mexico
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Very few people get the opportunity to stay here. And some don’t get to leave … Zoey doesn’t remember anything about last night. But she knows something went badly wrong. For she is no longer in New York. She’s...
- Location(s): Saudi Arabia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Satire
- Era(s): 1991
Dhahran Palace Hotel, Saudi Arabia, 1991. The US forces are massing on the border with Iraq, preparing to throw Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait. Men and material are arriving daily, helicopters and armor are training in the desert sand....
- Location(s): Morocco
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1950s
In this lyrical, hallucinatory novel set in Morocco, Tahar Ben Jelloun offers an imaginative and radical critique of contemporary Arab social customs and Islamic law. The Sand Child tells the story of a Moroccan father’s effort to thwart the...
- Location(s): Dubai
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Thriller
- Era(s): Near Future
In Dubai there’s a new world of high-luxury resorts emerging for the super-rich – but at what price to everyone else? Lea, Roy and their 15 year-old daughter Cara live in a gated community reserved for foreign workers. Roy...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
Recommended reading as part of the Chief of Naval Operation’s Professional Reading Program! This now-classic novel by Richard McKenna enjoyed great critical acclaim and commercial success when it was first published in 1962. The winner of the coveted Harper...
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