- Location(s): British Columbia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
- Era(s): Contemporary
Erica Bauermeister, the author of the February Reese’s Book Club pick The Scent Keeper, presents a moving and evocative novel about childhood stories, families lost and found, and how a fragrance conjures memories capable of shaping the course of...
- Location(s): Pennsylvania
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
Annie Martin loves the Plain ways of her Old Order Mennonite people, like those revered by her beloved grandfather. Retreating from a contentious relationship with her mother, Annie goes to live with her Daadi Moses in Apple Ridge. But...
- Location(s): France, Russia
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Can a drop of perfume tell the story of the twentieth century? Can a smell bear the traces of history? What can we learn about the history of the twentieth century by examining the fate of perfumes? In this...
- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Life-changing events rarely happen here, and when they do, they are few and far between. But for Jocie Brooke and her family, they happen all at once. Jocie has questions that need answers. As she digs into her family’s...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
The Scent of the Gods tells the enchanting, haunting story of a young girl’s coming of age in Singapore during the tumultuous years of its formation as a nation. Eleven-year-old Su Yen bears witness to the secretive lives of...
- Location(s): Ithaka (Ithaca)
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Present
Virgil Colvin, a retired homicide detective, leaves his hometown Chicago to resurrect his honeymoon memories with his dead wife in Ithaca, Greece. There, he befriends the Vathy police chief, Costas Pantakalas, over stories of a shared profession and countless...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
London. 1985. A city rife with possibility and desire. One young man who wants it all. Kristian Hadeland, newly arrived in the city, seethes with ambition and contempt. His family in Norway never understood him; his fellow photography students...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s and current
‘The Schoolhouse is taut, gripping and intensely moving right until the very last page. I truly couldn’t put Sophie Ward’s beautifully written novel down’ Susannah Wise, author of This Fragile Earth Isobel lives an isolated life in North London,...
- Location(s): California, Berlin
- Genre(s): Thriller
From LA to Berlin, from present day to the 1940s, journey from glamorous Santa Monica to the deepest darkest corners of Nazi Germany. David Collins, a British private investigator living in LA, is hired by Geoff Hoffman, a billionaire...
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): 2006
Casey Jones’s life is a mess. Her job bores her, her parents confuse her, and she has repeated nightmares about her ex-girlfriend. In a moment of madness she packs in her job and plans an adventure with her schoolfriend,...
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