- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Vigàta is bustling as the new filming location for a Swedish television series set in 1950. In the production frenzy, the director asks the locals to track down movies and vintage photos to faithfully recreate the air of Vigàta...
- Location(s): Austria, Scotland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Botanist Andreas Bauer, passionate about saffron, plans to reintroduce organic farming of the world’s most expensive spice to a region of Austria now known for its wine. Meeting resistance from vintners, he does research in a local abbey and...
The Saint of Wolves and Butchers
- Location(s): Kansas
- Genre(s): Fiction, Espionage
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
Travis Roan and his dog, Bear, are hunters: They travel the world pursuing evildoers in order to bring them to justice. They have now come to Kansas on the trail of Rudolph Bormann, a Nazi doctor and concentration camp...
- Location(s): Georgia, North Carolina
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
Where the Crawdads Sing meets The Four Winds as award-winning author Donna Everhart’s latest novel immerses readers in its unique setting—the turpentine camps and pine forests of the American South during the Great Depression. This captivating story of friendship,...
- Location(s): Kent, Norfolk
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary/Cold War
Sam Coyle’s father lived in the shadows – an undercover agent among the spies and radicals of Cold War London. That world claimed his life, and Sam is haunted by his absence. He left nothing behind but his enemies;...
- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): early 21st century
“THE SAMANA INCIDENT” is a microcosm of bigtime modern drug dealing, and a sequel to “FLAME TREE,” continuing the adventures of Dr. George and Vienna Daniels. Lieutenant Jason Kerro is an honest cop in a corrupt system, trying to...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
In 2019, Wendy Bashant, a burned-out college dean, quits her job to teach two hundred students in the ancient, walled city of Xi’an, China. The year turns extraordinary when tensions between China and the U.S. escalate: first tit-for-tat tariffs;...
- Location(s): Delaware
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the author of the Read with Jenna Bonus Pick A Little Hope, an uplifting and emotionally resonant novel set in a Delaware beach town about a local restaurant owner at a turning point. Three generations of Schmidts have...
- 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...
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