- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
WILLA Film director LA insider Impulsive Looks like Alice ALICE Eco warrior LA tourist Cautious Looks like Willa Alice can’t wait to visit Willa in LA – home of Hollywood, where dreams come true. Their plan is to explore...
- Location(s): Saudi Arabia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 7th century
Before dying, Muhammad left his jeweled sword, al-Ma’thur, to A’isha, telling her to use it in the jihad to come. But what if the jihad is against her own people? After 20 years of distrust and anger, can A’isha...
- Location(s): Penwith
- Genre(s): Adventure, Environmental
- Era(s): Various
The Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall is where the land ends. In The Swordfish and the Star Gavin Knight takes us into this huddle of grey roofs at the edge of the sea at the beginning of the twenty-first century....
- Location(s): Sydney
- Genre(s): Suspense, Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 2000
This quartet set in Sydney are all stand-alone, full length novels, and can be read in any order. Each has its own main characters, yet share some common secondary characters and locations. Those of you who have read Flank...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Post WW2
June 1947. Jonathan Craine has left his old life in Hollywood behind him, content to live out his days with his son on a rural farm in California. But when infamous mobster Bugsy Siegel is murdered, Craine is forced...
- Location(s): Syria
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): early 21s century
Fouad Ajami offers a detailed historical perspective on the current rebellion in Syria. Focusing on the similarities and the differences in skills between former dictator Hafez al-Assad and his successor son, Bashar, Ajami explains how an irresistible force clashed...
- Location(s): Homs, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2012 onwards
Anissa is traumatized by the most brutal conflict of the 21st Century: the Syrian Civil War. In 2012, Islamists in Homs terrorize a Syrian-Christian community and destroy everything that a young woman holds dear. Narrowly escaping death, Anissa restarts...
- Location(s): Syria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Amir and his family are among the 3 million Syrian refugees stuck in a situation beyond their control. Amir wants his very young daughter to know the truth about the Syria he knew and the reason they fled, so...
- Location(s): Washington State, Tacoma
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
When Courtney Taylor, a 23-year-old clothing store manager and single mother, is mugged at gunpoint by a man who resembles a rodent, she loses self-esteem, an un-cashed paycheck and her driver’s license. Shortly thereafter, Reno Walch, a custodian and...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 10th century
The most famous work of Japanese literature and the world’s first novel-written a thousand years ago and one of the enduring classics of world literature.Written centuries before the time of Shakespeare and even Chaucer, The Tale of Genji marks...
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