- 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...
The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin: Disturber of the Peace
- Location(s): Bukhara, Uzbekistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Returning to Bukhara after a prolonged exile, Hodja Nasreddin finds his family gone, his home destroyed, and his city in the grasp of corrupt and greedy rulers who have brought pain and suffering upon the common folk. But Hodja...
- Location(s): Mallorca
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1960s
What if you could be somebody else? It’s 1960s Mallorca and Thomas Sebastian is an English conman on the run. Hoping to evade his creditors, he’s taken an old Spanish finca as his hideout. He discovers the house untouched...
- Location(s): Malmö
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Present
Spring is coming slowly to Sweden – though not quite as slowly as Detective Ulf Varg’s promised promotion at the Department of Sensitive Crimes. For Varg, referred by his psychoanalyst to group therapy at Malmö’s Wholeness Centre, life now...
- Location(s): South Wales
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemorary
Love can be a thorny business. When Tanglewood flower shop owner Leanne enters Budding Stars – a floristry TV competition – she’s shocked to make it through to the televised stages where the pressure grows to prove herself a...
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