- Location(s): Catalonia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Fran loves Will with all her heart. They had a whirlwind romance, a perfect marriage and a wonderful life. Until everything changed. Now Fran needs to find her way again and teaching a yoga retreat in Spain offers her...
- Location(s): Sheffield
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960 and 2008/9
The past shapes us all. But what happens when it hides a secret that changes everything? In 1964, Maggie wakes to find herself in a mental asylum, with no idea who she is or how she got there. Remnants...
- Location(s): Massachusetts
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Artie Dam is a man with a secret. He spends his days teaching history to high schoolers, expanding their young minds, correcting their casual cruelties, and lending a kind word to those who need it most. He goes to...
- Location(s): Europe, Argentina
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Solid and dependable, high school counselor Sarah Turner knows all about helping others get their lives on track. But when her own life spirals drastically off course due to a fast-track divorce, she surprises everyone. She leaves her job...
- Location(s): The Sudan
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary,
Under the direction of famed explorer Porter Stone, an archaeological team is secretly attempting to locate the tomb of an ancient pharaoh who was unlike any other in history. Stone believes he has found the burial chamber of King...
- Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In Laura van den Berg’s surreal, mystifying, and deeply felt second novel, Clare, recently widowed, arrives in Havana, Cuba, to attend the 36th annual Festival of New Latin American Cinema, which her horror-loving film-professor husband, Richard, had purchased tickets...
- Location(s): Taiwan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
In the middle of a terrifying air raid in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, Saburo, the least-favored son of a Taiwanese politician, runs through a forest for cover. It’s there he stumbles on Yoshiko, whose descriptions of her loving family are to...
- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
THERE’S A NEW KILLER ON THE STREETS A woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks left on her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer. AND HE’S OUT FOR BLOOD...
- Location(s): Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s/2015
The ink shimmered, shifted, stirring awake like blood beneath skin. As Sarajevo teeters on the brink of war, American art conservator, Miri Adler, arrives to research the legendary Sarajevo Haggadah, a medieval manuscript that has withstood centuries of upheaval....
- Location(s): Kentucky, Appalachian Mountains
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1920s / 1930s
First published in 1949, Jesse Stuart’s now classic personal account of his 20 years of teaching in the mountain region of Kentucky has enchanted & inspired generations of students & teachers. With eloquence & wit, Stuart traces his 20...
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