- Location(s): Brazil
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A good nanny is hard to find. Fernanda, a busy executive whose marriage is foundering, has a room in her sprawling house redecorated in the style of a tiny luxury hotel room, the Tokyo Suite, to entice her maid...
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Children
It’s a cold winter’s night and a hungry fox is creeping through the snow. It’s Christmas Eve. He sees a hen house full of tasty chickens to eat — but he’s forgotten about the old tomten who guards the...
- Location(s): Chicago, Illinois
- Genre(s): Fiction, Satire
- Era(s): 1926
First published in 1926, The Torrents of Spring is a hilarious parody of the Chicago school of literature. Poking fun at that “great race” of writers, it depicts a vogue that Hemingway himself refused to follow. In style and...
- Location(s): Southern California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Mexican...
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
He had a strict “no tourists” policy…until she broke all of his rules.When Graham Barnett named his diner The Tourist Trap, he meant it as a joke. Now he’s stuck slinging reindeer dogs to an endless parade of resort...
- Location(s): Dresden
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1989
In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a soldier, surgeon, nurse and publisher. With...
- Location(s): New South Wales, The Outback
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
This is Australia: an unnamed, dead-end town in the heart of the outback. A young writer arrives in New South Wales to research local settlements that are slowly vanishing into oblivion – but he didn’t expect these ghost towns...
The town halloween forgot, the curse of Willow Creek
- Location(s): Carmarthenshire
- Genre(s): Paranormal, Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
For fans of Mortal Instruments, this story of witches, magic, and spooky going-ons is a perfect addition for any horror fan. Sometimes Halloween is all trick, and no treat. Danny Hallows is no ordinary fifteen year old. After his...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
The Track of Sand is Andrea Camilleri’s twelfth outing in the wryly humorous Inspector Montalbano series. Inspector Montalbano rises one morning to find the carcass of a horse on the beach in front of his seaside home. But no...
- Location(s): Cape Verde (Cabo Verde)
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
After three months in a life raft, Hans Larsson returns to Cape Verde intending to dive on the wreck of his yacht Future seeking answers, but in a frightening turn of events, the former Navy SEAL uncovers the island’s...
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