The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
- Location(s): Santorini, Bethesda, Loreto, South Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop. They didn’t look all that great: they were worn, dirty, and speckled with bleach. On the night before she and her friends part for the summer, Carmen decides to toss them....
- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s onwards
Growing up in hardscrabble Kentucky in the 1920s, with their mother dead and their stepfather an ever-present threat, Bertie Fischer and her older sister Mabel have no one but each other—with perhaps a sweetheart for Bertie waiting in the wings. But...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Progressive Era
From bestselling author Shelley Noble comes a gripping and timely historical novel of books, banning, and the women who helped save New York’s famed Book Row. 1915: Manhattan’s Book Row, an eclectic jumble of forty bookshops along Fourth Avenue,...
- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Glass Ferry, Kentucky, is bourbon country. Whiskey has been a way of life for generations, enabling families to provide and survive even in the darkest times. Flannery Butler’s daddy, Beauregard “Honey Bee” Butler, was known for making some of...
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the bestselling author of The Bookshop Ladies, Faith Hogan, comes a wonderfully gripping and poignant story of two sisters and their family hotel on peaceful Pin Hill Island, once a thriving family business now struggling to survive. All...
- Location(s): Norfolk
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Late Victorian (late 1900s)
Adolescent baker’s boy Jack catches sight of a beautiful woman alighting from a train at dusk. His remote Norfolk village is built around a railway maintenance hub known as The Works which is ruled by ritual, hierarchy and God....
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor of This Weekand co-anchor of Good Morning America, recounts the crises that decided the course of history, from the place 12 presidents made their...
- Location(s): Wales
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 2011 / 2020s
(A Mallory Dawson Crime Thriller Book 2) Six lies killed Huw Jones. On New Year’s Eve 2011, Huw Jones disappeared from his bedroom while his father and five friends were downstairs. His body was later discovered on the nearby...
- Location(s): Namibia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1990s
The “Skeleton Coast”, where the Namib Desert meets the Atlantic Ocean in south-western Africa, is named after the bleached bones and shipwrecks that lie on its shores. This is Benedict Allen’s account of his thousand-mile trek with camels through...
- Location(s): French Alps
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT… Four friends go to the Alps on a boys’ skiing holiday. But their trip is cut short when one of them falls to his death. Zoe travels to France with Ivy to collect Tom’s body. While...
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