- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In the deep winter snows of a Swedish hamlet, a strange young woman fakes a break-in at the house of an elderly artist in order to persuade her that she needs companionship. But what does she hope to gain...
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Easter, 1981. With Jamaica in a state of emergency, the Landing family gathers to bury one of its own. For Monica Landing, who had not spoken to her daughter for fifteen years, the death of Lana is the cruellest...
- Location(s): Philadelphia, Boston
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): late 20th century
THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN is an uplifting story by E. B. White, author of CHARLOTTE’S WEB in which wildlife and nature blend with fantasy to make a tender, humorous and unforgettable animal tale. Unlike other cygnets, Louis, the...
- Location(s): Dublin, Boston
- Genre(s): Drama, Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century to present day
If my sister hadn’t been beautiful, none of it would have happened. Ruby Cooper and her sister, Erin, live an idyllic life in their close-knit church community in Boston. But when Ruby is sixteen, she is involved in an...
The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair
- Location(s): New England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back to 1975
Set in a fictional New England town…. August 30, 1975. The day of the disappearance. The day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence. That summer, struggling author Harry Quebert fell in love with fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan. Thirty-three years later,...
- Location(s): West Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1938
In the summer of 1938, Layla Beck’s father, a United States senator, cuts off her allowance and demands that she find employment on the Federal Writers’ Project, a New Deal jobs program. Within days, Layla finds herself far from...
- Location(s): Athens
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Current
Sometimes we live the lie, become the lie … In the heart of Athens, where ancient history meets the present, Sophia arrives to study tourism at a private college. Little does she know, her life is about to take...
- Location(s): Portland, Maine
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): late 19th Century
When newly appointed Deputy Marshal Archie Lean is called in to investigate a prostitute’s murder in Portland, Maine, he’s surprised to find the body laid out like a pentagram and pinned to the earth with a pitchfork. He’s even...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): post Russian Revolution
Hiding her identity as the grand duchess daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, Daria Gradov looks back on her luxurious childhood in pre-revolutionary Russia, the machinations of an illiterate monk, and the circumstances that forced her to assume another life....
The Tulip Revolution: Kyrgyzstan One Year After
- Location(s): Kyrgyzstan
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 2006
Released on the anniversary of the fall of President Askar Akayevs regime, The Tulip Revolution: Kyrgyzstan One Year After examines the dramatic changes in this remote yet strategically critical Central Asian republic. Authored by Eurasia Daily Monitor analyst Erica...
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