- Location(s): Paris, Croatia, London, Los Angeles, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They’d been together for more than a decade, and Lydia thought their love was indestructible. But she was wrong. On her twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident. So now it’s just...
- Location(s): Memphis
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
In 1960s Memphis, a young mother finds refuge in a boardinghouse where family encompasses more than just blood, and hidden truths can bury you or set you free. Sara King has nothing, save for her secrets and the baby in her...
- Location(s): Glasgow, Ayrshire, England, London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s onwards
Scotland, 1933. Bobby MacBryde is on his way. After years grafting at Lees Boot Factory, he’s off to the Glasgow School of Art, to his future. On his first day he will meet another Robert, a quiet man with...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
When she rents a room in the house she lived in as a child, Harmony hopes she’ll uncover the source of her nightmares about that lost time. As the London riots explode in the streets, the hot summers of...
- Location(s): Tamil Nadu
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Tyre tells the story of Ranji who barely manages to scrape a living gathering wood from the side of a busy road in Tamil Nadu, but accepts his lot uncomplainingly. His one and only concern is to feed...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1725
A magical, captivating tale of adventure set in imperial Russia. St Petersburg, Russia 1725. Katinka Dashkova is running for her life because everything she knows is changing. Katinka, a dazzling ballerina with a hunched back, and her friends Alexei...
- Location(s): Ukraine
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Ukraine is a collection of twenty-six pieces that deliberately blur the line between nonfiction and fiction, conjuring the essence of a beloved country through its tastes, smells, and sounds, its small towns and big cities, its people and...
- Location(s): Guinea-Bissau
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
The first novel to be translated into English from Guinea Bissau, The Ultimate Tragedy is a tale of love and emerging political awareness in an Africa beginning to challenge Portuguese colonial rule. Ndani leaves her village to seek a...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
It’s a windy, autumn day when a little dog discovers a bright red umbrella in the garden. The umbrella, like a magic carpet, whirls him up into the air and sails him across the world, over continents and oceans,...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
The first bomb cracked the Hilton like an egg; the second gutted the lobby of the Marriott; and the third peeled the front off the Grand Hyatt. Three massive explosions, all at American hotels in the heart of the...
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