- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Honeymoon is not a book about grief. There is grief in it, a whole truckload of grief, but it will not offer advice. I’m twenty-eight, what do I know? Instead, it will be primarily the story of my...
- Location(s): Phoenix
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Fans of Sophie Kinsella and the Shopaholic series will fall in love with Lanie Howard—young, fabulous, and desperate to transform her life—in this funny, quirky, and endearing story about finding perfect happiness in life’s most imperfect moments. WHEN LIFE...
- Location(s): Somerset
- Genre(s): Children, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1700s
A sinking boat . . . A girl in disguise . . . A disappearing sea . . . When Fortune Sharpe carves a boat from a tree with her beloved brother, Gem, she’s only having a bit of...
- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
SONNY’S ON THE RUN Sonny is a model prisoner. He listens to the confessions of other inmates, and absolves them of their sins. HE’S BEEN LIED TO HIS WHOLE LIFE But then one prisoner’s confession changes everything. He knows...
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1993
From one of Canada’s brightest literary stars – a startling and beautiful novel about abandonment, poverty, and violence, as well as loyalty, love, and hope, as seen through the eyes of a young homeless boy. It is 1993 and...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction
Ever since it exploded into Vietnam’s cultural life two centuries ago, The Song of Kieu has been one of that nation’s most beloved and defining central myths. It recounts the tragic fate of the beautiful singer and poet Kieu,...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s / 1950s
One morning in Singapore more than 50 years ago, a wealthy, respected, handsome Chinese patriarch, head of a large household of three wives and many children and grandchildren, takes a walk by a cemetery. There, a young village egg-seller, Silver...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Annie sets out to make a better life for herself in a mystical, timelessly beautiful Tuscan valley. Intrigued by Joe, her American neighbour and strangely drawn to the ancient cypress which protects her new home, she begins to stretch...
- Location(s): Madagascar
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
David Quammen’s book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message — a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1939 / 2016
A gripping historical novel that tells the little-known story of Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during WWII. 1939: Two young girls meet in Shanghai, also known as the “Paris of the East”. Beautiful local Li and Jewish refugee Romy...
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