Where Soldiers Fear to Tread: A Relief Worker’s Tale of Survival
- Location(s): Somalia
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1997 to 1998
“There is going to be a shooting here and it is a toss-up who is going to get the boy’s first round. The soldier, about ten years old, is jamming the barrel of his gun hard against my driver’s...
- Location(s): Uganda
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2nd half 20th century
An epic family saga that charts three generations of an Indian family in Uganda In 1972, dictator Idi Amin expelled 80,000 South Asians from Uganda. Though many had lived in East Africa for generations, they were forced to flee...
- Location(s): Seychelles
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1950s
Part sentimental journey revisiting old well-loved scenes of former travels, and part search for new, out-of-the-way lands, Alec Waugh’s travel book tells of a journey half-way round the world. But in new or old places, the author’s sense of...
Where the Forest Meets the Stars
- Location(s): Illinois
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller. In this gorgeously stunning debut, a mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again. After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
- Era(s): Conteporary
Perfect lives. Perfect lies. The brand new novel from the global bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada Peyton Marcus is the woman New York wakes up to, anchor of the most-watched morning show in the city. With a...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1885
AN IMPOSSIBLE LOVE. AN ENCHANGED LEGACY. A DANGEROUS DISCOVERY. The stunning conclusion to Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling What the River Knows. A lush immersive historical fantasy set in Egypt filled with adventure, and a rivals-to-lovers romance...
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
In the valley of Fruitless mountain, a young girl named Minli lives in a ramshackle hut with her parents. While her father regales her with old folktales of the Jade Dragon and the Old Man in the Moon, Minli’s...
- Location(s): Oklahoma
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 20th Century
This classic about a ten-year-old boy growing up in the Ozark mountains with his inseparable pair of coonhounds — will warm the hearts of young and old alike. Winner of the Great Stone Face Award.
- Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): N/A
Inspired by Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Where the Rhythm Takes You is a romantic, mesmerizing novel of first love and second chances. Seventeen-year-old Reyna has spent most of her life at the Plumeria, her family’s gorgeous seaside resort in Tobago....
- Location(s): Montana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
The first full-length novel by one of our finest fiction writers, Where the Sea Used to Be tells the story of a struggle between a father and his daughter for the souls of two men – his proteges, her...
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