- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
Violent storms wreak havoc in Tornado Alley. A serial killer exploits the chaos to cover their tracks… When a five-year-old girl reports being saved by a mysterious being in the middle of a tornado, her story is readily dismissed....
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Nate McHale has assembled the kind of life most people would envy. After a tumultuous youth marked by his inexplicable survival of a devastating tragedy, Nate left his Adirondack hometown of Greystone Lake and never looked back. Fourteen years...
- Location(s): Isle of Skye
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical
- Era(s): 1857
From the author of THE UNSEEING comes a sizzling, period novel of folk tales, disappearances and injustice set on the Isle of Skye, sure to appeal to readers of Hannah Kent’s BURIAL RITES or Beth Underdown’s THE WITCH FINDER’S...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
Dinesh is a young man trapped on the frontlines between the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers. Desensitized to the horror all around him, life has been pared back to the essentials: eat, sleep, survive. All this changes...
- Location(s): Madrid
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1930s
All the other bulls run, jump, and butt their heads together in fights. Ferdinand, on the other hand, would rather sit and smell the flowers. So what will happen when Ferdinand is picked for the bullfights in Madrid? The...
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
A masterwork. I doubt that I have read a book as moving in at least a decade. A homage to the redemptive power of love’ Independent Summer, 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to the glens and woods above Lahardane...
- Location(s): Mexico City
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
- Location(s): The Baltic States, Liverpool, Soho (London)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
It’s 1913 and a young, carefree and recklessly innocent girl, Mina, goes out into the forest on the edge of the Baltic sea and meets a gang of rowdy young men with revolution on their minds. It sounds like...
- Location(s): Argentina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Richard Garay lives alone with his mother, hiding his sexuality from her and from those around him. Stifled by a job he despises, he finds himself willing to take considerable risks. Set in Argentina in a time of great...
The Story Orchestra: The Nutcracker
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Music
Follow Clara on a magical Christmas adventure in this musical retelling of The Nutcracker ballet – push the button on each beautiful scene to hear the vivid sound of an orchestra playing from Tchaikovsky’s original score. It is Christmas...
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