- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1997
1997. A desperate government clings to power; a hungry opposition will do anything to win. And journalist Gil Peck watches from the sidelines, a respected commentator on the sport of power politics. He thinks he knows how things work....
- Location(s): Angola
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From Angola, a country riddled with civil war and it’s aftereffects for the last 30 years, comes a surprising story of hope, passion, and magical realism from a groundbreaking, young African novelist. A young man arrives at the church...
- Location(s): Seattle
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): contemporary
An impossible victim, a more than impossible killer! FBI Special Agent Ilona Farris has barely recovered from her first escapade with the newly formed Unsolvable Crimes Unit when a bizarre case lands on her desk. A man has been...
- Location(s): Pennsylvania
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1758
In 1758, when Mary Jemison is about sixteen, a Shawnee raiding party captures her Irish family near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Mary is the only one not killed and scalped. She is instead given to two Seneca sisters to replace their...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1960s and 1970s
Joan Didion’s hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties. ‘We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate. The man with...
- Location(s): Dushanbe
- Genre(s): Horror, Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
VOLUME 2 IN THE “HOTEL HORROR” SERIES OF SHORT STORIES Ms N, the fabulous hotelier introduced in “The Two Rooms”, has a new assignment – to the hotel from hell. The most valued guest is the brother of the...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 17th Century
From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Joyce, Nabokov, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes a dazzling novel that is at once a captivating work of historical fiction and a sinuous treatise on the enigma of identity and...
- Location(s): Antarctica
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 2000s
Captain Titus Oates, hero of the Antarctic, has been dead for nearly a century. But not in Sym’s head. In there, he is her constant companion, her soul mate, her adviser. It is as if he walked out of...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): timeless
The first of Lauren St John’s heartwarming White Giraffe series, featuring the adventures of a young orphan girl and a magical white giraffe in exotic Africa. When she is eleven years old, Martine is orphaned and sent to live...
- Location(s): Malta
- Genre(s): Paranormal
- Era(s): Early 1900s, and modern times
An Australian doctor and his wife try to establish a B & B in a dilapidated villa near a fishing village in Malta. The house’s unfortunate history, and a young woman’s restless spirit, make the project difficult to manage....
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