The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
- Location(s): Harlem
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
From New York Times best-selling author Karina Yan Glaser comes one of Times’ Notable Children’s Books of 2017: “In this delightful and heartwarming throwback to the big-family novels of yesteryear, a large biracial family might lose their beloved brownstone home, but win...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1684
The Dutch Stadhouder, William of Orange, has summoned Master Mercurius — and that is never good news. Mercurius has gained a reputation for himself with William for successfully undertaking diplomatic missions. And William is now paranoid that his own...
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1990s to present
When the Taliban first ruled Afghanistan in the 1990s, Zahra Joya disguised herself as a boy simply to attend school. After the US-led invasion, her world transformed. Education, opportunity and freedom flourished. Like many Afghans, Zahra dared to believe...
- Location(s): The Cotswolds
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1959 going forward
When four sisters arrive at Applecote Manor to spend the summer, all is clearly not well. They find their aunt and uncle still reeling from the disappearance of their only daughter, five years before. No one seems any closer...
The Vanishing of Margaret Small
- Location(s): Whitstable
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Dual Time 1960s, Present Day
Rate this book Meet Margaret Small: 75, plain spoken and a Cilla Black super fan. Shortly after the death of her idol, Margaret begins receiving sums of money in the post, signed simply ‘C’. She is convinced it must...
- Location(s): Central Asia, Europe, India
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 1970's and present day
1976: Ruth English and her lover Marcus, go missing in Afghanistan during an overland bus trip to Kathmandu. A generation later, Ruth’s niece Amber, haunted by the disintegration of her family, determines to get at the truth of their...
- Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
One girl escaped. But the forest took another… A young girl wanders into the small town of Koraha, her hands stained with blood. She won’t speak, but her path is tracked through New Zealand’s unforgiving wilderness to a cabin...
- Location(s): Massachusetts
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or two about serial killers, but not through her police training. She’s an officer in sleepy Woodbury, MA, where a bicycle theft still makes the newspapers. No one there knows she was once victim...










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