- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
The Wronged Daughter by Mary Wood is an emotional and moving novel that reunites old friends and heals old wounds. Mags has never forgotten the friendship she forged with Flora and Ella, two fellow nurses she served with at...
- Location(s): Northern Ireland
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
After the Allied troops arrived in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland during the Second World War, life in the quiet, rural county would never be the same again. Book 1: The Shadow Ally June 1941: When Ruth Corey finds a...
- Location(s): Northern Ireland
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
After the Allied troops arrived in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland during the Second World War, life in the quiet, rural county would never be the same again. The Christmas Cure December 1942: U.S. Army nurse, Lieutenant Marjorie Baxter, newly...
The Yanks Are Starving: A Novel of the Bonus Army
- Location(s): France, Washington DC
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century
In 1932, a charismatic hobo led 20,000 jobless American WWI veterans into Washington, D.C., only to be driven out of the city with tanks and gas. The novel unfolds the events that led to this confrontation through the experiences...
- Location(s): Haiti, Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Children, Fiction
- Era(s): 1985
In this magical middle-grade novel, ten-year-old Gabrielle finds out that America isn’t the perfect place she imagined when she moves from Haiti to Brooklyn. With the help of a clever witch, Gabrielle becomes the perfect American — but will...
The Year I Lay My Head In Water: Swimming Scandinavia in Search of a Better Life
- Location(s): Scandinavia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
Laying your head in water is what you do when you’re having a bad day. The water is where you go when you need time to think. It’s where you go when you reach a crossroads in your life....
- Location(s): Minneapolis - St Paul
- Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+, Mystery
- Era(s): 1978
It is 1978 in the Twin Cities, and Kevin Doyle, a high school senior, is a marginal student in love with keggers, rock and roll, and–unbeknownst to anyone else–a boy in his class with thick eyelashes and a bad...
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Ten-year-old Frederika (Fred for short) doesn’t have much faith that the new teacher in town will last very long. After all, they never do. Most teachers who come to their one-room schoolhouse in remote Alaska leave at the first...
- Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
What if – to find yourself – you had to run away? Last year was meant to be when Holly got her happy-ever-after. But stuck in a job that’s going nowhere, and a relationship that feels more like it’s...
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
- Location(s): Portugal
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
The world’s threats are universal like the sun but Ricardo Reis takes shelter under his own shadow. Back in Lisbon after sixteen years practicing medicine in Brazil, Ricardo Reis wanders the rain-sodden streets. He longs for the unattainably aristocratic...
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