- Location(s): Rome, Italy
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A trip to Italy reignites a woman’s desires to disastrous effect in this dark ode to womanhood, death, and sex To cool-headed, fastidious Pricilla Messing, Italy will be an escape, a brief glimpse of freedom from a life that’s...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Suspense
- Era(s): 1995
A priceless Burmese ruby leads Mallory Jones on a journey from the remote hills of Burma to the swelter of Bangkok in search of redemption. It’s 1995 and Mallory Jones, a Seattle chef, embarks on an adventurous journey to...
- Location(s): Asia
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Fantasy
- Era(s): N/A
A #1 New York Times bestseller and a sumptuous, epic tale inspired by A Thousand and One Nights. ‘A riveting Game of Thrones meets Arabian Nights love story’ US Weekly Every dawn brings horror to a different family in...
- Location(s): Isles of Scilly
- Genre(s): Children, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1907
A gripping children’s story from War Horse author and former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo. “We all knew what was going to happen. We’d seen it before. A ship about to founder staggers before she falls. A huge wave broke...
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother’s loneliness had been. A contemporary novel of daughterhood and motherhood,...
- Location(s): San Antonio
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): civil war
On the eve of the Civil War, Polish immigrants Marcin and Agnieszka Anderwald arrive in Bandera, Texas, seeking a fresh start in a new land of faith, fertile soil, and freedom. But their dreams quickly become nightmares when Marcin...
- Location(s): Ohio
- Genre(s): Biography, Nonfiction
- Era(s): pre 1903
Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North...
- Location(s): South Wales
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Perched on a Welsh clifftop, the ancient, picturesque hamlet of Rhosddraig has its peaceful façade ripped apart when human remains are discovered under a pile of stones. The village pub, The Dragon’s Head, run by three generations of women,...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): early 21st century
She knew they would come for her. How long can she wait? The Wrong Girl is the second title in the Detective Pieter Vos series, David Hewson’s atmospheric crime novels set in the city of canals and coffee shops.
- Location(s): Yokosuka, Yokohama
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
The Wrong Goodbye pits homicide detective Eiji Futamura against a shady Chinese business empire and U.S. military intelligence in the docklands of recession Japan. After the frozen corpse of immigrant barman Tran Binh Long washes up in midsummer near...
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