- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Meet James Samuel Vincent, an affluent Manhattan attorney who shirks his modest Irish American background but hews to his father’s meandering ways. James muddles through a topsy-turvy relationship with his son, Rufus, which is further complicated when Rufus marries...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Nana is on a road trip, but he is not sure where he is going. All that matters is that he can sit beside his beloved owner Satoru in the front seat of his silver van. Satoru is keen...
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Location(s): Mexico
- Genre(s): Fiction
One of the greatest books ever written. It was made into a movie by the same name, which in turn is regarded as one of the greatest movies ever made. First published in 1935, The Treasure of the Sierra...
- Location(s): Angola
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 20th Century
What if a forgotten map leads to death? A thrilling, high-stakes adventure awaits in The Treasure of Tundavala Gap. When Mateus, a quiet PhD student, stumbles upon a cryptic map and wartime letters left by his grandfather, his life...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Melody Meeks is a struggling freelance writer at Zenith magazine when a chance encounter on Facebook brings her back in touch with her first love, the love she never really got over: Spencer Channing. But little does she know...
- Location(s): New Hampshire
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Revolutionary
The tree of liberty sprouted well before the Revolution started… Abe is haunted by the sudden loss of both of his parents. Left to manage a New-Hampshire time grant with only his eccentric aunt to guide him, he finds...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for company journeys to a remote patch of land he has inherited in the Australian hills. Once the land is cleared and a rudimentary house built, he brings his wife...
- Location(s): Tanzania
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1972
A finalist for the National Book Award when it was released in 1972, this vivid portrait of East Africa remains as fresh and revelatory now as on the day it was first published. Peter Matthiessen exquisitely combines nature and...
- Location(s): Slovenia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940 - 2000
A diary recounting four decades’ worth of sexual exploits, the memoir of a mental institution attendant, and a familiar-looking bicycle dredged out of a river–the discovery of these artifacts sends an archivist on an obsessive quest to discover their...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary, looking back
The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local...
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