- Location(s): Idaho
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1871 onwards
Lalu Nathoy’s father calls his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his “thousand pieces of gold,” yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. She is sold first to a brothel, then to a slave...
- Location(s): Benin (Danhomè), Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Young Adult
- Era(s): Late 19th century, Early 20th century
Amelia, daughter of the last independent King of Danhomé, King Gbehanzin, is the apple of her father’s eye, loved beyond measure by her mother, and overprotected by her siblings. She searches for her place within the palace amidst conspirators...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Magical Realism
- Era(s): N/A
Within the boroughs of London, nestled among its streets, hides another city, filled with magic. ‘Magic and love. Love and magic. They destroy everything in the end …’ Anna’s Aunt has always warned her of the dangers of magic....
- Location(s): Gabon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When he was a boy, Luc’s mother would warn him about the “mock men” living in the trees by their home — chimpanzees whose cries would fill the night. Luc is older now, his mother gone. He lives in...
- Location(s): Burgundy-Franche-Comté
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s - later 2010s
Adrien, Etienne and Nina are 10 years old when they meet at school and become inseparable. Years later, a car is pulled up from the bottom of a lake, with a body inside. Virginie, a local journalist with an...
- Location(s): Armenia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1914 - 1918
An elegant memorial to the victims of the Armenian genocide–from the award-winning author of The Brick House. A New York Times Notable Book that imagines the lives of several sufferers of the twentieth century’s first genocide. Anaguil, an Armenian...
Three Apples Fell from the Sky
- Location(s): Armenia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In an isolated village high in the Armenian mountains, a close-knit community bickers, gossips and laughs. Their only connection to the outside world is an ancient telegraph wire and a perilous mountain road that even goats struggle to navigate....
- Location(s): Borneo
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1942
When the Japanese take Borneo in 1942, Agnes Keith is captured and imprisoned with her two-year-old son. Fed on minimal rations, forced to work through recurrent bouts of malaria and fighting with rats for scraps of food, Agnes Keith’s...
- Location(s): Rome, Sperlonga, Umbria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
One Eternal City. Three women. Three wishes. Three coins. Emma, an American expat living in Rome for twenty years, can’t count on her ex-husband to help out with the kids when things get tough. Dario Rinaldi, famed plastic surgeon...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
On a spring evening in Istanbul, Peri is on her way to a dinner party – a night of luxury a far cry from her upbringing. But when her handbag is stolen her world shifts violently. She starts to...
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