The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
- Location(s): New Orleans
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 18th/19th Century
Named one of the Top 10 Books of 2008 by The Times-Picayune. Winner of the 2009 Humanities Book of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.Awarded the New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association Book of the...
The Worlds of a Maasai Warrior: An Autobiography
- Location(s): Tanzania, Serengeti
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
An autobiographical memoir revealing the traditional childhood, adolescence, and coming of age in Maasailond also documents the author’s life on the plains of the Serengeti and his education and experiences as he journeyed to Europe and America.
- Location(s): South Devon
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Can the magic of the Christmas season be rediscovered in a small Devon town? When Shirley ‘Lee’ Jones returns home from an awful day at the office, the last thing she expects to find is her husband in bed...
- 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): Wrexham (Wrecsam)
- Genre(s): Police Procedural, Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
DI Ruth Hunter Crime Thriller Book 16 When a young woman is discovered in Wrexham covered in someone else’s blood, it seems that a horrendous crime has been committed. The only questions are who and where. But there’s a...
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