- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Steph Harper is on the run. When she was five, her mother ran – with Steph and her younger sister in tow – from an abusive husband into the arms of a small Cherokee community, where she hoped they...
To the Moon and Timbuktu: A Trek through the Heart of Africa
- Location(s): Mali, Mauritania, Niger
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Nina Sovich had always yearned for adventures in faraway places; she imagined herself leading the life of a solitary traveler. Yet at the age of thirty-four, she found herself married and contemplating motherhood. Catching her reflection in a window...
- Location(s): New Jersey, Trenton
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Stephanie Plum’s got rent to pay, people shooting at her, and psychos wanting her dead every day of the week (much to the dismay of her mother, her family, the men in her life, the guy who slices meat...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1840s
Missouri, 1846: In the frontier town of Independence the sound of a gunshot shatters the night. As the pistol drops from her hand and clatters to the ground, Grace knows she has no choice but to leave. Now. In...
To Timbuktu for a Haircut: A Journey through West Africa
- Location(s): Mali, Timbuktu
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
Timbuktu: the African city known to legend as a land of scholars, splendor and mystery, a golden age in the Sahara Desert. But to many it is a vaguely recognizable name – a flippant tag for “the most remote...
To Timbuktu: A Journey Down the Niger
- Location(s): Mali, Timbuktu
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
For nearly eight years as the monthly columnist for Outsidemagazine, and in his award-winning books, Mark Jenkins has held fans spellbound with his riveting accounts of expeditions to remote parts of the globe. In To Timbuktu, he sets out...
Today South London, Tomorrow South London
- Location(s): South London
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
South London-based blog, Deserter, is an alt guide to living and loafing in the wonky wonderland south of the river. Its authors, under their noms de plume Dulwich Raider and Dirty South, record off-beat days out and urban adventures...
- Location(s): Channel Islands, Guernsey
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
Guernsey… St Malo… Anew translation by Scot James Hogarth for the first unabridged English edition of the novel, which tells the story of an illiterate fisherman from the Channel Islands who must free a ship that has run aground...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Social psychologist Ben Monroe has returned to Tokyo after a failed marriage, determined to seek out his former lover Kozue. His estranged teenage daughter Mazzy reluctantly flies from California to join him. On the flight she meets a young...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
A hilarious and heartfelt novel perfect for fans of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and The Princess Diaries Izumi Tanaka has lived an uneventful seventeen years in her small town, keenly aware of all the ways in...
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