- Location(s): Vermont
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1927-1968
For over 100 years, no one wanted to be sent to the Sheldon Poor Farm. By 1968, no one wanted to leave. Amid the social turmoil of 1968, the last poor farm in Vermont is slated for closure. By...
- Location(s): Ohio
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
This is the “delightful” (“People”) “New York Times” bestseller that’s earned raves from Sarah Blake, Helen Simonson, and reviewers everywhere-the story of three sisters who love each other, but just don’t happen to like each other very much… Three...
- Location(s): Detroit
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Betting on the city of Detroit’s eventual comeback, cousins Addie and Samantha decide to risk it all on an affordable new house and a culinary career that starts with renovating a vintage diner in a depressed area of town....
- Location(s): Alabama
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
A novel of warmth and true feeling, “The Well and the Mine” explores the value of community, charity, family, and hope that we can give each other during a time of hardship. In a small Alabama coal-mining town during...
- Location(s): Hannover (Hanover)
- Genre(s): Crime, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Post WW1
In the shadowed streets of Hanover, a man would become one of Germany’s most notorious killers — Fritz Haarmann, the “Werewolf of Hanover.” This gripping true-crime account uncovers how Haarmann preyed on vulnerable youths in the chaos following World...
- Location(s): Somerset
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 15th Century
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2019** 15th century Oakham, in Somerset; a tiny village cut off by a big river with no bridge. When a man is swept away by the river in the early hours of Shrove...
- Location(s): Wisconsin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 1970s
A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of Samuel W. Westing’s will. And though no one knows why the eccentric, game-loving millionaire has chosen a virtual stranger—and a possible murderer—to inherit his...
- Location(s): Norfolk
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When a giant sperm whale washes up on the local beach and tells Joe Gunner that death will follow him wherever he goes. Joe knows that the place he needs to go is back home. Having stormed out two...
- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
A serial killer is stalking Tyneside. But there is a pattern to his killings, his choice of victims, his method of slaughter. David Carlisle, a criminal profiler, is brought in to assist DCI Jack Mason with his task of...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1947
A beautiful new edition of the first volume in the Surya Trilogy by Whitbread award-winning author Jamila Gavin. India, August 1947: Fleeing from their burnt-out village as civil war rages in the Punjab, Marvinder and Jaspal are separated from...
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