- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the award-winning author of Wonder Valley and Visitation Street comes a serial killer story like you’ve never seen before–a literary thriller of female empowerment and social change In West Adams, a rapidly changing part of South Los Angeles,...
- Location(s): Mexico
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. Delighted by a surprise invitation, Miriam Macy sails off to a luxurious private island off the coast of Mexico with six other strangers. Surrounded by miles of open water...
- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Cannabis kingpin Burl Spoon has reigned over the Jackson County area for three decades, building a powerful backwoods empire. But behind a well-run organization, his personal life is crumbling–his daughter can’t stay clean; his son has hated him since...
They are Trying to Break Your Heart
- Location(s): Balkans, Khao Lak
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s / 2004
DISASTER WILL BRING THEIR LIVES TOGETHER In 1994, Marko Novak’s world is torn apart by the death of his best friend, a young soldier in the Bosnian war. In 2004, human rights researcher Anya Teal is following a tenuous...
- Location(s): Baghdad
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Agatha Christie’s international mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Baghdad is the chosen location for a secret summit of superpowers, concerned but not...
- Location(s): Yemen
- Genre(s): Short Stories, Novella
- Era(s): late 20th century
They Die Strangers, a novella and thirteen short stories, is the first full-length work of the distinguished Yemeni writer Mohammad Abdul-Wali to appear in English. Abdul-Wali died tragically in an aviation accident, and his stories were collected after his...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1961
First published in 1963, in East Germany, They Divided the Sky tells the story of a young couple, living in the new, socialist, East Germany, whose relationship is tested to the extreme not only because of the political positions...
- Location(s): Helsinki, Baltimore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Family dysfunction, digital technologies and animal rights activism in Helsinki and Baltimore. Winner of the Finlandia Prize in 2014.
They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan
- Location(s): South Sudan, The Sudan
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Benjamin, Alepho, and Benson were raised among the Dinka tribe of Sudan. Their world was an insulated, close-knit community of grass-roofed cottages, cattle herders, and tribal councils. The lions and pythons that prowled beyond the village fences were the...
They’re Rugby Boys, Don’t You Know?
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 2011
A true story detailing how a Christian Police Sergeant from England boarded the Logos Hope Missionary Ship in 2011 and was forever changed when, in the Philippines, she unexpectedly encountered and fell in love with a group of street...
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