- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Detective Peterside is drawn into the politics of Nigeria when a bomb goes off at Mr. Pius Okpara’s home. Mr. Okpara is locked in a conflict with a political rival, as both men are seeking their party’s nomination prior...
- Location(s): Vitoria
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘You don’t attract trouble, you go looking for it.’ On a sabbatical from the Metropolitan Police, Beatrice Stubbs is considering her future while touring Northern Spain. In the Basque County, she encounters a distant acquaintance. Beautiful, bloody-minded journalist Ana...
- Location(s): Bristol, British Virgin Islands
- Genre(s): Children, Adventure, Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 1700s
When a mysterious sailor dies in sinister circumstances at the Admiral Benbow inn, young Jim Hawkins stumbles across a treasure map among the dead man’s possessions. But Jim soon becomes only too aware that he is not the only...
Treasures of the Thunder Dragon
- Location(s): Bhutan
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Long regarded as the Forbidden Land, Bhutan—or Druk Yul, the Land of the Thunder Dragon—was virtually closed to the outside world until the 1960s. Even today, little is known about this remote Himalayan Buddhist kingdom nestled between two giant...
Treasury of Magical Tales From Around the World
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
A flower-spouting princess, gobbling prince, emerald-winged fairy, foolish giants, fearsome ogres, and talking frog and fish are just a few of the captivating characters found in this anthology of beloved stories from 29 places around the world, from the...
- Location(s): Amazon Rainforest
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
A beating heart. A talking tree. The rain forest. Love. Mysticism. Harvest. And above all, chocolate. Dear Coco and Leo, I miss you! We all miss you! The whole forest misses you! I hear their thanks and wishes in...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Bramble Challoner has had a very normal upbringing. She lives in a semi in the suburbs of London with her parents and works at the call centre down the road. She still goes out with the boy she met...
- Location(s): West Africa, New England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Life is hopeless but it is not serious. We have to have danced while we could and, later, to have danced again in the telling. Tunde, the man at the centre of this novel, reflects on the places and...
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
In Paul Doiron’s riveting follow-up to his Edgar Award–nominated novel, The Poacher’s Son, Maine game warden Mike Bowditch’s quest to find a missing woman leads him through a forest of lies in search of a killer who may have...
- Location(s): Northern Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 1970s
One by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice. If Davy had remembered to put on a coat. If Seamie McGeown had not found himself alone on a dark street. If Michael Agnew had not walked through...
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