- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation, Psychological Thriller
A deadly flu epidemic sweeps through Moscow, killing hundreds of thousands. Anya and her husband Sergey decide they have no choice but to flee to a lake in the far north of Russia. Joining them on their journey...
To the Land of long Lost Friends
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Crime
In the latest book in the widely beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Precious Ramotswe takes on a case for a childhood acquaintance and finds that family relationships are always a tricky proposition—even for Botswana’s premier female detective....
- Location(s): Peru
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
To the Last City is set deep in the Peruvian Andes, where five ill-prepared travellers – men and women with different values, temperaments and motives – find themselves trekking through one of the most exacting and beautiful regions on...
- Location(s): Seoul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In Seoul, three young women meet while working mundane desk jobs at a confectionary manufacturer. They become fast friends, taking their conversations out of the group chat as they bond over their ‘average’ employee report cards, the incompetence of...
- 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...
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