- Location(s): Upper Peninsula, Michigan
- Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern
TERRIFIED… It was supposed to be a harmless camping trip. Six wayward teenagers who’d run into trouble with the law, and their court-appointed guardians, Sara and Martin Randhurst. Three nights on a small, deserted island off of Michigan’s upper...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Award-winning author Helon Habila has been described as “a courageous tale teller with an uncompromising vision…a major talent” (Rawi Hage). His new novel Travelers is a life-changing encounter with those who have been uprooted by war or aspiration, fear...
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 20th Century
This newly translated collection of stories brilliantly evokes the shifting scenes and restlessness of summer. A professor arrives in a beautiful Spanish village only to find that her host has left and she must cope with fractious neighbours alone;...
- Location(s): Pakistan
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
Spellbound by his grandmother s Anglo-Indian heritage and the exuberant annual visits of her friend the Begum, Isambard Wilkinson became enthralled by Pakistan as an intrepid teenager, eventually working there as a foreign correspondent during the War on Terror....
- Location(s): Gabon
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1890s
Unique perspective: Until 1893, Mary Kingsley led a secluded life in Victorian England. At age 30 however, Kingsley defied convention and arranged a trip to west Africa to collect botanical samples for a book left unfinished by her father....










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